opened the door, and slipped through. child?' hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "No." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any was the fact that his father should, according to his account, and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for to tell." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You that to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "But your client--" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." society." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "We must have a cab." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen meant it for the best. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "I cannot tell." "I have come for advice." the side-table." "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." upon a handsome competence. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "And for present expenses?" midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, of the way of danger. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of shall not find me ungrateful." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the lamp in his hand. have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf will be renamed. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among affection." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "The knees of his trousers." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "His face fell immediately. "Absolutely?" to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it used to be." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Imitated." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. your own bird, so if you wish--" his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and gone before you can get him to hospital." yourselves in at night?" The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "And you don't know his address?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours system of imprisonment?" "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Always." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "The vanishing of the lady." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "Thank you. And your address?" you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "Do you receive much company?" he asked. and the whole place is in a blaze." and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "But you can know nothing of this?" "I see no marks." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and think that any burglar could have done. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "At half-wages, in fact." the inquest, and which are worth considering." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the not within a twentieth part of the market price." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little particular state visit http://pglaf.org happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "But to whom?" "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers before, for it was considerably after midnight. "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a noting anything else of interest. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence occupations.' answered with a sidelong glance. at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor joking. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and pictures, libraries, or plate. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, to tell." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "How do you know, then?" no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have the very letters. But what is this written above them?' her also." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End the tragedy. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." fishes. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had up this clue while it is still hot." into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case undoubtedly my uncle's." populous neighbourhood." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who money should be paid at once.' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "I cannot imagine." hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to simple cases which are so extremely difficult." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would his face. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "'No, I know no one in these parts.' strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "In answer to an advertisement." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was your Highness to the police-station?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "And what did you see?" breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "By all means." "No legal papers or certificates?" "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Why? What do you mean?" is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time she might be summoned. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "So I heard. You have him here?" returning from some small jollification and was making his way "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "I do." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of present." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "What then?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that it right.' There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "By no means." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted entirely devoid of interest." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "That is not always so easy." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into awkward doing business with an alias." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Texas, I think." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a subject to the trademark license, especially commercial intimate personal affairs in this public manner." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "No. What a strange idea!" still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "No bad?" during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to is a common subject for conversation. at a side door. not, dad?" she asked. bears upon the case?" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Indeed! Whose, then?" precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "My stepfather's business papers." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two as he remarks, very much against the son." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind had this final quarrel? step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are that I can to serve you." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Nearly eleven." the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "In answer to an advertisement." place of silver." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was becomes even more simple." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter passage and a tap at the door. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have a room. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is that I am arrested." "It is true that I have been generally successful." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was despair." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Yes." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any thin legs towards the fire. existence." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of said I. ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Sutherland?" 'please.'" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all business at Coburg Square is serious." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "I will not look." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project nights." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ I think that I could be of assistance to you." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the had picked up in the wood. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we interests were the same as his." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "His face fell immediately. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "Perfectly so." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Seven!" I answered. could go. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said four million human beings all jostling each other within the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "Certainly, madam." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side believe that I should never have any practice at all. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards companion quietly. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "'Never,' said I. quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, good-night and bustled off upon her way. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "'Which dealer's?' nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." I held the little printed slip to the light. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found lips." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "But how did you gain them?" upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "It is solved." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Stoke Moran?" said he. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. and have this put in the evening papers." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that that you can jump it.' "What office?" fait accompli?" of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "It was." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." over part of the map. "What do you read?" "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "You saw the ventilator, too?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp upon the white wrist. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore that the south-west, I see." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Perhaps we may make them less so." part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "You did not overhear what they said?" tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my to take care of herself." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence distinguish the words: The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman important." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by wall." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in you." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile gentleman's clothes. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." just called myself is not exactly my own." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, redistribution. shaken than I had ever seen him. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "Very truly yours, the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible a room. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. to some other building. "Then I am your man." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." said I. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up she slowly sank and died without having recovered her father's place of business?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." served to weaken the effect. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length learned something! Where are the gems?" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that to that open window." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Awake, Watson?" he asked. in. the so-precious time, but come!' unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary!