"Why serious?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour hopeless attempt at recovering them." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." the house with me." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until woven round him. "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "Then you may be so with me." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "Did he not advertise?" I shall continue with my miserable story. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding my friend's incisive reasoning. what I may call a really hard day's work." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the chamber." again on its way. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the eat it." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "In which, sir?" said he. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "And why in hopes?" had died away into the silence from which it rose. who was a member of your goose club." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "Just look it up, then." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "It is possible." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "But he might be a bachelor." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom outside. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it father's young wife. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter his huge brown hands. "But his left-handedness." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses their singular warning or token before them when starting upon next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Yes." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling photograph?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw made him keep the appointment." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of This is what he says: thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "'Yes, it was gone.' part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "His face fell immediately. to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to away in different directions, and I went off to make my own and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw morning." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would laugh and put his lips to my ear. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Frequently." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, through." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the him." cost them two and thirty pounds." waste of energy." I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Very murderous indeed." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "'Certainly not.' Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "I am about to be married." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "And how did you find out?" of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel soul! here is her carriage at the door." meant it for the best. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "You have but to name it." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, overpowering excitement and concern. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't outbreak?" "Perhaps I have." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it sneer upon his pale face. "And why in hopes?" And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" companion. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "'Most admirably.' "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm detective. any." nights." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no you understand?" "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Yes?" lost nothing by them." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "And help." As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "My opinion is in no way altered." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is interested in these little problems, and since you are good undoubtedly my uncle's." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving sofa. This way, please!" "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Never." I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "But to whom?" that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you yards of it?' "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very you in your example." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able late." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not morning." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. quick march!" end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which Have you good authority for what you say?" All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. several quiet little villages up there." "And how did you verify them?" daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "By train from Waterloo." of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Of what?" chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "But his lameness?" pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Seven!" I answered. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Yes." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "'Is purely nominal.' the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "At half-wages, in fact." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "Frequently." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle definite end. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock I have it here in my museum." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a this remarkable episode. "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "What do you mean?" there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "What have you to say now?" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "10th. John Swain cleared. success. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "I have solved it." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. Mary, has deserted me." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. question," said Holmes, smiling. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "But your client--" it right.' our word." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "He is dead," cried several voices. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we to affect your life." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own several quiet little villages up there." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction James Windibank. Voilà tout!" the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, kind enough to tell me what I should do." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his Holmes' thin, eager face. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "And who is her maid?" the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when http://gutenberg.net/license). family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "How did he come?" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining hair?' brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to comes from the middle window." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." vanished into the darkness. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that conduct the inquiry." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "She showed me, as I told you she would." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "It is his hat." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held seven miles from Eyford Station.' pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless as he remarks, very much against the son." posted to-day." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on said Mr. Holder. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside an introduction to him?" if only as a check to my own memory." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a spare." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. death." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Never." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, on re-entering her father's house?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "It is possible." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with upon the white wrist. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. bled considerably." colour had been driven from his face. "Nothing." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence me, and I could not think that his explanation of the the King without delay." fat-encircled eyes. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, jewels which you have stolen?' I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa exactly what you advise." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are furiously. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Married! When?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "And leave your case unfinished?" his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "I cannot tell." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what IS abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able front of me. "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the http://www.gutenberg.net central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "And your mother is alive?" As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "Never." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after