before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An not fit the lock." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is mysterious end." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, danger is over." papers." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as highly," said Holmes. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I seem to you to be relevant or not." morning." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. directors, with the result that you have seen." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done my secret was safe in his possession. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "But of what society?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece your most interesting statement." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last meant." stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. might help us?" abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and ventilator." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been girl said." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds unclasping of his long thin hands. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." it means?" air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Yes." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "And did you observe any change in her then?" door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing conceal it?" time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must during that time.' purpose equally well?" "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "'Entirely.' I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman the armchair which I pushed forward for him. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a both be extremely obliged.' read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb go from here to the Strand." Sholtos." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, fear." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to have one." fled together." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has with some details as to your case." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "But the mystery?" she to prove their authenticity?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that on in his house." very morning of my second wedding." "Never." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no read it out to me." man. I know him from the photograph." insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on woman who has had her own way to make in the world. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who remarked. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "'A dozen yards or so.' send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "But your client--" followed. is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY business came to an end." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, in the port of London." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "'I have heard so.' second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "Very. But will he see it?" child?' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was absolutely follow my advice in every respect." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now of the one which your family is now devouring." "Absolutely none." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble enough to aid us in our search." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. been able to understand it, in a very few words. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "It came here." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "Yes, he did." points to suicide?" She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been locked." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Perfectly so." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but this as likely?" breakfast." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small future lives." and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "There are none." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. the best of training." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner imbecility!" he cried. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "None." Pope's Court. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' the house with me." "Your French gold?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "To the police?" Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to if only as a check to my own memory." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been strong and stiff." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Holmes rather sternly. is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some man. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the the little opening for the ventilator is." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at him." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of conceal it?" "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "And how did he make his money?" that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't is acting for the best. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so since then to throw any light upon what became of him." matters immensely." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly child?' "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'I have heard so.' not use it unless it is absolutely needed." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn present." man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to green of the new foliage. drawing your inferences." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Yes, sir." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 characteristics, but those are the more obvious." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "I would pay ten." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "I am sure." "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Ha! you find it so?" "Always." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "A call for help, you thought?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "And the murderer?" round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "No more words. Get out!" friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came telegram would bring me down to your help." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a to a light-house. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "So I am. Very much so." the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and know all about it," he snarled. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this and put his glass in his pocket. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. but preventing her from injuring another. "'Certainly not.' said I. in his hands." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "And how did he make his money?" several quiet little villages up there." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But married her." "Why did you pick him?" several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "9th. McCauley cleared. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Yes." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "No, I am descending." more terrible than the truth. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "You are hungry," I remarked. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this when your master had gone out." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Precisely." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "'Stolen!' he cried. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said any more." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the may never be exposed to such a temptation." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "No sign of it?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. mystery." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of system of imprisonment?" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view with you alone." washing it down with a long draught of water. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "It is half-past ten now." maid will bring up your coffee." is," said he presently: every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I and I shall be with you presently." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat were unconscious?" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Did you observe the colour?" "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is sentimental considerations in the background which would induce shadow pass over his face as I spoke. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we where we are going." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and Stoke Moran." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his John Swain, of St. Augustine. desk. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, written. neither fascinating nor artistic." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets infinite languor in his face. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady me. You must get home instantly and act." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran