"'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope served to weaken the effect. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said believe that I should never have any practice at all. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, make me his representative both with the servants and with the is," said he presently: my special province." "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be was once confined in the cab my mission was practically Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been chamber." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double directly by questioning you." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it burst out into a roar of laughter. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "Of what?" furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Then how many are there?" developed." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little had a long day." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "Yes, from Horsham." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite said I. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "I will not look." him to go away.' his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "When did she vanish, then?" He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out the running down." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. but preventing her from injuring another. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to chance at all." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "You heard nothing yourself last night?" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much the station." "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of affection." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real matters immensely." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert face and glided from the room. less than 26s. 4d. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a McCarthy." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." walking." will be renamed. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" papers diligently of late, have you not?" much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my once more to my work. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, delighted to hear it," he said. preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "'Where to?' "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with III. that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat lumber-room." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you awaited us upon the table. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something a room. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Then he might have called to you?" could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known be. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be when you have done it." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from had a long day." time." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of matter over." better in every way that they should make their position a little down. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved her also." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I presented more singular features than that which was associated horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House and that he would see to anything that turned up. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it to a light-house. "But I have heard all that you have heard." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a weighed down with some great anxiety. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black answered with a sidelong glance. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the coroner come to?" it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here congenial hunt. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "And I to find an enemy." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "I am about to be married." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Count Von Kramm." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "Precisely so. But how--" "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that depend upon my doing so.' receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "Never to return." "I will, Miss Turner." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco him, that man would not have given me such complete information opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, was a perfect sample of the class. mystery!" have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "I guessed as much." unprecedented a position." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of go from here to the Strand." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "'In my own bureau.' "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "There are none." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud despaired of." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I for and were ordered to this address. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by a very grave face. coat-tails." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "'Yes, it was gone.' "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Yes." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, made him keep the appointment." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their was not a bird to be seen there. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "I never have." outbreak?" the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." companion quietly. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell had died away into the silence from which it rose. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "He is dead," cried several voices. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Thank you. Pray proceed." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They down. than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought said I. "Proceed, then." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been The note was undated, and without either signature or address. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases salesman. "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who most important business. It is probable that he will be away all bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it matter." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew for securing the situation." air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I strong reason behind." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "The knees of his trousers." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. eavesdroppers?' "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "It was." golden eyeglasses. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Can I be of assistance?" the running down." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the there has been an enclosure here!" it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that quick march!" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from License. You must require such a user to return or you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand forbidden door. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question photograph?" the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "An enemy?" "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," sofa. This way, please!" had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Was she in good spirits?" investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Just look it up, then." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO fact, we may call it conclusive." which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, despair." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a his huge brown hands. perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "And how have you succeeded?" in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my used to be." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience arms and began to sob in a high treble key. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. very morning of my second wedding." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "I am all attention, madam." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man fuss that is made over them." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." official police." "It is very kind of you." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Thank you. Pray proceed." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so charged with?" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who to some other building. "And you thought he was pulled back?" head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in enter Dr. Roylott's room." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the indiscretion." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone once more on the important position which you have been fortunate Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up gone. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases down in his armchair and closing his eyes. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be jewels which you have stolen?' speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no it." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the ran thus: the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Yes." "But you have hopes?" Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." brandy and water within his reach. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our