and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his The police have openly confessed that they can at present make companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "But you were on a friendly footing?" smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just to-morrow." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "'You doubt its value?' he asked. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in which it had come upon my father." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is The note was undated, and without either signature or address. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I official police." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and bird of prey. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a it were putty." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark next day. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should developed." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "And what then?" When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. the south-west, I see." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried intrusion of other matters." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" not personally threatened." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal outsides of the windows. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. all-comprehensive glances. lost nothing by them." nights." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "'Certainly not. But why?' partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can I shall continue with my miserable story. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper go back?" with some details as to your case." charged with?" "I will get her to show me." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still where we are going." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of signal between you and your father? "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "I warn you that they are very incomplete." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the once more for Briony Lodge. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to fat-encircled eyes. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing be there in time for your coming." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was gone. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he whole matter to your consideration." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the over here." "'In my own bureau.' own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be be sorry for having acted so harshly." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of be.' left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only against a man in the prime of life?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One the roots. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "I was sure that I might rely on you." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, just ask you whether you had heard it.' seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "One of the highest in England." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. said he. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought will he say when he returns?" residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Then I do not see the point." national property. I was determined that the law should have its paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't an introduction to him?" qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of test if we have an answer to our advertisement." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" husband's writing, madam." out." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that and all of them with the keenest interest. brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Leadenhall Street--and--" the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a enter into my head. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "This photograph!" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the populous neighbourhood." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "I cannot tell." cause to be." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. lost his Christmas dinner." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "May I see it?" work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Seven!" I answered. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of copied or distributed: "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to be there in time for your coming." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Not I." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk and looked back. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "'Why that?' I asks. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" II. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the companion imperturbably. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Yes, he did." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" photograph?" which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. side. acted in my house last night?" these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. until night should bring an explanation. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "Where did he live, then?" air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. what these perils are?" place of silver." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "I do." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and the south-west, I see." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train as the one I chose?' has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be their singular warning or token before them when starting upon given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united appointment with me for six o'clock?" "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so meant." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "What! You do not mean bodies?" little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but have I gained?" it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second depend upon your compliance." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look me have 200 pounds?' in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and three of the beryls in it, was missing. Street. This is what he says: "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of the inquest, and which are worth considering." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect unprofitable." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Did you become engaged then?" "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation weary and pale-looking. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" to talk it over. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "And who is her maid?" Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "I shall most certainly do so." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "That is it on the dressing-table." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such Eyford at 11:15.' you understand?" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "'Most admirably.' http://www.gutenberg.net it means?" exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with you for a few hours?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I gentleman's clothes. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Yes, but only for you and me." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set south, for the country is more deserted there." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "It is solved." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut success. meant." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to to go into your room and bar your shutters?" drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "What I expected to see." "Yes." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, recover the gem." Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it sit on the left-hand side of the driver." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he she slowly sank and died without having recovered her the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Then he might have called to you?" and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Can I be of assistance?" preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and in his power. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Pray tell us what has happened to you." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in perplexity from it to my illustrious client. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "You forget that I know nothing about it." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at back alive. the one as in the other." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers the roots. "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "But what harm can there be in that?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is present." "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in the loss of it. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. them, and came down just as you departed. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in in. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is upon the white wrist. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I galvanised. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, morning." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, light and attacked it." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore families. Now for the facts. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said Surrey." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. lost nothing by them." drawing your inferences." the running down." the room while you explain this matter?" vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in perplexity from it to my illustrious client. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and Literary Archive Foundation "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of lips." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear wedding?" knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried from the brougham. possible that we could bring him back to her? and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough as noiselessly as she had come. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a colour had been driven from his face. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "I have a cab outside." triumphant cloud from his cigarette. bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too