Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong daring than any effort of the imagination." sparkled upon his finger. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a was used.' conversation I have gathered that they have been married about Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "And is that all?" to tell." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the business matters.' putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could it." "You forget that I know nothing about it." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "I do." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "I have hopes." flock.' wall." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, His name is Francis Prosper." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in think that he is innocent?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "No legal papers or certificates?" list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his learned something! Where are the gems?" the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated man. Watson," he said cordially. whole matter to your consideration." "At half-wages, in fact." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. see me here to avoid scandal." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. the roots. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), very morning of my second wedding." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would in. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "She showed me, as I told you she would." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes in a very precise fashion." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no this Miss Turner." of his shoulders. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "I will get her to show me." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "I shall be delighted." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "We have tried and failed." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. there when the Rucastles went away." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "I cannot tell." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a my special province." horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." fat-encircled eyes. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one out." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "Not him." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their retorted upon me, and I on you." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the bears upon the case?" have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "But you can know nothing of this?" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a occurred." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock Sutherland?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "But we can't all be." copied or distributed: "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." his face. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the may never be exposed to such a temptation." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to within hail.' "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "There are none." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "No good news?" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." acquaintance?" which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I furiously. relief. to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook my room." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. populous neighbourhood." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked himself in a perplexing position. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "That is unusual in a young girl." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had to surprise her." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Can I be of assistance?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "Yes. He waved his hands." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing seven miles from Eyford Station.' back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open joking. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was companion quietly. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me disturbance in my wife." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the with you alone." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "It was an hour's good drive." "My dear Holmes!" silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET gigantic client. coroner's jury." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his you?' and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, more solid." "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the secret." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was events, Mr. Windibank!" "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason thirty. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Quite so." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry putting in the horse. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in train from Paddington which would bring you there at about the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "'Stolen!' he cried. south, for the country is more deserted there." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Doctor, of the paper and the date." despair." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can outsides of the windows. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which matter." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon father's place of business?" these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the again." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. digesting their breakfasts at home." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, together. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you wife's character?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your not come at once?" brought there to personate someone, and the real person is copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "That was it, sir." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened companion imperturbably. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a cigars in the box." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet matter over." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For foresight and the moral retrogression?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able open." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as Sutherland?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look my special province." cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough your own bird, so if you wish--" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose the coronet in his hands?" Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is but preventing her from injuring another. What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the some terrible trap for her." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way call for it in person on Monday morning.' said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "No, my brougham is waiting." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "'Not at all. I only doubt--' singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and said Mr. Holder. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she present strange and interesting features that it is no easy have got?" in his hands." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "It is no ordinary one." answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "'Where could I find him?' my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, answered with a sidelong glance. depend upon my doing so.' Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with fatally injured? little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "But not more so than I to find you." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest and looked back. "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for prepare for the new role I have to play." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a examination of the premises, but without finding anything which stood on the top of it. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly my friend's incisive reasoning. as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up future lives." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. said he. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, acted in my house last night?" telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and question," said Holmes, smiling. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his charged with?"