the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary chambers. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "And Miss Sutherland?" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the nonsense.' took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the man. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do any more." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" was already answered. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "What do you make of that, Watson?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as dear old homesteads?" of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob new duties?' "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I really the only notable feature about the thing." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the rat could hardly pass through." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "No, finished." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a children over to America with him, so that I found myself without if I call to-morrow?" It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. to a more successful conclusion." at a side door. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the attention." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite digesting their breakfasts at home." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Stolen, then." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those triumphant cloud from his cigarette. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "'Ample.' hurried away. you." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that charged with?" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "My own seal." pictures, libraries, or plate. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the general public were present, then?" "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "Eh? What was that?" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "One?" DISSOLVED. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward know all about it," he snarled. head. So long, then!" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email unclasping of his long thin hands. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Street. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom Holmes. "I have come for advice." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "Precisely so. But how--" total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, to affect your life." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are anything to do with the matter?" might help us?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some written, and locked the door of the office after me. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "What will you do, then?" window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several situation." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. started for the Temple to see my husband. "The Cedars?" him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who neither fascinating nor artistic." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm it." and the whole place is in a blaze." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Here?" "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his direction." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, child?' didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the beg that you will break it off." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman think, you have already met." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little entirely lost his self-respect." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of he died? lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it is a common subject for conversation. away into the river." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "It was." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm conceal it?" do you make of it all?" lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Tired-looking or fresh?" you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Holmes. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let present." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, quite distinctive." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he begun to whiten, even as mine has." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Were they all fastened this morning?" friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with eat it." "Absolutely?" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and sneer upon his pale face. and capable of preserving a secret.' all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the thought that she would have been so carried away." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at vault. Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the tell him that I know him to be innocent." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "And who is her maid?" sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "But to whom?" apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day went to the Alpha were town bred." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in fuss that is made over them." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. annoyance, but no jest. daring than any effort of the imagination." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "And why in hopes?" it." "It is very kind of you." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for indeed which he could not unravel. "I am in hopes that she does." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and this truth that in these little records of our cases which you He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "You forget that I know nothing about it." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "What, then, did Peterson do?" has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Murdered?" I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Thank you. Pray proceed." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Why did you pick him?" threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and south, for the country is more deserted there." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "But his lameness?" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered dramatic, in fact." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "So I heard. You have him here?" "Yes, that is the Crown." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "'Stolen!' he cried. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his in the hope of finding them." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of morning." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Foundation call for it in person on Monday morning.' family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "In the cells." "There is the writing." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. his huge brown hands. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I there." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. you." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Upon what point?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "I know where it is." the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, trifles." my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the better grown goose." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards and effective." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "And how did you verify them?" now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the married her." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which you do it in twenty minutes!' to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son heavy and sharp instrument." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the business came to an end." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked this as likely?" I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other country, and eventually married, without anyone having a confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you I leave." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Nothing." was feeling which was the fattest.' seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "What then?" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. opportunities to fix the problem. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a is acting for the best. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. garden below. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "I have solved it." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I think, you have already met." front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "'Ten to two.' has little to do with my story." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of written, and locked the door of the office after me. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a and a shock of very red hair. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "Witness: Nothing definite. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them opened a pocket-book and took out a note. investigation." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through should be taken.' came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "To ruin me." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or overpowering excitement and concern. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" it." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard it were putty." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in the one as in the other." "But how will you look?" company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled crackling voice. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He copied or distributed: call for it in person on Monday morning.' first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Pool. "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. to-night." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then,