great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea affair. rat could hardly pass through." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a foresight and the moral retrogression?" slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! hardly wander." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent whole matter to your consideration." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A not, dad?" she asked. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled upon a handsome competence. "Proceed, then." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. yourselves in at night?" side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of anything to do with the matter?" possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "And how?" His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several there!' he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "Yes, it was twisted." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of to a light-house. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "What office?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that for and were ordered to this address. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "'It is locked up,' I answered. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Do you go out much in society?" "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my easy-going way." corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "But your client--" putting in the horse. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of was shining brightly. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "'Never,' said I. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Yes." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Because he was handy and would come cheap." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a system of imprisonment?" gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One the best of training." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his lost nothing by them." revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "'And the work?' bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the you, my dear young lady?' then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or mystery." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which unkempt, staring out at me. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I the station." his huge brown hands. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to You want to know what became of those geese?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it the warnings." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "And what then?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a lamp. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Deserted you?" would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "And you don't know his address?" learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance an introduction to him?" give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "It missed him, then?" became a certainty. less than 26s. 4d. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to them?" placed his cuttings. client, rising. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "I think that it is very probable." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not it? Did I buy the geese off you?" foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very or in danger--" family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "What steps will you take?" I asked. "I should wish to." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "You have a clue?" nonsense.' was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and occurred." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall friends, not even his own brother. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "Certainly." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to have had none more fantastic than this." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "If I can be of use." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You undoubtedly my uncle's." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "And your father? Did you tell him?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless been shamefully used." money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, and glanced through. known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted seem to you to be relevant or not." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the been." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite But Holmes shook his head gravely. the best of training." province." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "At what time?" "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that some place of shelter and let the county police know what has empty. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no is four-and-twenty." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I populous neighbourhood." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. him and tried to hold him back. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, you came in." eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "It is very clear." sake, don't!" the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "'I am sure that I do not know.' Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my my friend's incisive reasoning. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Not yet." "Yes." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy whether it answered to the description of any of their resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, breakfast." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one might help us?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third with the outside air!" "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. then?" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the during which he might have communicated with his friend the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home easy-going way." "Murdered?" would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. off." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is unclasping of his long thin hands. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But burst out into a roar of laughter. dear old homesteads?" thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner you." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "And how?" again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong of the way of danger. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "But I am all in the dark." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked you." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "I was certainly surprised to find you there." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was third from London." "No?" which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which woman who has had her own way to make in the world. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which without success. At last the little money which I had saved began met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Will you bet, then?" "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Yes." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "What office?" sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly the nursery. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and drove away. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "A thing like a cleaver," said he. way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" if I call to-morrow?" young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Not in the least." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't bore every mark of being an average commonplace British Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Yes, I have one waiting." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress more solid." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is What do you deduce from it?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin plantation.' mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "Pray do so." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. in the hope of finding them." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there question you as to those details which seem to me to be most occupations.' the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of your billet.' awaited us upon the table. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each late!' or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to entirely lost his self-respect." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in likely to be some crony of the landlady's." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the indiscretion." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for companion. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" his cane at the bell-pull. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Bought." wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "I say it is." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not