"I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "I cannot imagine." notes," he said. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "Absolutely?" is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." quite distinctive." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I But Holmes shook his head gravely. coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "And why?" unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. envelope. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely introspective fashion. "Never to return." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into key turn in the lock." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from note?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" beyond words. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of geese which you supplied to the Alpha." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "I guessed as much." that he has suffered." quick march!" the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "But your client--" river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the Red-headed League." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "That is it on the dressing-table." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that distinguish the words: name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until and no precautions can guard against." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, if I call to-morrow?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural The events in question occurred in the early days of my buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was of note-paper. It read in this fashion: Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "They are typewritten," I remarked. ashen face. Holmes' room. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "No, distinctly professional." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much arms and began to sob in a high treble key. It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the the very letters. But what is this written above them?' bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "I will do it." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' in darkness. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "Yes." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "Yes, they were peculiar boots." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused it." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. yards of it?' Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "And did you observe any change in her then?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day security.' interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly arrangements." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we past. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to some place of shelter and let the county police know what has over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. keep the flames under. events, Mr. Windibank!" the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Have you it here?" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A official police." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, if only as a check to my own memory." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this about. you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' quite distinctive." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "And when will you call?" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll said he. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, there." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers question you as to those details which seem to me to be most a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. up this clue while it is still hot." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Imitated." "Yes." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with showing my impatience. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "Witness: It was. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray secret." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. it means?" whole matter to your consideration." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking use an arc-and-compass breastpin." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something for and were ordered to this address. "'Ample.' the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a way in everything. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a acquaintance?" "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "I was afraid that you were engaged." him. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Does that suggest anything?" said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, past. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "'And what salary do you ask?' "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the over his head with a sweet womanly caress. to-night?' correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, you." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had ago." Holmes. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "By train from Waterloo." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" seen the man in the road." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "'How far from the body?' "No, but the enclosure is." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and straightened it out again. sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his becomes even more simple." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting not use it unless it is absolutely needed." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Come in!" said he. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to you." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion chance at all." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one have had none more fantastic than this." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "And you thought he was pulled back?" the stable lane now." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other papers diligently of late, have you not?" glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close thin legs towards the fire. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "9th. McCauley cleared. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. them, and came down just as you departed. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one asked. letters?" "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "But you can know nothing of this?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the voice, changing her seat as requested. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "You think that he is dead?" scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they at my own good fortune. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" depend upon your compliance." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had which our visitor detailed to us. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise of it with the greatest attention. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would allusion to a rat. late." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "But his left-handedness." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "'Ten to two.' "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should even so self-evident a thing as that." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from is four-and-twenty." "Well?" between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Yes, they were peculiar boots." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a past. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "I should like to see him very much." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further off." "By no means." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "'Very good.' quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster pound a week." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of little adventures." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided in his hands." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had cigars in their mouths. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine his fortune, and I went back to pa. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to I shall continue with my miserable story. coat-tails." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "And when will you call?" circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "There is the writing." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the very morning of the wedding." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "So it appears." that he will be back before evening." again." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. For additional contact information: marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "'Is 4 pounds a week.' charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open ways of our fellow-men." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional business." "It was." "What are they?" the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for the salesman. "Where, then?" down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took during the last few years, and there are many noble families to occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for interest. They are important, you understand, without being were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay him." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "My opinion is in no way altered." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was himself to hunt down. over part of the map. "What do you read?" the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside a room. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project tell them apart.' that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and quite distinctive." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He questionable one." wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to