heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I with frightened eyes at his accuser. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" gone. gentleman's clothes. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Then what has happened to him?" "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "They are typewritten," I remarked. recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "The decline of his fortunes, then?" works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "But he might be a bachelor." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the night.' said he. and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "But he might be a bachelor." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. wedding?" "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "It is true that I have been generally successful." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the the room while you explain this matter?" not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Not yet." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Do you know him?" course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together feature." to tackle the facts." was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Then what has happened to him?" manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever cup of tea. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a said he. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "But not more so than I to find you." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a me. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking several quiet little villages up there." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you it were putty." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste investigation." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Come in!" said he. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here confronted him. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, companion. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "I will try. What is it?" "It was." revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Well." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" forehead. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "'What then?' I asked. wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of the Assizes." been shamefully used." "But of what society?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with at a side door. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. companion quietly. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling your bag." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ ways including including checks, online payments and credit card slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly place of silver." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Sutherland?" "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone McCarthy." "When did it break out?" in the hope of finding them." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new locked. "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a you, my dear young lady?' and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "Have you her photograph?" "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "And that is--" orange pips. that I may have something better before very many minutes are not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "What steps will you take?" I asked. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which putting in the horse. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I cost them two and thirty pounds." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "A thing like a cleaver," said he. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "In heaven's name, what for?" "What! a murderous attack?" "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my meant it for the best. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the King without delay." he bowed and left the room without another word. do you make of it all?" "Do you know him?" you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you that you wished to speak to me?' "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "I say that I have solved it." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at companion. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, is acting for the best. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Lestrade of Scotland Yard." even of instruction." "Your French gold?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "But how?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, morning." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "And for present expenses?" "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "Why did you beat the pavement?" days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he breakfast?" "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "If so, much may have happened between." there is a decided draught." "How did you deduce the select?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their you in yours." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his God! What an exposure! What can I do?" pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by things are very often connected not with the larger but with the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "What are they?" rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive looking up at the numbers of the houses." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection room had already been engaged for us. digesting their breakfasts at home." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of unprofitable." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my was it brought him the coronet? would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "Always." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on to arrive at through this?" London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond imbecility!" he cried. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my nights." "I will do it." it." on in his house." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too it." "I should wish to." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "It was a confession," I ejaculated. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be I shall continue with my miserable story. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with than to us. Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. daring than any effort of the imagination." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my ventilator." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. here and I will read it to you: of it with the greatest attention. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Lestrade of Scotland Yard." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they noble correspondent could be. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would not within a twentieth part of the market price." been deceived." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest man. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in are windows in it, of course?" from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words might help us?" we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she points in connection with it which never have been, and probably convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned problems help me to do so." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I with some details as to your case." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual DAMAGE. "I would give my fortune to have them back." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this written. colour had been driven from his face. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the matters immensely." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece thirty. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "No." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "The decline of his fortunes, then?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Pray be precise as to details," said he. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must affair. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions tell them apart.' Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he look upon these things in a different way." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer tension within him. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project some mystery and the punishment of some crime." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, Sutherland?" "Certainly." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his rooms." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "It is a murder, then?" "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just union?" cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "No legal papers or certificates?" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea Clair, of Lee." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be and a shock of very red hair. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was