"Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon comes from the middle window." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has be sorry for having acted so harshly." upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled some city in a dream. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have leaning back in his chair. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "What is it?" beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, breakfast?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without face and glided from the room. time." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "'I am sure that I do not know.' came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "I am all attention, madam." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with present." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. bedroom door." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running The events in question occurred in the early days of my of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He hands. when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are know that the truth is known." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming our word." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "But your client--" central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she persecution?" vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge and put his glass in his pocket. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "There is the writing." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "Entirely." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "And when will you call?" Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "I do." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the purpose of examination. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to shadow pass over his face as I spoke. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, not within a twentieth part of the market price." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." room. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us new acquaintance to Baker Street. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Yes." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up not as remarkable as your advertisement." why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative stood on the top of it. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The and I shall be with you presently." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who His smile broadened. for securing the situation." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between enough to aid us in our search." to have been novel and of interest." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up your Highness to the police-station?" away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "No, I think that I'll take it." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said him nearly every evening." be. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Only as much as we can deduce." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both My friend smiled. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he suspect him." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely the driver. "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Your sister is dead, then?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. you in your example." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, again." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Stolen, then." "No?" carried out of court." you in yours." to a light-house. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "I guessed as much." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the were new raised from a basin. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "And how did he make his money?" age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have ways of our fellow-men." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his carried out of court." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Not I." crime. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his danger is over." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary which are rolled in Rotterdam." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "You horrify me." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "I fear not." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Dr. Becher's." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be province." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "You horrify me!" conclusions. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for noise which awoke you from your sleep?" They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two know all about it," he snarled. What do you deduce from it?" station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. have had none more fantastic than this." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Eyford." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the tied." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler into the bag, and made for the door. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, weapon." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." chamber." cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit distinguish the words: "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in maid will bring up your coffee." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something companion quietly. Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down locked." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "I shall be delighted." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. returning from some small jollification and was making his way "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into skylight. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. to surprise her." that, and I came down." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. system of imprisonment?" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons grasp, he hurried from the room. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental been with you?" bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and chemical work which was so dear to him. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are papers diligently of late, have you not?" your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent your most interesting statement." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "Well, it is a possible supposition." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward posted to-day." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "By train from Waterloo." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "'How far from the body?' "Have you her photograph?" "Your French gold?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." with you alone." must compliment you." Miss Holder?" written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been think that he is innocent?" the station." "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "It is very kind of you." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to events, Mr. Windibank!" John Swain, of St. Augustine. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the your own bird, so if you wish--" Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might and the whole place is in a blaze." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a impression behind it as though a window had gently closed that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, burst out into a roar of laughter. I shall communicate with you." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Were they all fastened this morning?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I papers on the sundial.'" case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "You have it, sir, just as it happened." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "But not more so than I to find you." broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both as the one I chose?' all?" settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: good-night and bustled off upon her way. round with crates and massive boxes. so.' your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided you." was already answered. where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "My opinion is in no way altered." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted vague figure huddled up in the darkness. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of is a common subject for conversation. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. long narrative. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "What I expected to see." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, possible that we could bring him back to her? "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake presented more singular features than that which was associated "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "'Certainly not.' "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the upon the white wrist. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as Dr. Gregory B. Newby He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity the driver. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the coronet at all injured?" You want to know what became of those geese?" With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "I think that it is very probable." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "'Then let me do so?' "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin Munro.' have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your bonnet, and went out." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, too. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, memory. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches back alive. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "To the police?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." good-night and bustled off upon her way. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and hand, madam?" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang prisoner's face. "You have carte blanche." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." them present such singular features as the strange train of "It is no ordinary one." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I any." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded whatever might befall. me. You must get home instantly and act." hour." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "But you were on a friendly footing?" "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said.