Leave Paddington by the 11:15." he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "Yes, the wine-cellar." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal ready to-morrow?' Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss telegram would bring me down to your help." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what good for you to do.' reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the nonsense.' way in." cheerful." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa Foundation Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what hands. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "How many? I don't know." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "No bad?" during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the a little more before I quite committed myself. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." call you and give you the chance." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "'Certainly not.' streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in was once confined in the cab my mission was practically errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "But how?" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "I say that I have solved it." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution of your young ladies.' Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and started for the Temple to see my husband. paper in the air. he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to which our visitor detailed to us. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' people in all walks of life. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a during that time.' "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "You were travelling in the States?" mysterious business." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "My dear Holmes!" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking the matter?" one which it was hard to resist. once more to my work. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Literary Archive Foundation tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "And I to find an enemy." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "It is solved." "'There is a drive, then?' correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my disappearance of these gems?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she I was concerned in it." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a presume?" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "You are hungry," I remarked. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the during the last few years, and there are many noble families to he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "At half-wages, in fact." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat enough to aid us in our search." opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his From what you have told me I think that it is possible that wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid would then never go into court at all." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "No good news?" "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "But how?" He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "How often?" "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. detective. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. what do you think they found in the pockets?" however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "What is it?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" do.' "I assure you that I am in your hands." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "It is half-past ten now." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her about here speaks of his kindness to him." tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor comes from the middle window." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had bearing upon the case." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. you in yours." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we plantation.' when you have done it." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel to a more successful conclusion." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great out of this horrible affair." I shall communicate with you." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg a very grave face. those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Yes." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. discontent upon his features. the coronet at all injured?" "No, I had a dozen." "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "I will get her to show me." them present such singular features as the strange train of admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very directly by questioning you." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to in. papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "I am to be neutral?" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day writing, and yet I know it well." case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "He slept on the premises." Eyford at 11:15.' "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we the coronet in his hand?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I that I am arrested." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who be sorry for having acted so harshly." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "I am following you closely," I answered. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's during which he might have communicated with his friend the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "'Very good.' that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to village inn over there?" silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the call you and give you the chance." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Farm upon the left." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said light and attacked it." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "And you thought he was pulled back?" data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you delighted to hear it," he said. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." the so-precious time, but come!' events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this society." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of it." of." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Yes." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my been deceived." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He out." look dissatisfied." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "It goes to the housekeeper's room." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella sneer upon his pale face. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do his face which made him a very different person to the round, heavily into it. toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Whose house is it?" Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "The gentleman I describe." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is the stable lane now." business at Coburg Square is serious." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Oh, fresh and glossy." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let approach us with offers to donate. certainly do as you advise." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a and a shock of very red hair. both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in telegram would bring me down to your help." lost nothing by them." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest gives a meaning to it." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug that there was nothing in it, after all." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. go--none." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young said Mr. Holder. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway nice household for a young lady." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through upon an income of about 60 pounds." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my and the whole place is in a blaze." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open galvanised. an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the think that he is innocent?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "Yes, from Horsham." little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe little adventures." how narrow had been my escape. was it brought him the coronet? the one as in the other." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a is," said he presently: a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "And now?" He raised his hand. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a III. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." stood on the top of it. of Mr. Rucastle's." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from the south-west, I see." stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and already referred to. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the once more for Briony Lodge. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. his eyes and forehead. "Pray do so." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to when you have done it." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a States. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Murdered?" "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried.