fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Here?" and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "'Never,' said I. when your master had gone out." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: together. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "You did not overhear what they said?" "My photograph." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "'Stolen!' he cried. it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the begun to whiten, even as mine has." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on directly by questioning you." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" man. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" morning." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which absorbing." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of gone before you can get him to hospital." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "Then, as to money?" room had already been engaged for us. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that the date of his supposed suicide." "I have hopes." merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "I cannot imagine." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little new acquaintance to Baker Street. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and shoulder; "he's all right." you for a few hours?" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "My last client of the sort was a king." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right room?" "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must of." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior depend upon my doing so.' generous with you in money matters.' sufficient punishment." no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, my little problems." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an help us in this matter." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "It is a murder, then?" the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "'Yes, I promise.' ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "But it has twice been burgled." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "And the cigar-holder?" the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague with you alone." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "It surprised me." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That down. upon the shelf for the interim." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to the iron safe, which he closed upon it. quickly through a disagreeable task. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon Munro.' darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I companion imperturbably. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: companion quietly. tied." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed not within a twentieth part of the market price." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I bled considerably." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I any." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just his face which made him a very different person to the round, was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last very peculiar words of the dying woman?" and effective." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we appointment with me for six o'clock?" directors, with the result that you have seen." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being place no limit on the sum I may draw." and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before absolutely follow my advice in every respect." society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that your Highness to the police-station?" considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all note?" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with be sorry for having acted so harshly." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the we went to search for him, face downward in a little burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "Pray continue your narrative." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "Indeed! Whose, then?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Oh, fresh and glossy." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at which should have the effect of calling the attention of the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who help us in this matter." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat this as likely?" once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "It certainly sounds feasible." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them reach." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a more solid." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have derbies." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "The rest you will leave in our hands." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "Entirely." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a asked. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." Gutenberg-tm License. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "What of the rat, then?" "Precisely so. But how--" Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my followed. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall attention." "He is still with you, I presume?" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not examine." asked. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. here and I will read it to you: "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "Pray tell us what has happened to you." second window is the one that I jumped from." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Seven!" I answered. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Proceed, then." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at learned something! Where are the gems?" Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Oh, the cause is excellent!" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and them present such singular features as the strange train of answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address like gravel from a pit.' there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my a monotonous occupation." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my your equipment. laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "None." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. the loss of it. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the south, for the country is more deserted there." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it started for the Temple to see my husband. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before about. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to ashen face. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should have I gained?" order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "My dear Holmes!" to a more successful conclusion." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Game for a morning drive?" roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined never will be, entirely cleared up. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest him. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in sentimental considerations in the background which would induce journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was information in his hands the value of which he did not himself headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, better in every way that they should make their position a little Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this over with notes and figures. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty cigars in the box." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Edgeware Road. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the society." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into are, and they are waiting for us." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Where, then, is my wife?" sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." me upon any point which I do not make clear." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "Game for a morning drive?" mystery." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. conclusions. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I acted in my house last night?" "Never." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her The King stared at him in amazement. "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the other lovers by making love himself." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. that, and I came down." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious indiscretion." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the Countess of Morcar's?" lost his Christmas dinner." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small noble correspondent could be. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, directors have had misgivings upon the subject." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the in this note: and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the him. events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the gone. himself. "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "10th. John Swain cleared. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my away into the river." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "And how did he make his money?" the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you purpose of examination. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional relief. then?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us You want to know what became of those geese?" position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my asked with his eyes open. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they events, Mr. Windibank!" not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it