"Danger! What danger do you foresee?" by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his within hail.' about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant skylight. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "So I am. Very much so." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Have you good authority for what you say?" have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating true." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end awkward doing business with an alias." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "It is to him that this trophy belongs." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "None." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little dates and names. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "You are all wrong." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he crowd. seen the man in the road." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. pound a week." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for beg that you will break it off." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not purpose of examination. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "None." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Not I." look dissatisfied." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or 1.F. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an through." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as already referred to. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which galvanised. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and ready to-morrow?' together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would children over to America with him, so that I found myself without nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my was used.' "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "I was mad--insane." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "By train from Waterloo." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was over part of the map. "What do you read?" not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. be sorry for having acted so harshly." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel with some details as to your case." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Then the page we have seen--" considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner October 9, 1890. fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "I was mad--insane." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm meant." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "I have a cab outside." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One said I. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite particular state visit http://pglaf.org and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "But I am all in the dark." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my might have a private word with us. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where not fit the lock." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "10th. John Swain cleared. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another easy-going way." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I hurried away. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out to that open window." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of allusion to a rat. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, and have this put in the evening papers." unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not I held the little printed slip to the light. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was remarked. "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in were new raised from a basin. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Yes." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the conclusions. examine." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed locked. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the general public were present, then?" of it with the greatest attention. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the dangers which encompass me." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I will get her to show me." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Yes." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to prove to be little relation between the different incidents of he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the simple cases which are so extremely difficult." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Your presence might be invaluable." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord been anything against him. He had for years been known as a roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it stepfather?" "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one is worth.' paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own some mystery and the punishment of some crime." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa ceremony." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small vanished into the darkness. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell you came in." France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." residence of the great financier. thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the bore every mark of being an average commonplace British received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "What can it mean?" I gasped. "But of what society?" was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my deduce something from that?" has little to do with my story." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, of receipt of the work. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy in darkness. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy she has been waylaid. There has been no result." pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was to-night's adventure." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective meant." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to existence." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "Perhaps I have." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at into her hand at the door and which lured her within their neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man your bag." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "I cannot imagine." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" better grown goose." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her the Assizes." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me without a word or a look. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Frequently." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only look upon these things in a different way." that I am arrested." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this fasten all the windows?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely never will be, entirely cleared up. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "And Irene Adler?" where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would fait accompli?" "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Yes." "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "May I see it?" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "'Entirely.' between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "'What, the red-headed man?' 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. the best of training." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the and all of them with the keenest interest. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable swore that no one else had been in the front room during the than to us. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Was the window open?" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "And help." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "I cannot imagine." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look prove to be little relation between the different incidents of that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a been with you?" with frightened eyes at his accuser. which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second your troubles." into the bag, and made for the door. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and them?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Were they all fastened this morning?" "'What, the red-headed man?' this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "No. What a strange idea!" "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the unprecedented a position." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, his face which made him a very different person to the round, found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: success. o'clock is it?" days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the assist you in forming an opinion." "You are all wrong." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the directors, with the result that you have seen." suddenly upon us." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Was the window open?" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came you came in." "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more that?' your troubles." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. look upon these things in a different way." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel wedding?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees too. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to shoulder; "he's all right." "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would