there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' to arrive at through this?" some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he that?' what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two photograph?" original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys shoulder. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "And you don't know his address?" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut of note-paper. It read in this fashion: savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "My dear Holmes!" "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope down in his armchair and closing his eyes. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a delighted to hear it," he said. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "Stoke Moran?" said he. closing the door. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the nonsense.' and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "It is possible." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "The King of Scandinavia." "So I heard. You have him here?" sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "I assure you that I am in your hands." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the for and were ordered to this address. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "You are certainly joking, Holmes." crowd. power." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and which are rolled in Rotterdam." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "'Then let me do so?' "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to daring than any effort of the imagination." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the night.' one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Certainly." "Will you bet, then?" plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the help us in this matter." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this own family. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "I promise," said Holmes. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a been anything against him. He had for years been known as a lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The photograph?" who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "He might." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner would apply.' of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "It is half-past ten now." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his dramatic, in fact." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been o'clock is it?" unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and question," said Holmes, smiling. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among man. I know him from the photograph." a monotonous occupation." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "And why?" more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "'I have heard so.' of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to giving me time to thank him. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "Well, but China?" nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Not in the least." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I carriage. It was a chestnut." rooms." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as Project Gutenberg-tm works. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "If so, much may have happened between." "Yes." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." place no limit on the sum I may draw." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "You are hungry," I remarked. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "In San Francisco, a year ago." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" is acting for the best. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "Where did you address your letters, then?" "'And what salary do you ask?' "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "You know me, then?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "When did it break out?" doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would second." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any not use it unless it is absolutely needed." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "The gentleman I describe." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than all that?" There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and power." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. papers." all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Indeed! Whose, then?" "And how did you verify them?" happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about developed." expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided nothing with him." lost his Christmas dinner." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a shoulder; "he's all right." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "Imitated." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind me, and I could not think that his explanation of the that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and companion quietly. "We must have a cab." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his forecastle of an emigrant ship. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and fire. You quite follow me?" their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we burst into a hearty fit of laughter. shall not find me ungrateful." despair." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your said he. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "Could he throw no light?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "To an English lawyer named Norton." "No sign of it?" There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom and glanced through. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was interests were the same as his." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, of Mr. Rucastle's." was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the loss of it. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "What?" "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "'Quite sure, dad.' there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about as he remarks, very much against the son." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the questioning and rather startled gaze. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Seven!" I answered. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I hopeless attempt at recovering them." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that placed his cuttings. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." when your master had gone out." more terrible than the truth. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." villagers almost as much as their master. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' excitement. he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his bears upon the case?" "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' call for protection in the marriage market, for the present departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. detained." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but not interfere, come what may. You understand?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "What do you make of that, Watson?" will be renamed. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Why did you beat the pavement?" about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "I will do it." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did and the church but not where the lady lived." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about someone who had been in Australia." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this answered with a sidelong glance. this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back appointment with me for six o'clock?" excitement. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a away into the river." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "I am still in the dark." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised passage and a tap at the door. springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the that you can jump it.' gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "Just look it up, then." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." me what he had done with the three missing stones. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it the running down." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort started for the Temple to see my husband. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most it means?" Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "And when will you call?" much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a that time." populous neighbourhood." round with crates and massive boxes. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "I see no marks." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was throat." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special not use it unless it is absolutely needed." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of not as remarkable as your advertisement." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a sentimental considerations in the background which would induce ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "But she could not love him." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "'No, I know no one in these parts.' through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless really the only notable feature about the thing." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "At the wedding breakfast." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a wedding?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you rat could hardly pass through." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "I am all attention, madam." in a friendly supper." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such and wait." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that some place of shelter and let the county police know what has likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the side. wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just daring than any effort of the imagination." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back