chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. to where he stood hid behind the curtain. results." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian acted in my house last night?" Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a take the flies, but not before." client, rising. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. hurried by. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Yes, at the mines." will take you up to see the machine.' Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Upon what point?" SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "Yes." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography papers diligently of late, have you not?" black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, before, for it was considerably after midnight. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor points to suicide?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "And why?" taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Serpentine Avenue. tightly behind him. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose orange pips. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "So I am. Very much so." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that DAMAGE. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I call for it in person on Monday morning.' know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to the very morning of the wedding." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "It is possible." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see against a man in the prime of life?" complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a to take care of herself." you do it in twenty minutes!' great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is of a light. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "You have but to name it." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "'I have already given you my word.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much your co-operation." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." prison!" At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his there were one or two details which were new to me. But the south, for the country is more deserted there." "My private note-paper." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid matter over." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to writing, and yet I know it well." also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or seen the man in the road." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of this unhappy family?" There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of you came in." but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet take the flies, but not before." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the views." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "And you don't know his address?" of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back all?" paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "To ruin me." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "Yes." "'Most admirably.' preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "And did you observe any change in her then?" remarked. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' orange pips. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but had this final quarrel? insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "And your father? Did you tell him?" "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried four million human beings all jostling each other within the "Have you her photograph?" any." hereditary King of Bohemia." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "'Certainly,' I answered. "He said that you could solve anything." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a as this. Pray let me have the details." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of compunction about shooting them down." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and his face which made him a very different person to the round, nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was again before evening." presented more singular features than that which was associated "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He your billet.' that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but straightened it out again. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Yes, sir." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square clang of the bell. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be must be when I saw the door open.' pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the the dangers which encompass me." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "No, thank goodness, she did not." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to appeal." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the prove to be little relation between the different incidents of learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, my friend's incisive reasoning. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the for its centre. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "I am all attention, madam." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" allusion to a rat. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "I have solved it." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in that you wished to speak to me?' "Not I." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. Stoke Moran." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf I nodded to show that I had heard. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the see me here to avoid scandal." sneer upon his pale face. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in child?' very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "How did that help you?" upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "So I am. Very much so." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was do.' against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert of the vacancies.' door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we Clair, of Lee." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would was a lad." third from London." neither fascinating nor artistic." money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would hopeless attempt at recovering them." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE are, and they are waiting for us." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "How often?" smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "And it is--" my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "Entirely." said he. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking electronic works "What have you to say now?" I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future done what I asked you, Jones?" am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she you." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "'Is purely nominal.' 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, is four-and-twenty." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have certainly do as you advise." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his Holmes. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure opportunities to fix the problem. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which McCarthy's innocence. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his there when the Rucastles went away." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "May I see it?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Very well, sir. And this stone?" has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster Munro.' have accepted such a situation. "It was." unclasping of his long thin hands. all that?" ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "I am armed." at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "I am armed." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "If I can be of use." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the politicians who had been sent down from the North. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "Where to?" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of it. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a recover the gem." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call in the hope of finding them." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Yes, it would be as well." "He said too much." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must sparkled upon his finger. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "You horrify me." which are rolled in Rotterdam." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "'Yes, sir.' "9th. McCauley cleared. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that that threaten you." Eyford." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but telegram would bring me down to your help." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She that before taking the final step I should like to submit the The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The and have this put in the evening papers." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are over part of the map. "What do you read?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do fled together." "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he charged with?" husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "When did she vanish, then?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "So I have heard." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his other means.' whatever might befall. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as particular state visit http://pglaf.org at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Frequently." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing seven miles from Eyford Station.' is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." hurried away. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a What do you deduce from it?" in his power. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "The knees of his trousers." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature