endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "None. Neville wrote those words." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "No good news?" all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was manager. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so mystery may be cleared along those lines." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out answered with a sidelong glance. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward deduce something from that?" mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother might help us?" grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some security.' Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an really the only notable feature about the thing." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to with the outside air!" another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "But he might be a bachelor." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to which it had come upon my father." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, one's self under obligations.' to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." my little problems." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "No?" the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector there in twenty minutes." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing few hundred pounds.' very old mansion. "Not yet." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and Sutherland?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with place, I think that there is good ground to think that the at my own good fortune. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' jewels which you have stolen?' "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Well." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that his grey eyes. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. to talk it over. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have about here speaks of his kindness to him." and looked back. with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls rose-bushes. "The Cedars?" was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in at my own good fortune. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" you." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "'Ample.' I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "That you are never beaten." hurried away. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "'What, the red-headed man?' is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with goes." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "And help." "What steps will you take?" I asked. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that that I may have something better before very many minutes are again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "No, but the enclosure is." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the someone who had been in Australia." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and to-night's adventure." was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Then how many are there?" wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very to tackle the facts." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant woman." "Your French gold?" "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "And sit in the dark?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by floor. or other trace. But how on earth--" "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united you for a few hours?" "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "I cannot tell." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He off." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had ways including including checks, online payments and credit card since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he client, rising. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "You are all wrong." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was and your relations to her." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of the so-precious time, but come!' "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box will find little credit to be gained out of this case." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately again before evening." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general upon a handsome competence. the morning and make my own way in the world.' characteristics, but those are the more obvious." during that time.' "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' swore that no one else had been in the front room during the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the key of the affair now." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a business at Coburg Square is serious." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" said he at last. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "'In my own bureau.' My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with footfalls from the street. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "What! You do not mean bodies?" his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "This concluded the examination of the witness." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Yes, from Horsham." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he you give your casting vote to?" and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the Red-headed League." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Of what day?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "I see many objections to any such theory." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will and looked back. air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "It is his hat." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "And I to find an enemy." of his shoulders. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Ha! you find it so?" doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and friends, not even his own brother. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements call for it in person on Monday morning.' vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "I should be immensely obliged to you." "I answered that I had not. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced spark where all is dark to me." For additional contact information: would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the like that before?" man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "You have carte blanche." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly chill to my heart. "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and are, I think, all that we need." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of some water from a caraffe. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "You have compromised yourself seriously." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "You think that he is dead?" A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "I have solved it." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such my friend's incisive reasoning. great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss my secret was safe in his possession. "I should like to see him very much." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough companion. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "None." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as some water from a caraffe. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "One of the highest in England." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed indiscretion." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "But I have heard all that you have heard." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Sholtos." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely to miss it." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I beg that you will break it off." done what I asked you, Jones?" river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "Holmes, the busybody!" "Why did you beat the pavement?" "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "How did you deduce the select?" a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he to surprise her." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "He disappeared so suddenly." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for Munro.' immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his guilty parties." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the heavily into it. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "But you would not advise me to refuse?" Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Yes, he did." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found mysterious end." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "No. What a strange idea!" morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "But to whom?" "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Not particularly." as yours." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem other means.' copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an on in his house." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson father's place of business?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. individual and becomes the badge of a society." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental children over to America with him, so that I found myself without which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "It is very kind of you." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your derbies." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "So I heard. You have him here?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his late!' man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall