"'Yes, sir.' daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then from you?" by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working point in the dark hollow of his hand. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "Why? What do you mean?" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "'I shall certainly be there.' before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are papers." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "What is it, then--a fire?" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm be there in time for your coming." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, what I may call a really hard day's work." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, do.' Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual your only hope of safety." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep to have that photograph." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, head. So long, then!" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is this Miss Turner." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked that?' would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, leaning back in his chair. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose kind enough to tell me what I should do." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "My last client of the sort was a king." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to without success. At last the little money which I had saved began house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** go back?" you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important bare slabs of marble. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "But how did you gain them?" Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little shall not find me ungrateful." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich of receipt of the work. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "I see many objections to any such theory." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, in a friendly supper." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in strong reason behind." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Street. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, bare slabs of marble. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of crime." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "But we can't all be." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Nothing." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up geese which you supplied to the Alpha." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' British peeress.'" Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Young McCarthy must be got off, however." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. it with his own hands." a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "'Is purely nominal.' entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just little trying to do so much typewriting?" "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "The murder was done with it." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, just ask you whether you had heard it.' still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from the roots. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "In what way?" asked Holmes. room?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and British peeress.'" thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Where, indeed?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "I have my revolver," said I. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a conceal it?" down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when than to us. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger call for protection in the marriage market, for the present what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked o'clock is it?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." of." low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made opened the door, and slipped through. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "'What then?' I asked. we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I hand, madam?" lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" gone before you can get him to hospital." come either from the window or the door. My attention was "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard was it brought him the coronet? see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "If so, much may have happened between." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. the devil!" delirious. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to of them has the shutters up.' some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many distinguish the words: answered with a sidelong glance. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always Holmes' room. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but troubles have been weighing upon his mind. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms it." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a such attractions and accomplishments?' of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Game for a morning drive?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, the Assizes." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the it right.' noise which awoke you from your sleep?" find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." get the tickets." and effective." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "'Which dealer's?' came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future digesting their breakfasts at home." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "That you are never beaten." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, whether it answered to the description of any of their see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She in the hope of finding them." there!' a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own in. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "And Irene Adler?" they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite the Friday. Was it to be in church?" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had generous with you in money matters.' was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is Doctor, of the paper and the date." chair. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing a good hundred miles off by now." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "When did she vanish, then?" "I see no marks." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more you understand?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was hereditary King of Bohemia." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is other lovers by making love himself." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if to his chemical studies. "If I can be of use." "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." I nodded again. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." became a certainty. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and people in all walks of life. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a was a loud and authoritative tap. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not him. "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "And how did he make his money?" which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, handling of large sums of money. 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I shall be busy this afternoon, considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with arrested. You then--" "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of anything to do with the matter?" since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "And now?" I asked. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such enter Dr. Roylott's room." prisoner's face. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother meanly of me." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Nor running a chance of arrest?" you understand?" danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles front of me. "'Quite sure, dad.' of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with following enigmatical notices: Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, kindly on the shoulder. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he was feeling which was the fattest.' "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will was the fact that his father should, according to his account, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Game for a morning drive?" manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Sholtos." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were floor. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. Watson," he said cordially. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "No more words. Get out!" and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with lost nothing by them." my special province." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could