man. case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a never came back." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See footfalls from the street. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, were wasted." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. in my life." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Stoke Moran?" said he. have been better. It is all right." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more should be taken.' at my own good fortune. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Has he come with you to-night?" crackling voice. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King delighted to hear it," he said. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no flock.' to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding been shamefully used." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Arthur Conan Doyle "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Well, but China?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no said I. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having the one as in the other." of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, excitement. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" the ceiling. copied or distributed: ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as will he say when he returns?" job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, present." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "I fear not." "Ah!" "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very little adventures." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "One of his hands." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "But you have hopes?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his detained." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her unprecedented a position." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Well, but China?" as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "My dear Holmes!" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Certainly." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Then I am your man." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "No, distinctly professional." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend 'I should be able to look after that for you.' weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' hurried by. slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must and put his glass in his pocket. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face the dangers which encompass me." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Yes, sir." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "'You cannot say what it was?' obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "None." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." particular state visit http://pglaf.org and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great peculiar to him. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and Holmes' face clouded over. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged Farm upon the left." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I about here speaks of his kindness to him." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, details should find their way into the papers. Inspector in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital congratulate you again." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a brought there to personate someone, and the real person is where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "If so, much may have happened between." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to that there was nothing in it, after all." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story cigars in the box." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When weighed down with some great anxiety. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "'And what salary do you ask?' but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing key of the affair now." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Lestrade of Scotland Yard." lips." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this not within a twentieth part of the market price." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There girl said." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "What! a murderous attack?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "What is it?" tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest excitement. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." must be when I saw the door open.' should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they Project Gutenberg-tm works. "What have you to say now?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in train from Paddington which would bring you there at about closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we page at http://pglaf.org "It is half-past ten now." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "That is unusual in a young girl." "10th. John Swain cleared. horse could go." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to corner of the building. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "Ten will be early enough." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, to-night." 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Where did he live, then?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his unclasping of his long thin hands. correct than the official force." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may extraordinary contortions. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But delighted to hear it," he said. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "None. Neville wrote those words." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, we went to search for him, face downward in a little suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are evidence," I remarked. "'There is a drive, then?' sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we her also." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying forehead. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "Certainly." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes tension within him. "In heaven's name, what for?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could new duties?' shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? in one or two places in England?' has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic gives a meaning to it." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us know all about it," he snarled. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that most important business. It is probable that he will be away all forebodings. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would present." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Very truly yours, that "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "It is a murder, then?" her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "But she will refuse." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for enter Dr. Roylott's room." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray affection." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to questionable one." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "It missed him, then?" garden below. should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "No." himself to tell his story. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it any." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to habit of advancing money.' "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a gentleman's clothes. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Certainly." Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "I think that it is very probable." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. words came to my lips. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Very much so." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was paper in the air. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had papers diligently of late, have you not?" the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the forehead. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "What is it?" so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, any more." "I have a cab outside." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "I answered that I had not. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can detective. like that before?" And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of Sutherland?" the tragedy. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "The murder was done with it." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but strength in the others." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door this man was intellectual?" set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the rooms." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "We were both in the photograph." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Game for a morning drive?" material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as into the bag, and made for the door. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it