surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." she to prove their authenticity?" of receipt of the work. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to your co-operation." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement lamp. his face. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "But we can't all be." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have You can understand that this register and diary may implicate certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were hair?' would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "It is his hat." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce children over to America with him, so that I found myself without it? Did I buy the geese off you?" until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." security.' can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the information in his hands the value of which he did not himself come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. retorted upon me, and I on you." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how the general public were present, then?" managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "That was it, sir." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous Mrs. Toller serenely. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Game for a morning drive?" "Certainly." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Because he was handy and would come cheap." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the devil!" utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "And what did you see?" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some to that open window." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "It is very kind of you." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the intrusion of other matters." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Nearly eleven." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of at my own good fortune. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in fear." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two strength in the others." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Dr. Becher's." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "It is true that I have been generally successful." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "'Yes.' unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies long narrative. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "None." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" washing it down with a long draught of water. lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "An accident, I presume?" nonsense.' grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked me. You must get home instantly and act." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others felt the room to be a little close.' gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "Then the page we have seen--" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "Yes, that is the Crown." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "By no means." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran papers on the sundial.'" I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my without success. At last the little money which I had saved began then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my infinite languor in his face. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she she might be summoned. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" money should be paid at once.' own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be strength." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most breakfast?" vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "And from a noble client?" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was the warnings." "And why?" "The Coroner: What do you mean? - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of your Highness to the police-station?" would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out ashen face. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "Ten will be early enough." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered back alive. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Entirely." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed arrangements." "I am armed." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. comes from the middle window." "It is no ordinary one." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an hour?' black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "I was sure that I might rely on you." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the depend upon my doing so.' "But to whom?" everything which you would wish to know." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Where did he live, then?" come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had brandy and water within his reach. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up mystery!" there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew any little problem which you may submit to me." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they For additional contact information: them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "I am all attention, madam." "A client, then?" "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in affair. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was there." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal I am not easy in my mind about them." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left article?" is a common subject for conversation. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot are, I think, all that we need." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, chance at all." beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. been lifted and conveyed somewhere." only touch the interest." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Yes, sir." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Upon what point?" my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "What!" he roared. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the bedroom door." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "That is easily got." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four conclusions. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a acted in my house last night?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "How can you tell that?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away photograph?" "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I these bleak autumnal evenings." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to sofa. This way, please!" "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations my little problems." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of highly," said Holmes. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into purpose equally well?" "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Yes, at the mines." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond said he. details." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "Was there a secret marriage?" and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, views." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves something of him before." "'Very good.' Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Game for a morning drive?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their weighed down with some great anxiety. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk indeed happy." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my plantation.' "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, just called myself is not exactly my own." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Then how many are there?" "Well, but China?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "And I." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes voice. "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his with you alone." was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Very. But will he see it?" "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "What! a murderous attack?" "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose it. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who take the flies, but not before." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at carpenter." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already writing, and yet I know it well." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "And is that all?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "But she will refuse." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and bearing upon the case." his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Not him." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He on in his house." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did awkward doing business with an alias." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. to tell." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. see a sister of mine apply for." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "I don't say that. Perhaps." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send young Openshaw's." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "Yes, it would be as well." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "My Mary? Impossible!" "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the