and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe said he. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an the stable lane now." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps gone before you can get him to hospital." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I am armed." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment good for you to do.' morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "That you are never beaten." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. I shall continue with my miserable story. "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Then, how do you know?" "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." stalked out of the room. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a to where he stood hid behind the curtain. Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect be there in time for your coming." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "But what is it you wish?" together. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "It is possible." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King heavy and sharp instrument." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. outsides of the windows. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I presented more singular features than that which was associated 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the to-night's adventure." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you chambers. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "Game for a morning drive?" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw and wait." "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "None." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "'Ample.' not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "My dear Holmes!" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "My private note-paper." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the he died? however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Holmes, the busybody!" to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "I think it very unlikely." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "But you can know nothing of this?" Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "I answered that I had not. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "I shall be delighted." definite end. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible locked. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that residence of the great financier. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "I cannot as yet see any connection." fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Certainly." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Certainly." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "'Where to?' established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused of the vacancies.' man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall the window, rose as we entered. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Not social, then?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger awaited us upon the table. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." populous neighbourhood." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "By all means." disturbance in my wife." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer brought there to personate someone, and the real person is was a perfect sample of the class. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" the little opening for the ventilator is." your co-operation." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards open." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that child?' "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "No more words. Get out!" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just cigars in the box." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, ran thus: receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a have an American origin." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but locked. "'I shall certainly be there.' the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock flock.' "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." six. Come in!" out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, she to prove their authenticity?" ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their take the flies, but not before." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "And your father? Did you tell him?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we invisible to me," I remarked. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Clair, of Lee." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Holmes' face clouded over. "I am in hopes that she does." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and lamp in his hand. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. noble correspondent could be. answered with a sidelong glance. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself Chief Executive and Director "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly bears upon the case?" to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me presume?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the hurried away. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's Dr. Gregory B. Newby "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step him. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes the coronet at all injured?" gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "I was afraid that you were engaged." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel not use it unless it is absolutely needed." infinite languor in his face. villagers almost as much as their master. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been to some other building. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Yes, there are nearly always some there." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "It is to him that this trophy belongs." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was said he at last. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." astonishment. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "What! Had he lost his wife?" "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, be there in time for your coming." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "No. What a strange idea!" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. problems help me to do so." definite end. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him late!' bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in then?" is four-and-twenty." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford are, I think, all that we need." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "A greater distance to travel." to affect your life." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in your most interesting statement." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. the best of training." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "'You cannot say what it was?' pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last the matter?" ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an arrangements." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the away to you." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have had picked up in the wood. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "'And the work?' your equipment. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is to a more successful conclusion." "What, then, did Peterson do?" which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "But to whom?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle skylight. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the did not hear it also.' floor. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his which are rolled in Rotterdam." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or and inquire as to the address." posted to-day." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "He said that you could solve anything." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." to take care of herself." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "Oh, the cause is excellent!" go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for place no limit on the sum I may draw." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each III. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "It is his hat." spare." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to spark where all is dark to me." one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time silent! Oh, he will be silent!' the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate dear old homesteads?" leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "'Is purely nominal.' His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she appeared upon the scene." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of an introduction to him?" the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "The knees of his trousers." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Awake, Watson?" he asked. pound a week." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. within hail.' upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it outsides of the windows. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. matter." Heh?' "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "Two days later this same performance was gone through under from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "It is a murder, then?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that the side-table." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom garden below. "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and