man. I know him from the photograph." "'Certainly not. But why?' "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "But his lameness?" compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I some city in a dream. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "How about poison?" weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted think that he is innocent?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is telegram would bring me down to your help." "No, distinctly professional." is four-and-twenty." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the possible that we could bring him back to her? ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" that he has suffered." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that habit of advancing money.' heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." woven round him. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper and the church but not where the lady lived." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for Pope's Court. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his his wife has ceased to love him." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he cup of tea. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and Does that suggest anything?" week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I go--none." tapping his fingers upon the table. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "I never have." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "I answered that I had not. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A client, rising. black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Have you her photograph?" take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your children over to America with him, so that I found myself without during that time.' paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "You have but to name it." rooms." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes searched, without anything being found which could incriminate my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Certainly, madam." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given retorted upon me, and I on you." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "A confidential servant?" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "You have but to name it." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be back to my heart. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "It looks newer than the other things?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "That is possible." "And that is--" Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Tired-looking or fresh?" fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "And when will you call?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my indeed which he could not unravel. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" your billet.' I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Well." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Always." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of already been minutely examined." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as think that he is innocent?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "No, finished." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in that you saw all that I did." must compliment you." "You think that he is dead?" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the this remarkable episode. you." "Two days later this same performance was gone through under in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must important." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he galvanised. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in chamber." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how as he remarks, very much against the son." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he there in twenty minutes." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Thank you. Pray proceed." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! death." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard derbies." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and was not a bird to be seen there. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal strength of mind to control. me what he had done with the three missing stones. "Very. But will he see it?" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed is acting for the best. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Come in!" said he. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Quite so." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque your most interesting statement." "You think that he is dead?" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into posted to-day." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out Pool. him and tried to hold him back. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's paper in the air. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a weary and pale-looking. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Come in!" said he. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. States. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "So it appears." "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the devil!" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his call for it in person on Monday morning.' closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." McCarthy." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that noble correspondent could be. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his bed dies. Does not that strike you?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may whereabouts. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came spare." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one easy-going way." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no him. with some details as to your case." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "How about poison?" frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the mystery." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. little trying to do so much typewriting?" ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To mysterious end." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander it were putty." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another following enigmatical notices: "Not yet." like that before?" common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for http://www.gutenberg.net feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "It must be recovered." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily where we are going." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her his huge brown hands. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to believe that I should never have any practice at all. the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can think you a quite exceptional woman." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and it right.' presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings business." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the more terrible than the truth. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love lids now and glanced across at his visitor. to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between Again Holmes raved in the air. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but had this final quarrel? girl said." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "In the cells." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little be best to do. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if floor. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his undoubtedly my uncle's." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "Yes." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "And for present expenses?" electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, until night should bring an explanation. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "It is no ordinary one." late!' know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "And why?" to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight recover the gem." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot there were one or two details which were new to me. But the British peeress.'" Holmes rather sternly. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and congratulate you again." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you goes." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great ago." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "But of what society?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man know what is wrong with it.' "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is me have 200 pounds?' of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, your Highness to the police-station?" "Not him." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without at my remark. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "'Certainly not.' Mrs. Toller serenely. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had outside. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "I cannot imagine." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. question. door?" "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring morning." unkempt, staring out at me. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Always." sofa. This way, please!" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most the warnings." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, not within a twentieth part of the market price." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' tell them apart.' in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have,