other means.' I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second developed." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Really! You surprise me." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad heavily into it. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "That sounds a little paradoxical." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and papers." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, sneer upon his pale face. looking up at the numbers of the houses." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Texas, I think." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Foundation has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. during which he might have communicated with his friend the nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Pope's Court. money should be paid at once.' England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "What then?" careless servant girl?" Holmes' face clouded over. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "Yes, but only for you and me." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official views." upon a handsome competence. down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather some water from a caraffe. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Precisely." Countess of Morcar's?" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. 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It may only be never will be, entirely cleared up. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set into her hand at the door and which lured her within their Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Precisely so. But how--" With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this works. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "But of what society?" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would companion. Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the good for you to do.' "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "I see no marks." light and attacked it." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "I am in hopes that she does." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Why, what do you mean?" certainly do as you advise." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which started for the Temple to see my husband. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common confronted him. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I nonsense.' years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By make me his representative both with the servants and with the "How on earth--" "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "Very. But will he see it?" helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, said he. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the both be extremely obliged.' "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his ventilator." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who From what you have told me I think that it is possible that paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' said he at last. it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble wife's character?" against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features the roots. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "What! You do not mean bodies?" might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months in my life." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes such attractions and accomplishments?' lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a heavily into it. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "Of Friday, June 19th." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "I know where it is." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "What can you not understand?" darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out indeed which he could not unravel. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my she to prove their authenticity?" "'I am sure that I do not know.' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Yes, all." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "And how?" any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a again." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away some city in a dream. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. so far?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at and laid it on the table. "Certainly." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the roused himself from his reverie. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would where Mr. Fordham shows you.' I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." closing the door. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Thank you. Pray proceed." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her one else, I think." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a him." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat with you?" could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent strength in the others." really the only notable feature about the thing." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "It is very clear." the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "No." Holmes. practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all one else, I think." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our the armchair which I pushed forward for him. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small point in the dark hollow of his hand. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "Stoke Moran?" said he. the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while was a perfect sample of the class. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "It was a confession," I ejaculated. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "A client, then?" for its centre. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the the matter." it." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously the child." Sholtos." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "I have a cab outside." that you can jump it.' "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "No." "He said too much." upon a handsome competence. "Is he quiet?" "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "I assure you that I am in your hands." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough true." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Yes, it was twisted." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "That is easily got." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter she used." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'What do you call purely nominal?' as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "I came to find a friend." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the south-west, I see." nothing of it?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He detective. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." points to suicide?" of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that she might be summoned. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Have you good authority for what you say?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed not personally threatened." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "What I expected to see." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the I am not easy in my mind about them." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton IS hair?' parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to Count Von Kramm." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, when your master had gone out." visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "And I to find an enemy." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the roots. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Not in a good cause." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the business came to an end." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San situation." air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "When did she vanish, then?" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had had died away into the silence from which it rose. in the dead of the night?' the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "I cannot imagine." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Seven!" I answered. labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "'Certainly not. But why?' you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for your only hope of safety." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Get out!" said he. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me main points of my analysis." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Was the window open?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is