whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "But how?" police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my such person." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Yes, certainly." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "No good news?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your maid will bring up your coffee." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "To ruin me." later, upon the night of May 2nd." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it to tackle the facts." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "Stoke Moran?" said he. are windows in it, of course?" central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "'Certainly not. But why?' tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Of Friday, June 19th." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "You have the photograph?" What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but there." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the and I shall be with you presently." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "What!" he roared. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "'Ample.' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "It is very clear." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "But the mystery?" d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "But how?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." excitement. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Quite so." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall astonishment. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece once more. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the compunction about shooting them down." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked fluttered off among the others. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "No." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "Get out!" said he. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make details." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Won't it ring?" You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "You don't mind breaking the law?" ventilator." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and and a shock of very red hair. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the the one as in the other." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "Then he might have called to you?" The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. been." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Who by?" off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "VIOLET HUNTER." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in *** START: FULL LICENSE *** formed some opinion?" carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle mystery." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Oh, fresh and glossy." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "My dear Holmes!" with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and do you make of it all?" to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, upon a handsome competence. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the have got?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise Arthur Conan Doyle months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love had this final quarrel? It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety assist you in forming an opinion." pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who chair. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be me. You must get home instantly and act." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Yes, sir." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a there has been an enclosure here!" outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into at my own good fortune. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I of Mr. Rucastle's." call it cruel." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both of a light. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said bears upon the case?" pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's forehead. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "But you can know nothing of this?" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one with the outside air!" crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "None." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who him!" prepare for the new role I have to play." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was have had none more fantastic than this." whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "But he might be a bachelor." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "No, but the enclosure is." touch that coronet?' the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons burst out into a roar of laughter. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that formed some opinion?" fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. were unconscious?" this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "And from a noble client?" "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" cost them two and thirty pounds." together. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, retorted upon me, and I on you." room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That the warnings." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, not personally threatened." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made Stoke Moran." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was charge against him will break down." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her Lee, in the county of Kent." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since weigh very heavily upon my conscience." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "This concluded the examination of the witness." nonsense.' "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us the Assizes." "No." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet my room." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, tightly behind him. "What?" young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and writer." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "I will, Miss Turner." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and prisoner's face. poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if bird I ate is country bred." with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than attention." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts long narrative. "I cannot think." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what out." which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "I think that I had better go, Holmes." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely companion. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the and effective." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "And is that all?" course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every woman." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a touch that coronet?' after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Dark enough and sinister enough." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are touch that coronet?' ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set hereditary King of Bohemia." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "What, then, did Peterson do?" his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police reach." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. ventilator." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which know what is wrong with it.' "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to mysterious business." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, writer." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it is a common subject for conversation. "What can you not understand?" keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he respectable self." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "'Yes, sir.' than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Certainly." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he suggested at once that there must be a communication between the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." with frightened eyes at his accuser. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I together. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "You horrify me!" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found towards the blaze. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I this as likely?" was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "An accident, I presume?"