out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch have an American origin." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of Stoke Moran." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "And Irene Adler?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Was the window open?" do.' "'Quite sure, dad.' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "This photograph!" takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which together. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you one of the states of the Union." horse could go." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Oh, yes, easily." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which pound a week." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "The decline of his fortunes, then?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "'I have heard so.' for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "You heard nothing yourself last night?" when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "'Entirely.' during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. beg that you will break it off." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Nothing." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my have I gained?" down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it said he. certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "You know me, then?" grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I photograph?" "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Oh, fresh and glossy." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "This photograph!" of receipt of the work. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "'Is 4 pounds a week.' slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Yes." touch that coronet?' thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Eh? What was that?" of this gang." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could of his shoulders. pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a to-night." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do The police have openly confessed that they can at present make handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "No, distinctly professional." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became back into the street. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to go back?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag never will be, entirely cleared up. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and cup of tea. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly over here." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe conceal it?" dramatic, in fact." considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight see a sister of mine apply for." prisoner's face. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is sooner or later she must fall a victim. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that how narrow had been my escape. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have thought that she would have been so carried away." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Not particularly." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in against a man in the prime of life?" have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, said Mr. Holder. twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Was the window open?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "That's no good." Pope's Court. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so him!" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Your presence might be invaluable." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you one else, I think." "Not I." records." or other trace. But how on earth--" you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Really! You surprise me." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you their singular warning or token before them when starting upon Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the danger is over." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid 1.F. "I will, Miss Turner." of this gang." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King other means.' cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "That is it on the dressing-table." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been suggested at once that there must be a communication between the think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, God! What an exposure! What can I do?" took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "How long did she speak to this Alice?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "A client, then?" address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his tapping his fingers upon the table. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the was it brought him the coronet? for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "Get out!" said he. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated never to learn it at all." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of test if we have an answer to our advertisement." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big of note-paper. It read in this fashion: remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will open." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. himself to tell his story. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. during which he might have communicated with his friend the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend to-night?" I asked. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, head. So long, then!" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." your equipment. said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "How did that help you?" "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be standing smiling on the door-step. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Because he was handy and would come cheap." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Not I." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Well?" "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Yes." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back delirious. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Her father is very rich?" his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said developed." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a tear off another piece?' a little more before I quite committed myself. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper License. You must require such a user to return or I have it here in my museum." "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of a room. out." was a perfect sample of the class. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness purpose of examination. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had kindly on the shoulder. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly are, and they are waiting for us." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, Sutherland. him and tried to hold him back. "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip woman." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "'Most admirably.' very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Cross for the Continent." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a already referred to. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "What I expected to see." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that if she died from some sudden fright." weighed down with some great anxiety. broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa asked. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "It is half-past ten now." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of What do you deduce from it?" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." with frightened eyes at his accuser. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of becomes even more simple." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice mystery." that you saw all that I did." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. throat." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "I cannot tell." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Yes." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are you?" a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may upon a handsome competence. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his ready to-morrow?' "I am armed." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Oh, the cause is excellent!" twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. sparkled upon his finger. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the particular state visit http://pglaf.org "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I sooner or later she must fall a victim. lumber-room." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home I think that I could be of assistance to you." Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "And from a noble client?" "Then, as to money?" the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, and all of them with the keenest interest. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps villagers almost as much as their master. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Now, then, what's the last entry?" to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a stood on the top of it. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms and all of them with the keenest interest. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her yet." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "It must be recovered." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "No, distinctly professional." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the recall any case within my experience which looked at the first thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "I was afraid that you were engaged." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution of it with the greatest attention. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As over with notes and figures. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all which was all perfectly true. sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present society." myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and kind enough to tell me what I should do." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is careless servant girl?" from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch money should be paid at once.' over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." union?" and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the call for it in person on Monday morning.' form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were other lovers by making love himself." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Was there a secret marriage?" the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their already referred to. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of Does that suggest anything?" steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, villagers almost as much as their master.