the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his call you and give you the chance." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "But it has twice been burgled." opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may as noiselessly as she had come. "That sounds a little paradoxical." before, for it was considerably after midnight. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, paper in the air. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events row." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to me. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock one or two very singular points about this room. For example, quickly through a disagreeable task. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and shag which I had seen upon the previous night. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with you, my dear young lady?' "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our bird of prey. note?" judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine guilty one." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will congenial hunt. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I do you make of it all?" "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "I am still in the dark." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major that I am arrested." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the spark where all is dark to me." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Holmes. our word." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the him to go away.' "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him at my remark. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "I am sure." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. other, as fresh and trim as possible. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going nothing with him." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the I was concerned in it." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "Was she in good spirits?" He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the cigar and let me expound." strong and stiff." to surprise her." particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon note?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I I have it here in my museum." suspect him." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can at a side door. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I 11:15.' singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing a few minutes he said that it would be all right. had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded companion imperturbably. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in way in." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the sufficient punishment." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "In the cells." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and secret." soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "'You cannot say what it was?' penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of such person." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes some city in a dream. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of would then never go into court at all." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining presented which may be striking and bizarre without being about here speaks of his kindness to him." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "Absolutely none." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he to surprise her." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "Yes." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and daring than any effort of the imagination." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker morning." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend the south-west, I see." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The my friend's incisive reasoning. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most meant." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the to a more successful conclusion." 1.E.9. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "This concluded the examination of the witness." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "No, I think that I'll take it." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question least a fellow-countryman. "'Very good.' note?" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that must be when I saw the door open.' Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had had formerly been in part my own. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "No. What a strange idea!" with her." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "An accident, I presume?" Holmes' room. Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her as the one I chose?' fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Deserted you?" "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "But she will refuse." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut directors have had misgivings upon the subject." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a held up the lantern and gazed about him. prison!" lost his Christmas dinner." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Not I." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. distinguish the words: the address that was given us in the advertisement. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a lectures into a series of tales." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "'Entirely.' gone. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible habit of advancing money.' every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." me. You must get home instantly and act." characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from fear." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "Come in!" said he. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right strode off upon his way. sparkled upon his finger. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he ready to-morrow?' very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "What, then?" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California to take care of herself." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the like gravel from a pit.' myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the some city in a dream. lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which written. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. as yours." "I cannot think." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want together. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was the stable lane now." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of could go. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the the south-west, I see." "If so, much may have happened between." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and drove away. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "'It is locked up,' I answered. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. papers on the sundial.'" The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not him nearly every evening." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" Heh?' "Did you become engaged then?" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this congenial hunt. "I was mad--insane." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Your presence might be invaluable." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents people in all walks of life. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to burst into a hearty fit of laughter. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of said I. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which heavy and sharp instrument." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "In the cells." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, nights." business at Coburg Square is serious." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the hard-headed British jury." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "No, I think that I'll take it." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord From what you have told me I think that it is possible that over here." "I am still in the dark." "You are hungry," I remarked. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "I think that it is very probable." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. sake, don't!" "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "You think that he is dead?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Pray do so." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his had picked up in the wood. occupations.' outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "'Where could I find him?' 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in companion imperturbably. "Nothing?" long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I warn you that they are very incomplete." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my see a sister of mine apply for." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "A greater distance to travel." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a keep the flames under. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the views." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will page at http://pglaf.org direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Will you bet, then?" legal crime." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. if I call to-morrow?" "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" there when the Rucastles went away." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he village inn over there?" I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Entirely." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "'Ample.' the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been