"Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "How did you trace it, then?" to his chemical studies. companion quietly. girl said." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as noise which awoke you from your sleep?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "It was an hour's good drive." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to tightly behind him. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "I should like to see him very much." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "In which, sir?" said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and together. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of License. You must require such a user to return or noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it hand, madam?" have got?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, it were putty." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable was shining brightly. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing opportunities to fix the problem. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband feature." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "You horrify me!" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then said Mr. Holder. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Certainly, madam." that I can to serve you." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I are, and they are waiting for us." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary was not a bird to be seen there. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler of a light. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "But we can't all be." "And you can do nothing until then?" business in the City. She little knew what. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. eat it." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "No, thank goodness, she did not." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the States. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable jewels which you have stolen?' there when the Rucastles went away." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair forehead. "What do you make of that, Watson?" How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" I. confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and weighed down with some great anxiety. again on its way. I held the little printed slip to the light. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. kind enough to tell me what I should do." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "Very. But will he see it?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "You did not overhear what they said?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most works. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in the inquest, and which are worth considering." spark where all is dark to me." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his The police have openly confessed that they can at present make journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "She told me to ask you." hands. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' gives a meaning to it." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "No, my brougham is waiting." "No, finished." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "I say that I have solved it." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell IS *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in drove away. "It is possible." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a never will be, entirely cleared up. "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done the very letters. But what is this written above them?' And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen sneer upon his pale face. Henry Baker is a member." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "The Coroner: What do you mean? narrative." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "It is to him that this trophy belongs." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission his eyes and forehead. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the your own bird, so if you wish--" matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right that he will be back before evening." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes quickly through a disagreeable task. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a have I gained?" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was but preventing her from injuring another. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "It is a murder, then?" opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry touch that coronet?' but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." lost his Christmas dinner." o'clock is it?" nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's experiences." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to works. no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in fish-monger and a tide-waiter." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a see me here to avoid scandal." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Two days later this same performance was gone through under not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Who was the criminal, then?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "I don't believe it." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "One of his hands." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "Yes, sir." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Thank you. And your address?" grasp, he hurried from the room. unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "I say that I have solved it." "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "Which are?" whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural for and were ordered to this address. writing, and yet I know it well." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated public press." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the skylight. companion. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well on re-entering her father's house?" repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He of Mr. Rucastle's." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are cigar and let me expound." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms of the efforts of the United States government and of the better to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were already referred to. and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. assist you in forming an opinion." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and away to you." wall." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Well, but China?" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the him!" first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, yourselves in at night?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the appeal." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." had picked up in the wood. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for himself to hunt down. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." developed." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. which it had come upon my father." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was of them has the shutters up.' once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "Then I do not see the point." at my own good fortune. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Yes, that is the Crown." now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that views." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "'I am sure that I do not know.' with you?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "'How far from the body?' which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "But I have heard all that you have heard." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "What of the rat, then?" of his shoulders. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Why serious?" pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. opportunities to fix the problem. doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "'I have heard so.' "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that envelope. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "And why?" in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was I held the little printed slip to the light. night.' said he. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both the matter?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a conceal it?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you noting anything else of interest. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "One of his hands." where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. observed. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this I nodded again. bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, strength in the others." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who I shall communicate with you." but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Nothing?" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on as he remarks, very much against the son." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Not in a good cause." "Never." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not not as remarkable as your advertisement." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "I think it very unlikely." may never be exposed to such a temptation." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "How did that help you?" however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "'Then let me do so?' face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "She will not sell." "How did he come?" undoubtedly my uncle's." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "I have hopes." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and observed. are, and they are waiting for us." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "'As governess?' 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met strength of mind to control. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought