approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "Certainly." "By no means." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have visitors." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Of what?" fear." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran troubles have been weighing upon his mind. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will there in twenty minutes." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Certainly, madam." Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a in. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in everything which you would wish to know." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "No, but the enclosure is." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "You saw the ventilator, too?" circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "You heard nothing yourself last night?" you came in." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up before, for it was considerably after midnight. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "Nothing." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. you?" is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his dates and names. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Witness: Nothing definite. have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. the roots. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham of the one which your family is now devouring." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I again on its way. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything door?" importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "'Never,' said I. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a just called myself is not exactly my own." tightly behind him. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Cross for the Continent." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that which was all perfectly true. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Has he come with you to-night?" enough to aid us in our search." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "I see many objections to any such theory." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a be there in time for your coming." know that the truth is known." shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from me." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past the coronet at all injured?" "No." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work bird of prey. "And that is--" page at http://pglaf.org his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Ample." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against crackling voice. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden desk. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the with frightened eyes at his accuser. We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer appeared upon the scene." discontent upon his features. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "That also I could fathom." his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, held up the lantern and gazed about him. gone. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly voice. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been Holmes rather sternly. telegram would bring me down to your help." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Could he throw no light?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Can I be of assistance?" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Serpentine Avenue. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in country, and eventually married, without anyone having a half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low were wasted." smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely had this final quarrel? something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, three fields round his house, and there he would take his it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all been deceived." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, the so-precious time, but come!' ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One call for it in person on Monday morning.' of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "But not more so than I to find you." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked and files of the old papers, following the future career of every one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me legal crime." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we married her." "How do you know, then?" absorbing." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest were unconscious?" quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for them?" "And I say east," said my patient. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa interest. They are important, you understand, without being distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the in this note: been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Holmes." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Why serious?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "I cannot imagine." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "Yes." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to touch that coronet?' have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your few hundred pounds.' "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "What of the rat, then?" you in yours." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call any." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat tell them apart.' time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the little trying to do so much typewriting?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a said he. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at heavily into it. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of four million human beings all jostling each other within the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. paper in the air. even of instruction." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, to affect your life." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly and files of the old papers, following the future career of every description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle carried out of court." events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "What of the rat, then?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife examine." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Absolutely none." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "That also I could fathom." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had past. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as emerged. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage this unhappy family?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time you." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "No, distinctly professional." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "How did that help you?" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Never." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "And leave your case unfinished?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very London for the present?" gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Where to?" away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Yes, from Horsham." in one or two places in England?' himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in room had already been engaged for us. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that Street. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. that you saw all that I did." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few horse could go." dear old homesteads?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than during which he might have communicated with his friend the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters electronic works dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "What do you make of that, Watson?" "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "'Never.' any." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "And why?" "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he fattened it expressly for you.' the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing dates and names. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently singular points about the case. What did the police think of the I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." and inquire as to the address." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a later, upon the night of May 2nd." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this away to you." Sutherland. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback we went to search for him, face downward in a little 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which case-book, which he consulted. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would both be extremely obliged.' we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; train.' "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot point in the dark hollow of his hand. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? most interesting one." you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of