band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could bearing upon the case." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "She will not sell." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "And the cigar-holder?" set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide interests were the same as his." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. them present such singular features as the strange train of known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "It was a confession," I ejaculated. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what been." forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about his cane at the bell-pull. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "'As governess?' "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client plantation.' and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two pity, because in other respects you would really have done very glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "To an end?" you?" fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so Surrey." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in bachelor.' at my remark. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" his grey eyes. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Yes, that is the Crown." vault. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' assist you in forming an opinion." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "You will not go there first?" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, a very grave face. "I am still in the dark." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the shall not find me ungrateful." week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Never." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and a suggestive one." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "And now?" He raised his hand. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and examine." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose nonsense.' the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous in his hands." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Yes." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "'Which dealer's?' was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Sutherland. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no details should find their way into the papers. Inspector 11:15.' four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "I cannot imagine." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, thirty. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "I guessed as much." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" paper in the air. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is where she found matters as described by the last witness. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." congratulate you again." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "A confidential servant?" "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Frequently." "You are all wrong." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and do you make of it all?" mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in mysterious end." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "You think that he is dead?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "You are all wrong." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg that there was nothing in it, after all." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' noble correspondent could be. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "'Most admirably.' 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the do.' shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a Again Holmes raved in the air. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "'And the work?' collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Why, it's a dummy," said he. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. points to suicide?" the address that was given us in the advertisement. "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not where she found matters as described by the last witness. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" papers must be those that are destroyed.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "And help." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was remarked. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us results." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Yes." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. The King stared at him in amazement. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. friend's singular character. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she fluttered off among the others. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down recover the gem." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And very peculiar words of the dying woman?" the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "One of his hands." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "None." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to photograph a cabinet?" sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs power." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "By train from Waterloo." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I question. "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not once more to my work. over part of the map. "What do you read?" "But what will you do?" fatally injured? bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" tapping his fingers upon the table. "What! Had he lost his wife?" some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Nothing?" wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the fashion which was peculiar to him. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I Sholtos." business?" "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his neither fascinating nor artistic." absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. views." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that the coronet in his hands?" present strange and interesting features that it is no easy recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. door?" "That was it, sir." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing would apply.' "'Why that?' I asks. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan his wife has ceased to love him." said Mr. Holder. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Entirely." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as himself in a perplexing position. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to of it with the greatest attention. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him of Mr. Rucastle's." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were floor. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Yes, that is the Crown." "And it is--" nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous begin with, and I had not got mine yet." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it both be extremely obliged.' years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he his knees, staring into the fire. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' paper in the air. our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "I saw her in conversation with her maid." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and it? Did I buy the geese off you?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and it with his own hands." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the that you wished to speak to me?' "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "And I to find an enemy." back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way suspect him." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The arrangements." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can article?" this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies obstinate." But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is he. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it have accepted such a situation. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry easy-going way." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "What is it, then--a fire?" handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., and your relations to her." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "What will you say?" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the from you?" nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to back into the street. way in." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "It missed him, then?" "And Miss Sutherland?" fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that a good hundred miles off by now." never will be, entirely cleared up. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers new acquaintance to Baker Street. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "'You cannot say what it was?' police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely nights." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "My opinion is in no way altered." walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I copied or distributed: and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the one or two very singular points about this room. For example, safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we will be renamed. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" you." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "I answered that I had not. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew and the colonel ushered me in. "Absolutely?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." but preventing her from injuring another. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming was once confined in the cab my mission was practically young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before