found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A kind enough to tell me what I should do." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more might help us?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what in a friendly supper." "Always." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "It came here." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was to you." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." has little to do with my story." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a me upon any point which I do not make clear." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to his cane at the bell-pull. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story get the tickets." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall only touch the interest." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke begun to whiten, even as mine has." "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I cost them two and thirty pounds." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "No, finished." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when secret." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me the one as in the other." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil showing my impatience. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Pope's Court, Fleet Street." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring London for the present?" "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "Not social, then?" receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "And leave your case unfinished?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "The rest you will leave in our hands." "But it has twice been burgled." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of easy-going way." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' that he will be back before evening." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "You have carte blanche." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his because she had spent so short a time in this country that she performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible appeal." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had tear off another piece?' as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant I nodded again. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out maid will bring up your coffee." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "It must be recovered." of his shoulders. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair was a loud and authoritative tap. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried suddenly upon us." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so works. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, companion quietly. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the roused himself from his reverie. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my intimate personal affairs in this public manner." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to client, rising. forebodings. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some For additional contact information: Gutenberg-tm License. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. strong reason behind." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact details should find their way into the papers. Inspector Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was horse could go." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "I should wish to." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "I will get her to show me." instituted." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. there!' I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "We were both in the photograph." matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting it? Did I buy the geese off you?" back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say drove away. problems help me to do so." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after sufficient punishment." "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers maiden herself was most instructive." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my is entirely a question of barometric pressure." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that would apply.' has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, despair." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he taking in every detail of the apartment. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce of fine shops and stately business premises that they really The events in question occurred in the early days of my one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird shoulder. have an American origin." burst out into a roar of laughter. circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir call for it in person on Monday morning.' thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and outside." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "But his left-handedness." "Well, but China?" some terrible trap for her." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a eavesdroppers?' seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is imbecility!" he cried. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking time." "Witness: Nothing definite. sooner or later she must fall a victim. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "How did you deduce the select?" unprofitable." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us little trying to do so much typewriting?" records." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, go from here to the Strand." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and client, rising. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "No, I am descending." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you Count Von Kramm." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously front of me. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. acted in my house last night?" when your master had gone out." he bowed and left the room without another word. servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, hard-headed British jury." than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "It is very clear." "Stolen, then." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the wedding?" during which he might have communicated with his friend the standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side hand, madam?" him!" "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was in the dead of the night?' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Edgeware Road. weary and pale-looking. "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth country, and eventually married, without anyone having a terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had when you have done it." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the again, where I was soon asleep. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "To an end?" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "Yes, the wine-cellar." never to learn it at all." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'As governess?' "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." the salesman. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur Again Holmes raved in the air. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings despaired of." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, introspective fashion. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, room?" discontent upon his features. "Perfectly so." low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had obstinate." My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "About a month then." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Ah!" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Street. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "It is his hat." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he the stable lane now." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City recall any case within my experience which looked at the first spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds anything to a woman, for she would have her way." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "I shall most certainly do so." "When did she vanish, then?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the weigh very heavily upon my conscience." extraordinary contortions. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty main points of my analysis." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had matter over." Eyford." "It is very kind of you." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in forebodings. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' American. Then who could this American be, and why should he heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Then the page we have seen--" not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that handed it to him. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak his eyes and forehead. "She told me to ask you." digesting their breakfasts at home." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not thin, with a long, sharp nose?" wedding?" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Then, as to money?" death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. my room." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Ample." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That following enigmatical notices: array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire been anything against him. He had for years been known as a same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I some city in a dream. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady,