despaired of." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Edgeware Road. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "At the wedding breakfast." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would you?" than to us. friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable the devil!" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was girl said." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Always." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "No more words. Get out!" murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this more solid." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two quite distinctive." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into manager. said he. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She important." drawing your inferences." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "Absolutely?" which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "'I have heard so.' game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. would apply.' at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "'Where could I find him?' trying to your nerves." Have you good authority for what you say?" "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "'Stolen!' he cried. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." down. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to you want, then?' insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when second window is the one that I jumped from." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to of Fenchurch Street." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination a room. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the with the outside air!" Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "It was an hour's good drive." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "'In my own bureau.' "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their my secret was safe in his possession. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and page at http://pglaf.org believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, do." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. coat-tails." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang views." "I cannot think." which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "My private note-paper." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle chair. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "No. His orders were to stay in the house." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Yes." occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Yes." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small said he. results." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "Of what day?" "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian good for you to do.' "What then?" wall." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, noble correspondent could be. singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and fuss that is made over them." chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to again on its way. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" to some other building. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." I took the paper from him and read as follows: gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if depend upon your compliance." "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Where, then?" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from she to prove their authenticity?" you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, me upon any point which I do not make clear." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable voice, changing her seat as requested. "What will you do, then?" assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." within hail.' request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may present." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire despaired of." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "And on what day did he meet his death?" introspective fashion. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at mystery." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack obstinate." "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "To an English lawyer named Norton." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "None." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Dr. Becher's." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, Lestrade of Scotland Yard." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what prison!" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I at home. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may said he. orange pips. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a about. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was I was concerned in it." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "She told me to ask you." I was concerned in it." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy might help us?" closing the door. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "None." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed Eyford at 11:15.' receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Who by?" at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he think that he is innocent?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for me where it went to?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted hurried away. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew excitement. black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Never." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "No, finished." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that has little to do with my story." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more notes," he said. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "And the murderer?" taking in every detail of the apartment. with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just interest. They are important, you understand, without being Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "Yes." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your any." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to young Openshaw's." Project Gutenberg-tm works. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. writer." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to and a shock of very red hair. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, them present such singular features as the strange train of walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Of Friday, June 19th." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I fatally injured? "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my of campaign. "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "One horse?" interjected Holmes. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to to tell." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "So I heard. You have him here?" Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "None." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "He said that you could solve anything." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." it with his own hands." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, maiden herself was most instructive." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual so.' There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what forbidden door. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, McCarthy's innocence. "No, thank goodness, she did not." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander interest. They are important, you understand, without being transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that with you?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Oh, fresh and glossy." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the loss of it. "In what way?" asked Holmes. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and use an arc-and-compass breastpin." galvanised. Mary, has deserted me." may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to records." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Yes." shall use the carriage to-night." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Not I." his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge other means.' happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Your presence might be invaluable." giving me time to thank him. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "What! Had he lost his wife?" spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "But she will refuse." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. correct than the official force." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "At what time?" interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking fuss that is made over them." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "That is possible." had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If held up the lantern and gazed about him. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "No sign of it?" had a long day." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "Never." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an hand, madam?" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, his huge brown hands. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until get the tickets." and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." digesting their breakfasts at home." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "We must have a cab." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in mysterious end." "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." together. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. touch that coronet?' thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "Then, how do you know?" no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Entirely." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Ample." "What can it mean?" I gasped.