return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was ran thus: "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked companion. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of Heh?' de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms Countess of Morcar's?" not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She to-morrow." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small conversation I have gathered that they have been married about put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." meant." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "Yes." did not hear it also.' go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "When did she vanish, then?" Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. until night should bring an explanation. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. tightly behind him. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. union?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "When did she vanish, then?" Holmes. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "It looks newer than the other things?" the loss of it. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which galvanised. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in three of the beryls in it, was missing. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "'What then?' I asked. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing call for it in person on Monday morning.' adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "Entirely." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "It was an hour's good drive." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "And how did you find out?" what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another points to suicide?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" chemical work which was so dear to him. "But of what society?" villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out there." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "The vanishing of the lady." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of the matter?" wedding?" vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the here." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had tear off another piece?' far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the his huge brown hands. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Not in the least." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He DISSOLVED. "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when thought that she would have been so carried away." in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "One of his hands." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "That is also quite modern," said the lady. colour had been driven from his face. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope had formerly been in part my own. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "What!" he roared. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a new acquaintance to Baker Street. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled the devil!" stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps the warnings." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended back to my heart. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "I cannot think." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill Countess of Morcar's?" computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by was a lad." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the he died? endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "You are hungry," I remarked. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Stolen." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "You forget that I know nothing about it." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "'Stolen!' he cried. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never voice, changing her seat as requested. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which Leadenhall Street--and--" which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "It is his hat." dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock than to us. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was business at Coburg Square is serious." "And how in the world did you find them?" jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, other means.' cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the the warnings." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all nothing of it?" the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Pray do so." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. recover the gem." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "Of Friday, June 19th." newspaper selections." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an later, upon the night of May 2nd." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my that, and I came down." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place with you alone." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "But not more so than I to find you." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "And Miss Sutherland?" that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who politicians who had been sent down from the North. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." himself in a perplexing position. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are man. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "Yes, that is the Crown." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the have established a very serious case against the son of the daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "You have it, sir, just as it happened." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his sufficient punishment." enter Dr. Roylott's room." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in my former friend and companion. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features the little opening for the ventilator is." "Well, but China?" "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, upon the sideboard." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the south-west, I see." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "It is possible." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told salesman. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "What will you say?" nice household for a young lady." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "Then I am your man." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Stolen." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "You are all wrong." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the me have 200 pounds?' besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then read it out to me." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very believe that I should never have any practice at all. acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "But how did you gain them?" house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile purpose equally well?" the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "I cannot tell." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you politicians who had been sent down from the North. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'In my own bureau.' the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." attention." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon public press." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say bird of prey. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then some terrible trap for her." at home. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Why did you beat the pavement?" were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of he died? since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "Was there a secret marriage?" "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "What then?" "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do for the market.' occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "Yes, the wine-cellar." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Look there!" said he. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and jewels which you have stolen?' with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of mystery." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "And you don't know his address?" father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against have one." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my The police have openly confessed that they can at present make warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and figure." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of noble correspondent could be. followed. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "Where, indeed?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help looking up at the numbers of the houses." other means.' "Yes." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "Because he was handy and would come cheap." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." guilty one." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his remarked. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You wanted for ourselves." "I cannot as yet see any connection." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "By no means." "That is it on the dressing-table." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the nothing of it?" thin legs towards the fire. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "My opinion is in no way altered." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not future lives." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might business matters.' "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "Ha! you find it so?" "In San Francisco, a year ago." during which he might have communicated with his friend the "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and where Mr. Fordham shows you.' which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself own family. "Why did you pick him?" overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough This is what he says: use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "But who is he?" "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. have one." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of be best to do. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues.