very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that Where does the thing come from?' his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "What is it?" copied or distributed: that he has suffered." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out nothing of it?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain distinguish the words: to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "One?" brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, security.' "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, manager. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and whatever might befall. made him keep the appointment." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of straightened it out again. unprecedented a position." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "No, I am descending." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Entirely." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of business." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might woman who has had her own way to make in the world. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very fish-monger and a tide-waiter." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "None." arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven thin, with a long, sharp nose?" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. he died? right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be cause to be." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an directors, with the result that you have seen." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up is," said he presently: "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." with you?" the salesman. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "How many? I don't know." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where long narrative. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "'I am sure that I do not know.' "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. His name is Francis Prosper." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in your co-operation." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return way: "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" putting in the horse. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the before the coroner and the police-court." "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "I have solved it." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and she slowly sank and died without having recovered her came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "No good news?" it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "I don't believe it." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. without a word or a look. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm enough to aid us in our search." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and highly," said Holmes. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit your co-operation." uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover skylight. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "'Ten to two.' "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to tell." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Eyford at 11:15.' clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them late!' "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a experiences." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "But of what society?" "Nothing." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "And did you observe any change in her then?" which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "'Where could I find him?' set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "And why?" "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my done what I asked you, Jones?" gone. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide and all of them with the keenest interest. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had where Mr. Fordham shows you.' well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I had no one to advise her at such a crisis." golden eyeglasses. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so This is what he says: it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped she to prove their authenticity?" learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off away to you." together. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Holmes' face clouded over. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Certainly." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round relief. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I in the dead of the night?' wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'Which dealer's?' doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped character. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his telegram would bring me down to your help." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the to surprise her." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "Pray tell us what has happened to you." too. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are experiences." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to his grey eyes. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "But what harm can there be in that?" have one." placed his cuttings. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." acted in my house last night?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, ill-usage at the hands of fortune. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" States. The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'As governess?' few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had chill to my heart. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "I cannot imagine." "And what did you see?" introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I them?" "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "Deserted you?" what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Well?" "Quite so." father's young wife. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he You want to know what became of those geese?" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "But what is it you wish?" "Yes, he did." child?' secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "Why did you beat the pavement?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Will you go?" sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Never to return." It may be so in this case, also." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who Cross for the Continent." unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way prison!" would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the eat it." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at see me here to avoid scandal." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled nonsense.' a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." the date of his supposed suicide." burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire guilty one." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two me, and I could not think that his explanation of the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the said he. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason both be extremely obliged.' and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was or in danger--" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at would apply.' hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "At the wedding breakfast." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "My dear Holmes!" inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "'What, the red-headed man?' repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, which should have the effect of calling the attention of the secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "And who is her maid?" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I writer." retorted upon me, and I on you." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you assist you in forming an opinion." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "And I say east," said my patient. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known certainly do as you advise." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing some water from a caraffe. "Precisely." "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Farm upon the left." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "'Which dealer's?' make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, gbnewby@pglaf.org indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a you." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon coroner's jury." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of hour." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "Yes, the wine-cellar." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever Sutherland. that?' recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he visitors." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "I see many objections to any such theory." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so