"Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but carried out of court." even of instruction." "Very truly yours, him to go away.' glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, hardly wander." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "'Very good.' the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There photograph?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "Why serious?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "And how did you verify them?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the handed it to him. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "But who is he?" she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm place no limit on the sum I may draw." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when meanly of me." "At what time?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of You can understand that this register and diary may implicate to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' who was a member of your goose club." "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my felt the room to be a little close.' pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but get the tickets." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door case-book, which he consulted. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "What can you not understand?" "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or outside." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me system of imprisonment?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "A call for help, you thought?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! thin, with a long, sharp nose?" this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "What have you done?" asked Holmes. as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock do.' "Bought." infinite languor in his face. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the indiscretion." and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but your equipment. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "Of what?" most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might stepfather?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "To the police?" "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." she used." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon and that he would see to anything that turned up. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "I am to be neutral?" It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. me have 200 pounds?' It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch go--none." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her during the last few years, and there are many noble families to our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "Never to return." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a later, upon the night of May 2nd." redistribution. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, plantation.' "How did you trace it, then?" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments beg that you will break it off." "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "You did not overhear what they said?" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the rooms." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "And why?" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I chamber." morning." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich the loss of it. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go telegram would bring me down to your help." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you rooms." lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, official police." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Quite so. She has her freedom." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not tapping his fingers upon the table. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge people in all walks of life. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, a few minutes he said that it would be all right. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to very morning of my second wedding." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "Your French gold?" to-night's adventure." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "You know me, then?" that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable Mary, has deserted me." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Stoke Moran?" said he. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and unclasping of his long thin hands. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he obstinate." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "The doctor?" and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the best of training." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the just called myself is not exactly my own." yet." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the himself in a perplexing position. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to stepfather?" "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get bonnet, and went out." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "An enemy?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "I think it very unlikely." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "Not yet." man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Stolen, then." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from I leave." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to at my own good fortune. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "What can you not understand?" "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just his fortune, and I went back to pa. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "It is half-past ten now." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "'What, the red-headed man?' perplexity from it to my illustrious client. quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for where she found matters as described by the last witness. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "I think it very unlikely." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, of fine shops and stately business premises that they really swore that no one else had been in the front room during the after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a indiscretion." "A confidential servant?" destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium drove away. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. a monotonous occupation." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "What, then, did Peterson do?" "And you don't know his address?" Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Very murderous indeed." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Could he throw no light?" was once confined in the cab my mission was practically of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "What will you do, then?" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "'Yes.' of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "But how did you gain them?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Yes, that is the Crown." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Yes, that is the Crown." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My the inquest, and which are worth considering." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "Where did you address your letters, then?" have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the not, dad?" she asked. used to be." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. client, rising. "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a hard-headed British jury." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a the stones. want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered Holmes' room. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Yes." directors, with the result that you have seen." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little village inn over there?" essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "And the murderer?" he. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, you in your example." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is that?' seven miles from Eyford Station.' into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Why serious?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Why did you pick him?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "Yes." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated were unconscious?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate have got?" were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a more terrible than the truth. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. be there in time for your coming." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "And why in hopes?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent beg that you will break it off." During two years I have had three consultations and one small to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a promised to bring home. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, be.' "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that it." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." in a friendly supper." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears the running down." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Witness: Nothing definite. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's newspaper selections." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth once more to my work. he bowed and left the room without another word. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the paper in the air. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Was he the only applicant?" them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did miles off. "My stepfather's business papers." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else