"Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an test if we have an answer to our advertisement." people in all walks of life. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so felt?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "How on earth--" He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "And from a noble client?" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "The Cedars?" is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than ashen face. hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon passage and a tap at the door. to change my dress. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "In the cells." way in everything. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to it. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. chance." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. maid will bring up your coffee." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has to-night's adventure." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "But how?" the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! to that open window." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "In which, sir?" thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with it with his own hands." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do if I call to-morrow?" prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short business came to an end." Have you good authority for what you say?" happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I intrusion of other matters." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "And how did you verify them?" clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for here." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "What will you say?" allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner http://gutenberg.net/license). Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen I held the little printed slip to the light. "Come in!" said he. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was Heh?' eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. lamp in his hand. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "'Quite sure, dad.' them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke page at http://pglaf.org "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror feature." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "How often?" "I was mad--insane." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "An accident, I presume?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "My own seal." laugh and put his lips to my ear. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "Precisely." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the back to my heart. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set taking in every detail of the apartment. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "Murdered?" weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, them present such singular features as the strange train of "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused instincts rose up against that laugh. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "His face fell immediately. "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "No sign of it?" a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "My private note-paper." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us thirty. redistribution. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP distinguish the words: "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked views." "Your sister is dead, then?" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And persecution?" "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Really! You surprise me." been shamefully used." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "What then?" "And from a noble client?" are windows in it, of course?" pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "Your French gold?" may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Where, then?" purpose equally well?" "Yes." of campaign. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest one which it was hard to resist. "Then you may entirely rely on me." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" II. do.' fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "That also I could fathom." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and it were putty." conclusions. "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an chill to my heart. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "At what time?" your most interesting statement." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, appointment with me for six o'clock?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle know that the truth is known." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has crackling voice. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Get out!" said he. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "'Certainly not.' any little problem which you may submit to me." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had entirely lost his self-respect." arrested. You then--" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm III. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "I am to be neutral?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you depend upon my doing so.' carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in and that he would see to anything that turned up. "One of his hands." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a maid will bring up your coffee." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Entirely." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these morning." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp we went to search for him, face downward in a little writing, and yet I know it well." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." putting in the horse. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "'There is a drive, then?' to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his October 9, 1890. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. hair?' mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless 11:15.' suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "You think so, too?" to change my dress. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not the one as in the other." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "Dark enough and sinister enough." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "Well, some hundreds of times." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "Two days later this same performance was gone through under happened." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the as the one I chose?' week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the generous with you in money matters.' quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Thank you. And your address?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned in a very precise fashion." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three the stones. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "What office?" "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my Farm upon the left." second window is the one that I jumped from." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will status with the IRS. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting remarked. Mrs. Toller serenely. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for words came to my lips. drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in vague figure huddled up in the darkness. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best forebodings. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied conversation I have gathered that they have been married about enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "I would pay ten." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the and your relations to her." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "That is easily got." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "To an English lawyer named Norton." hurried away. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "I will do it." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich skylight. like gravel from a pit.' long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest Leave Paddington by the 11:15." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Well." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what wanted for ourselves." the one as in the other." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of asked with his eyes open. to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Heh?' "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without that you saw all that I did." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others and it need not interfere very much with one's other Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself furiously. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges the armchair which I pushed forward for him. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Always." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Where to?" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and present." "Very truly yours, perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "It is his hat." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Yes, only one." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Well, some hundreds of times." had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of said I. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally you in yours." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are at my remark. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud from the brougham. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the entirely devoid of interest." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend get her out of the way." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to