observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Married! When?" either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his there were one or two details which were new to me. But the Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was like gravel from a pit.' some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "It is half-past ten now." "Yes." retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "It is to him that this trophy belongs." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I eavesdroppers?' refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other more solid." pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole chamber." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "One of the highest in England." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual down. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. one which it was hard to resist. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace if only as a check to my own memory." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading tied." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a has little to do with my story." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, relief. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "To the police?" known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't enough to aid us in our search." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Surrey." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to ways including including checks, online payments and credit card just called myself is not exactly my own." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, beg that you will break it off." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and even of instruction." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "'Certainly not. But why?' "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Then I shall certainly come." "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in bell. Holmes whistled. flock.' battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." exactly what you advise." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "But it has twice been burgled." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "That is easily got." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly giving me time to thank him. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for I think that I could be of assistance to you." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to closely." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, weigh very heavily upon my conscience." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, will take you up to see the machine.' investigation." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Where to?" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "That is not always so easy." "And leave your case unfinished?" as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the had a long day." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "But his left-handedness." chance at all." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. relief. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "And what then?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included papers." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." heavily into it. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. his face. among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "He said too much." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad showing my impatience. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and that I am arrested." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "What steps will you take?" I asked. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "One?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some was a perfect sample of the class. think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "But his lameness?" at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography remarked. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in sooner or later she must fall a victim. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "If so, much may have happened between." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I stalked out of the room. chance." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Cross for the Continent." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and his grey eyes. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the points to suicide?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay some city in a dream. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely the loss of it. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is directors have had misgivings upon the subject." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "VIOLET HUNTER." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. Does that suggest anything?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper habit of advancing money.' by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." go from here to the Strand." horse could go." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a in. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Has he come with you to-night?" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, of Fenchurch Street." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. directors, with the result that you have seen." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the begun to whiten, even as mine has." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If only touch the interest." asked. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood detained." "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." matter." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "I have seen the police." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." door?" "And Miss Sutherland?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the row." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Can I be of assistance?" boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first down from London to inquire more deeply into it." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Where did he live, then?" Eyford at 11:15.' for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Have you it here?" lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. thirty. "Yes." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "You were travelling in the States?" "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Yes. He waved his hands." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it the stable lane now." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I late!' Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Have you it here?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to bed dies. Does not that strike you?" hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than has little to do with my story." over here." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "I shall be delighted." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "That also I could fathom." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my particular state visit http://pglaf.org "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "Precisely so. But how--" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Indeed! Whose, then?" before the coroner and the police-court." character. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight there were so many in the whole country as were brought together I took the paper from him and read as follows: before the coroner and the police-court." distinguish the words: left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst on re-entering her father's house?" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "'I shall certainly be there.' gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "And Miss Sutherland?" took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "That also I could fathom." envelope. shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of second." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Did you observe the colour?" the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "She told me to ask you." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see ago." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. dramatic, in fact." bears upon the case?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new of your young ladies.' to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I shall not find me ungrateful." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood key turn in the lock." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I hands. study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight man. I know him from the photograph." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been best detective that ever lived. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" come either from the window or the door. My attention was "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham his knees, staring into the fire. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by mystery!" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire I leave." and a shock of very red hair. "There are none." the warnings." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "You have carte blanche." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." gone. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I fluttered off among the others. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous some city in a dream. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her