were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the morning and make my own way in the world.' very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk stammered. "Who was the criminal, then?" was keenly on my guard against him. "And Miss Sutherland?" to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Yes, sir." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "How on earth--" Surrey." delirious. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw results." "Yes, sir." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. upon a handsome competence. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my several quiet little villages up there." "Quite so. She has her freedom." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "I cannot imagine." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Is he quiet?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the as he folded up the epistle. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my information in his hands the value of which he did not himself vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Was he the only applicant?" have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before in his hands." "'About the same.' "Very much so." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the least a most suspicious remark." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found me where it went to?" "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, man. dramatic, in fact." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it you?' ill-usage at the hands of fortune. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "Yes, there are nearly always some there." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Ten will be early enough." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." 'please.'" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "Really! You surprise me." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." Cross for the Continent." what these perils are?" a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just feature." "Which are?" residence of the great financier. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's kindly on the shoulder. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence back alive. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. not, dad?" she asked. with some details as to your case." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." as the one I chose?' so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Your presence might be invaluable." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Yes." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know Stoke Moran." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to front of the hall door has given its name to the place. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Dirty?" star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your companion. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here public press." trifles." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "In what way?" asked Holmes. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies the coronet in his hands?" whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "BALLARAT." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, there was no need for father to know." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had ventilator." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "No." not as remarkable as your advertisement." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a galvanised. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "And I." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an sooner or later she must fall a victim. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Did he not advertise?" "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." away to you." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand newspaper selections." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the writers could invent nothing more crude." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it in. the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "Not social, then?" paper in the air. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. breakfast." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "In the cells." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I absolutely follow my advice in every respect." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "Yes, it would be as well." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them any." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. too. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" forebodings. "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are writers could invent nothing more crude." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Sutherland. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than one's self under obligations.' hour?' the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "It is no ordinary one." it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were photograph a cabinet?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Ten will be early enough." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near to surprise her." noting anything else of interest. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, envelope. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that were wasted." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Then I shall certainly come." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Upon what point?" "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "'I am sure if I had known--' "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an lids now and glanced across at his visitor. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? crowd. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from during the last few years, and there are many noble families to observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the minor matters until to-morrow." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital clanging. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the heavily into it. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "Well, some hundreds of times." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it may never be exposed to such a temptation." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, way in everything. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture whole matter to your consideration." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "'You cannot say what it was?' "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office page at http://pglaf.org up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't intrusion of other matters." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Did you observe the colour?" I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." but preventing her from injuring another. "And your mother is alive?" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "'What do you call purely nominal?' clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, gbnewby@pglaf.org upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came address. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt photograph a cabinet?" "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his 'please.'" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" everything which you would wish to know." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was made him keep the appointment." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Her father is very rich?" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the to have that photograph." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a I. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "I have hopes." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "'What, the red-headed man?' had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you pictures, libraries, or plate. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one go back?" "Certainly." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more in my life." you." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with very peculiar words of the dying woman?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated could go. "Yes, it was twisted." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "Now, then, what's the last entry?" well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "'Where could I find him?' confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when upon an income of about 60 pounds." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There my friend's incisive reasoning. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich instituted." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "You are hungry," I remarked. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "I am following you closely," I answered. maiden herself was most instructive." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Serpentine Avenue. sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have morning." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "And how did you find out?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Have you her photograph?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and astonishment. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' be.' upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had are, and they are waiting for us." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of them?" said he. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "What! Had he lost his wife?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the notes," he said. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence that I can to serve you." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed Dr. Gregory B. Newby possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. come either from the window or the door. My attention was with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive daring than any effort of the imagination." are windows in it, of course?" lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to