"Upon what point?" "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as fish-monger and a tide-waiter." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "My dear Holmes!" "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "It is to him that this trophy belongs." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang information in his hands the value of which he did not himself from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it goes." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is envelope. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for the so-precious time, but come!' as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of the inner apartment." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face with some details as to your case." have accepted such a situation. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness locked." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' ashen face. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and fasten all the windows?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, hurried away. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. me what he had done with the three missing stones. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how that you saw all that I did." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Sutherland. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our were unconscious?" Foundation eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side she slowly sank and died without having recovered her heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out individual and becomes the badge of a society." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two interests were the same as his." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or him!" of the way of danger. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, II. our word." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said which it had come upon my father." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "My dear Holmes!" "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Yes, it would be as well." that threaten you." including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I one of them." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." DAMAGE. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call desk. "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the been with you?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "And I say east," said my patient. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so woman." strong and stiff." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old already been minutely examined." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary your co-operation." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a crime. fled together." the room while you explain this matter?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening never to learn it at all." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You bearing upon the case." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "And you can do nothing until then?" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Eyford." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones beyond words. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest only touch the interest." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "This photograph!" He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet awkward doing business with an alias." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was read it out to me." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in have an American origin." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is vanished into the darkness. flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what Holmes." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "My photograph." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "It may not come to that," said Holmes. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'Not at all. I only doubt--' the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See them?" story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Yes, but only for you and me." passage and a tap at the door. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss less than 26s. 4d. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill the roots. read over the extraordinary announcement. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "Was she in good spirits?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." the little opening for the ventilator is." burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Yes, sir." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "If I can be of use." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Very. But will he see it?" "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the the inquest, and which are worth considering." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "A confidential servant?" "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Where, indeed?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in was shining brightly. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's disappearance of the bride.'" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "But how?" One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, footfalls from the street. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "It missed him, then?" both be extremely obliged.' do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie weighed down with some great anxiety. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'A dozen yards or so.' "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "Will you go?" "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "No, I had a dozen." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the suddenly upon us." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was Street. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his companion. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. about here speaks of his kindness to him." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions My friend smiled. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their nights." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Certainly." long narrative. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Yes, all." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "'Stolen!' he cried. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting as he remarks, very much against the son." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from chance." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Will you bet, then?" "Is he quiet?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. goes." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw Eyford." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his salesman. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a all-comprehensive glances. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I know where it is." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Oh, fresh and glossy." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she there in twenty minutes." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily against a man in the prime of life?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "And on what day did he meet his death?" "Your presence might be invaluable." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An strong and stiff." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "The landlord of the Alpha." gigantic client. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Yes." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" which are rolled in Rotterdam." she to prove their authenticity?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed rose-bushes. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in you for a few hours?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "Not social, then?" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "I saw her in conversation with her maid." your most interesting statement." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in II. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to how narrow had been my escape. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Not I." "My dear Holmes!" was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the used to be." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion trifles." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on eavesdroppers?' "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Here?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, to a more successful conclusion." and a shock of very red hair. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in that you wished to speak to me?' right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "From his hat?" Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" me where it went to?" naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It From what you have told me I think that it is possible that some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, 11:15.' All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "No, I think that I'll take it." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, retorted upon me, and I on you." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate to have been novel and of interest." advice." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and happened." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New