you." tightly behind him. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to people in all walks of life. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. brain must have something in it." "Was the window open?" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "No." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the fuss that is made over them." "If so, much may have happened between." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his for and were ordered to this address. least a fellow-countryman. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project them present such singular features as the strange train of Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from for securing the situation." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "Well, it is a possible supposition." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest carried out of court." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden relief. success. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about some place of shelter and let the county police know what has forebodings. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm fattened it expressly for you.' allusion to a rat. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "'Ample.' firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "What will you say?" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery back into the street. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on of campaign. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Seven!" I answered. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days business came to an end." individual and becomes the badge of a society." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a have got?" were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two During two years I have had three consultations and one small his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little back into the street. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, that I may have something better before very many minutes are is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. cause to be." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the had picked up in the wood. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "Precisely." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang do.' engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, have not had my rubber." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar exactly what you advise." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black present." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord relation between them, and what the object of his repeated The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, to change my dress. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't galvanised. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "But not more so than I to find you." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "I assure you that I am in your hands." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where himself. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "There is the writing." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were returned to France?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "How often?" "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "Only as much as we can deduce." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with License. You must require such a user to return or they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought emerged. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "I have a cab outside." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning business came to an end." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my morning." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty did not hear it also.' warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the words came to my lips. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Was she in good spirits?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "Certainly." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to it means?" I held the little printed slip to the light. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, night.' said he. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. that threaten you." "I shall be delighted." Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "Frequently." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature place of silver." "We must have a cab." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a gone. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as corner of the building. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" giving me time to thank him. Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp something of him before." window when the police appeared." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project you." that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "You think that he is dead?" few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker before, for it was considerably after midnight. sneer upon his pale face. direction." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or said he. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that train.' wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to Sholtos." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "So I heard. You have him here?" question. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person forecastle of an emigrant ship. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided will be renamed. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "And for present expenses?" suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "Here?" named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; that, and I came down." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew speckled band?" explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "My stepfather's business papers." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the really the only notable feature about the thing." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of remarked. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you mysterious business." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and least a most suspicious remark." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled strength of mind to control. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "I should be immensely obliged to you." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Where, then?" entirely devoid of interest." little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "'And the work?' pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun what do you think they found in the pockets?" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about wedding?" instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and bare slabs of marble. purpose equally well?" "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Farm upon the left." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "I came to find a friend." means taking possession of that which another person has a prior lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no to tackle the facts." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "No." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I breakfast and whispered something to her husband. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was Countess of Morcar's?" Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "I would give my fortune to have them back." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business present." not within a twentieth part of the market price." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "I will not look." "9th. McCauley cleared. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for kindly on the shoulder. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his to go into your room and bar your shutters?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to of a light. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Yes." have established a very serious case against the son of the "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be about here speaks of his kindness to him." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black deduce something from that?" appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Ah!" "But he might be a bachelor." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. wall." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without clanging. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. pictures, libraries, or plate. "How did he come?" but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, the room while you explain this matter?" the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a round with crates and massive boxes. that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Of what?" and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered signal between you and your father? Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her Mrs. Toller serenely. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, any little problem which you may submit to me." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Never." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Then, how do you know?" "Did you become engaged then?" even of instruction." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Not in a good cause." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their think that he is innocent?" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "Witness: It was. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for clanging. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me obstinate." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Never." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his bears upon the case?" "Won't it ring?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission away to you." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair.