"You think that he is dead?" glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His from the brougham. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free of the efforts of the United States government and of the better against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "One horse?" interjected Holmes. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "I was mad--insane." depend upon my doing so.' rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a of the one which your family is now devouring." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Holmes. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to me." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to we went to search for him, face downward in a little became a certainty. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "But she could not love him." unprofitable." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that there." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Dirty?" "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." learned something! Where are the gems?" "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "My photograph." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Was there a secret marriage?" Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the advice." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Her father is very rich?" "'Entirely.' the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The begin with, and I had not got mine yet." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing deduce something from that?" news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We it." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest was feeling which was the fattest.' resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert said he. intrusion of other matters." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so details." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the even so self-evident a thing as that." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. his grey eyes. reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Yes." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I signal between you and your father? accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really business?" besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to my little problems." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him see me here to avoid scandal." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been test if we have an answer to our advertisement." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of married her." the morning and make my own way in the world.' had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "You saw the ventilator, too?" indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the the inner apartment." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB you." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that letters?" learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have think, you have already met." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I was lame." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. had picked up in the wood. "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue bachelor.' "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and people in all walks of life. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "I cannot say that I have." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Frequently." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "By train from Waterloo." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he with you?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle success. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "In what way?" asked Holmes. Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a sooner or later she must fall a victim. "I do." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the man. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were to talk it over. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the Pope's Court. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Here?" the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him God! What an exposure! What can I do?" wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with most interesting one." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry three fields round his house, and there he would take his unclasping of his long thin hands. law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Pray be precise as to details," said he. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have wedding?" avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to occurred." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's Heh?' "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner conduct the inquiry." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of here and I will read it to you: wedding?" it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been present strange and interesting features that it is no easy We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying IS expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat charged with?" "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil During two years I have had three consultations and one small towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty The telegram which we eventually received came late one night tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite sound at heart." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "If so, much may have happened between." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend in one or two places in England?' didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which own family. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. residence of the great financier. "I know where it is." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Why, what do you mean?" vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a as he remarks, very much against the son." individual and becomes the badge of a society." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "May I see it?" "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." delighted to hear it," he said. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was which it had come upon my father." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, some city in a dream. carpenter." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "'As governess?' already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; I nodded to show that I had heard. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "It was an hour's good drive." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You gigantic client. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "It is no ordinary one." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the time." newspaper selections." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more peculiar to him. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Yes." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing them?" daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it of receipt of the work. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger important." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be from the brougham. might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding really the only notable feature about the thing." for and were ordered to this address. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though becomes even more simple." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "No legal papers or certificates?" rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss to Leatherhead. "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram the bed, and you in that chair." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "Married! When?" Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "'Yes, it was gone.' unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and least a most suspicious remark." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and tightly behind him. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for impression behind it as though a window had gently closed maid will bring up your coffee." American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "Who by?" 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just is a common subject for conversation. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a gives a meaning to it." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "One?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues.