Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. do." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between remarked. quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its prisoner's face. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." whereabouts. companion. "They are typewritten," I remarked. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "'I am sure if I had known--' interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival to go into your room and bar your shutters?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you round with crates and massive boxes. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them better in every way that they should make their position a little two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the people don't know." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and whereabouts. "I came to find a friend." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very been shamefully used." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." less than 26s. 4d. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "It is very kind of you." "What can you not understand?" top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master and have this put in the evening papers." place no limit on the sum I may draw." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very heavy and sharp instrument." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me gives a meaning to it." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "One of his hands." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need stammered. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Yes, they were peculiar boots." was a perfect sample of the class. in this way: prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "No." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can all-comprehensive glances. "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade States. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Indeed! Whose, then?" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." the ceiling. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. mysterious end." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that felt?" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a highly," said Holmes. annoyance, but no jest. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "It surprised me." fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you this man was intellectual?" which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my carpenter." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down http://gutenberg.net/license). prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Dr. Becher's." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," sentimental considerations in the background which would induce and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" I leave." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "A confidential servant?" ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." infinite languor in his face. whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "What! Had he lost his wife?" gbnewby@pglaf.org he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my there were so many in the whole country as were brought together evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat an introduction to him?" of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. definite end. corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger miles off. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the tell me that you intended to go into harness." late." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the get her out of the way." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We information in his hands the value of which he did not himself sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the should be taken.' "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he Heh?' himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "And why?" "And how in the world did you find them?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you License. You must require such a user to return or For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "The best possible." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I bird I ate is country bred." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "So I am. Very much so." "You have compromised yourself seriously." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Only as much as we can deduce." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you overpowering excitement and concern. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely certainly not very gracious." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most room had already been engaged for us. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "I warn you that they are very incomplete." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "'Where could I find him?' time." the very morning of the wedding." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some papers diligently of late, have you not?" outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of answer." obstinate." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "'Oh, no.' stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise of campaign. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father father's place of business?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just what is your own theory as to what took place?" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Absolutely none." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means future lives." that you can jump it.' "Then he might have called to you?" "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. more solid." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, me where it went to?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have miles off. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, infinite languor in his face. pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, was used.' "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "No, distinctly professional." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to said he at last. "No." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as could go. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third foot. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst the bottom.' that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" vague figure huddled up in the darkness. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I flock.' typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "That's no good." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little matters immensely." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "At half-wages, in fact." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "You have the photograph?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Pray continue your narrative." father's young wife. "I have come for advice." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be once more for Briony Lodge. "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, question," said Holmes, smiling. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was there were so many in the whole country as were brought together horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." second." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "'I have heard so.' and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" girl said." "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were the matter." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with 1.E.9. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the envelope. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is the Assizes." "It is a murder, then?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very London for the present?" very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom Street. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "'As governess?' may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they he. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! mysterious business." without a word or a look. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that your bag." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "'And what are they worth?' I asked. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those matter." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "So I heard. You have him here?" erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door gone. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "What is it?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, hair?' could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "I will do it." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the himself. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up of the way of danger. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Where, then?" and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "Did he not advertise?" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it disturbance in my wife." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the both be extremely obliged.' did not hear it also.' "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "Now, then, what's the last entry?" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "And how did he make his money?" her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "No, but the enclosure is." Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety crowd. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." to arrive at through this?" "I have hopes." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Where is it, then?" compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "You think that he is dead?" matter over." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" upon a handsome competence. interests were the same as his." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." foresight and the moral retrogression?" Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of place no limit on the sum I may draw." on in his house." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR that you saw all that I did." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress round with crates and massive boxes. assist you in forming an opinion." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of woman who has had her own way to make in the world. scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "And I say east," said my patient. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for voice, changing her seat as requested. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "In answer to an advertisement." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "By no means." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and fashion which was peculiar to him. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do their singular warning or token before them when starting upon was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "We have tried and failed." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned