appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we Munro.' manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred really the only notable feature about the thing." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of said I. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have will find little credit to be gained out of this case." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "No." future lives." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." that, and I came down." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "We were both in the photograph." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate breakfast?" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all me upon any point which I do not make clear." humiliation." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "ARAT," I read. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses cigars in the box." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "I will, Miss Turner." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "She showed me, as I told you she would." get her out of the way." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, telegram would bring me down to your help." your room." "And your mother is alive?" characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "But his lameness?" "Very murderous indeed." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "That was it, sir." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "'I shall certainly be there.' ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united points in connection with it which never have been, and probably head. So long, then!" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Absolutely?" son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured country, and eventually married, without anyone having a one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City perplexity from it to my illustrious client. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us tail." was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "What!" he roared. dates and names. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken the one as in the other." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office spare." "Has he come with you to-night?" unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," conceal it?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior said he. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was from the brougham. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "And it is--" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker London for the present?" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have sake, don't!" the loss of it. like that before?" focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall spare." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "'Yes, sir.' planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "You don't mind breaking the law?" "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" right! Sit down and let us talk it over." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for never to learn it at all." promised to bring home. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'Yes, sir.' no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but this man was intellectual?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help now. It seems that there had been some informality about their He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If skylight. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the upon an income of about 60 pounds." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." purpose equally well?" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." what is your own theory as to what took place?" were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." over part of the map. "What do you read?" some water from a caraffe. "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried man. "Then you may be so with me." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Bought." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "9th. McCauley cleared. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "And it is--" from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the or other trace. But how on earth--" Cross for the Continent." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ and shall probably return to London by the evening train." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "How can you tell that?" vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of father's place of business?" something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Yes." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the get her out of the way." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has October 9, 1890. refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how and I shall be with you presently." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of said he. manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very and have this put in the evening papers." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands and effective." gone. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing and glanced through. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of arrangements." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the tapping his fingers upon the table. conclusions. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, salesman. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an returning from some small jollification and was making his way orange pips. go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "Oh, fresh and glossy." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of returning from some small jollification and was making his way good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "About a month then." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Your sister is dead, then?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which vault. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face shall use the carriage to-night." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "My Mary? Impossible!" the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter not interfere, come what may. You understand?" straightened it out again. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while affection." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that bears upon the case?" myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but definite end. written, and locked the door of the office after me. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can back alive. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "No." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "I should like to see him very much." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" as this. Pray let me have the details." "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. get the tickets." "And now?" He raised his hand. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Ample." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "What, then?" whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is brought there to personate someone, and the real person is slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm business came to an end." crackling voice. notes," he said. highly," said Holmes. "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear in my life." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and detained." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Not I." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram him to go away.' seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the started for the Temple to see my husband. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, could go. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of have one." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the disturbance in my wife." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in maid will bring up your coffee." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was obstinate." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "By train from Waterloo." Street. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Absolutely?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "But how?" Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first you understand?" of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I For additional contact information: baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "It is half-past ten now." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. events than those which have happened in my own family." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "Then he might have called to you?" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the carriage. It was a chestnut." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every existence." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "'Ample.' thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "If I can be of use." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "Of Friday, June 19th." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but posted to-day." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "But it has twice been burgled." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and chemical work which was so dear to him. have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have criminal. We have already had experience of such." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which