said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "To the police?" you?' blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed of them has the shutters up.' built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Did he not advertise?" Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, the King without delay." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project his eyes and forehead. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "Get out!" said he. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I outbreak?" Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been have accepted such a situation. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant it." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to the coroner come to?" abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square do.' "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Witness: Nothing definite. "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face recall any case within my experience which looked at the first which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." The events in question occurred in the early days of my I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Not in a good cause." guilty parties." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions one else, I think." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Not yet." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing time." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right noting anything else of interest. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Then what has happened to him?" that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "You know me, then?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in she has been waylaid. There has been no result." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips neither fascinating nor artistic." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all the roots. a monotonous occupation." long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." once more to my work. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "And what then?" It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had them, and came down just as you departed. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich upon the shelf for the interim." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "None." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "He is dead," cried several voices. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "And you thought he was pulled back?" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "'Oh, no.' "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered question you as to those details which seem to me to be most man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on there were one or two details which were new to me. But the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to beg that you will break it off." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the trifles." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to said he. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "She showed me, as I told you she would." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "None." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Nearly eleven." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Why, it's a dummy," said he. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "I have my revolver," said I. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and tied." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman enter into my head. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "The King of Scandinavia." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true upon an income of about 60 pounds." ordinary clothes on?" "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I society." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that the coronet at all injured?" orange pips. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace to tackle the facts." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and his grey eyes. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Nearly eleven." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "I came to find a friend." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and point our research must commence, and we will begin it by could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid closely." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "On Monday." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's you." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would chance." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Entirely." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been careless servant girl?" which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "It must be recovered." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "My dear Holmes!" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "That is unusual in a young girl." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "If I can be of use." remarked. redistribution. dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "May I see it?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman that you saw all that I did." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he standing smiling on the door-step. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for jewels which you have stolen?' Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit Lee, in the county of Kent." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and will be renamed. "Not particularly." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up I held the little printed slip to the light. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "'What, the red-headed man?' room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and at my own good fortune. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "The decline of his fortunes, then?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. DISSOLVED. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and later, upon the night of May 2nd." States. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can in darkness. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he him to go away.' "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which of this gang." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public again, where I was soon asleep. "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, have accepted such a situation. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," that?' for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "That is also quite modern," said the lady. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. the inquest, and which are worth considering." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the recall any case within my experience which looked at the first made his money." "What then?" "What office?" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." instituted." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. present." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems your sleep?' You want to know what became of those geese?" passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, lamp. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "But how could you guess what the motive was?" you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and she used." "But how?" know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Witness: Nothing definite. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "What steps will you take?" I asked. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the joking. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered if only as a check to my own memory." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, within hail.' battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he spare." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "'Very good.' "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. back into the street. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is gone before you can get him to hospital." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing despaired of." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel fear." Eyford at 11:15.' would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady his face. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the coronet in his hand?" Holmes." "No legal papers or certificates?" o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' business matters.' records." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, papers on the sundial.'" would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes the salesman. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought cigar and let me expound." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "The King of Scandinavia." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Not him." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me