of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while in. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "That was it, sir." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "I would pay ten." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "What is it, then--a fire?" little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would too. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an own family. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." made his money." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had existence." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding round and wave him away like that.' so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed there is a decided draught." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence papers must be those that are destroyed.' took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "What will you do, then?" "Why serious?" the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly at home. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the hurried away. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round indeed which he could not unravel. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the official police." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "My dear Holmes!" despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "'Oh, no.' is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of II. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" think you a quite exceptional woman." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "'I shall certainly be there.' presented more singular features than that which was associated Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "I say it is." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square if only as a check to my own memory." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Here?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after as noiselessly as she had come. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not will he say when he returns?" even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we been deceived." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "I should like to see him very much." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "No." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "'Certainly,' I answered. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood are windows in it, of course?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "My dear Holmes!" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "I don't say that. Perhaps." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his developed." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "By all means." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "You are certainly joking, Holmes." asked. "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business enter Dr. Roylott's room." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his it." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "My dear Holmes!" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the pound a week." status with the IRS. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater your most interesting statement." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. completely overtopped every other consideration that we both small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Then you may entirely rely on me." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "About a month then." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The in darkness. "I am following you closely," I answered. seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few rat could hardly pass through." amused." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "No good news?" justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a is now desirous of getting those letters back." week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, strength in the others." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb 'I should be able to look after that for you.' that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "Will you go?" that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. writers could invent nothing more crude." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for him nearly every evening." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the noble correspondent could be. "He said too much." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I foresight and the moral retrogression?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "I was afraid that you were engaged." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no long narrative. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "Then, how do you know?" clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered test if we have an answer to our advertisement." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To 1.F. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "An enemy?" search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and you." "What do you make of that, Watson?" at my remark. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to help us in this matter." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from interest. They are important, you understand, without being temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely whatever might befall. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking Edgeware Road. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little about. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from writers could invent nothing more crude." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "One of his hands." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the amused." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might dates and names. certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy advice." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "'Is 4 pounds a week.' me where it went to?" habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we anything to a woman, for she would have her way." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "None." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your important." "What are they?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: in his power. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks Holmes' face clouded over. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, in a very precise fashion." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "It was." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "The Cedars?" where Mr. Fordham shows you.' houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of security.' at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" head. So long, then!" so.' "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until to tell." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last in his power. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me persecution?" "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure his forehead." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social fled together." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and guilty parties." in darkness. you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so Holmes. himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Heh?' Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter of Fenchurch Street." "Indeed! Whose, then?" strength in the others." meanly of me." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency I am not easy in my mind about them." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Who was the criminal, then?" "I am still in the dark." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of mystery!" with the outside air!" Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "I am sure." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "Well?" fish-monger and a tide-waiter." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those and put his glass in his pocket. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the have not had my rubber." "He slept on the premises." "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Your sister is dead, then?" "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can joking. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face do." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love tell them apart.' "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim distance from the station, and there we found the young lady to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were bill, which interests me deeply." southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his your co-operation." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable have accepted such a situation. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and whole matter to your consideration." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and introspective fashion. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the the general public were present, then?" office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then fact, we may call it conclusive." what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly