"They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his man. I know him from the photograph." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "'Is purely nominal.' said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** was used.' gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that clanging. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Nothing?" http://gutenberg.net/license). his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Quite so. She has her freedom." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "What! Had he lost his wife?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and fait accompli?" "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Do you know him?" window when the police appeared." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside touch that coronet?' residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I You want to know what became of those geese?" "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a and prosperity to your house. Good-night." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this 'please.'" journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be bachelor.' But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of went to the Alpha were town bred." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Nothing." foresight and the moral retrogression?" the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the business at Coburg Square is serious." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." business?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "It looks newer than the other things?" from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of telegram would bring me down to your help." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the Project Gutenberg-tm works. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Ah, but I was recommended to you." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day his grey eyes. me. You must get home instantly and act." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is But Holmes shook his head gravely. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though a monotonous occupation." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room see a sister of mine apply for." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "She walked into the breakfast-room." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a voice, changing her seat as requested. as noiselessly as she had come. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In tapping his fingers upon the table. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "But what harm can there be in that?" room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "She showed me, as I told you she would." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is Dr. Gregory B. Newby desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was tapping his fingers upon the table. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "To an English lawyer named Norton." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "But not more so than I to find you." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "But who is he?" them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do me." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for have accepted such a situation. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain later, upon the night of May 2nd." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, any." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's The police have openly confessed that they can at present make glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "It's nothing of the kind." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Pray tell us what has happened to you." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small events than those which have happened in my own family." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." papers must be those that are destroyed.' is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I lumber-room." several quiet little villages up there." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. DAMAGE. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as is worth.' landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "Only as much as we can deduce." allusion to a rat. voice, changing her seat as requested. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, for securing the situation." dates and names. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "On the contrary, this is the right side." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business new acquaintance to Baker Street. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite system of imprisonment?" "But to whom?" the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "I was sure that I might rely on you." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, advice." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Did he not advertise?" little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since one of them." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would pound a week." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose Sutherland. Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just gbnewby@pglaf.org had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has nice household for a young lady." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to allusion to a rat. occupations.' purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Two days later this same performance was gone through under starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "ARAT," I read. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out and the colonel ushered me in. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what not use it unless it is absolutely needed." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. will not take me long to tell. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered page at http://pglaf.org had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "My photograph." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the My friend smiled. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a do.' It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates until night should bring an explanation. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark tension within him. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Where did he live, then?" Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become McCarthy." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS train from Paddington which would bring you there at about be sorry for having acted so harshly." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. what I may call a really hard day's work." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a made his money." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms present." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and Eyford." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds ill-usage at the hands of fortune. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' seven miles from Eyford Station.' to me. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this subject to the trademark license, especially commercial He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective disappearance of these gems?" broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Here?" unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch clang of the bell. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the floor. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months his forehead." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and ventilator." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is shadow pass over his face as I spoke. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "But who is he?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "I see no marks." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "It was a confession," I ejaculated. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "Perhaps I have." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "'Yes, sir.' covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, villagers almost as much as their master. remarked. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, started for the Temple to see my husband. You want to know what became of those geese?" Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling past. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "I am still in the dark." best detective that ever lived. strength in the others." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, matters immensely." more solid." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "Yes." mystery!" certainly do as you advise." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "And how?" places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a you for a few hours?" The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A kind enough to tell me what I should do." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "By all means." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "What! You do not mean bodies?" The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent several quiet little villages up there." such person." in the port of London." should be so warm over such a trifle." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped again." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the room?" of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back villagers almost as much as their master. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He and the church but not where the lady lived." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a than was visible to me." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned think, you have already met." future lives." dates and names. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Perhaps we may make them less so." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Your French gold?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely for securing the situation." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He