to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and unprecedented a position." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "In which, sir?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Then, as to money?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Yes." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the new acquaintance to Baker Street. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a relation between them, and what the object of his repeated were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "I cannot say that I have." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "Yes, at the mines." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting have not had my rubber." lost his Christmas dinner." "And the cigar-holder?" a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "I am to be neutral?" which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted already been minutely examined." swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has the so-precious time, but come!' "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too absorbing." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There shoulder. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' bonnet, and went out." with some details as to your case." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "No." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "From his hat?" very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "It certainly sounds feasible." your sleep?' exactly what you advise." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the interest. They are important, you understand, without being "'Is 4 pounds a week.' watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it said he. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name question you as to those details which seem to me to be most all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker it." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "What! Had he lost his wife?" hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but away into the river." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "It is to him that this trophy belongs." appeal." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his that there was nothing in it, after all." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of most important business. It is probable that he will be away all offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she asked. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a keep the flames under. of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "I will do it." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed fishes. for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Well, but China?" little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" formed some opinion?" know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for recover the gem." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece possible that we could bring him back to her? "Did he not advertise?" lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most murdered man." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of once more to my work. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an death." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves washing it down with a long draught of water. compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it wedding?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in with frightened eyes at his accuser. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "Not in a good cause." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a happened." beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. and effective." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the presented more singular features than that which was associated that I may have something better before very many minutes are the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "'Certainly not.' I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black was it brought him the coronet? Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "What of the rat, then?" The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall all that?" to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Not yet." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." man. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "A confidential servant?" importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. bird I ate is country bred." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself certainly not very gracious." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom then?" farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "You don't mind breaking the law?" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "No, I had a dozen." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "It is possible." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but long narrative. as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "A confidential servant?" have had none more fantastic than this." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Yes, only one." became a certainty. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is chambers. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should pierced for earrings?" characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "'Where could I find him?' clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it to tell." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit prison!" income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly name is different." such attractions and accomplishments?' buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Where, then?" the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Yes, all." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man noise which awoke you from your sleep?" late." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "I would pay ten." about here speaks of his kindness to him." colonel looking down at me. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project maid will bring up your coffee." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. woven round him. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "Witness: Nothing definite. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. any little problem which you may submit to me." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. brain must have something in it." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and voice, changing her seat as requested. tightly behind him. galvanised. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire way in." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman there." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. happened." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "I am all attention, madam." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened leaning back in his chair. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Well, but China?" Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting which it had come upon my father." "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the the devil!" "Indeed! Whose, then?" developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "No." hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than in him." and all of them with the keenest interest. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker more terrible than the truth. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wanted for ourselves." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." clanging. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Not yet." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of DISSOLVED. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek I was concerned in it." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" as the one I chose?' "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to window when the police appeared." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Eyford." do.' hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other to change my dress. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the Pope's Court. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or but preventing her from injuring another. the coronet at all injured?" "'I have already given you my word.' very peculiar words of the dying woman?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "'Why that?' I asks. refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. enough to aid us in our search." plantation.' questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. invisible to me," I remarked. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive Chief Executive and Director He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his October 9, 1890. "Dark enough and sinister enough." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made joking. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "The landlord of the Alpha." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily I nodded again. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Not in the least." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." unprofitable." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the of Fenchurch Street." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as tapping his fingers upon the table. in his power. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Very much so." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we strong reason behind." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you fish-monger and a tide-waiter." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. answer." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, read over the extraordinary announcement. "So I heard. You have him here?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should forecastle of an emigrant ship. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. head. So long, then!" "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?"