particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "What! a murderous attack?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and closing the door. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number morning." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year enter into my head. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic than was visible to me." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Whose house is it?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "None." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Not particularly." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small What do you deduce from it?" to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Yes." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, brain must have something in it." to tackle the facts." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, Munro.' thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent for its centre. willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "And the cigar-holder?" as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different side. Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with the child." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "What then?" without a word or a look. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have the Red-headed League." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a shadow pass over his face as I spoke. night.' said he. "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. instituted." fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "By all means." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, the nursery. your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "But to whom?" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate standing smiling on the door-step. "And how in the world did you find them?" which are rolled in Rotterdam." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite congenial hunt. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "'What would be the hours?' I asked. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But she might be summoned. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down and that he would see to anything that turned up. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "To the police?" a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. them present such singular features as the strange train of And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman indeed which he could not unravel. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Why? What do you mean?" "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, tell me that you intended to go into harness." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works not within a twentieth part of the market price." "You are all wrong." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that there." "I cannot imagine." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'Stolen!' he cried. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "A client, then?" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, me upon any point which I do not make clear." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "Did your wife hear all this?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Proceed, then." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, lost his Christmas dinner." case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the this Miss Turner." "Yes." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Then you may be so with me." nothing of it?" out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "How did you deduce the select?" away to you." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran the matter?" "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Quite so." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited remarked. Mrs. Toller serenely. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. showing my impatience. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it business came to an end." "To an end?" was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the papers must be those that are destroyed.' second window is the one that I jumped from." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given appeal." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same allusion to a rat. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out chance at all." "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "An accident, I presume?" He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several mysterious end." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, it. and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "I fear not." "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who figure." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." shall use the carriage to-night." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "What do you make of that, Watson?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "It was an hour's good drive." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "It is possible." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or that you wished to speak to me?' spark where all is dark to me." me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "It is half-past ten now." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. upon a handsome competence. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how the armchair which I pushed forward for him. floor. "Your presence might be invaluable." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, most interesting one." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and kind enough to tell me what I should do." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the few hundred pounds.' "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Was there a secret marriage?" observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "Can I be of assistance?" lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "What can you not understand?" The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the inner apartment." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she narrative." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? at my own good fortune. your own bird, so if you wish--" that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. the matter." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would is entirely a question of barometric pressure." I approached. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between the one as in the other." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite pierced for earrings?" I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal when your master had gone out." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the absolutely follow my advice in every respect." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "None." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Watson," he said cordially. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no the inner apartment." "Will you bet, then?" however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Not in a good cause." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "But what is it you wish?" is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "Which are?" "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing pressing in one house as in another. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "Dark enough and sinister enough." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left of the way of danger. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "The Coroner: What do you mean? clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to redistribution. "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "It surprised me." Clair, of Lee." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "Your presence might be invaluable." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "No, I had a dozen." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which second." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was vague figure huddled up in the darkness. the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to to-night?" I asked. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "Not him." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, in a very precise fashion." "'Most admirably.' Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "I am about to be married." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to unprofitable." "Never to return." exactly what you advise." "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old business in the City. She little knew what. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us night.' said he. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." open." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her putting in the horse. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as next day. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "Seven!" I answered. his face which made him a very different person to the round, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and this unhappy family?" what these perils are?" Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' begun to whiten, even as mine has." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really It may be so in this case, also." the morning and make my own way in the world.' Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope here." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be at my own good fortune. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "But what will you do?" the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran most interesting one." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "I should wish to." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, I leave." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not electronic works three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the galvanised. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the was keenly on my guard against him. States. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up danger is over." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six During two years I have had three consultations and one small explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Then I shall certainly come." answered with a sidelong glance. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and