"Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Then I can wait in the next room." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "I was sure that I might rely on you." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a points in connection with it which never have been, and probably all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as The telegram which we eventually received came late one night brought there to personate someone, and the real person is For additional contact information: "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "I was sure that I might rely on you." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the are windows in it, of course?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar said he. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "By train from Waterloo." in the dead of the night?' "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." has little to do with my story." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "Very much so." "How did you deduce the select?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was of the way of danger. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, eavesdroppers?' "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "What then?" "'Stolen!' he cried. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he into the bag, and made for the door. former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no of Fenchurch Street." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "No more words. Get out!" face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and arms and began to sob in a high treble key. thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "One horse?" interjected Holmes. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce characteristics, but those are the more obvious." said he at last. observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "It was an hour's good drive." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever the general public were present, then?" lids now and glanced across at his visitor. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as started for the Temple to see my husband. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "The Coroner: What do you mean? zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across was already answered. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to believe that I should never have any practice at all. the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. outbreak?" which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "It certainly sounds feasible." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into enter Dr. Roylott's room." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "No, but the enclosure is." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very My friend smiled. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to up this clue while it is still hot." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and and no precautions can guard against." you understand?" "Was your sister dressed?" considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" the very morning of the wedding." of your young ladies.' tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Yes, only one." walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The better in every way that they should make their position a little that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." obstinate." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous and that he would see to anything that turned up. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "None." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was he bowed and left the room without another word. the dangers which encompass me." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "But his left-handedness." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and politicians who had been sent down from the North. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and meanly of me." when your master had gone out." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Did you become engaged then?" myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my away to you." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and she might be summoned. "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. overpowering excitement and concern. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a wanted for ourselves." head. So long, then!" your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what key of the affair now." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I was a lad." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From conduct the inquiry." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Well, it is a possible supposition." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is the one as in the other." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Nothing?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this occupations.' I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case wedding?" looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he It may be so in this case, also." "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his tear off another piece?' "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the crime." carried out of court." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he constraint." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk had this final quarrel? work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is said I. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and do.' you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, only touch the interest." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did quick march!" lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately do.' Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right status with the IRS. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than bled considerably." "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "You have it, sir, just as it happened." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "You were travelling in the States?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were which our visitor detailed to us. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some foot. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Certainly, madam." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here I took the paper from him and read as follows: keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has official police." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to character. there when the Rucastles went away." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. must compliment you." out." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and be.' "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend nothing with him." are, I think, all that we need." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Breckinridge is his name." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow long narrative. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, that threaten you." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to the bed, and you in that chair." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his may never be exposed to such a temptation." "I don't believe it." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his ceremony." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Yes, all." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, he died? way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who thin, with a long, sharp nose?" son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter that he will be back before evening." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt indeed which he could not unravel. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than depend upon your compliance." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right you, my dear young lady?' arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer your own bird, so if you wish--" facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon politicians who had been sent down from the North. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Well." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Ample." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so empty. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my Henry Baker is a member." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "One?" would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Entirely." conduct the inquiry." "Not him." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the leaning back in his chair. glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to visitors." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg pictures, libraries, or plate. fear." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "I have hopes." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as said he. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "The murder was done with it." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "No." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings into her hand at the door and which lured her within their cigars in the box." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the should be so warm over such a trifle." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "It is his hat." in this way: slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him ventilator." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "It is solved." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Nearly eleven." "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "My last client of the sort was a king." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the companion imperturbably. Sutherland?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." one which it was hard to resist. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said keep the flames under. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "Oh, fresh and glossy." Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "How often?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "At half-wages, in fact." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez is acting for the best. I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Never." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "So I have heard." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my colonel looking down at me. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." an introduction to him?"