1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "What is it, then--a fire?" I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "How did he come?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "It certainly sounds feasible." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. go back?" opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "But we can't all be." her also." asked. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "None." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a only touch the interest." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could I leave." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security the coroner come to?" this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Have you her photograph?" knowledge of the world." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "To ruin me." redistribution. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "I came to find a friend." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Get out!" said he. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "My private note-paper." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to knowledge of the world." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set roused himself from his reverie. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He I. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "'Why that?' I asks. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. writers could invent nothing more crude." stepfather?" the south-west, I see." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. in one or two places in England?' adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of suddenly upon us." "My dear Holmes!" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. and your relations to her." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, place of silver." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I say it is." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it wedding?" closely." his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from character. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "At what time?" unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark answered with a sidelong glance. "Never." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "And when will you call?" death." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my few hundred pounds.' - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "And your father? Did you tell him?" while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who when your master had gone out." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "No, I am descending." "At the wedding breakfast." address. himself. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret of note-paper. It read in this fashion: would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he was a lad." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our public press." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment newspaper selections." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "That is easily got." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect into her hand at the door and which lured her within their (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without evidence," I remarked. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." instituted." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "What, then, did Peterson do?" "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them Doctor, of the paper and the date." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "No good news?" that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Well?" attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us suspect him." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. mysterious end." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, Sutherland?" two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my that before taking the final step I should like to submit the I leave." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "And when will you call?" he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Yes, but only for you and me." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as cigars in their mouths. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master copied or distributed: Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my recall any case within my experience which looked at the first into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with have I gained?" and effective." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this to surprise her." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, you, my dear young lady?' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some other, as fresh and trim as possible. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital Stoke Moran." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "Not in the least." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, where we are going." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Count Von Kramm." reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the weary and pale-looking. crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "I see many objections to any such theory." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son four million human beings all jostling each other within the know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the rooms." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "But to whom?" shag which I had seen upon the previous night. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who have I gained?" answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose was shining brightly. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "What then?" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "I have a cab outside." copied or distributed: hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," was it brought him the coronet? "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called generous with you in money matters.' Surrey." of a light. with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "I cannot imagine." What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell third from London." crowd. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the of campaign. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to when your master had gone out." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, was a loud and authoritative tap. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can to a light-house. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "Yes, at the mines." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards client, rising. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "And you don't know his address?" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked which was all perfectly true. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project ways of our fellow-men." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not carpenter." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "9th. McCauley cleared. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark said he. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his not as remarkable as your advertisement." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his to-night?" I asked. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, whole matter to your consideration." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "And leave your case unfinished?" giving me time to thank him. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Yes." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "'What, the red-headed man?' confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "May I see it?" broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the sentimental considerations in the background which would induce hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "I promise," said Holmes. round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to bare slabs of marble. "Why did you beat the pavement?" "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "Was there a secret marriage?" unclasping of his long thin hands. this Miss Turner." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "What do you mean?" twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "It certainly sounds feasible." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "I assure you that I am in your hands." these bleak autumnal evenings." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most conversation I have gathered that they have been married about severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from you give your casting vote to?" "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a interests were the same as his." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon chemical work which was so dear to him. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose arms and began to sob in a high treble key. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice used to be." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our is a common subject for conversation. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "What then?" "I fear not." have got?" go back?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was my room." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his daring than any effort of the imagination." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better questionable one." came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to had this final quarrel? and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside too. He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, developed." these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a returned to France?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H here." and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as bell. Holmes whistled. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, singular points about the case. What did the police think of the