"What of this 'Cooee!' then?" quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect 1.E.9. "By all means." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" any more." Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; prepare for the new role I have to play." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." such attractions and accomplishments?' the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he tapping his fingers upon the table. cost them two and thirty pounds." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Was there a secret marriage?" to tackle the facts." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Countess of Morcar's?" "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "No, finished." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De train from Paddington which would bring you there at about him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. take the flies, but not before." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco asked. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped some city in a dream. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. you." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. article?" bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step present strange and interesting features that it is no easy again." the station." "I am all attention, madam." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the system of imprisonment?" as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp it right.' "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of affection." "None." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party now. It seems that there had been some informality about their the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one experiences." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "We were both in the photograph." would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The without a word or a look. "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "Where is it, then?" "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the to some other building. frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an nothing with him." in the port of London." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "'You cannot say what it was?' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several presented more singular features than that which was associated knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had detective. of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows disturbance in my wife." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole compunction about shooting them down." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, green of the new foliage. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "Yes." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its the one as in the other." also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable way: sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "No sign of it?" grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at away to you." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as strode off upon his way. "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' his knees, staring into the fire. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the ashen face. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian habit of advancing money.' "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." locked. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as had died away into the silence from which it rose. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. desk. poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his of fine shops and stately business premises that they really public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line whereabouts. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds redistribution. "What of the rat, then?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "My private note-paper." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." the room while you explain this matter?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "'Yes, sir.' the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "Where did you address your letters, then?" before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. comes from the middle window." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Yes, all." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum heavily into it. question. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in closing the door. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "But she could not love him." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has you?' his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Literary Archive Foundation should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we his eyes and forehead. "I have hopes." Watson," he said cordially. door?" face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good standing smiling on the door-step. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and noble correspondent could be. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past one else, I think." wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now our word." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that about. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Certainly." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a he bowed and left the room without another word. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, gentleman's clothes. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read Street. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. quick march!" "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of have I gained?" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly we went to search for him, face downward in a little "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "By train from Waterloo." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a Pope's Court. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "At the wedding breakfast." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to feature." back into the street. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the must be when I saw the door open.' "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "'Certainly not.' "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "By train from Waterloo." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Oh, fresh and glossy." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching you in yours." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "'What would be the hours?' I asked. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' keep the flames under. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "How did he come?" keep the flames under. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." you in your example." "I am still in the dark." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, late." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the III. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom late." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He through." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "None." "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table an introduction to him?" country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "'Entirely.' which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. fishes. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Pray do so." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a was lame." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a wife's character?" very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of coat-tails." about. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Did your wife hear all this?" Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Yes." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "We must sit without light. He would see it through the I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in ventilator." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "Yes, from Horsham." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers the loss of it. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the children over to America with him, so that I found myself without poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a him, that man would not have given me such complete information away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was and prosperity to your house. Good-night." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only be. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Here?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the noting anything else of interest. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had invisible to me," I remarked. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "Now, then, what's the last entry?" fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." his grey eyes. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven giving me time to thank him. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "No." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three behind me. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing crowd. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Did your wife hear all this?" means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of call it cruel." strong reason behind." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the this Miss Turner." "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Married! When?" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "And why in hopes?" Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "He slept on the premises." shoulder. reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Well, but China?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you companion imperturbably. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to knowledge of the world." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It ago." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened