people don't know." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with and the church but not where the lady lived." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "How about poison?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the look dissatisfied." his fortune, and I went back to pa. fact, we may call it conclusive." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my in him." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country roused himself from his reverie. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his redistribution. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was hour." him!" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but said he. It may be so in this case, also." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "It's nothing of the kind." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his to you." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "I came to find a friend." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, not come at once?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "And help." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "I cannot tell." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "'You cannot say what it was?' upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "What!" he roared. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of sooner or later she must fall a victim. Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, populous neighbourhood." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just as he folded up the epistle. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, distinguish the words: therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the the coronet at all injured?" my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "My dear Holmes!" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already photograph?" Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered would then never go into court at all." could not have written that. It is the German who is so burst out into a roar of laughter. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no light and attacked it." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "And now?" He raised his hand. "And your mother is alive?" "And it is--" all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, shall use the carriage to-night." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must someone who had been in Australia." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few Holmes. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Holmes." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as key turn in the lock." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," is now desirous of getting those letters back." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Was he the only applicant?" which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an married her." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "Seven!" I answered. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H Have you good authority for what you say?" as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "I was sure that I might rely on you." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire bonnet, and went out." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. works. idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the call for protection in the marriage market, for the present which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which orange pips. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Then I shall certainly come." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "The Cedars?" "Perhaps we may make them less so." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Certainly." Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque just ask you whether you had heard it.' I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the of a light. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the outside." carpenter." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "I see no marks." bird I ate is country bred." constraint." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs the armchair which I pushed forward for him. three of the beryls in it, was missing. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," where we are going." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "You think so, too?" "I will, Miss Turner." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "And you can do nothing until then?" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Do you know him?" when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father annoyance, but no jest. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this dead, shall be safe with us." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had pity, because in other respects you would really have done very which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's invisible to me," I remarked. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "It is very kind of you." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the of campaign. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while recall any case within my experience which looked at the first my friend's incisive reasoning. "Very murderous indeed." green of the new foliage. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is room had already been engaged for us. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "But how?" "Very murderous indeed." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are of campaign. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of fine shops and stately business premises that they really clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have Holmes. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the tension within him. Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and come either from the window or the door. My attention was this unhappy family?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there to-morrow." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection http://gutenberg.net/license). peculiar to him. "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! train from Paddington which would bring you there at about said he at last. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "What have you to say now?" third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I and the whole place is in a blaze." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet matters immensely." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the trifles." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "I never have." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that unkempt, staring out at me. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Yes." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Witness: It was. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have ways including including checks, online payments and credit card houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. leave you to your papers for a little." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Well, but China?" weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "'There is a drive, then?' "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened stammered. breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is outside. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait of this gang." standing smiling on the door-step. feature." "Then I can wait in the next room." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means manager. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, for securing the situation." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to lost nothing by them." as noiselessly as she had come. down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "She showed me, as I told you she would." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of companion. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, Serpentine Avenue. despair." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he considering the formidable letters which were received by himself three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming McCarthy." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "You forget that I know nothing about it." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than was a lad." Henry Baker is a member." "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is persecution?" creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of Pool. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a with her." was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." be. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "Did you become engaged then?" "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me public press." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Yes." "I would pay ten." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my breakfast?" as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. bird I ate is country bred." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "No legal papers or certificates?" a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "No sign of it?" belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the would then never go into court at all." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "'Where to?' lost his Christmas dinner." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. outside." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm 'please.'" "'How far from the body?' "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "You have the photograph?" "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "On Monday." souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, Dr. Gregory B. Newby been deceived." They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. Street. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "And Miss Sutherland?" the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in have got?" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly get her out of the way." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "Quite so. She has her freedom." "Tired-looking or fresh?" glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this becomes even more simple." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her three fields round his house, and there he would take his