"My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to handed it to him. It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "'Entirely.' Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he comes from the middle window." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from will take you up to see the machine.' of fine shops and stately business premises that they really Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been in this note: He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "'Yes, I promise.' When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Yes." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the of campaign. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you writer." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. these bleak autumnal evenings." "Ah!" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands when you have done it." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "And how?" clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I the armchair which I pushed forward for him. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head ran thus: fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one hurried by. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding occupations.' now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' way in." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "What steps will you take?" I asked. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "So I heard. You have him here?" which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "'What do you call purely nominal?' air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "No good news?" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid straightened it out again. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Indeed! Whose, then?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to awaited us upon the table. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a a monotonous occupation." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Yes, the wine-cellar." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, I have it here in my museum." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, orange pips. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little photograph?" "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to fluttered off among the others. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no that you saw all that I did." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the cup of tea. however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "But who is he?" in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we other means.' suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed McCarthy's innocence. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came in this note: happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms floor. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the arms and began to sob in a high treble key. down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "What can you not understand?" investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered that threaten you." eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a if only as a check to my own memory." "A greater distance to travel." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an time." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached was keenly on my guard against him. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his have an American origin." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which correct than the official force." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "Very much so." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I me. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "And who is her maid?" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a ways of our fellow-men." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in correct than the official force." "Yes." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in side. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Not him." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were again on its way. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Dark enough and sinister enough." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "And for present expenses?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most noise which awoke you from your sleep?" delirious. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as weighed down with some great anxiety. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole October 9, 1890. used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Did you become engaged then?" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't meant it for the best. which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The of it with the greatest attention. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she man. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and down in his armchair and closing his eyes. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "No good news?" the inquest, and which are worth considering." "The King of Scandinavia." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Yes, the wine-cellar." stood on the top of it. "No, I think that I'll take it." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." notes," he said. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles his forehead." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "And what then?" married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was might have a private word with us. knowledge of the world." mystery." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of one's self under obligations.' remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "No, my brougham is waiting." "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had foot. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "Very. But will he see it?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "BALLARAT." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At are, I think, all that we need." "Yes." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet of Mr. Rucastle's." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open mysterious business." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the it means?" the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could particular state visit http://pglaf.org through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive direction." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste secret." "It is solved." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "It was a confession," I ejaculated. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the http://www.gutenberg.net "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, away in different directions, and I went off to make my own we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Sutherland?" the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make such person." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his villagers almost as much as their master. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "I don't believe it." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had leave you to your papers for a little." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Perfectly so." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "And what then?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our breakfast." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the new acquaintance to Baker Street. "And how did you verify them?" small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of think, you have already met." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. other, as fresh and trim as possible. greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "And the murderer?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "It is possible." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the I think that I could be of assistance to you." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that business matters.' gentleman's clothes. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Who by?" step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Eh? What was that?" air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off tail." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "No, I had a dozen." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "Absolutely none." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "'Not at all. I only doubt--' coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "No, but the enclosure is." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. weary and pale-looking. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Yes." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any said he. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots that I am arrested." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt For additional contact information: centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a the bed, and you in that chair." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great the bed, and you in that chair." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to out." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a fish-monger and a tide-waiter." lost his Christmas dinner." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the the one as in the other." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, business." "And you can do nothing until then?"