nothing with him." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" gives a meaning to it." here." high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get The note was undated, and without either signature or address. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it must compliment you." "Come in!" said he. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the see a sister of mine apply for." one's self under obligations.' "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Were they all fastened this morning?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and present." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. Holmes." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his trifles." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which The telegram which we eventually received came late one night few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Leave Paddington by the 11:15." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." stepfather?" observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet come either from the window or the door. My attention was attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign meant." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "Where, then, is my wife?" should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. cost them two and thirty pounds." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and your relations to her." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Well." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging use an arc-and-compass breastpin." there is a decided draught." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Entirely." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not dear old homesteads?" shaken than I had ever seen him. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped 'please.'" (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, taking in every detail of the apartment. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." villagers almost as much as their master. "Has he come with you to-night?" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were locked. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich danger is over." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the inquest, and which are worth considering." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "I don't say that. Perhaps." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "I have seen the police." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as manager. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my I was concerned in it." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. generous with you in money matters.' "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an himself. "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes populous neighbourhood." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "At what time?" away to you." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, me. of the one which your family is now devouring." nice household for a young lady." "Which are?" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no have an American origin." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings as the one I chose?' "Never to return." outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Yes." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, I nodded again. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "And it is--" but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing and the church but not where the lady lived." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down his eyes and forehead. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole long narrative. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from side. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official your room." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after key turn in the lock." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have long narrative. loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A look dissatisfied." may never be exposed to such a temptation." horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" Street. Street. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might use an arc-and-compass breastpin." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment place no limit on the sum I may draw." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "'Yes, sir.' as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, with frightened eyes at his accuser. fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, and the colonel ushered me in. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. to affect your life." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Witness: It was. your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "And when will you call?" whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the fish-monger and a tide-waiter." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he mysterious end." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "I say it is." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "I don't say that. Perhaps." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes It was close upon four before the door opened, and a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "I would pay ten." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for was keenly on my guard against him. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray late!' down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the the night.' insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most recover the gem." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. be.' in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. outbreak?" his grey eyes. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "And what did you learn from him?" door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing McCarthy's innocence. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "How many? I don't know." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two there has been an enclosure here!" that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the you understand?" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "And how?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "By no means." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. fattened it expressly for you.' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then to me. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them views." that threaten you." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will annoyance, but no jest. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." tell him that I know him to be innocent." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that showing my impatience. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Yes, that is the Crown." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it occurred." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some now. It seems that there had been some informality about their day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little asked. "Her father is very rich?" have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Yes." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the been able to understand it, in a very few words. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "But who is he?" lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "Yes, sir." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then The note was undated, and without either signature or address. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened him nearly every evening." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "Where to?" said he, "my real name is James Ryder." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my other, as fresh and trim as possible. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "None." the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary business." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of absorbing." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an better grown goose." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and his fortune, and I went back to pa. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Henry Baker is a member." there when the Rucastles went away." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. way in." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a think that any burglar could have done. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private me." it." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall the matter?" knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "I beg pardon." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There this poor creature." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "It is possible." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic particular state visit http://pglaf.org Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "It may not come to that," said Holmes. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle you came in." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which