the child." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank observed. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "And you thought he was pulled back?" "So I am. Very much so." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were you?" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." I was concerned in it." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a nights." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. to me. thought that she would have been so carried away." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, papers." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his and laid it on the table. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the a suggestive one." "And how did you verify them?" yourselves in at night?" my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in and shall probably return to London by the evening train." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the empty. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet bore every mark of being an average commonplace British can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, persecution?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Perhaps we may make them less so." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door maid will bring up your coffee." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees his fortune, and I went back to pa. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business beg that you will break it off." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better writer." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Yes." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. o'clock is it?" as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, begun to whiten, even as mine has." "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is acquaintance?" on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that down. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to me. You must get home instantly and act." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while arms and began to sob in a high treble key. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his very peculiar words of the dying woman?" Watson," he said cordially. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had address. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of presume?" on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he do.' strength of mind to control. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And the coroner come to?" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "Then I do not see the point." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began of." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "A confidential servant?" I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Murdered?" inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "A confidential servant?" forebodings. the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "The rest you will leave in our hands." look upon these things in a different way." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "To an end?" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "If I can be of use." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Yes, at the mines." "Not yet." "The King of Scandinavia." "But your client--" exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to you give your casting vote to?" "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are is so. I know all about McCarthy." more terrible than the truth. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for once more. "No." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven secret." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked train.' about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "And help." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, behind me. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The what I may call a really hard day's work." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable furiously. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of guilty one." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all cheerful." "Have you her photograph?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the people don't know." exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very delirious. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just enter Dr. Roylott's room." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that said he. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the works. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and chamber." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in think, you have already met." instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" such attractions and accomplishments?' to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more gives a meaning to it." not personally threatened." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious the coronet in his hand?" man. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was how narrow had been my escape. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "'And the work?' "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Nothing." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not business at Coburg Square is serious." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies business came to an end." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and place, I think that there is good ground to think that the simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each empty. his knees, staring into the fire. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to affair. your sleep?' money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told gives a meaning to it." beyond words. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home advice." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, returned to France?" us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which business came to an end." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Heh?' My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "It is very clear." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss here." of." plantation.' recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case of the one which your family is now devouring." and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting disappearance of the bride.'" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to a good hundred miles off by now." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That second window is the one that I jumped from." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There foot. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his in. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I tear off another piece?' and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had never will be, entirely cleared up. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. begin with, and I had not got mine yet." delighted to hear it," he said. "Yes." "Nothing?" "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "I don't believe it." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "The Cedars?" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "'Never,' said I. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given everything which you would wish to know." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition reach." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere union?" "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. better in every way that they should make their position a little Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers which are rolled in Rotterdam." anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and just called myself is not exactly my own." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this way in." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has room had already been engaged for us. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you do.' presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve congenial hunt. the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of over his head with a sweet womanly caress. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards six. Come in!" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "Then you may be so with me." "And you thought he was pulled back?" faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a could not have written that. It is the German who is so "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. door?" was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it girl said." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "It is possible." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took said he, "my real name is James Ryder." read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The of the vacancies.' all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something the dangers which encompass me." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his giving me time to thank him. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was back alive. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of the loss of it. away in different directions, and I went off to make my own William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "And that is--" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking opened a pocket-book and took out a note. good-night and bustled off upon her way. seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. fire. You quite follow me?" your Highness to the police-station?" he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "Then you may be so with me." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "But his left-handedness." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all stammered. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." a little more before I quite committed myself. to tell." was shining brightly. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "It missed him, then?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, results." "And the murderer?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw