the language to do out this code is python. Create a dictionary to count the number of words in the book. Use the stop_words_english to remove any stop words found in the book. Remove all punctuations using the following punctuations variable. the book: this is the stop_words_englishpunctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,./?@#$%^&*_~'''

Print the top 10 most frequent words in the book assigned to you by your register numbers.

The expected output is as shown below

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle Produced by: an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches cover most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you . I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes using this eBook. by Arthur Conan Doyle I. Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes To Sherlock Holmes she is always _the_woman. I have seldom heard Author: Arthur Conan Doyle : him Contents Release Date: November 29, 2002 [eBook #1661] [Most recently updated: May 20, 2019] mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, I. A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League II. were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He Language: English III. A Case of Identity IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a , false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer-excellent for V. The Five Orange Pips VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip Character set encoding: UTF-8 VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion. be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved a , , me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. One night-it was on the twentieth of March, 1888I was returning from a and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well- remembered "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and "Seven!" I answered. " with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tell me extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I that you intended to go into harness." the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his , head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own "Then, how do you know?" , and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?" pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession." **Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just ! . my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons,"I remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your both seen and observed. By the way, since you are interested in these little problems, and since you are good enough to chronicle one or two have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary of my trifling experiences, you may be interested in this." He threw Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet! believe that my eyes are as good as yours." over a sheet of thick, pink-tinted notepaper which had been lying open again, I fail to see how you work it out." upon the table. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight o'clock," it "It is simplicity itself," said he; my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very "Frequently." deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double "How often?" deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. As matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor "Well, some hundreds of times." wear a mask." "Then how many are there?" to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not *This indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that it "How many? I don't know." means?" face. And here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to resolve all our "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Gesellschaft, doubts." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from . . it?" which is the German for 'Company.' It is a customary contraction like our 'Co.''p,' of course, stands for 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg,' Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the bell. Holmes whistled. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was written. . from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz-here we are, Egria. It is in a , German-speaking countryin Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. -. 'Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous , glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." . "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper could not that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly strong and from his cigarette. ''I think that I had better go, Holmes." stiff." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. "Peculiar-that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence="This account of you we have from "But your client-" s I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have written "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best attention." What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who , writes upon Bohemian paper and prefers wearing a mask to showing his "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and and a long, straight chin suggestive of resolution pushed to the length The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said he, authoritative tap. of obstinacy. . by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it may have an influence upon European history." " "Come in!" said Holmes. ! "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He looked from " one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to address. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six inches "I promise," said Holmes. I . in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked upon as akin to bad "And I." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" ? taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The august thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to you, and I may secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. I . understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most extreme , a importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate with you . alone." confess at once that the title by which I have just called myself is not exactly my own." ." trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution has to part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense scandal and I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say before this . " gentleman anything which you may say to me." seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Europe. To speak was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, with a thick, hanging lip, plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the photograph?" "It must be recovered." "My private note-paper." " "To ruin me." " "We have tried and failed." "Stolen." "But how?" "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "My own seal." "I am about to be married." "She will not sell." "Imitated." "So I have heard." "Stolen, then." "My photograph." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of "Bought." house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice she has Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a doubt as to my conduct "We were both in the photograph." been waylaid. There has been no result." would bring the matter to an end." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "No sign of it?" ? And Irene Adler?" indiscretion." "Absolutely none." "I was mad-insane." I Holmes laughed. It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She a . has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most "You have compromised yourself seriously." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. resolute of men. Rather than I should marry another woman, there are no "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." lengths to which she would not go-none." "Then, as to money?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "You have _carte blanche_." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the photograph a cabinet?" "I am sure." Absolutely?" "It was." "And why?" ''I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If you will be "And for present expenses?" good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock I should like "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That is , a . " very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to look into The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak and laid to chat this little matter over with you." it on the table. . just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in London for the present?" II. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes," he "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Count said. Von Kramm." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house . shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." to him. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, lengths to which she would not go-none." "Then, as to money?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "You have _carte blanche_." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the photograph a cabinet?" "I am sure." Absolutely?" "It was." "And why?" ''I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If you will be "And for present expenses?" good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock I should like "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That is , a . " very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to look into The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak and laid to chat this little matter over with you." it on the table. . just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in London for the present?" II. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes," he "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Count said. Von Kramm." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house . shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." to him. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, anything else of interest. the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in "What is it?" his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in the exchange twopence, a glass of half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, 'I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the habits, and quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head. not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." " It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking a groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a wonderful sympathy and a freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of them, and you will know all "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three I "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is the times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he that there is to know. I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a _bijou_ villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on . . - the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, drives pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for dinner. Seldom heartily for some minutes. goes out at other times, except when she sings. Has only one male and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round it and visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again until he Norton, of the Inner Temple. See the advantages of a cabman as a was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the chair. examined it closely from every point of view, but without noting confidant. They had driven him home a dozen times from Serpentine- mews, handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached-evidently the man of whom caught a glimpse of her at the moment, but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. and knew all about him. When I had listened to all they had to tell, 1 began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think I had heard. He appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the maid who opened the door with the air of over my plan of campaign. . ***The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes. a man who was thoroughly at home. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the matter. "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch glimpses of "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the former, she had probably , transferred the photograph to his keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony Lodge, or turn my attention to the him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than before. As he stepped up cab came through the street. The driver looked twice at such a shabby to fare, but I jumped in before he could object. 'The Church of St. the cab, he pulled a gold watch from his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if you do it in twenty minutes! Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to twelve, and of course it was , clear enough what was in the wind. gentleman's chambers in the Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the others "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well were there before us. The cab and the landau with their steaming horses "I am following you closely," I answered. to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there save the two whom I had . a followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles. It hadn't "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a remarkably pulled up before she shot out of the hall door and into it. I only them. They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar. I streets in search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I m "Not in the least." " lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards me. mean to wear it on my watch chain in memory of the occasion." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what then?" "; "Not in a good cause." a ***Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "Oh, the cause is excellent!" , " ***What then?' I asked. I "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church door, however, they "Then I am your man." "Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' separated, he driving back to the Temple, and she to her own house. I shall drive out in the park at five as usual,' she said as she left ,' "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was him. I heard no more. They drove away in different directions, and I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and went off to make my own arrangements." "But what is it you wish?" vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in Which are?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to you. the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the bell. "I a Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I have not I much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must be on the scene thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was the most preposterous . position have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation." of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "I shall be delighted." in which I ever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now. It seems that there had been some informality about their license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the "And what then?" ? "You don't mind breaking the law?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to occur. . There is only one point on which I must insist. You must not interfere, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Your task is Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul come what may. You understand?" confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a I "I am to be neutral?" by quite a oumber.of people. You may then walk to the end of the fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. . street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the sitting-room window It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry of fire, and wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine will open. You are to station yourself close to that open window." Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as to wait you at the corner of the street." we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming "Yes." "Precisely." of its occupant. The house was just such as I had pictured it from "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the contrary, for a small street in a "Then you may entirely rely on me." " "Yes." quiet neighbourhood, it was remarkably animated. There was a group of "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I prepare , , for the new role I have to play." "And when I raise my hand30you will throw into the room what I give shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of fire. You quite follow me?" He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist clergyman. His nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths. broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his sympathetic "Entirely." smile, and general look of peering and benevolent curiosity were such "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the ", as Mr. John Hare alone could have equalled. It was not merely that "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped house, this marriage rather simplifies matters. The photograph becomes business man. Besides, remember that she had resolved to use it within the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer, who had rushed up with a double-edged weapon now. The chances are that she would be as averse a few days. It must be where she can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton, as our client is to its coming the same intention. A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by to the eyes of his princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the photograph?" ? "But it has twice been burgled." the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Where, indeed?" scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was "But how will you look?" "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's dress. She knows "I will not look." . that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Two struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a dumber of better "What then?" attempts of the sort have already been made. We may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "I will get her to show me." " "Where, then?" dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to attend to the injured man. Irene "But she will refuse." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But I am Adler, as I will still call her, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her superb figure outlined against the lights of She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." the hall, looking back into the street. inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be brought to bear upon a **Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. As he spoke the gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which rattled up to "He is dead," cried several voices. was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon and in silence for some few minutes until we had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the Edgeware Road. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be gone the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me. I hardened before you can get him to hospital." my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster. After all, I "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could have been better. It is all right." . "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the lady's thought, we are not injuring her. We are but preventing her from injuring another. purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "You have the photograph?" Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "I know where it is." is.in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the window. At "And how did you find out?" "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable sofa. This way, please!" the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The word was no sooner out a !" of my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators, well dressed and "She showed me, as I told you she would." ill-gentlemen, ostlers, and servant maids-joined in a general shriek of "I am still in the dark." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, ''Fire!" Thick clouds of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the street was so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he the voice of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom 1 of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. He walked swiftly "I guessed as much." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in the a palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." secure it. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to the King without were enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as "That also I could fathom." delay." she half drew it out. When I cried out that it was a false alarm, she "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else could We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed from the room, and I have searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room which not seen her since. I rose, and, making my excuses, escaped from the suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was determined to house. I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the photograph at once: "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." but the coachman had come in, and as he was watching me narrowly, w see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your chance." it seemed safer to wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by. "How did that help you?" " "And now?" I asked. . "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have been." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be shown III. advantage of it. In the case of the Darlington Substitution Scandal it was of use to me, and also in the Arnsworth Castle business. A married into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the photograph. It might be woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel- box. a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain it with his own hands." I I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the Now it was clear to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house And when will you call?" room. more precious to her than what we are in quest of. 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