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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle |
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with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org |
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Title: A Study In Scarlet |
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle |
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IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the |
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Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before |
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The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had |
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my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal |
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government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it. |
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as |
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permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to |
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I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it |
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"That's a strange thing," remarked my companion; "you are the second man |
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to-day that has used that expression to me." |
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He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone |
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to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which |
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were too much for his purse." |
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"By Jove!" I cried, "if he really wants someone to share the rooms and |
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the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner |
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Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine-glass. "You |
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don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care |
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for him as a constant companion." |
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"Oh, I didn't say there was anything against him. He is a little queer |
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in his ideas--an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I |
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know he is a decent fellow enough." |
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"A medical student, I suppose?" said I. |
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"No--I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is well |
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up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, |
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he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His studies are |
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very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the way |
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knowledge which would astonish his professors." |
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"Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked. |
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communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." |
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"I should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with anyone, I |
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should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong |
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Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How |
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could I meet this friend of yours?" |
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"He is sure to be at the laboratory," returned my companion. "He either |
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avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from morning to |
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night. If you like, we shall drive round together after luncheon." |
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"Certainly," I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other |
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As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stamford |
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take as a fellow-lodger. |
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"You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know |
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nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in |
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the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me |
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responsible." |
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"If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered. "It |
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seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you |
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have some reason for washing your hands of the matter. Is this fellow's |
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temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealy-mouthed about it." |
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"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. |
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cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of |
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the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, |
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but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea |
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of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself |
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with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and |
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exact knowledge." |
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"Very right too." |
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"Yes, but it may be pushed to excess. When it comes to beating the |
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subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking |
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rather a bizarre shape." |
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"Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him |
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"No. Heaven knows what the objects of his studies are. But here we |
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are, and you must form your own impressions about him." As he spoke, we |
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This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. |
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by hoemoglobin, [4] and by nothing else." Had he discovered a gold mine, |
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greater delight could not have shone upon his features. |
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"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us. |
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"How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength |
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Afghanistan, I perceive." |
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"How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment. |
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"Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself. "The question now is about |
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hoemoglobin. No doubt you see the significance of this discovery of |
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mine?" |
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"It is interesting, chemically, no doubt," I answered, "but |
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practically----" |
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"Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years. |
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Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains. Come |
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over here now!" He seized me by the coat-sleeve in his eagerness, and |
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some fresh blood," he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger, and |
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add this small quantity of blood to a litre of water. You perceive that |
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the resulting mixture has the appearance of pure water. The proportion |
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that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction." As he |
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spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added |
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some drops of a transparent fluid. In an instant the contents assumed a |
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dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom |
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of the glass jar. |
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"Ha! ha!" he cried, clapping his hands, and looking as delighted as a |
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child with a new toy. "What do you think of that?" |
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"It seems to be a very delicate test," I remarked. |
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"Beautiful! beautiful! The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and |
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uncertain. So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles. The |
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latter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old. Now, this appears |
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to act as well whether the blood is old or new. Had this test been |
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invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long |
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ago have paid the penalty of their crimes." |
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"Indeed!" I murmured. |
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"Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point. A man is |
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suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed. His |
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linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. |
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Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, |
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or what are they? That is a question which has puzzled many an expert, |
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and why? Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock |
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Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty." |
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His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his |
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imagination. |
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"You are to be congratulated," I remarked, considerably surprised at his |
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"There was the case of Von Bischoff at Frankfort last year. He would |
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certainly have been hung had this test been in existence. Then there was |
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Mason of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre of Montpellier, |
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and Samson of new Orleans. I could name a score of cases in which it |
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would have been decisive." |
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"You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford with a |
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of the Past.'" |
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"Very interesting reading it might be made, too," remarked Sherlock |
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"I have to be careful," he continued, turning to me with a smile, "for I |
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dabble with poisons a good deal." He held out his hand as he spoke, and |
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and discoloured with strong acids. |
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"We came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a high |
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that I had better bring you together." |
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Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with |
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me. "I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street," he said, "which would |
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suit us down to the ground. You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, |
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I hope?" |
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"I always smoke 'ship's' myself," I answered. |
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"That's good enough. I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally |
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do experiments. Would that annoy you?" |
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"By no means." |
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"Let me see--what are my other shortcomings. I get in the dumps at |
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times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am |
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sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What |
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have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the |
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of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of vices |
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when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present." |
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for the gods--a badly-played one----" |
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everything," he answered. |
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my hotel. |
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the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?" |
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peculiarity," he said. "A good many people have wanted to know how he |
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finds things out." |
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I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. 'The proper study of |
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mankind is man,' you know." |
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about you than you about him. Good-bye." |
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CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION. |
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WE met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, |
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did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was |
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concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession. |
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laying out our property to the best advantage. That done, we |
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before I rose in the morning. Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical |
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now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would |
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lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving |
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a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such |
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a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him |
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As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his |
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aims in life, gradually deepened and increased. His very person and |
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when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments. |
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The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how |
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much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured |
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to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned |
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himself. Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered, how |
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objectless was my life, and how little there was to engage my attention. |
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exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and |
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break the monotony of my daily existence. Under these circumstances, I |
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eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and |
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spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it. |
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He was not studying medicine. He had himself, in reply to a question, |
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confirmed Stamford's opinion upon that point. Neither did he appear to |
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science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance |
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and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample |
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definite end in view. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the |
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exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters |
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unless he has some very good reason for doing so. |
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary |
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being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth |
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surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." |
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like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture |
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as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he |
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comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets |
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crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that |
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he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman |
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have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of |
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these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It |
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is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can |
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distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every |
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addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is |
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of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing |
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out the useful ones." |
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"But the Solar System!" I protested. |
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"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say |
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that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a |
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pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." |
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I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something |
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pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw |
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my deductions from it. He said that he would acquire no knowledge which |
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did not bear upon his object. Therefore all the knowledge which he |
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possessed was such as would be useful to him. I enumerated in my own |
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mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was |
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exceptionally well-informed. I even took a pencil and jotted them down. |
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I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it. It ran |
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in this way-- |
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SHERLOCK HOLMES--his limits. |
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1. Knowledge of Literature.--Nil. |
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2. Philosophy.--Nil. |
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3. Astronomy.--Nil. |
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4. Politics.--Feeble. |
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5. Botany.--Variable. Well up in belladonna, |
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opium, and poisons generally. |
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6. Geology.--Practical, but limited. |
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Tells at a glance different soils |
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from each other. After walks has |
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shown me splashes upon his trousers, |
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consistence in what part of London |
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he had received them. |
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7. Chemistry.--Profound. |
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8. Anatomy.--Accurate, but unsystematic. |
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to know every detail of every horror |
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perpetrated in the century. |
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10. Plays the violin well. |
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11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. |
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12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law. |
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When I had got so far in my list I threw it into the fire in despair. |
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"If I can only find what the fellow is driving at by reconciling all |
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these accomplishments, and discovering a calling which needs them all," |
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I said to myself, "I may as well give up the attempt at once." |
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I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin. These |
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were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments. |
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That he could play pieces, and difficult pieces, I knew well, because |
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at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder, and other |
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favourites. When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any |
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music or attempt any recognized air. Leaning back in his arm-chair of |
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an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle |
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which was thrown across his knee. Sometimes the chords were sonorous and |
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melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they |
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reflected the thoughts which possessed him, but whether the music aided |
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those thoughts, or whether the playing was simply the result of a whim |
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or fancy was more than I could determine. I might have rebelled against |
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these exasperating solos had it not been that he usually terminated them |
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by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a |
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slight compensation for the trial upon my patience. |
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During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think |
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that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself. Presently, |
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however, I found that he had many acquaintances, and those in the most |
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different classes of society. There was one little sallow rat-faced, |
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dark-eyed fellow who was introduced to me as Mr. Lestrade, and who came |
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three or four times in a single week. One morning a young girl called, |
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fashionably dressed, and stayed for half an hour or more. The same |
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afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew |
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pedlar, who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely |
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followed by a slip-shod elderly woman. On another occasion an old |
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white-haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on |
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another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform. When any of these |
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nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes used to |
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beg for the use of the sitting-room, and I would retire to my bed-room. |
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He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience. "I have |
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to use this room as a place of business," he said, "and these people |
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are my clients." Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank |
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question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to |
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confide in me. I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for |
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not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to |
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the subject of his own accord. |
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rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not |
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yet finished his breakfast. The landlady had become so accustomed to my |
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late habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee prepared. With |
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the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt |
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intimation that I was ready. Then I picked up a magazine from the table |
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and attempted to while away the time with it, while my companion munched |
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silently at his toast. One of the articles had a pencil mark at the |
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heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it. |
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Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to |
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show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic |
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examination of all that came in his way. It struck me as being a |
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remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity. The reasoning was |
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close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far-fetched |
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and exaggerated. The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch |
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of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts. |
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Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one |
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trained to observation and analysis. His conclusions were as infallible |
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as so many propositions of Euclid. So startling would his results appear |
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to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had |
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arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer. |
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"From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the |
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possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of |
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one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is |
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known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, |
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the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired |
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by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal |
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to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to |
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those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest |
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difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary |
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problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to |
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distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to |
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which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the |
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faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look |
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for. By a man's finger nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his |
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trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his |
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expression, by his shirt cuffs--by each of these things a man's calling |
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is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the |
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competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable." |
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"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the |
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table, "I never read such rubbish in my life." |
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"What is it?" asked Sherlock Holmes. |
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"Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat |
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down to my breakfast. "I see that you have read it since you have marked |
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it. I don't deny that it is smartly written. It irritates me though. It |
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is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these |
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neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study. It is not |
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practical. I should like to see him clapped down in a third class |
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carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the trades of all his |
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fellow-travellers. I would lay a thousand to one against him." |
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"You would lose your money," Sherlock Holmes remarked calmly. "As for |
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the article I wrote it myself." |
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"You!" |
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"Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The |
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theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so |
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chimerical are really extremely practical--so practical that I depend |
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upon them for my bread and cheese." |
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"And how?" I asked involuntarily. |
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"Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the |
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world. I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. |
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Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private |
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ones. When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to |
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put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I |
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am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of |
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crime, to set them straight. There is a strong family resemblance about |
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misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger |
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ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first. Lestrade |
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is a well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a |
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forgery case, and that was what brought him here." |
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"They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies. They are |
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all people who are in trouble about something, and want a little |
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enlightening. I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and |
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then I pocket my fee." |
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"But do you mean to say," I said, "that without leaving your room you |
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can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they |
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have seen every detail for themselves?" |
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"Quite so. I have a kind of intuition that way. Now and again a case |
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turns up which is a little more complex. Then I have to bustle about and |
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see things with my own eyes. You see I have a lot of special knowledge |
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which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully. |
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Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your |
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scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work. Observation with me is |
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second nature. You appeared to be surprised when I told you, on our |
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first meeting, that you had come from Afghanistan." |
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"You were told, no doubt." |
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"Nothing of the sort. I _knew_ you came from Afghanistan. From long |
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habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I |
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arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps. |
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There were such steps, however. The train of reasoning ran, 'Here is a |
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gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man. Clearly |
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an army doctor, then. He has just come from the tropics, for his face is |
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dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are |
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fair. He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says |
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clearly. His left arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff and |
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unnatural manner. Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have |
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seen much hardship and got his arm wounded? Clearly in Afghanistan.' The |
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whole train of thought did not occupy a second. I then remarked that you |
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came from Afghanistan, and you were astonished." |
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"It is simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling. "You remind |
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me of Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did |
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exist outside of stories." |
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Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are |
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complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my |
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opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking |
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in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of |
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an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some |
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analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as |
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Poe appeared to imagine." |
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"Have you read Gaboriau's works?" I asked. "Does Lecoq come up to your |
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idea of a detective?" |
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Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically. "Lecoq was a miserable bungler," |
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he said, in an angry voice; "he had only one thing to recommend him, and |
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that was his energy. That book made me positively ill. The question was |
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how to identify an unknown prisoner. I could have done it in twenty-four |
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hours. Lecoq took six months or so. It might be made a text-book for |
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detectives to teach them what to avoid." |
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I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired |
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treated in this cavalier style. I walked over to the window, and stood |
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looking out into the busy street. "This fellow may be very clever," I |
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said to myself, "but he is certainly very conceited." |
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"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, |
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querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know |
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well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has |
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ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural |
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talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the |
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result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villany |
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with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see |
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through it." |
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I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation. I thought it |
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best to change the topic. |
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"I wonder what that fellow is looking for?" I asked, pointing to a |
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stalwart, plainly-dressed individual who was walking slowly down the |
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other side of the street, looking anxiously at the numbers. He had |
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a large blue envelope in his hand, and was evidently the bearer of a |
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message. |
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"You mean the retired sergeant of Marines," said Sherlock Holmes. |
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"Brag and bounce!" thought I to myself. "He knows that I cannot verify |
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his guess." |
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The thought had hardly passed through my mind when the man whom we were |
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watching caught sight of the number on our door, and ran rapidly across |
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the roadway. We heard a loud knock, a deep voice below, and heavy steps |
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ascending the stair. |
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"For Mr. Sherlock Holmes," he said, stepping into the room and handing |
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my friend the letter. |
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Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him. He little |
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thought of this when he made that random shot. "May I ask, my lad," I |
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said, in the blandest voice, "what your trade may be?" |
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"Commissionaire, sir," he said, gruffly. "Uniform away for repairs." |
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"And you were?" I asked, with a slightly malicious glance at my |
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companion. |
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"A sergeant, sir, Royal Marine Light Infantry, sir. No answer? Right, |
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sir." |
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He clicked his heels together, raised his hand in a salute, and was |
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gone. |
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CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY [6] |
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I CONFESS that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the |
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practical nature of my companion's theories. My respect for his powers |
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of analysis increased wondrously. There still remained some lurking |
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suspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing was a pre-arranged |
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episode, intended to dazzle me, though what earthly object he could have |
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in taking me in was past my comprehension. When I looked at him he |
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had finished reading the note, and his eyes had assumed the vacant, |
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lack-lustre expression which showed mental abstraction. |
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"How in the world did you deduce that?" I asked. |
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"Deduce what?" said he, petulantly. |
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"Why, that he was a retired sergeant of Marines." |
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"I have no time for trifles," he answered, brusquely; then with a smile, |
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"Excuse my rudeness. You broke the thread of my thoughts; but perhaps |
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it is as well. So you actually were not able to see that that man was a |
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sergeant of Marines?" |
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"No, indeed." |
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"It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it. If you |
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were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some |
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difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. Even across the |
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street I could see a great blue anchor tattooed on the back of the |
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fellow's hand. That smacked of the sea. He had a military carriage, |
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however, and regulation side whiskers. There we have the marine. He was |
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a man with some amount of self-importance and a certain air of command. |
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You must have observed the way in which he held his head and swung |
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his cane. A steady, respectable, middle-aged man, too, on the face of |
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him--all facts which led me to believe that he had been a sergeant." |
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"Wonderful!" I ejaculated. |
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"Commonplace," said Holmes, though I thought from his expression that he |
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was pleased at my evident surprise and admiration. "I said just now that |
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there were no criminals. It appears that I am wrong--look at this!" He |
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threw me over the note which the commissionaire had brought. [7] |
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"Why," I cried, as I cast my eye over it, "this is terrible!" |
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"It does seem to be a little out of the common," he remarked, calmly. |
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"Would you mind reading it to me aloud?" |
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This is the letter which I read to him---- |
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"MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,-- |
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"There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, |
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off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in |
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the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something |
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was amiss. He found the door open, and in the front room, which is bare |
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of furniture, discovered the body of a gentleman, well dressed, and |
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having cards in his pocket bearing the name of 'Enoch J. Drebber, |
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Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.' There had been no robbery, nor is there any |
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evidence as to how the man met his death. There are marks of blood in |
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the room, but there is no wound upon his person. We are at a loss as to |
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how he came into the empty house; indeed, the whole affair is a puzzler. |
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If you can come round to the house any time before twelve, you will find |
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me there. I have left everything _in statu quo_ until I hear from you. |
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If you are unable to come I shall give you fuller details, and would |
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esteem it a great kindness if you would favour me with your opinion. |
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Yours faithfully, |
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"TOBIAS GREGSON." |
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849 |
"Gregson is the smartest of the Scotland Yarders," my friend remarked; |
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"he and Lestrade are the pick of a bad lot. They are both quick and |
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energetic, but conventional--shockingly so. They have their knives |
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into one another, too. They are as jealous as a pair of professional |
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beauties. There will be some fun over this case if they are both put |
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upon the scent." |
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I was amazed at the calm way in which he rippled on. "Surely there is |
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not a moment to be lost," I cried, "shall I go and order you a cab?" |
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859 |
"I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy |
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devil that ever stood in shoe leather--that is, when the fit is on me, |
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for I can be spry enough at times." |
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862 |
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"Why, it is just such a chance as you have been longing for." |
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"My dear fellow, what does it matter to me. Supposing I unravel the |
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whole matter, you may be sure that Gregson, Lestrade, and Co. will |
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pocket all the credit. That comes of being an unofficial personage." |
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869 |
"But he begs you to help him." |
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871 |
"Yes. He knows that I am his superior, and acknowledges it to me; but |
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he would cut his tongue out before he would own it to any third person. |
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However, we may as well go and have a look. I shall work it out on my |
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own hook. I may have a laugh at them if I have nothing else. Come on!" |
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He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that |
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an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one. |
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879 |
"Get your hat," he said. |
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881 |
"You wish me to come?" |
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"Yes, if you have nothing better to do." A minute later we were both in |
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a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road. |
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It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the |
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house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets |
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beneath. My companion was in the best of spirits, and prattled away |
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about Cremona fiddles, and the difference between a Stradivarius and |
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890 |
an Amati. As for myself, I was silent, for the dull weather and the |
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melancholy business upon which we were engaged, depressed my spirits. |
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"You don't seem to give much thought to the matter in hand," I said at |
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last, interrupting Holmes' musical disquisition. |
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895 |
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896 |
"No data yet," he answered. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before |
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you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." |
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899 |
"You will have your data soon," I remarked, pointing with my finger; |
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"this is the Brixton Road, and that is the house, if I am not very much |
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mistaken." |
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903 |
"So it is. Stop, driver, stop!" We were still a hundred yards or so from |
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904 |
it, but he insisted upon our alighting, and we finished our journey upon |
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foot. |
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Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look. It was |
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908 |
one of four which stood back some little way from the street, two being |
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occupied and two empty. The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant |
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melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and |
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there a "To Let" card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared |
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panes. A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly |
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913 |
plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed |
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914 |
by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a |
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mixture of clay and of gravel. The whole place was very sloppy from the |
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916 |
rain which had fallen through the night. The garden was bounded by a |
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917 |
three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and |
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918 |
against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by |
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a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes |
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in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within. |
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922 |
I had imagined that Sherlock Holmes would at once have hurried into the |
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923 |
house and plunged into a study of the mystery. Nothing appeared to be |
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further from his intention. With an air of nonchalance which, under the |
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circumstances, seemed to me to border upon affectation, he lounged up |
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926 |
and down the pavement, and gazed vacantly at the ground, the sky, the |
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927 |
opposite houses and the line of railings. Having finished his scrutiny, |
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928 |
he proceeded slowly down the path, or rather down the fringe of grass |
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929 |
which flanked the path, keeping his eyes riveted upon the ground. Twice |
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he stopped, and once I saw him smile, and heard him utter an exclamation |
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of satisfaction. There were many marks of footsteps upon the wet clayey |
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soil, but since the police had been coming and going over it, I was |
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unable to see how my companion could hope to learn anything from it. |
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Still I had had such extraordinary evidence of the quickness of his |
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perceptive faculties, that I had no doubt that he could see a great deal |
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which was hidden from me. |
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At the door of the house we were met by a tall, white-faced, |
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flaxen-haired man, with a notebook in his hand, who rushed forward and |
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wrung my companion's hand with effusion. "It is indeed kind of you to |
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come," he said, "I have had everything left untouched." |
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"Except that!" my friend answered, pointing at the pathway. "If a herd |
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of buffaloes had passed along there could not be a greater mess. No |
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doubt, however, you had drawn your own conclusions, Gregson, before you |
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permitted this." |
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"I have had so much to do inside the house," the detective said |
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evasively. "My colleague, Mr. Lestrade, is here. I had relied upon him |
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to look after this." |
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Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two |
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such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be |
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much for a third party to find out," he said. |
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Gregson rubbed his hands in a self-satisfied way. "I think we have done |
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all that can be done," he answered; "it's a queer case though, and I |
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knew your taste for such things." |
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"You did not come here in a cab?" asked Sherlock Holmes. |
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"No, sir." |
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"Nor Lestrade?" |
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"No, sir." |
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"Then let us go and look at the room." With which inconsequent remark he |
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strode on into the house, followed by Gregson, whose features expressed |
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his astonishment. |
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A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices. |
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Two doors opened out of it to the left and to the right. One of these |
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had obviously been closed for many weeks. The other belonged to the |
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dining-room, which was the apartment in which the mysterious affair had |
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occurred. Holmes walked in, and I followed him with that subdued feeling |
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at my heart which the presence of death inspires. |
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It was a large square room, looking all the larger from the absence |
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of all furniture. A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was |
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blotched in places with mildew, and here and there great strips had |
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become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath. |
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Opposite the door was a showy fireplace, surmounted by a mantelpiece of |
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imitation white marble. On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a |
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red wax candle. The solitary window was so dirty that the light was |
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hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was |
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intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment. |
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All these details I observed afterwards. At present my attention was |
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centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon |
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the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured |
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ceiling. It was that of a man about forty-three or forty-four years of |
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age, middle-sized, broad shouldered, with crisp curling black hair, and |
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a short stubbly beard. He was dressed in a heavy broadcloth frock coat |
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and waistcoat, with light-coloured trousers, and immaculate collar |
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and cuffs. A top hat, well brushed and trim, was placed upon the floor |
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beside him. His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while |
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his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a |
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grievous one. On his rigid face there stood an expression of horror, |
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and as it seemed to me, of hatred, such as I have never seen upon human |
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features. This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low |
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forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw gave the dead man a singularly |
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simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by his writhing, |
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unnatural posture. I have seen death in many forms, but never has |
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it appeared to me in a more fearsome aspect than in that dark grimy |
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apartment, which looked out upon one of the main arteries of suburban |
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London. |
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Lestrade, lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and |
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greeted my companion and myself. |
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"This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I |
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have seen, and I am no chicken." |
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"There is no clue?" said Gregson. |
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"None at all," chimed in Lestrade. |
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Sherlock Holmes approached the body, and, kneeling down, examined it |
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intently. "You are sure that there is no wound?" he asked, pointing to |
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numerous gouts and splashes of blood which lay all round. |
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"Positive!" cried both detectives. |
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"Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second individual--[8] |
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presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed. It reminds me of |
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the circumstances attendant on the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in |
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the year '34. Do you remember the case, Gregson?" |
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"No, sir." |
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"Read it up--you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It |
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has all been done before." |
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As he spoke, his nimble fingers were flying here, there, and everywhere, |
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feeling, pressing, unbuttoning, examining, while his eyes wore the same |
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far-away expression which I have already remarked upon. So swiftly was |
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the examination made, that one would hardly have guessed the minuteness |
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with which it was conducted. Finally, he sniffed the dead man's lips, |
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and then glanced at the soles of his patent leather boots. |
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"He has not been moved at all?" he asked. |
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"No more than was necessary for the purposes of our examination." |
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to be learned." |
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Gregson had a stretcher and four men at hand. At his call they entered |
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the room, and the stranger was lifted and carried out. As they raised |
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him, a ring tinkled down and rolled across the floor. Lestrade grabbed |
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it up and stared at it with mystified eyes. |
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"There's been a woman here," he cried. "It's a woman's wedding-ring." |
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He held it out, as he spoke, upon the palm of his hand. We all gathered |
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round him and gazed at it. There could be no doubt that that circlet of |
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plain gold had once adorned the finger of a bride. |
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"This complicates matters," said Gregson. "Heaven knows, they were |
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complicated enough before." |
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"You're sure it doesn't simplify them?" observed Holmes. "There's |
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nothing to be learned by staring at it. What did you find in his |
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pockets?" |
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"We have it all here," said Gregson, pointing to a litter of objects |
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upon one of the bottom steps of the stairs. "A gold watch, No. 97163, by |
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Barraud, of London. Gold Albert chain, very heavy and solid. Gold ring, |
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with masonic device. Gold pin--bull-dog's head, with rubies as eyes. |
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Russian leather card-case, with cards of Enoch J. Drebber of Cleveland, |
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corresponding with the E. J. D. upon the linen. No purse, but loose |
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money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen. Pocket edition of |
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Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the |
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fly-leaf. Two letters--one addressed to E. J. Drebber and one to Joseph |
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Stangerson." |
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"At what address?" |
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"American Exchange, Strand--to be left till called for. They are both |
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from the Guion Steamship Company, and refer to the sailing of their |
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boats from Liverpool. It is clear that this unfortunate man was about to |
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return to New York." |
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"Have you made any inquiries as to this man, Stangerson?" |
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"I did it at once, sir," said Gregson. "I have had advertisements |
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sent to all the newspapers, and one of my men has gone to the American |
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Exchange, but he has not returned yet." |
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"Have you sent to Cleveland?" |
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"We telegraphed this morning." |
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"How did you word your inquiries?" |
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"We simply detailed the circumstances, and said that we should be glad |
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of any information which could help us." |
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"You did not ask for particulars on any point which appeared to you to |
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be crucial?" |
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"I asked about Stangerson." |
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"Nothing else? Is there no circumstance on which this whole case appears |
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to hinge? Will you not telegraph again?" |
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"I have said all I have to say," said Gregson, in an offended voice. |
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Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself, and appeared to be about to make |
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some remark, when Lestrade, who had been in the front room while we |
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were holding this conversation in the hall, reappeared upon the scene, |
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rubbing his hands in a pompous and self-satisfied manner. |
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"Mr. Gregson," he said, "I have just made a discovery of the highest |
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importance, and one which would have been overlooked had I not made a |
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careful examination of the walls." |
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The little man's eyes sparkled as he spoke, and he was evidently in |
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a state of suppressed exultation at having scored a point against his |
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colleague. |
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"Come here," he said, bustling back into the room, the atmosphere of |
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which felt clearer since the removal of its ghastly inmate. "Now, stand |
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there!" |
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He struck a match on his boot and held it up against the wall. |
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"Look at that!" he said, triumphantly. |
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I have remarked that the paper had fallen away in parts. In this |
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particular corner of the room a large piece had peeled off, leaving a |
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yellow square of coarse plastering. Across this bare space there was |
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scrawled in blood-red letters a single word-- |
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RACHE. |
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"What do you think of that?" cried the detective, with the air of a |
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showman exhibiting his show. "This was overlooked because it was in the |
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darkest corner of the room, and no one thought of looking there. The |
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murderer has written it with his or her own blood. See this smear where |
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it has trickled down the wall! That disposes of the idea of suicide |
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anyhow. Why was that corner chosen to write it on? I will tell you. See |
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that candle on the mantelpiece. It was lit at the time, and if it was |
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lit this corner would be the brightest instead of the darkest portion of |
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the wall." |
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"And what does it mean now that you _have_ found it?" asked Gregson in a |
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depreciatory voice. |
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"Mean? Why, it means that the writer was going to put the female name |
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Rachel, but was disturbed before he or she had time to finish. You mark |
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my words, when this case comes to be cleared up you will find that a |
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woman named Rachel has something to do with it. It's all very well for |
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you to laugh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. You may be very smart and clever, but |
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the old hound is the best, when all is said and done." |
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"I really beg your pardon!" said my companion, who had ruffled the |
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little man's temper by bursting into an explosion of laughter. "You |
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certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, |
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and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other |
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room yet, but with your permission I shall do so now." |
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glass from his pocket. With these two implements he trotted noiselessly |
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he appeared to have forgotten our presence, for he chattered away to |
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himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire |
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of exclamations, groans, whistles, and little cries suggestive of |
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encouragement and of hope. As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded |
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of a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and |
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across the lost scent. For twenty minutes or more he continued his |
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researches, measuring with the most exact care the distance between |
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marks which were entirely invisible to me, and occasionally applying his |
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tape to the walls in an equally incomprehensible manner. In one place |
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he gathered up very carefully a little pile of grey dust from the floor, |
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and packed it away in an envelope. Finally, he examined with his glass |
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the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most |
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minute exactness. This done, he appeared to be satisfied, for he |
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replaced his tape and his glass in his pocket. |
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"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he |
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remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to |
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detective work." |
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Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manoeuvres [9] of their amateur |
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companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt. They evidently |
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failed to appreciate the fact, which I had begun to realize, that |
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Sherlock Holmes' smallest actions were all directed towards some |
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definite and practical end. |
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"What do you think of it, sir?" they both asked. |
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"It would be robbing you of the credit of the case if I was to presume |
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to help you," remarked my friend. "You are doing so well now that it |
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would be a pity for anyone to interfere." There was a world of |
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sarcasm in his voice as he spoke. "If you will let me know how your |
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investigations go," he continued, "I shall be happy to give you any help |
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I can. In the meantime I should like to speak to the constable who found |
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the body. Can you give me his name and address?" |
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Lestrade glanced at his note-book. "John Rance," he said. "He is off |
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duty now. You will find him at 46, Audley Court, Kennington Park Gate." |
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Holmes took a note of the address. |
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"Come along, Doctor," he said; "we shall go and look him up. I'll tell |
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you one thing which may help you in the case," he continued, turning to |
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the two detectives. "There has been murder done, and the murderer was a |
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man. He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had |
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small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a |
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Trichinopoly cigar. He came here with his victim in a four-wheeled cab, |
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which was drawn by a horse with three old shoes and one new one on his |
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off fore leg. In all probability the murderer had a florid face, and the |
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finger-nails of his right hand were remarkably long. These are only a |
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few indications, but they may assist you." |
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Lestrade and Gregson glanced at each other with an incredulous smile. |
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"If this man was murdered, how was it done?" asked the former. |
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"Poison," said Sherlock Holmes curtly, and strode off. "One other thing, |
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Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German |
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for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." |
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With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals |
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open-mouthed behind him. |
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CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL. |
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IT was one o'clock when we left No. 3, Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock |
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Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a |
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long telegram. He then hailed a cab, and ordered the driver to take us |
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to the address given us by Lestrade. |
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"There is nothing like first hand evidence," he remarked; "as a matter |
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of fact, my mind is entirely made up upon the case, but still we may as |
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well learn all that is to be learned." |
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"You amaze me, Holmes," said I. "Surely you are not as sure as you |
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pretend to be of all those particulars which you gave." |
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"There's no room for a mistake," he answered. "The very first thing |
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which I observed on arriving there was that a cab had made two ruts with |
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its wheels close to the curb. Now, up to last night, we have had no rain |
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for a week, so that those wheels which left such a deep impression must |
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have been there during the night. There were the marks of the horse's |
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hoofs, too, the outline of one of which was far more clearly cut than |
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that of the other three, showing that that was a new shoe. Since the cab |
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was there after the rain began, and was not there at any time during the |
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morning--I have Gregson's word for that--it follows that it must have |
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been there during the night, and, therefore, that it brought those two |
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individuals to the house." |
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"That seems simple enough," said I; "but how about the other man's |
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height?" |
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"Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from |
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the length of his stride. It is a simple calculation enough, though |
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there is no use my boring you with figures. I had this fellow's stride |
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both on the clay outside and on the dust within. Then I had a way of |
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checking my calculation. When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads |
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him to write about the level of his own eyes. Now that writing was just |
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over six feet from the ground. It was child's play." |
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"And his age?" I asked. |
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Patent-leather boots had gone round, and Square-toes had hopped over. |
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There is no mystery about it at all. I am simply applying to ordinary |
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life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I |
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advocated in that article. Is there anything else that puzzles you?" |
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"The finger nails and the Trichinopoly," I suggested. |
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"The writing on the wall was done with a man's forefinger dipped in |
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blood. My glass allowed me to observe that the plaster was slightly |
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scratched in doing it, which would not have been the case if the man's |
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nail had been trimmed. I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor. |
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It was dark in colour and flakey--such an ash as is only made by a |
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Trichinopoly. I have made a special study of cigar ashes--in fact, I |
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have written a monograph upon the subject. I flatter myself that I can |
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distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand, either of cigar |
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or of tobacco. It is just in such details that the skilled detective |
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differs from the Gregson and Lestrade type." |
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"And the florid face?" I asked. |
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"Ah, that was a more daring shot, though I have no doubt that I was |
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right. You must not ask me that at the present state of the affair." |
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I passed my hand over my brow. "My head is in a whirl," I remarked; "the |
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more one thinks of it the more mysterious it grows. How came these two |
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men--if there were two men--into an empty house? What has become of the |
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cabman who drove them? How could one man compel another to take poison? |
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Where did the blood come from? What was the object of the murderer, |
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since robbery had no part in it? How came the woman's ring there? Above |
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all, why should the second man write up the German word RACHE before |
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decamping? I confess that I cannot see any possible way of reconciling |
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all these facts." |
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My companion smiled approvingly. |
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"You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well," he |
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said. "There is much that is still obscure, though I have quite made up |
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my mind on the main facts. As to poor Lestrade's discovery it was simply |
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a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track, by suggesting |
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Socialism and secret societies. It was not done by a German. The A, if |
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you noticed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion. Now, a real |
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German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely |
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say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator who |
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overdid his part. It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong |
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channel. I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You |
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know a conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick, |
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and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the |
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conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all." |
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"I shall never do that," I answered; "you have brought detection as near |
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an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world." |
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My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way |
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in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive |
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to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty. |
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"I'll tell you one other thing," he said. "Patent leathers [10] and |
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Square-toes came in the same cab, and they walked down the pathway |
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together as friendly as possible--arm-in-arm, in all probability. |
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When they got inside they walked up and down the room--or rather, |
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Patent-leathers stood still while Square-toes walked up and down. I |
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could read all that in the dust; and I could read that as he walked he |
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grew more and more excited. That is shown by the increased length of his |
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strides. He was talking all the while, and working himself up, no doubt, |
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into a fury. Then the tragedy occurred. I've told you all I know myself |
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now, for the rest is mere surmise and conjecture. We have a good working |
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basis, however, on which to start. We must hurry up, for I want to go to |
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Halle's concert to hear Norman Neruda this afternoon." |
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This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way |
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through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways. In the |
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dingiest and dreariest of them our driver suddenly came to a stand. |
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"That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in |
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the line of dead-coloured brick. "You'll find me here when you come |
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back." |
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Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us |
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into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings. We |
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picked our way among groups of dirty children, and through lines of |
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discoloured linen, until we came to Number 46, the door of which |
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was decorated with a small slip of brass on which the name Rance was |
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engraved. On enquiry we found that the constable was in bed, and we were |
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shown into a little front parlour to await his coming. |
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He appeared presently, looking a little irritable at being disturbed in |
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his slumbers. "I made my report at the office," he said. |
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Holmes took a half-sovereign from his pocket and played with it |
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pensively. "We thought that we should like to hear it all from your own |
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lips," he said. |
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"I shall be most happy to tell you anything I can," the constable |
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answered with his eyes upon the little golden disk. |
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"Just let us hear it all in your own way as it occurred." |
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Rance sat down on the horsehair sofa, and knitted his brows as though |
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determined not to omit anything in his narrative. |
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"I'll tell it ye from the beginning," he said. "My time is from ten at |
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night to six in the morning. At eleven there was a fight at the 'White |
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Hart'; but bar that all was quiet enough on the beat. At one o'clock it |
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began to rain, and I met Harry Murcher--him who has the Holland Grove |
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beat--and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta Street a-talkin'. |
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Presently--maybe about two or a little after--I thought I would take |
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a look round and see that all was right down the Brixton Road. It was |
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precious dirty and lonely. Not a soul did I meet all the way down, |
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though a cab or two went past me. I was a strollin' down, thinkin' |
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between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when |
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suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same |
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house. Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty |
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on account of him that owns them who won't have the drains seed to, |
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though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid |
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fever. I was knocked all in a heap therefore at seeing a light in |
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the window, and I suspected as something was wrong. When I got to the |
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door----" |
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"You stopped, and then walked back to the garden gate," my companion |
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interrupted. "What did you do that for?" |
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Rance gave a violent jump, and stared at Sherlock Holmes with the utmost |
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amazement upon his features. |
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"Why, that's true, sir," he said; "though how you come to know it, |
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Heaven only knows. Ye see, when I got up to the door it was so still and |
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so lonesome, that I thought I'd be none the worse for some one with me. |
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I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought |
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that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains |
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what killed him. The thought gave me a kind o' turn, and I walked back |
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to the gate to see if I could see Murcher's lantern, but there wasn't no |
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sign of him nor of anyone else." |
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"There was no one in the street?" |
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"Not a livin' soul, sir, nor as much as a dog. Then I pulled myself |
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together and went back and pushed the door open. All was quiet inside, |
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so I went into the room where the light was a-burnin'. There was a |
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candle flickerin' on the mantelpiece--a red wax one--and by its light I |
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saw----" |
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"Yes, I know all that you saw. You walked round the room several times, |
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and you knelt down by the body, and then you walked through and tried |
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the kitchen door, and then----" |
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John Rance sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion in |
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his eyes. "Where was you hid to see all that?" he cried. "It seems to me |
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that you knows a deal more than you should." |
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Holmes laughed and threw his card across the table to the constable. |
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"Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said. "I am one of the |
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hounds and not the wolf; Mr. Gregson or Mr. Lestrade will answer for |
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that. Go on, though. What did you do next?" |
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Rance resumed his seat, without however losing his mystified expression. |
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"I went back to the gate and sounded my whistle. That brought Murcher |
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and two more to the spot." |
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"Was the street empty then?" |
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"Well, it was, as far as anybody that could be of any good goes." |
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"What do you mean?" |
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The constable's features broadened into a grin. "I've seen many a drunk |
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chap in my time," he said, "but never anyone so cryin' drunk as |
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that cove. He was at the gate when I came out, a-leanin' up agin the |
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railings, and a-singin' at the pitch o' his lungs about Columbine's |
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New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff. He couldn't stand, far less |
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help." |
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"What sort of a man was he?" asked Sherlock Holmes. |
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John Rance appeared to be somewhat irritated at this digression. "He was |
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an uncommon drunk sort o' man," he said. "He'd ha' found hisself in the |
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station if we hadn't been so took up." |
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"His face--his dress--didn't you notice them?" Holmes broke in |
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impatiently. |
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"I should think I did notice them, seeing that I had to prop him up--me |
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and Murcher between us. He was a long chap, with a red face, the lower |
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part muffled round----" |
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"That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?" |
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"We'd enough to do without lookin' after him," the policeman said, in an |
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aggrieved voice. "I'll wager he found his way home all right." |
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"How was he dressed?" |
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"A brown overcoat." |
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"Had he a whip in his hand?" |
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"A whip--no." |
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"He must have left it behind," muttered my companion. "You didn't happen |
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to see or hear a cab after that?" |
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"No." |
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"There's a half-sovereign for you," my companion said, standing up and |
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taking his hat. "I am afraid, Rance, that you will never rise in the |
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force. That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament. You |
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might have gained your sergeant's stripes last night. The man whom you |
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held in your hands is the man who holds the clue of this mystery, and |
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whom we are seeking. There is no use of arguing about it now; I tell you |
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that it is so. Come along, Doctor." |
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1488 |
We started off for the cab together, leaving our informant incredulous, |
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but obviously uncomfortable. |
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"The blundering fool," Holmes said, bitterly, as we drove back to our |
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lodgings. "Just to think of his having such an incomparable bit of good |
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luck, and not taking advantage of it." |
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"I am rather in the dark still. It is true that the description of this |
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man tallies with your idea of the second party in this mystery. But why |
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should he come back to the house after leaving it? That is not the way |
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of criminals." |
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"The ring, man, the ring: that was what he came back for. If we have no |
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other way of catching him, we can always bait our line with the ring. I |
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shall have him, Doctor--I'll lay you two to one that I have him. I must |
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thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have |
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missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh? |
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Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of |
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murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is |
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to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now |
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for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing |
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are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so |
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magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay." |
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Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a |
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lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind. |
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CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR. |
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OUR morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was |
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tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes' departure for the concert, I |
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lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep. |
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It was a useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited by all that |
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had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into |
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it. Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted |
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baboon-like countenance of the murdered man. So sinister was the |
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impression which that face had produced upon me that I found it |
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difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its |
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owner from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the most |
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malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J. Drebber, of |
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Cleveland. Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the |
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depravity of the victim was no condonment [11] in the eyes of the law. |
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The more I thought of it the more extraordinary did my companion's |
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hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned, appear. I remembered how he |
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had sniffed his lips, and had no doubt that he had detected something |
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which had given rise to the idea. Then, again, if not poison, what |
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had caused the man's death, since there was neither wound nor marks of |
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strangulation? But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so |
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thickly upon the floor? There were no signs of a struggle, nor had the |
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victim any weapon with which he might have wounded an antagonist. As |
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long as all these questions were unsolved, I felt that sleep would be |
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no easy matter, either for Holmes or myself. His quiet self-confident |
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manner convinced me that he had already formed a theory which explained |
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all the facts, though what it was I could not for an instant conjecture. |
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He was very late in returning--so late, that I knew that the concert |
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could not have detained him all the time. Dinner was on the table before |
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he appeared. |
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"It was magnificent," he said, as he took his seat. "Do you remember |
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what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and |
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appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of |
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speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced |
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by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries |
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when the world was in its childhood." |
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"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. |
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1561 |
"One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret |
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Nature," he answered. "What's the matter? You're not looking quite |
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yourself. This Brixton Road affair has upset you." |
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"To tell the truth, it has," I said. "I ought to be more case-hardened |
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after my Afghan experiences. I saw my own comrades hacked to pieces at |
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Maiwand without losing my nerve." |
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"I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the |
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imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. Have you |
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seen the evening paper?" |
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"No." |
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"It gives a fairly good account of the affair. It does not mention the |
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fact that when the man was raised up, a woman's wedding ring fell upon |
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the floor. It is just as well it does not." |
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"Why?" |
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"Look at this advertisement," he answered. "I had one sent to every |
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paper this morning immediately after the affair." |
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He threw the paper across to me and I glanced at the place indicated. It |
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was the first announcement in the "Found" column. "In Brixton Road, |
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this morning," it ran, "a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway |
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between the 'White Hart' Tavern and Holland Grove. Apply Dr. Watson, |
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221B, Baker Street, between eight and nine this evening." |
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"Excuse my using your name," he said. "If I used my own some of these |
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dunderheads would recognize it, and want to meddle in the affair." |
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"That is all right," I answered. "But supposing anyone applies, I have |
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no ring." |
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"Oh yes, you have," said he, handing me one. "This will do very well. It |
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is almost a facsimile." |
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"And who do you expect will answer this advertisement." |
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"Why, the man in the brown coat--our florid friend with the square toes. |
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If he does not come himself he will send an accomplice." |
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"Would he not consider it as too dangerous?" |
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"Not at all. If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason |
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to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the |
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ring. According to my notion he dropped it while stooping over Drebber's |
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body, and did not miss it at the time. After leaving the house he |
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discovered his loss and hurried back, but found the police already in |
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possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning. He had |
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to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have |
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been aroused by his appearance at the gate. Now put yourself in that |
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man's place. On thinking the matter over, it must have occurred to him |
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that it was possible that he had lost the ring in the road after leaving |
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the house. What would he do, then? He would eagerly look out for the |
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evening papers in the hope of seeing it among the articles found. His |
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he fear a trap? There would be no reason in his eyes why the finding |
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of the ring should be connected with the murder. He would come. He will |
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come. You shall see him within an hour?" |
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"And then?" I asked. |
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"Oh, you can leave me to deal with him then. Have you any arms?" |
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"I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges." |
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"You had better clean it and load it. He will be a desperate man, |
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and though I shall take him unawares, it is as well to be ready for |
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anything." |
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I went to my bedroom and followed his advice. When I returned with |
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the pistol the table had been cleared, and Holmes was engaged in his |
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favourite occupation of scraping upon his violin. |
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"The plot thickens," he said, as I entered; "I have just had an answer |
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to my American telegram. My view of the case is the correct one." |
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"And that is?" I asked eagerly. |
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"My fiddle would be the better for new strings," he remarked. "Put your |
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pistol in your pocket. When the fellow comes speak to him in an ordinary |
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way. Leave the rest to me. Don't frighten him by looking at him too |
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hard." |
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"It is eight o'clock now," I said, glancing at my watch. |
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"Yes. He will probably be here in a few minutes. Open the door slightly. |
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That will do. Now put the key on the inside. Thank you! This is a |
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queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday--'De Jure inter |
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Gentes'--published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642. Charles' |
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head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brown-backed |
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volume was struck off." |
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"Who is the printer?" |
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"Philippe de Croy, whoever he may have been. On the fly-leaf, in very |
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faded ink, is written 'Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.' I wonder who William |
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Whyte was. Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose. His |
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1661 |
writing has a legal twist about it. Here comes our man, I think." |
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As he spoke there was a sharp ring at the bell. Sherlock Holmes rose |
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softly and moved his chair in the direction of the door. We heard the |
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1665 |
servant pass along the hall, and the sharp click of the latch as she |
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opened it. |
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"Does Dr. Watson live here?" asked a clear but rather harsh voice. We |
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1669 |
could not hear the servant's reply, but the door closed, and some one |
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1670 |
began to ascend the stairs. The footfall was an uncertain and shuffling |
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one. A look of surprise passed over the face of my companion as he |
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1672 |
listened to it. It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble |
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tap at the door. |
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"Come in," I cried. |
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At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very |
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old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment. She appeared to be |
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dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she |
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stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket |
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1681 |
with nervous, shaky fingers. I glanced at my companion, and his face |
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had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to |
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keep my countenance. |
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The old crone drew out an evening paper, and pointed at our |
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advertisement. "It's this as has brought me, good gentlemen," she said, |
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1687 |
dropping another curtsey; "a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road. It |
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belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, |
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which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he'd say if |
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he come 'ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he |
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being short enough at the best o' times, but more especially when he |
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has the drink. If it please you, she went to the circus last night along |
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with----" |
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"Is that her ring?" I asked. |
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"The Lord be thanked!" cried the old woman; "Sally will be a glad woman |
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this night. That's the ring." |
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"And what may your address be?" I inquired, taking up a pencil. |
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"13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch. A weary way from here." |
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"The Brixton Road does not lie between any circus and Houndsditch," said |
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Sherlock Holmes sharply. |
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The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little |
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red-rimmed eyes. "The gentleman asked me for _my_ address," she said. |
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"Sally lives in lodgings at 3, Mayfield Place, Peckham." |
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"And your name is----?" |
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"My name is Sawyer--her's is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her--and |
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a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he's at sea, and no steward in the |
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1715 |
company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what |
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with liquor shops----" |
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"Here is your ring, Mrs. Sawyer," I interrupted, in obedience to a sign |
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1719 |
from my companion; "it clearly belongs to your daughter, and I am glad |
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1720 |
to be able to restore it to the rightful owner." |
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With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone |
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packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs. Sherlock |
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Holmes sprang to his feet the moment that she was gone and rushed into |
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his room. He returned in a few seconds enveloped in an ulster and |
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a cravat. "I'll follow her," he said, hurriedly; "she must be an |
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accomplice, and will lead me to him. Wait up for me." The hall door had |
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hardly slammed behind our visitor before Holmes had descended the stair. |
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Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the |
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other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind. |
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"Either his whole theory is incorrect," I thought to myself, "or else he |
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will be led now to the heart of the mystery." There was no need for him |
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of Henri Murger's "Vie de Bohème." Ten o'clock passed, and I heard the |
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his latch-key. The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not |
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mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a |
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never have let me hear the end of it. I can afford to laugh, because I |
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know that I will be even with them in the long run." |
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"What is it then?" I asked. |
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"Oh, I don't mind telling a story against myself. That creature had |
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foot-sore. Presently she came to a halt, and hailed a four-wheeler which |
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was passing. I managed to be close to her so as to hear the address, but |
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I need not have been so anxious, for she sang it out loud enough to |
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be heard at the other side of the street, 'Drive to 13, Duncan Street, |
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Houndsditch,' she cried. This begins to look genuine, I thought, and |
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having seen her safely inside, I perched myself behind. That's an art |
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which every detective should be an expert at. Well, away we rattled, and |
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never drew rein until we reached the street in question. I hopped off |
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before we came to the door, and strolled down the street in an easy, |
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lounging way. I saw the cab pull up. The driver jumped down, and I saw |
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him open the door and stand expectantly. Nothing came out though. When |
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I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and |
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giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I |
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listened to. There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it |
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will be some time before he gets his fare. On inquiring at Number 13 |
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we found that the house belonged to a respectable paperhanger, named |
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Keswick, and that no one of the name either of Sawyer or Dennis had ever |
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been heard of there." |
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"You don't mean to say," I cried, in amazement, "that that tottering, |
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feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, |
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without either you or the driver seeing her?" |
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women to be so taken in. It must have been a young man, and an |
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active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get-up was |
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inimitable. He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means |
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of giving me the slip. It shows that the man we are after is not as |
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lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk |
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something for him. Now, Doctor, you are looking done-up. Take my advice |
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and turn in." |
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I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction. I |
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left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the |
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watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, |
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and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he |
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had set himself to unravel. |
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CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO. |
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THE papers next day were full of the "Brixton Mystery," as they termed |
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it. Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders upon it |
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in addition. There was some information in them which was new to me. I |
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still retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing |
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upon the case. Here is a condensation of a few of them:-- |
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seldom been a tragedy which presented stranger features. The German |
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name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister |
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inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political |
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refugees and revolutionists. The Socialists had many branches in |
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America, and the deceased had, no doubt, infringed their unwritten laws, |
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and been tracked down by them. After alluding airily to the Vehmgericht, |
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aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brinvilliers, the Darwinian |
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theory, the principles of Malthus, and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the |
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watch over foreigners in England. |
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usually occurred under a Liberal Administration. They arose from the |
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unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening |
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of all authority. The deceased was an American gentleman who had |
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been residing for some weeks in the Metropolis. He had stayed at the |
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boarding-house of Madame Charpentier, in Torquay Terrace, Camberwell. |
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Stangerson. The two bade adieu to their landlady upon Tuesday, the |
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4th inst., and departed to Euston Station with the avowed intention of |
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catching the Liverpool express. They were afterwards seen together upon |
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the platform. Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber's body |
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was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, |
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many miles from Euston. How he came there, or how he met his fate, are |
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questions which are still involved in mystery. Nothing is known of the |
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whereabouts of Stangerson. We are glad to learn that Mr. Lestrade and |
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is confidently anticipated that these well-known officers will speedily |
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throw light upon the matter. |
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a political one. The despotism and hatred of Liberalism which animated |
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the Continental Governments had had the effect of driving to our shores |
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soured by the recollection of all that they had undergone. Among these |
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men there was a stringent code of honour, any infringement of which was |
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punished by death. Every effort should be made to find the secretary, |
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Stangerson, and to ascertain some particulars of the habits of the |
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the acuteness and energy of Mr. Gregson of Scotland Yard. |
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Sherlock Holmes and I read these notices over together at breakfast, and |
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they appeared to afford him considerable amusement. |
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"I told you that, whatever happened, Lestrade and Gregson would be sure |
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to score." |
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"Oh, bless you, it doesn't matter in the least. If the man is caught, it |
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will be _on account_ of their exertions; if he escapes, it will be _in |
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spite_ of their exertions. It's heads I win and tails you lose. Whatever |
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they do, they will have followers. 'Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot |
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qui l'admire.'" |
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"What on earth is this?" I cried, for at this moment there came the |
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pattering of many steps in the hall and on the stairs, accompanied by |
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audible expressions of disgust upon the part of our landlady. |
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"It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force," said my |
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companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a |
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dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that ever I clapped |
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eyes on. |
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"'Tention!" cried Holmes, in a sharp tone, and the six dirty little |
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scoundrels stood in a line like so many disreputable statuettes. "In |
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future you shall send up Wiggins alone to report, and the rest of you |
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must wait in the street. Have you found it, Wiggins?" |
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"No, sir, we hain't," said one of the youths. |
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"I hardly expected you would. You must keep on until you do. Here are |
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your wages." [13] He handed each of them a shilling. |
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"Now, off you go, and come back with a better report next time." |
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He waved his hand, and they scampered away downstairs like so many rats, |
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and we heard their shrill voices next moment in the street. |
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"There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than |
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out of a dozen of the force," Holmes remarked. "The mere sight of an |
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official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go |
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everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all |
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they want is organisation." |
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"Is it on this Brixton case that you are employing them?" I asked. |
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"Yes; there is a point which I wish to ascertain. It is merely a matter |
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of time. Hullo! we are going to hear some news now with a vengeance! |
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Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every |
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feature of his face. Bound for us, I know. Yes, he is stopping. There he |
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is!" |
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There was a violent peal at the bell, and in a few seconds the |
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fair-haired detective came up the stairs, three steps at a time, and |
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burst into our sitting-room. |
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"My dear fellow," he cried, wringing Holmes' unresponsive hand, |
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"congratulate me! I have made the whole thing as clear as day." |
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A shade of anxiety seemed to me to cross my companion's expressive face. |
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"Do you mean that you are on the right track?" he asked. |
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"The right track! Why, sir, we have the man under lock and key." |
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"And his name is?" |
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"Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy," cried |
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Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest. |
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Sherlock Holmes gave a sigh of relief, and relaxed into a smile. |
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"Take a seat, and try one of these cigars," he said. "We are anxious to |
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know how you managed it. Will you have some whiskey and water?" |
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"I don't mind if I do," the detective answered. "The tremendous |
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exertions which I have gone through during the last day or two have worn |
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me out. Not so much bodily exertion, you understand, as the strain upon |
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the mind. You will appreciate that, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for we are both |
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brain-workers." |
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"You do me too much honour," said Holmes, gravely. "Let us hear how you |
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arrived at this most gratifying result." |
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The detective seated himself in the arm-chair, and puffed complacently |
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at his cigar. Then suddenly he slapped his thigh in a paroxysm of |
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amusement. |
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"The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks |
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himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether. He is |
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after the secretary Stangerson, who had no more to do with the crime |
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than the babe unborn. I have no doubt that he has caught him by this |
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time." |
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The idea tickled Gregson so much that he laughed until he choked. |
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"And how did you get your clue?" |
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"Ah, I'll tell you all about it. Of course, Doctor Watson, this is |
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strictly between ourselves. The first difficulty which we had to contend |
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with was the finding of this American's antecedents. Some people would |
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have waited until their advertisements were answered, or until parties |
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came forward and volunteered information. That is not Tobias Gregson's |
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way of going to work. You remember the hat beside the dead man?" |
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"Yes," said Holmes; "by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road." |
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Gregson looked quite crest-fallen. |
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"I had no idea that you noticed that," he said. "Have you been there?" |
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"No." |
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chance, however small it may seem." |
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"Well, I went to Underwood, and asked him if he had sold a hat of that |
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size and description. He looked over his books, and came on it at once. |
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He had sent the hat to a Mr. Drebber, residing at Charpentier's Boarding |
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Establishment, Torquay Terrace. Thus I got at his address." |
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"Smart--very smart!" murmured Sherlock Holmes. |
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"I next called upon Madame Charpentier," continued the detective. |
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"I found her very pale and distressed. Her daughter was in the room, |
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too--an uncommonly fine girl she is, too; she was looking red about |
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the eyes and her lips trembled as I spoke to her. That didn't escape |
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my notice. I began to smell a rat. You know the feeling, Mr. Sherlock |
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Holmes, when you come upon the right scent--a kind of thrill in your |
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nerves. 'Have you heard of the mysterious death of your late boarder Mr. |
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Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland?' I asked. |
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"The mother nodded. She didn't seem able to get out a word. The daughter |
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burst into tears. I felt more than ever that these people knew something |
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of the matter. |
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"'At what o'clock did Mr. Drebber leave your house for the train?' I |
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asked. |
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"'At eight o'clock,' she said, gulping in her throat to keep down her |
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agitation. 'His secretary, Mr. Stangerson, said that there were two |
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trains--one at 9.15 and one at 11. He was to catch the first. [14] |
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"'And was that the last which you saw of him?' |
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"A terrible change came over the woman's face as I asked the question. |
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Her features turned perfectly livid. It was some seconds before she |
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could get out the single word 'Yes'--and when it did come it was in a |
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husky unnatural tone. |
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"'No good can ever come of falsehood, mother,' she said. 'Let us be |
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frank with this gentleman. We _did_ see Mr. Drebber again.' |
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"'God forgive you!' cried Madame Charpentier, throwing up her hands and |
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sinking back in her chair. 'You have murdered your brother.' |
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"'Arthur would rather that we spoke the truth,' the girl answered |
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firmly. |
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"'You had best tell me all about it now,' I said. 'Half-confidences are |
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worse than none. Besides, you do not know how much we know of it.' |
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"'On your head be it, Alice!' cried her mother; and then, turning to me, |
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'I will tell you all, sir. Do not imagine that my agitation on behalf |
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of my son arises from any fear lest he should have had a hand in this |
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terrible affair. He is utterly innocent of it. My dread is, however, |
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that in your eyes and in the eyes of others he may appear to be |
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compromised. That however is surely impossible. His high character, his |
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profession, his antecedents would all forbid it.' |
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"'Your best way is to make a clean breast of the facts,' I answered. |
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'Depend upon it, if your son is innocent he will be none the worse.' |
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"'Perhaps, Alice, you had better leave us together,' she said, and her |
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daughter withdrew. 'Now, sir,' she continued, 'I had no intention of |
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telling you all this, but since my poor daughter has disclosed it I |
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have no alternative. Having once decided to speak, I will tell you all |
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without omitting any particular.' |
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"'It is your wisest course,' said I. |
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"'Mr. Drebber has been with us nearly three weeks. He and his secretary, |
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Mr. Stangerson, had been travelling on the Continent. I noticed a |
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"Copenhagen" label upon each of their trunks, showing that that had been |
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their last stopping place. Stangerson was a quiet reserved man, but his |
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employer, I am sorry to say, was far otherwise. He was coarse in his |
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habits and brutish in his ways. The very night of his arrival he became |
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very much the worse for drink, and, indeed, after twelve o'clock in the |
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day he could hardly ever be said to be sober. His manners towards the |
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maid-servants were disgustingly free and familiar. Worst of all, he |
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speedily assumed the same attitude towards my daughter, Alice, and spoke |
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to her more than once in a way which, fortunately, she is too innocent |
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to understand. On one occasion he actually seized her in his arms and |
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embraced her--an outrage which caused his own secretary to reproach him |
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for his unmanly conduct.' |
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"'But why did you stand all this,' I asked. 'I suppose that you can get |
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rid of your boarders when you wish.' |
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"Mrs. Charpentier blushed at my pertinent question. 'Would to God that |
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I had given him notice on the very day that he came,' she said. 'But |
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it was a sore temptation. They were paying a pound a day each--fourteen |
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pounds a week, and this is the slack season. I am a widow, and my boy in |
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the Navy has cost me much. I grudged to lose the money. I acted for the |
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best. This last was too much, however, and I gave him notice to leave on |
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account of it. That was the reason of his going.' |
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"'Well?' |
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"'My heart grew light when I saw him drive away. My son is on leave |
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just now, but I did not tell him anything of all this, for his temper |
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is violent, and he is passionately fond of his sister. When I closed the |
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door behind them a load seemed to be lifted from my mind. Alas, in |
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less than an hour there was a ring at the bell, and I learned that Mr. |
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Drebber had returned. He was much excited, and evidently the worse for |
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drink. He forced his way into the room, where I was sitting with my |
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He then turned to Alice, and before my very face, proposed to her that |
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she should fly with him. "You are of age," he said, "and there is no law |
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to stop you. I have money enough and to spare. Never mind the old girl |
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princess." Poor Alice was so frightened that she shrunk away from him, |
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door. I screamed, and at that moment my son Arthur came into the room. |
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What happened then I do not know. I heard oaths and the confused sounds |
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of a scuffle. I was too terrified to raise my head. When I did look up |
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I saw Arthur standing in the doorway laughing, with a stick in his hand. |
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"I don't think that fine fellow will trouble us again," he said. "I will |
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just go after him and see what he does with himself." With those words |
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he took his hat and started off down the street. The next morning we |
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heard of Mr. Drebber's mysterious death.' |
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"This statement came from Mrs. Charpentier's lips with many gasps and |
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pauses. At times she spoke so low that I could hardly catch the words. I |
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made shorthand notes of all that she said, however, so that there should |
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be no possibility of a mistake." |
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"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. "What happened |
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next?" |
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"When Mrs. Charpentier paused," the detective continued, "I saw that the |
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whole case hung upon one point. Fixing her with my eye in a way which |
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I always found effective with women, I asked her at what hour her son |
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returned. |
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"'I do not know,' she answered. |
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"'Not know?' |
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"'No; he has a latch-key, and he let himself in.' |
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"'After you went to bed?' |
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"'Yes.' |
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"'When did you go to bed?' |
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"'About eleven.' |
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"'So your son was gone at least two hours?' |
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"'Yes.' |
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"'Possibly four or five?' |
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"'Yes.' |
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"'What was he doing during that time?' |
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"'I do not know,' she answered, turning white to her very lips. |
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"Of course after that there was nothing more to be done. I found |
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out where Lieutenant Charpentier was, took two officers with me, and |
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arrested him. When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come |
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quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass, 'I suppose you |
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are arresting me for being concerned in the death of that scoundrel |
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Drebber,' he said. We had said nothing to him about it, so that his |
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alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect." |
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"Very," said Holmes. |
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"He still carried the heavy stick which the mother described him as |
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having with him when he followed Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel." |
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"What is your theory, then?" |
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"Well, my theory is that he followed Drebber as far as the Brixton Road. |
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When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of |
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which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, |
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perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark. The night was so |
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wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim |
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into the empty house. As to the candle, and the blood, and the writing |
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on the wall, and the ring, they may all be so many tricks to throw the |
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police on to the wrong scent." |
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"Well done!" said Holmes in an encouraging voice. "Really, Gregson, you |
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are getting along. We shall make something of you yet." |
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"I flatter myself that I have managed it rather neatly," the detective |
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answered proudly. "The young man volunteered a statement, in which he |
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said that after following Drebber some time, the latter perceived him, |
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and took a cab in order to get away from him. On his way home he met an |
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old shipmate, and took a long walk with him. On being asked where this |
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old shipmate lived, he was unable to give any satisfactory reply. I |
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think the whole case fits together uncommonly well. What amuses me is to |
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think of Lestrade, who had started off upon the wrong scent. I am afraid |
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he won't make much of [15] Why, by Jove, here's the very man himself!" |
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It was indeed Lestrade, who had ascended the stairs while we were |
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talking, and who now entered the room. The assurance and jauntiness |
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which generally marked his demeanour and dress were, however, wanting. |
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His face was disturbed and troubled, while his clothes were disarranged |
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and untidy. He had evidently come with the intention of consulting |
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with Sherlock Holmes, for on perceiving his colleague he appeared to be |
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embarrassed and put out. He stood in the centre of the room, fumbling |
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nervously with his hat and uncertain what to do. "This is a most |
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extraordinary case," he said at last--"a most incomprehensible affair." |
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"Ah, you find it so, Mr. Lestrade!" cried Gregson, triumphantly. "I |
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thought you would come to that conclusion. Have you managed to find the |
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Secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?" |
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"The Secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson," said Lestrade gravely, "was |
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murdered at Halliday's Private Hotel about six o'clock this morning." |
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CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. |
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THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so |
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unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered. Gregson sprang |
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out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water. I |
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stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his |
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brows drawn down over his eyes. |
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"Stangerson too!" he muttered. "The plot thickens." |
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"It was quite thick enough before," grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair. |
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"Are you--are you sure of this piece of intelligence?" stammered |
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Gregson. |
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"I have just come from his room," said Lestrade. "I was the first to |
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"We have been hearing Gregson's view of the matter," Holmes observed. |
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"Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and done?" |
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"I have no objection," Lestrade answered, seating himself. "I freely |
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confess that I was of the opinion that Stangerson was concerned in |
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the death of Drebber. This fresh development has shown me that I was |
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completely mistaken. Full of the one idea, I set myself to find out |
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what had become of the Secretary. They had been seen together at Euston |
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Station about half-past eight on the evening of the third. At two in the |
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morning Drebber had been found in the Brixton Road. The question which |
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confronted me was to find out how Stangerson had been employed between |
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8.30 and the time of the crime, and what had become of him afterwards. |
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I telegraphed to Liverpool, giving a description of the man, and warning |
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them to keep a watch upon the American boats. I then set to work calling |
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upon all the hotels and lodging-houses in the vicinity of Euston. You |
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see, I argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated, |
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the natural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in the |
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vicinity for the night, and then to hang about the station again next |
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morning." |
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"They would be likely to agree on some meeting-place beforehand," |
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remarked Holmes. |
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"So it proved. I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making |
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enquiries entirely without avail. This morning I began very early, and |
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at eight o'clock I reached Halliday's Private Hotel, in Little George |
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Street. On my enquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was living there, |
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they at once answered me in the affirmative. |
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"'No doubt you are the gentleman whom he was expecting,' they said. 'He |
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has been waiting for a gentleman for two days.' |
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"'Where is he now?' I asked. |
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"'He is upstairs in bed. He wished to be called at nine.' |
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"'I will go up and see him at once,' I said. |
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"It seemed to me that my sudden appearance might shake his nerves and |
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lead him to say something unguarded. The Boots volunteered to show me |
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the room: it was on the second floor, and there was a small corridor |
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leading up to it. The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to |
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go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in |
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spite of my twenty years' experience. From under the door there curled |
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a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and |
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formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side. I gave a cry, |
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which brought the Boots back. He nearly fainted when he saw it. The door |
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was locked on the inside, but we put our shoulders to it, and knocked it |
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in. The window of the room was open, and beside the window, all huddled |
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up, lay the body of a man in his nightdress. He was quite dead, and had |
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been for some time, for his limbs were rigid and cold. When we turned |
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him over, the Boots recognized him at once as being the same gentleman |
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who had engaged the room under the name of Joseph Stangerson. The cause |
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of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated |
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the heart. And now comes the strangest part of the affair. What do you |
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suppose was above the murdered man?" |
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I felt a creeping of the flesh, and a presentiment of coming horror, |
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even before Sherlock Holmes answered. |
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"The word RACHE, written in letters of blood," he said. |
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"That was it," said Lestrade, in an awe-struck voice; and we were all |
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silent for a while. |
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There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the |
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deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to |
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his crimes. My nerves, which were steady enough on the field of battle |
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tingled as I thought of it. |
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"The man was seen," continued Lestrade. "A milk boy, passing on his way |
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to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews |
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at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay |
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there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which |
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was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the |
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ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to |
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be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. He took no particular |
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notice of him, beyond thinking in his own mind that it was early for him |
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to be at work. He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish |
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face, and was dressed in a long, brownish coat. He must have stayed in |
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the room some little time after the murder, for we found blood-stained |
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water in the basin, where he had washed his hands, and marks on the |
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sheets where he had deliberately wiped his knife." |
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I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which |
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tallied so exactly with his own. There was, however, no trace of |
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exultation or satisfaction upon his face. |
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"Did you find nothing in the room which could furnish a clue to the |
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murderer?" he asked. |
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"Nothing. Stangerson had Drebber's purse in his pocket, but it seems |
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that this was usual, as he did all the paying. There was eighty odd |
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pounds in it, but nothing had been taken. Whatever the motives of these |
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extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them. There were |
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no papers or memoranda in the murdered man's pocket, except a single |
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telegram, dated from Cleveland about a month ago, and containing |
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the words, 'J. H. is in Europe.' There was no name appended to this |
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message." |
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"And there was nothing else?" Holmes asked. |
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"Nothing of any importance. The man's novel, with which he had read |
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himself to sleep was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair |
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window-sill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills." |
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Sherlock Holmes sprang from his chair with an exclamation of delight. |
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"The last link," he cried, exultantly. "My case is complete." |
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The two detectives stared at him in amazement. |
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"I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the |
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threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course, details |
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to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts, from the |
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time that Drebber parted from Stangerson at the station, up to the |
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discovery of the body of the latter, as if I had seen them with my own |
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eyes. I will give you a proof of my knowledge. Could you lay your hand |
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upon those pills?" |
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"I have them," said Lestrade, producing a small white box; "I took them |
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safety at the Police Station. It was the merest chance my taking these |
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pills, for I am bound to say that I do not attach any importance to |
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them." |
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"Give them here," said Holmes. "Now, Doctor," turning to me, "are those |
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ordinary pills?" |
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They certainly were not. They were of a pearly grey colour, small, |
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round, and almost transparent against the light. "From their lightness |
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and transparency, I should imagine that they are soluble in water," I |
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remarked. |
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"Precisely so," answered Holmes. "Now would you mind going down and |
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fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, |
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and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday." |
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I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms. It's laboured |
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breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. |
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the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the |
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rug. |
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"I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his |
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penknife he suited the action to the word. "One half we return into the |
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box for future purposes. The other half I will place in this wine glass, |
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in which is a teaspoonful of water. You perceive that our friend, the |
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Doctor, is right, and that it readily dissolves." |
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"This may be very interesting," said Lestrade, in the injured tone of |
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one who suspects that he is being laughed at, "I cannot see, however, |
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what it has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph Stangerson." |
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"Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has |
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everything to do with it. I shall now add a little milk to make the |
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mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find that he laps |
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it up readily enough." |
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As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and |
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placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry. Sherlock |
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Holmes' earnest demeanour had so far convinced us that we all sat in |
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silence, watching the animal intently, and expecting some startling |
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effect. None such appeared, however. The dog continued to lie stretched |
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upon tho [16] cushion, breathing in a laboured way, but apparently |
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neither the better nor the worse for its draught. |
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Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute followed minute without |
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result, an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared |
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upon his features. He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the |
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table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience. So great |
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was his emotion, that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two |
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detectives smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which |
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he had met. |
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"It can't be a coincidence," he cried, at last springing from his chair |
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and pacing wildly up and down the room; "it is impossible that it should |
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be a mere coincidence. The very pills which I suspected in the case of |
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Drebber are actually found after the death of Stangerson. And yet they |
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are inert. What can it mean? Surely my whole chain of reasoning cannot |
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have been false. It is impossible! And yet this wretched dog is none the |
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worse. Ah, I have it! I have it!" With a perfect shriek of delight he |
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rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two, dissolved it, added milk, |
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and presented it to the terrier. The unfortunate creature's tongue |
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seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive |
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shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been |
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struck by lightning. |
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Sherlock Holmes drew a long breath, and wiped the perspiration from his |
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forehead. "I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by |
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this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of |
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deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other |
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interpretation. Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly |
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poison, and the other was entirely harmless. I ought to have known that |
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before ever I saw the box at all." |
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This last statement appeared to me to be so startling, that I could |
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hardly believe that he was in his sober senses. There was the dead dog, |
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however, to prove that his conjecture had been correct. It seemed to me |
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that the mists in my own mind were gradually clearing away, and I began |
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to have a dim, vague perception of the truth. |
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"All this seems strange to you," continued Holmes, "because you failed |
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at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single |
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real clue which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize |
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upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to |
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confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence |
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of it. Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more |
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obscure, have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions. |
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most |
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commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no |
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new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder |
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would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of |
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the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of |
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those _outré_ and sensational accompaniments which have rendered |
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it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more |
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difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so." |
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Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable |
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impatience, could contain himself no longer. "Look here, Mr. Sherlock |
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Holmes," he said, "we are all ready to acknowledge that you are a smart |
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man, and that you have your own methods of working. We want something |
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more than mere theory and preaching now, though. It is a case of taking |
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the man. I have made my case out, and it seems I was wrong. Young |
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Charpentier could not have been engaged in this second affair. Lestrade |
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went after his man, Stangerson, and it appears that he was wrong too. |
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You have thrown out hints here, and hints there, and seem to know more |
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than we do, but the time has come when we feel that we have a right to |
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ask you straight how much you do know of the business. Can you name the |
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man who did it?" |
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"I cannot help feeling that Gregson is right, sir," remarked Lestrade. |
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"We have both tried, and we have both failed. You have remarked more |
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than once since I have been in the room that you had all the evidence |
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which you require. Surely you will not withhold it any longer." |
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"Any delay in arresting the assassin," I observed, "might give him time |
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to perpetrate some fresh atrocity." |
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Thus pressed by us all, Holmes showed signs of irresolution. He |
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continued to walk up and down the room with his head sunk on his chest |
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and his brows drawn down, as was his habit when lost in thought. |
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"There will be no more murders," he said at last, stopping abruptly and |
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facing us. "You can put that consideration out of the question. You have |
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asked me if I know the name of the assassin. I do. The mere knowing of |
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his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying |
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our hands upon him. This I expect very shortly to do. I have good hopes |
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of managing it through my own arrangements; but it is a thing which |
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needs delicate handling, for we have a shrewd and desperate man to deal |
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with, who is supported, as I have had occasion to prove, by another who |
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is as clever as himself. As long as this man has no idea that anyone |
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can have a clue there is some chance of securing him; but if he had the |
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slightest suspicion, he would change his name, and vanish in an instant |
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among the four million inhabitants of this great city. Without meaning |
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to hurt either of your feelings, I am bound to say that I consider these |
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men to be more than a match for the official force, and that is why I |
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have not asked your assistance. If I fail I shall, of course, incur all |
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the blame due to this omission; but that I am prepared for. At present |
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I am ready to promise that the instant that I can communicate with you |
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without endangering my own combinations, I shall do so." |
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Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, |
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or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police. The former had |
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flushed up to the roots of his flaxen hair, while the other's beady eyes |
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glistened with curiosity and resentment. Neither of them had time to |
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speak, however, before there was a tap at the door, and the spokesman |
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of the street Arabs, young Wiggins, introduced his insignificant and |
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unsavoury person. |
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"Please, sir," he said, touching his forelock, "I have the cab |
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downstairs." |
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"Good boy," said Holmes, blandly. "Why don't you introduce this pattern |
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at Scotland Yard?" he continued, taking a pair of steel handcuffs from |
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a drawer. "See how beautifully the spring works. They fasten in an |
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instant." |
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"The old pattern is good enough," remarked Lestrade, "if we can only |
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find the man to put them on." |
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"Very good, very good," said Holmes, smiling. "The cabman may as well |
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help me with my boxes. Just ask him to step up, Wiggins." |
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I was surprised to find my companion speaking as though he were about |
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to set out on a journey, since he had not said anything to me about it. |
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There was a small portmanteau in the room, and this he pulled out and |
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began to strap. He was busily engaged at it when the cabman entered the |
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room. |
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"Just give me a help with this buckle, cabman," he said, kneeling over |
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his task, and never turning his head. |
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The fellow came forward with a somewhat sullen, defiant air, and put |
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down his hands to assist. At that instant there was a sharp click, the |
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jangling of metal, and Sherlock Holmes sprang to his feet again. |
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"Gentlemen," he cried, with flashing eyes, "let me introduce you to Mr. |
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Jefferson Hope, the murderer of Enoch Drebber and of Joseph Stangerson." |
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The whole thing occurred in a moment--so quickly that I had no time |
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to realize it. I have a vivid recollection of that instant, of Holmes' |
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triumphant expression and the ring of his voice, of the cabman's |
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dazed, savage face, as he glared at the glittering handcuffs, which had |
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appeared as if by magic upon his wrists. For a second or two we might |
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have been a group of statues. Then, with an inarticulate roar of fury, |
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the prisoner wrenched himself free from Holmes's grasp, and hurled |
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himself through the window. Woodwork and glass gave way before him; but |
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before he got quite through, Gregson, Lestrade, and Holmes sprang upon |
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him like so many staghounds. He was dragged back into the room, and then |
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commenced a terrific conflict. So powerful and so fierce was he, that |
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the four of us were shaken off again and again. He appeared to have the |
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convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit. His face and hands |
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were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of |
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blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance. It was not until |
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Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neckcloth and |
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half-strangling him that we made him realize that his struggles were of |
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no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his |
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feet as well as his hands. That done, we rose to our feet breathless and |
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panting. |
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"We have his cab," said Sherlock Holmes. "It will serve to take him to |
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Scotland Yard. And now, gentlemen," he continued, with a pleasant smile, |
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"we have reached the end of our little mystery. You are very welcome to |
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put any questions that you like to me now, and there is no danger that I |
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will refuse to answer them." |
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PART II. _The Country of the Saints._ |
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CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN. |
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IN the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies |
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an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a |
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barrier against the advance of civilisation. From the Sierra Nevada to |
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Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado |
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upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence. Nor is Nature |
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always in one mood throughout this grim district. It comprises |
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snow-capped and lofty mountains, and dark and gloomy valleys. There are |
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swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are |
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enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are |
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grey with the saline alkali dust. They all preserve, however, the common |
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characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery. |
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There are no inhabitants of this land of despair. A band of Pawnees |
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or of Blackfeet may occasionally traverse it in order to reach other |
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hunting-grounds, but the hardiest of the braves are glad to lose sight |
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of those awesome plains, and to find themselves once more upon their |
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prairies. The coyote skulks among the scrub, the buzzard flaps heavily |
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through the air, and the clumsy grizzly bear lumbers through the dark |
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ravines, and picks up such sustenance as it can amongst the rocks. These |
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are the sole dwellers in the wilderness. |
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In the whole world there can be no more dreary view than that from |
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the northern slope of the Sierra Blanco. As far as the eye can reach |
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stretches the great flat plain-land, all dusted over with patches of |
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alkali, and intersected by clumps of the dwarfish chaparral bushes. On |
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the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, |
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with their rugged summits flecked with snow. In this great stretch of |
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country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. |
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There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, |
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grey earth--above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, |
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there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but |
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silence--complete and heart-subduing silence. |
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It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad |
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plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one |
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sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is |
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lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down |
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by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered |
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white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull |
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deposit of alkali. Approach, and examine them! They are bones: some |
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large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have |
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belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one |
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may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those |
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who had fallen by the wayside. |
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Looking down on this very scene, there stood upon the fourth of May, |
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eighteen hundred and forty-seven, a solitary traveller. His appearance |
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was such that he might have been the very genius or demon of the region. |
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An observer would have found it difficult to say whether he was nearer |
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to forty or to sixty. His face was lean and haggard, and the brown |
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parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones; his |
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long, brown hair and beard were all flecked and dashed with white; his |
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eyes were sunken in his head, and burned with an unnatural lustre; while |
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the hand which grasped his rifle was hardly more fleshy than that of a |
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skeleton. As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet |
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his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry |
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and vigorous constitution. His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, |
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which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it |
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was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance. The man was |
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dying--dying from hunger and from thirst. |
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He had toiled painfully down the ravine, and on to this little |
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elevation, in the vain hope of seeing some signs of water. Now the great |
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salt plain stretched before his eyes, and the distant belt of savage |
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mountains, without a sign anywhere of plant or tree, which might |
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indicate the presence of moisture. In all that broad landscape there |
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was no gleam of hope. North, and east, and west he looked with wild |
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questioning eyes, and then he realised that his wanderings had come to |
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an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die. "Why |
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not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, |
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as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder. |
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Before sitting down, he had deposited upon the ground his useless rifle, |
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and also a large bundle tied up in a grey shawl, which he had carried |
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slung over his right shoulder. It appeared to be somewhat too heavy for |
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his strength, for in lowering it, it came down on the ground with some |
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little violence. Instantly there broke from the grey parcel a little |
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moaning cry, and from it there protruded a small, scared face, with very |
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bright brown eyes, and two little speckled, dimpled fists. |
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"You've hurt me!" said a childish voice reproachfully. |
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"Have I though," the man answered penitently, "I didn't go for to do |
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it." As he spoke he unwrapped the grey shawl and extricated a pretty |
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little girl of about five years of age, whose dainty shoes and smart |
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pink frock with its little linen apron all bespoke a mother's care. The |
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child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she |
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had suffered less than her companion. |
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"How is it now?" he answered anxiously, for she was still rubbing the |
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towsy golden curls which covered the back of her head. |
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"Kiss it and make it well," she said, with perfect gravity, shoving |
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[19] the injured part up to him. "That's what mother used to do. Where's |
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mother?" |
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"Mother's gone. I guess you'll see her before long." |
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"Gone, eh!" said the little girl. "Funny, she didn't say good-bye; she |
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'most always did if she was just goin' over to Auntie's for tea, and now |
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she's been away three days. Say, it's awful dry, ain't it? Ain't there |
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no water, nor nothing to eat?" |
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"No, there ain't nothing, dearie. You'll just need to be patient awhile, |
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and then you'll be all right. Put your head up agin me like that, and |
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then you'll feel bullier. It ain't easy to talk when your lips is like |
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leather, but I guess I'd best let you know how the cards lie. What's |
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that you've got?" |
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"Pretty things! fine things!" cried the little girl enthusiastically, |
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holding up two glittering fragments of mica. "When we goes back to home |
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I'll give them to brother Bob." |
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"You'll see prettier things than them soon," said the man confidently. |
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"You just wait a bit. I was going to tell you though--you remember when |
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we left the river?" |
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"Oh, yes." |
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"Well, we reckoned we'd strike another river soon, d'ye see. But there |
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was somethin' wrong; compasses, or map, or somethin', and it didn't |
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turn up. Water ran out. Just except a little drop for the likes of you |
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and--and----" |
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"And you couldn't wash yourself," interrupted his companion gravely, |
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staring up at his grimy visage. |
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"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian |
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Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, |
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your mother." |
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"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl dropping her face in |
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her pinafore and sobbing bitterly. |
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"Yes, they all went except you and me. Then I thought there was some |
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chance of water in this direction, so I heaved you over my shoulder and |
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we tramped it together. It don't seem as though we've improved matters. |
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There's an almighty small chance for us now!" |
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"Do you mean that we are going to die too?" asked the child, checking |
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her sobs, and raising her tear-stained face. |
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"I guess that's about the size of it." |
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"Why didn't you say so before?" she said, laughing gleefully. "You gave |
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me such a fright. Why, of course, now as long as we die we'll be with |
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mother again." |
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"Yes, you will, dearie." |
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"And you too. I'll tell her how awful good you've been. I'll bet she |
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meets us at the door of Heaven with a big pitcher of water, and a lot |
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of buckwheat cakes, hot, and toasted on both sides, like Bob and me was |
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fond of. How long will it be first?" |
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"I don't know--not very long." The man's eyes were fixed upon the |
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northern horizon. In the blue vault of the heaven there had appeared |
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three little specks which increased in size every moment, so rapidly did |
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they approach. They speedily resolved themselves into three large brown |
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birds, which circled over the heads of the two wanderers, and then |
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settled upon some rocks which overlooked them. They were buzzards, the |
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vultures of the west, whose coming is the forerunner of death. |
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"Cocks and hens," cried the little girl gleefully, pointing at their |
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ill-omened forms, and clapping her hands to make them rise. "Say, did |
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God make this country?" |
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"In course He did," said her companion, rather startled by this |
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unexpected question. |
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"He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri," the |
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little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these |
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parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the |
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trees." |
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"What would ye think of offering up prayer?" the man asked diffidently. |
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"It ain't night yet," she answered. |
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"It don't matter. It ain't quite regular, but He won't mind that, you |
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bet. You say over them ones that you used to say every night in the |
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waggon when we was on the Plains." |
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"Why don't you say some yourself?" the child asked, with wondering eyes. |
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"I disremember them," he answered. "I hain't said none since I was half |
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the height o' that gun. I guess it's never too late. You say them out, |
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and I'll stand by and come in on the choruses." |
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"Then you'll need to kneel down, and me too," she said, laying the shawl |
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out for that purpose. "You've got to put your hands up like this. It |
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makes you feel kind o' good." |
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It was a strange sight had there been anything but the buzzards to see |
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it. Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little |
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prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face, |
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and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless |
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heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread being with whom they were |
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face to face, while the two voices--the one thin and clear, the other |
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deep and harsh--united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness. The |
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prayer finished, they resumed their seat in the shadow of the boulder |
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until the child fell asleep, nestling upon the broad breast of her |
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protector. He watched over her slumber for some time, but Nature proved |
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to be too strong for him. For three days and three nights he had allowed |
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himself neither rest nor repose. Slowly the eyelids drooped over the |
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tired eyes, and the head sunk lower and lower upon the breast, until the |
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man's grizzled beard was mixed with the gold tresses of his companion, |
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and both slept the same deep and dreamless slumber. |
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Had the wanderer remained awake for another half hour a strange sight |
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would have met his eyes. Far away on the extreme verge of the alkali |
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plain there rose up a little spray of dust, very slight at first, and |
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hardly to be distinguished from the mists of the distance, but gradually |
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growing higher and broader until it formed a solid, well-defined cloud. |
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This cloud continued to increase in size until it became evident that it |
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could only be raised by a great multitude of moving creatures. In more |
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fertile spots the observer would have come to the conclusion that one |
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of those great herds of bisons which graze upon the prairie land was |
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approaching him. This was obviously impossible in these arid wilds. As |
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the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two |
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castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the |
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2763 |
figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the |
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2764 |
apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for |
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the West. But what a caravan! When the head of it had reached the base |
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2766 |
of the mountains, the rear was not yet visible on the horizon. Right |
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2767 |
across the enormous plain stretched the straggling array, waggons |
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and carts, men on horseback, and men on foot. Innumerable women who |
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2769 |
staggered along under burdens, and children who toddled beside the |
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2770 |
waggons or peeped out from under the white coverings. This was evidently |
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2771 |
no ordinary party of immigrants, but rather some nomad people who had |
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2772 |
been compelled from stress of circumstances to seek themselves a new |
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2773 |
country. There rose through the clear air a confused clattering and |
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2774 |
rumbling from this great mass of humanity, with the creaking of wheels |
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and the neighing of horses. Loud as it was, it was not sufficient to |
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2776 |
rouse the two tired wayfarers above them. |
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2777 |
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2778 |
At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced |
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2779 |
men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles. On reaching |
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2780 |
the base of the bluff they halted, and held a short council among |
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themselves. |
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2782 |
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2783 |
"The wells are to the right, my brothers," said one, a hard-lipped, |
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2784 |
clean-shaven man with grizzly hair. |
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2785 |
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"To the right of the Sierra Blanco--so we shall reach the Rio Grande," |
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said another. |
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2788 |
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2789 |
"Fear not for water," cried a third. "He who could draw it from the |
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2790 |
rocks will not now abandon His own chosen people." |
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2791 |
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2792 |
"Amen! Amen!" responded the whole party. |
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2793 |
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2794 |
They were about to resume their journey when one of the youngest and |
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2795 |
keenest-eyed uttered an exclamation and pointed up at the rugged crag |
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2796 |
above them. From its summit there fluttered a little wisp of pink, |
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2797 |
showing up hard and bright against the grey rocks behind. At the sight |
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2798 |
there was a general reining up of horses and unslinging of guns, while |
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2799 |
fresh horsemen came galloping up to reinforce the vanguard. The word |
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2800 |
'Redskins' was on every lip. |
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2801 |
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2802 |
"There can't be any number of Injuns here," said the elderly man who |
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appeared to be in command. "We have passed the Pawnees, and there are no |
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2804 |
other tribes until we cross the great mountains." |
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2805 |
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2806 |
"Shall I go forward and see, Brother Stangerson," asked one of the band. |
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2807 |
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"And I," "and I," cried a dozen voices. |
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2809 |
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2810 |
"Leave your horses below and we will await you here," the Elder |
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2811 |
answered. In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their |
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2812 |
horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the |
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2813 |
object which had excited their curiosity. They advanced rapidly and |
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2814 |
noiselessly, with the confidence and dexterity of practised scouts. |
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2815 |
The watchers from the plain below could see them flit from rock to rock |
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2816 |
until their figures stood out against the skyline. The young man who had |
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2817 |
first given the alarm was leading them. Suddenly his followers saw him |
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2818 |
throw up his hands, as though overcome with astonishment, and on joining |
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2819 |
him they were affected in the same way by the sight which met their |
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2820 |
eyes. |
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2821 |
|
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2822 |
On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a |
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2823 |
single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, |
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2824 |
long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness. His placid |
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2825 |
face and regular breathing showed that he was fast asleep. Beside him |
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2826 |
lay a little child, with her round white arms encircling his brown |
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2827 |
sinewy neck, and her golden haired head resting upon the breast of his |
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2828 |
velveteen tunic. Her rosy lips were parted, showing the regular line of |
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2829 |
snow-white teeth within, and a playful smile played over her infantile |
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2830 |
features. Her plump little white legs terminating in white socks and |
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2831 |
neat shoes with shining buckles, offered a strange contrast to the long |
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|
2832 |
shrivelled members of her companion. On the ledge of rock above this |
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2833 |
strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at the sight of |
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2834 |
the new comers uttered raucous screams of disappointment and flapped |
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2835 |
sullenly away. |
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2836 |
|
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2837 |
The cries of the foul birds awoke the two sleepers who stared about [20] |
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2838 |
them in bewilderment. The man staggered to his feet and looked down upon |
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2839 |
the plain which had been so desolate when sleep had overtaken him, and |
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2840 |
which was now traversed by this enormous body of men and of beasts. His |
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2841 |
face assumed an expression of incredulity as he gazed, and he passed his |
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2842 |
boney hand over his eyes. "This is what they call delirium, I guess," |
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2843 |
he muttered. The child stood beside him, holding on to the skirt of |
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2844 |
his coat, and said nothing but looked all round her with the wondering |
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questioning gaze of childhood. |
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2846 |
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2847 |
The rescuing party were speedily able to convince the two castaways that |
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2848 |
their appearance was no delusion. One of them seized the little girl, |
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and hoisted her upon his shoulder, while two others supported her gaunt |
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companion, and assisted him towards the waggons. |
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2851 |
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2852 |
"My name is John Ferrier," the wanderer explained; "me and that little |
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2853 |
un are all that's left o' twenty-one people. The rest is all dead o' |
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thirst and hunger away down in the south." |
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2855 |
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2856 |
"Is she your child?" asked someone. |
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2857 |
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2858 |
"I guess she is now," the other cried, defiantly; "she's mine 'cause I |
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2859 |
saved her. No man will take her from me. She's Lucy Ferrier from this |
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2860 |
day on. Who are you, though?" he continued, glancing with curiosity at |
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his stalwart, sunburned rescuers; "there seems to be a powerful lot of |
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ye." |
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|
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2864 |
"Nigh upon ten thousand," said one of the young men; "we are the |
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persecuted children of God--the chosen of the Angel Merona." |
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2866 |
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"I never heard tell on him," said the wanderer. "He appears to have |
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chosen a fair crowd of ye." |
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2870 |
"Do not jest at that which is sacred," said the other sternly. "We are |
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2871 |
of those who believe in those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters |
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on plates of beaten gold, which were handed unto the holy Joseph Smith |
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at Palmyra. We have come from Nauvoo, in the State of Illinois, where we |
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had founded our temple. We have come to seek a refuge from the violent |
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man and from the godless, even though it be the heart of the desert." |
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The name of Nauvoo evidently recalled recollections to John Ferrier. "I |
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see," he said, "you are the Mormons." |
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"We are the Mormons," answered his companions with one voice. |
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"And where are you going?" |
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"We do not know. The hand of God is leading us under the person of our |
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2885 |
Prophet. You must come before him. He shall say what is to be done with |
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you." |
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They had reached the base of the hill by this time, and were surrounded |
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by crowds of the pilgrims--pale-faced meek-looking women, strong |
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laughing children, and anxious earnest-eyed men. Many were the cries |
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of astonishment and of commiseration which arose from them when they |
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perceived the youth of one of the strangers and the destitution of the |
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other. Their escort did not halt, however, but pushed on, followed by |
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a great crowd of Mormons, until they reached a waggon, which was |
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conspicuous for its great size and for the gaudiness and smartness of |
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its appearance. Six horses were yoked to it, whereas the others were |
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furnished with two, or, at most, four a-piece. Beside the driver there |
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2898 |
sat a man who could not have been more than thirty years of age, but |
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whose massive head and resolute expression marked him as a leader. He |
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was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid |
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it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode. Then he |
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turned to the two castaways. |
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2903 |
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"If we take you with us," he said, in solemn words, "it can only be as |
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believers in our own creed. We shall have no wolves in our fold. Better |
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far that your bones should bleach in this wilderness than that you |
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should prove to be that little speck of decay which in time corrupts the |
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whole fruit. Will you come with us on these terms?" |
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"Guess I'll come with you on any terms," said Ferrier, with such |
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2911 |
emphasis that the grave Elders could not restrain a smile. The leader |
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alone retained his stern, impressive expression. |
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"Take him, Brother Stangerson," he said, "give him food and drink, |
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and the child likewise. Let it be your task also to teach him our holy |
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2916 |
creed. We have delayed long enough. Forward! On, on to Zion!" |
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2917 |
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"On, on to Zion!" cried the crowd of Mormons, and the words rippled down |
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the long caravan, passing from mouth to mouth until they died away in a |
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dull murmur in the far distance. With a cracking of whips and a creaking |
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2921 |
of wheels the great waggons got into motion, and soon the whole caravan |
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2922 |
was winding along once more. The Elder to whose care the two waifs |
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had been committed, led them to his waggon, where a meal was already |
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awaiting them. |
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2925 |
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2926 |
"You shall remain here," he said. "In a few days you will have recovered |
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from your fatigues. In the meantime, remember that now and for ever you |
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are of our religion. Brigham Young has said it, and he has spoken with |
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2929 |
the voice of Joseph Smith, which is the voice of God." |
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2930 |
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2932 |
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2933 |
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2934 |
CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH. |
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2936 |
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2937 |
THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured |
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by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the |
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2939 |
shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains |
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2940 |
they had struggled on with a constancy almost unparalleled in history. |
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2941 |
The savage man, and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and |
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2942 |
disease--every impediment which Nature could place in the way, had all |
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been overcome with Anglo-Saxon tenacity. Yet the long journey and the |
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2944 |
accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among them. |
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There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer |
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when they saw the broad valley of Utah bathed in the sunlight beneath |
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2947 |
them, and learned from the lips of their leader that this was the |
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2948 |
promised land, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs for |
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evermore. |
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2950 |
|
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2951 |
Young speedily proved himself to be a skilful administrator as well as a |
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2952 |
resolute chief. Maps were drawn and charts prepared, in which the future |
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2953 |
city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted in |
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2954 |
proportion to the standing of each individual. The tradesman was put |
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to his trade and the artisan to his calling. In the town streets and |
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squares sprang up, as if by magic. In the country there was draining |
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and hedging, planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole |
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country golden with the wheat crop. Everything prospered in the strange |
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settlement. Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the |
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centre of the city grew ever taller and larger. From the first blush of |
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dawn until the closing of the twilight, the clatter of the hammer |
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and the rasp of the saw was never absent from the monument which the |
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immigrants erected to Him who had led them safe through many dangers. |
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2964 |
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2965 |
The two castaways, John Ferrier and the little girl who had shared his |
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2966 |
fortunes and had been adopted as his daughter, accompanied the Mormons |
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to the end of their great pilgrimage. Little Lucy Ferrier was borne |
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along pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's waggon, a retreat which |
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2969 |
she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong |
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2970 |
forward boy of twelve. Having rallied, with the elasticity of childhood, |
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from the shock caused by her mother's death, she soon became a pet |
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with the women, and reconciled herself to this new life in her moving |
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canvas-covered home. In the meantime Ferrier having recovered from his |
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privations, distinguished himself as a useful guide and an indefatigable |
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hunter. So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new companions, that |
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2976 |
when they reached the end of their wanderings, it was unanimously agreed |
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that he should be provided with as large and as fertile a tract of land |
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as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself, and of |
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2979 |
Stangerson, Kemball, Johnston, and Drebber, who were the four principal |
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2980 |
Elders. |
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2981 |
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2982 |
On the farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial |
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2983 |
log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it |
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grew into a roomy villa. He was a man of a practical turn of mind, |
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keen in his dealings and skilful with his hands. His iron constitution |
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enabled him to work morning and evening at improving and tilling his |
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him prospered exceedingly. In three years he was better off than his |
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neighbours, in six he was well-to-do, in nine he was rich, and in twelve |
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there were not half a dozen men in the whole of Salt Lake City who could |
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compare with him. From the great inland sea to the distant Wahsatch |
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Mountains there was no name better known than that of John Ferrier. |
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There was one way and only one in which he offended the susceptibilities |
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of his co-religionists. No argument or persuasion could ever induce him |
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to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions. He |
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never gave reasons for this persistent refusal, but contented himself by |
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resolutely and inflexibly adhering to his determination. There were some |
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who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion, and others who |
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put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur expense. Others, |
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again, spoke of some early love affair, and of a fair-haired girl who |
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had pined away on the shores of the Atlantic. Whatever the reason, |
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Ferrier remained strictly celibate. In every other respect he conformed |
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to the religion of the young settlement, and gained the name of being an |
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orthodox and straight-walking man. |
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Lucy Ferrier grew up within the log-house, and assisted her adopted |
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father in all his undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and the |
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balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to |
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the young girl. As year succeeded to year she grew taller and stronger, |
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her cheek more rudy, and her step more elastic. Many a wayfarer upon |
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the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts |
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revive in their mind as they watched her lithe girlish figure tripping |
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through the wheatfields, or met her mounted upon her father's mustang, |
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and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West. |
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So the bud blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father |
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the richest of the farmers left her as fair a specimen of American |
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girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific slope. |
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It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had |
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developed into the woman. It seldom is in such cases. That mysterious |
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change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of |
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all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the |
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touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, |
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with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger nature has |
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awoken within her. There are few who cannot recall that day and remember |
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the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life. In the |
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case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart |
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from its future influence on her destiny and that of many besides. |
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It was a warm June morning, and the Latter Day Saints were as busy as |
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the bees whose hive they have chosen for their emblem. In the fields and |
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in the streets rose the same hum of human industry. Down the dusty high |
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roads defiled long streams of heavily-laden mules, all heading to the |
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west, for the gold fever had broken out in California, and the Overland |
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Route lay through the City of the Elect. There, too, were droves of |
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sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains |
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of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable |
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journey. Through all this motley assemblage, threading her way with the |
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skill of an accomplished rider, there galloped Lucy Ferrier, her fair |
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face flushed with the exercise and her long chestnut hair floating out |
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behind her. She had a commission from her father in the City, and was |
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dashing in as she had done many a time before, with all the fearlessness |
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of youth, thinking only of her task and how it was to be performed. The |
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travel-stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment, and even |
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the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their pelties, relaxed their |
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accustomed stoicism as they marvelled at the beauty of the pale-faced |
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maiden. |
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She had reached the outskirts of the city when she found the road |
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blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by a half-dozen wild-looking |
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herdsmen from the plains. In her impatience she endeavoured to pass this |
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obstacle by pushing her horse into what appeared to be a gap. Scarcely |
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had she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind |
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her, and she found herself completely imbedded in the moving stream of |
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fierce-eyed, long-horned bullocks. Accustomed as she was to deal with |
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cattle, she was not alarmed at her situation, but took advantage of |
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every opportunity to urge her horse on in the hopes of pushing her way |
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through the cavalcade. Unfortunately the horns of one of the creatures, |
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either by accident or design, came in violent contact with the flank of |
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the mustang, and excited it to madness. In an instant it reared up upon |
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its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that |
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would have unseated any but a most skilful rider. The situation was full |
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of peril. Every plunge of the excited horse brought it against the horns |
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again, and goaded it to fresh madness. It was all that the girl could |
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do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death |
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under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terrified animals. Unaccustomed to |
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sudden emergencies, her head began to swim, and her grip upon the bridle |
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to relax. Choked by the rising cloud of dust and by the steam from the |
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struggling creatures, she might have abandoned her efforts in despair, |
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but for a kindly voice at her elbow which assured her of assistance. At |
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the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by |
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the curb, and forcing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the |
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outskirts. |
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"You're not hurt, I hope, miss," said her preserver, respectfully. |
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She looked up at his dark, fierce face, and laughed saucily. "I'm awful |
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frightened," she said, naively; "whoever would have thought that Poncho |
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would have been so scared by a lot of cows?" |
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"Thank God you kept your seat," the other said earnestly. He was a tall, |
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savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful roan horse, and |
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clad in the rough dress of a hunter, with a long rifle slung over his |
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shoulders. "I guess you are the daughter of John Ferrier," he remarked, |
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"I saw you ride down from his house. When you see him, ask him if he |
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remembers the Jefferson Hopes of St. Louis. If he's the same Ferrier, my |
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father and he were pretty thick." |
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"Hadn't you better come and ask yourself?" she asked, demurely. |
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The young fellow seemed pleased at the suggestion, and his dark eyes |
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sparkled with pleasure. "I'll do so," he said, "we've been in the |
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mountains for two months, and are not over and above in visiting |
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"He has a good deal to thank you for, and so have I," she answered, |
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"he's awful fond of me. If those cows had jumped on me he'd have never |
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got over it." |
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"Neither would I," said her companion. |
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"You! Well, I don't see that it would make much matter to you, anyhow. |
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You ain't even a friend of ours." |
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The young hunter's dark face grew so gloomy over this remark that Lucy |
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Ferrier laughed aloud. |
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"There, I didn't mean that," she said; "of course, you are a friend now. |
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You must come and see us. Now I must push along, or father won't trust |
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me with his business any more. Good-bye!" |
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"Good-bye," he answered, raising his broad sombrero, and bending over |
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her little hand. She wheeled her mustang round, gave it a cut with her |
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riding-whip, and darted away down the broad road in a rolling cloud of |
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dust. |
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Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn. |
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He and they had been among the Nevada Mountains prospecting for silver, |
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and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital |
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enough to work some lodes which they had discovered. He had been as keen |
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as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn |
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his thoughts into another channel. The sight of the fair young girl, |
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as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, |
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untamed heart to its very depths. When she had vanished from his sight, |
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he realized that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither silver |
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speculations nor any other questions could ever be of such importance to |
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him as this new and all-absorbing one. The love which had sprung up in |
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his heart was not the sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the |
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wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper. He |
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had been accustomed to succeed in all that he undertook. He swore in |
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his heart that he would not fail in this if human effort and human |
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perseverance could render him successful. |
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He called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again, until |
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his face was a familiar one at the farm-house. John, cooped up in the |
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valley, and absorbed in his work, had had little chance of learning |
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the news of the outside world during the last twelve years. All this |
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Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested |
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Lucy as well as her father. He had been a pioneer in California, and |
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could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost |
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in those wild, halcyon days. He had been a scout too, and a trapper, a |
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silver explorer, and a ranchman. Wherever stirring adventures were to be |
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had, Jefferson Hope had been there in search of them. He soon became a |
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favourite with the old farmer, who spoke eloquently of his virtues. On |
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such occasions, Lucy was silent, but her blushing cheek and her bright, |
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happy eyes, showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer |
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her own. Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms, |
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but they were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her |
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affections. |
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It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled |
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up at the gate. She was at the doorway, and came down to meet him. He |
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threw the bridle over the fence and strode up the pathway. |
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"I am off, Lucy," he said, taking her two hands in his, and gazing |
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tenderly down into her face; "I won't ask you to come with me now, but |
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will you be ready to come when I am here again?" |
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"And when will that be?" she asked, blushing and laughing. |
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"A couple of months at the outside. I will come and claim you then, my |
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darling. There's no one who can stand between us." |
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"And how about father?" she asked. |
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"He has given his consent, provided we get these mines working all |
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right. I have no fear on that head." |
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"Oh, well; of course, if you and father have arranged it all, there's |
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no more to be said," she whispered, with her cheek against his broad |
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breast. |
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"Thank God!" he said, hoarsely, stooping and kissing her. "It is |
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settled, then. The longer I stay, the harder it will be to go. They are |
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waiting for me at the cañon. Good-bye, my own darling--good-bye. In two |
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months you shall see me." |
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He tore himself from her as he spoke, and, flinging himself upon his |
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horse, galloped furiously away, never even looking round, as though |
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afraid that his resolution might fail him if he took one glance at |
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what he was leaving. She stood at the gate, gazing after him until |
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he vanished from her sight. Then she walked back into the house, the |
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happiest girl in all Utah. |
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CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET. |
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THREE weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had |
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departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him |
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when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of |
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his adopted child. Yet her bright and happy face reconciled him to |
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the arrangement more than any argument could have done. He had always |
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determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever |
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induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such a marriage he |
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regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever |
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he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was |
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inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to |
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express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in |
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the Land of the Saints. |
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Yes, a dangerous matter--so dangerous that even the most saintly dared |
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only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath, lest something |
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which fell from their lips might be misconstrued, and bring down a |
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swift retribution upon them. The victims of persecution had now turned |
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persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most |
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terrible description. Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German |
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Vehm-gericht, nor the Secret Societies of Italy, were ever able to put |
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a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over |
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the State of Utah. |
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Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made |
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this organization doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and |
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omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard. The man who held out |
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against the Church vanished away, and none knew whither he had gone or |
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what had befallen him. His wife and his children awaited him at home, |
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but no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the |
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hands of his secret judges. A rash word or a hasty act was followed |
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by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this |
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terrible power which was suspended over them. No wonder that men |
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went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the |
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wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them. |
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3226 |
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At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the |
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recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards |
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to pervert or to abandon it. Soon, however, it took a wider range. The |
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supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female |
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population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed. Strange |
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rumours began to be bandied about--rumours of murdered immigrants and |
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rifled camps in regions where Indians had never been seen. Fresh women |
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appeared in the harems of the Elders--women who pined and wept, and |
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bore upon their faces the traces of an unextinguishable horror. Belated |
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wanderers upon the mountains spoke of gangs of armed men, masked, |
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stealthy, and noiseless, who flitted by them in the darkness. These |
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tales and rumours took substance and shape, and were corroborated and |
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re-corroborated, until they resolved themselves into a definite name. |
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To this day, in the lonely ranches of the West, the name of the Danite |
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3241 |
Band, or the Avenging Angels, is a sinister and an ill-omened one. |
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3242 |
|
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Fuller knowledge of the organization which produced such terrible |
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results served to increase rather than to lessen the horror which it |
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inspired in the minds of men. None knew who belonged to this ruthless |
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society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and |
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violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret. |
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The very friend to whom you communicated your misgivings as to the |
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Prophet and his mission, might be one of those who would come forth at |
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night with fire and sword to exact a terrible reparation. Hence every |
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man feared his neighbour, and none spoke of the things which were |
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nearest his heart. |
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|
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One fine morning, John Ferrier was about to set out to his wheatfields, |
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when he heard the click of the latch, and, looking through the window, |
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saw a stout, sandy-haired, middle-aged man coming up the pathway. His |
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heart leapt to his mouth, for this was none other than the great Brigham |
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Young himself. Full of trepidation--for he knew that such a visit boded |
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him little good--Ferrier ran to the door to greet the Mormon chief. The |
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latter, however, received his salutations coldly, and followed him with |
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a stern face into the sitting-room. |
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"Brother Ferrier," he said, taking a seat, and eyeing the farmer keenly |
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from under his light-coloured eyelashes, "the true believers have been |
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good friends to you. We picked you up when you were starving in the |
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desert, we shared our food with you, led you safe to the Chosen Valley, |
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gave you a goodly share of land, and allowed you to wax rich under our |
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protection. Is not this so?" |
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3269 |
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"It is so," answered John Ferrier. |
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"In return for all this we asked but one condition: that was, that you |
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should embrace the true faith, and conform in every way to its usages. |
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This you promised to do, and this, if common report says truly, you have |
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neglected." |
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|
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"And how have I neglected it?" asked Ferrier, throwing out his hands in |
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expostulation. "Have I not given to the common fund? Have I not attended |
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at the Temple? Have I not----?" |
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"Where are your wives?" asked Young, looking round him. "Call them in, |
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that I may greet them." |
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3283 |
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"It is true that I have not married," Ferrier answered. "But women |
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were few, and there were many who had better claims than I. I was not a |
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lonely man: I had my daughter to attend to my wants." |
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3287 |
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3288 |
"It is of that daughter that I would speak to you," said the leader |
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of the Mormons. "She has grown to be the flower of Utah, and has found |
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favour in the eyes of many who are high in the land." |
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3291 |
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3292 |
John Ferrier groaned internally. |
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"There are stories of her which I would fain disbelieve--stories that |
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she is sealed to some Gentile. This must be the gossip of idle tongues. |
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3296 |
What is the thirteenth rule in the code of the sainted Joseph Smith? |
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3297 |
'Let every maiden of the true faith marry one of the elect; for if |
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she wed a Gentile, she commits a grievous sin.' This being so, it is |
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impossible that you, who profess the holy creed, should suffer your |
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daughter to violate it." |
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John Ferrier made no answer, but he played nervously with his |
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riding-whip. |
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3305 |
"Upon this one point your whole faith shall be tested--so it has been |
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decided in the Sacred Council of Four. The girl is young, and we would |
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not have her wed grey hairs, neither would we deprive her of all |
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choice. We Elders have many heifers, [29] but our children must also |
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be provided. Stangerson has a son, and Drebber has a son, and either of |
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them would gladly welcome your daughter to their house. Let her choose |
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between them. They are young and rich, and of the true faith. What say |
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you to that?" |
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3314 |
Ferrier remained silent for some little time with his brows knitted. |
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"You will give us time," he said at last. "My daughter is very |
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young--she is scarce of an age to marry." |
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"She shall have a month to choose," said Young, rising from his seat. |
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"At the end of that time she shall give her answer." |
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He was passing through the door, when he turned, with flushed face and |
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flashing eyes. "It were better for you, John Ferrier," he thundered, |
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"that you and she were now lying blanched skeletons upon the Sierra |
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Blanco, than that you should put your weak wills against the orders of |
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the Holy Four!" |
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With a threatening gesture of his hand, he turned from the door, and |
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Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path. |
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He was still sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how he |
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should broach the matter to his daughter when a soft hand was laid upon |
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his, and looking up, he saw her standing beside him. One glance at her |
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pale, frightened face showed him that she had heard what had passed. |
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"I could not help it," she said, in answer to his look. "His voice rang |
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through the house. Oh, father, father, what shall we do?" |
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"Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him, and passing |
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his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair. "We'll fix it |
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up somehow or another. You don't find your fancy kind o' lessening for |
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this chap, do you?" |
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A sob and a squeeze of his hand was her only answer. |
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"No; of course not. I shouldn't care to hear you say you did. He's a |
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likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in |
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spite o' all their praying and preaching. There's a party starting for |
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Nevada to-morrow, and I'll manage to send him a message letting him know |
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the hole we are in. If I know anything o' that young man, he'll be back |
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here with a speed that would whip electro-telegraphs." |
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Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description. |
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"When he comes, he will advise us for the best. But it is for you that |
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I am frightened, dear. One hears--one hears such dreadful stories about |
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those who oppose the Prophet: something terrible always happens to |
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them." |
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"But we haven't opposed him yet," her father answered. "It will be time |
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to look out for squalls when we do. We have a clear month before us; at |
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the end of that, I guess we had best shin out of Utah." |
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"Leave Utah!" |
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"That's about the size of it." |
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"But the farm?" |
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"We will raise as much as we can in money, and let the rest go. To tell |
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the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time I have thought of doing it. I |
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don't care about knuckling under to any man, as these folk do to their |
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darned prophet. I'm a free-born American, and it's all new to me. Guess |
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I'm too old to learn. If he comes browsing about this farm, he might |
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chance to run up against a charge of buckshot travelling in the opposite |
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direction." |
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"But they won't let us leave," his daughter objected. |
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"Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that. In the meantime, |
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don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't get your eyes swelled up, |
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else he'll be walking into me when he sees you. There's nothing to be |
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afeared about, and there's no danger at all." |
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3385 |
John Ferrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, |
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but she could not help observing that he paid unusual care to the |
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fastening of the doors that night, and that he carefully cleaned and |
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loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of his bedroom. |
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3393 |
CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE. |
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ON the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, |
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John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his |
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acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him |
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with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the |
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imminent danger which threatened them, and how necessary it was that he |
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should return. Having done thus he felt easier in his mind, and returned |
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home with a lighter heart. |
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As he approached his farm, he was surprised to see a horse hitched to |
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each of the posts of the gate. Still more surprised was he on entering |
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to find two young men in possession of his sitting-room. One, with a |
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long pale face, was leaning back in the rocking-chair, with his feet |
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cocked up upon the stove. The other, a bull-necked youth with coarse |
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bloated features, was standing in front of the window with his hands in |
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his pocket, whistling a popular hymn. Both of them nodded to Ferrier as |
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he entered, and the one in the rocking-chair commenced the conversation. |
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"Maybe you don't know us," he said. "This here is the son of Elder |
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Drebber, and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who travelled with you in the desert |
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when the Lord stretched out His hand and gathered you into the true |
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fold." |
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"As He will all the nations in His own good time," said the other in a |
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nasal voice; "He grindeth slowly but exceeding small." |
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John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had guessed who his visitors were. |
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"We have come," continued Stangerson, "at the advice of our fathers to |
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solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of us may seem good to |
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you and to her. As I have but four wives and Brother Drebber here has |
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seven, it appears to me that my claim is the stronger one." |
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"Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson," cried the other; "the question is not |
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how many wives we have, but how many we can keep. My father has now |
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given over his mills to me, and I am the richer man." |
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"But my prospects are better," said the other, warmly. "When the |
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Lord removes my father, I shall have his tanning yard and his leather |
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factory. Then I am your elder, and am higher in the Church." |
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"It will be for the maiden to decide," rejoined young Drebber, smirking |
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at his own reflection in the glass. "We will leave it all to her |
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decision." |
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During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, |
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hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors. |
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"Look here," he said at last, striding up to them, "when my daughter |
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summons you, you can come, but until then I don't want to see your faces |
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again." |
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The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement. In their eyes this |
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competition between them for the maiden's hand was the highest of |
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honours both to her and her father. |
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"There are two ways out of the room," cried Ferrier; "there is the door, |
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and there is the window. Which do you care to use?" |
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His brown face looked so savage, and his gaunt hands so threatening, |
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that his visitors sprang to their feet and beat a hurried retreat. The |
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old farmer followed them to the door. |
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"Let me know when you have settled which it is to be," he said, |
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sardonically. |
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"You shall smart for this!" Stangerson cried, white with rage. "You have |
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defied the Prophet and the Council of Four. You shall rue it to the end |
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of your days." |
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"The hand of the Lord shall be heavy upon you," cried young Drebber; "He |
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will arise and smite you!" |
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"Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed Ferrier furiously, and would |
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have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by the arm and |
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restrained him. Before he could escape from her, the clatter of horses' |
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hoofs told him that they were beyond his reach. |
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"The young canting rascals!" he exclaimed, wiping the perspiration from |
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his forehead; "I would sooner see you in your grave, my girl, than the |
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wife of either of them." |
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"And so should I, father," she answered, with spirit; "but Jefferson |
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will soon be here." |
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"Yes. It will not be long before he comes. The sooner the better, for we |
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do not know what their next move may be." |
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It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and |
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help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted |
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daughter. In the whole history of the settlement there had never been |
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such a case of rank disobedience to the authority of the Elders. If |
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minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this |
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arch rebel. Ferrier knew that his wealth and position would be of no |
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avail to him. Others as well known and as rich as himself had been |
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spirited away before now, and their goods given over to the Church. He |
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was a brave man, but he trembled at the vague, shadowy terrors which |
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hung over him. Any known danger he could face with a firm lip, but |
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3493 |
this suspense was unnerving. He concealed his fears from his daughter, |
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however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, |
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with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was ill at ease. |
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He expected that he would receive some message or remonstrance from |
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Young as to his conduct, and he was not mistaken, though it came in an |
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unlooked-for manner. Upon rising next morning he found, to his surprise, |
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a small square of paper pinned on to the coverlet of his bed just over |
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his chest. On it was printed, in bold straggling letters:-- |
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"Twenty-nine days are given you for amendment, and then----" |
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The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been. How |
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this warning came into his room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for his |
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servants slept in an outhouse, and the doors and windows had all been |
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secured. He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but |
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the incident struck a chill into his heart. The twenty-nine days were |
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evidently the balance of the month which Young had promised. What |
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strength or courage could avail against an enemy armed with such |
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mysterious powers? The hand which fastened that pin might have struck |
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3513 |
him to the heart, and he could never have known who had slain him. |
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Still more shaken was he next morning. They had sat down to their |
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breakfast when Lucy with a cry of surprise pointed upwards. In the |
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centre of the ceiling was scrawled, with a burned stick apparently, |
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the number 28. To his daughter it was unintelligible, and he did not |
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enlighten her. That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and |
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ward. He saw and he heard nothing, and yet in the morning a great 27 had |
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been painted upon the outside of his door. |
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Thus day followed day; and as sure as morning came he found that his |
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unseen enemies had kept their register, and had marked up in some |
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conspicuous position how many days were still left to him out of the |
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month of grace. Sometimes the fatal numbers appeared upon the walls, |
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sometimes upon the floors, occasionally they were on small placards |
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stuck upon the garden gate or the railings. With all his vigilance John |
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Ferrier could not discover whence these daily warnings proceeded. A |
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horror which was almost superstitious came upon him at the sight of |
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them. He became haggard and restless, and his eyes had the troubled look |
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of some hunted creature. He had but one hope in life now, and that was |
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for the arrival of the young hunter from Nevada. |
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Twenty had changed to fifteen and fifteen to ten, but there was no news |
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of the absentee. One by one the numbers dwindled down, and still there |
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came no sign of him. Whenever a horseman clattered down the road, or a |
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driver shouted at his team, the old farmer hurried to the gate thinking |
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that help had arrived at last. At last, when he saw five give way to |
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four and that again to three, he lost heart, and abandoned all hope of |
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escape. Single-handed, and with his limited knowledge of the mountains |
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which surrounded the settlement, he knew that he was powerless. The |
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more-frequented roads were strictly watched and guarded, and none could |
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pass along them without an order from the Council. Turn which way he |
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would, there appeared to be no avoiding the blow which hung over him. |
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Yet the old man never wavered in his resolution to part with life itself |
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before he consented to what he regarded as his daughter's dishonour. |
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He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over his troubles, and |
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searching vainly for some way out of them. That morning had shown the |
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figure 2 upon the wall of his house, and the next day would be the last |
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of the allotted time. What was to happen then? All manner of vague and |
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terrible fancies filled his imagination. And his daughter--what was to |
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become of her after he was gone? Was there no escape from the invisible |
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network which was drawn all round them. He sank his head upon the table |
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and sobbed at the thought of his own impotence. |
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What was that? In the silence he heard a gentle scratching sound--low, |
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but very distinct in the quiet of the night. It came from the door of |
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the house. Ferrier crept into the hall and listened intently. There |
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was a pause for a few moments, and then the low insidious sound was |
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repeated. Someone was evidently tapping very gently upon one of the |
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panels of the door. Was it some midnight assassin who had come to carry |
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out the murderous orders of the secret tribunal? Or was it some agent |
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who was marking up that the last day of grace had arrived. John Ferrier |
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felt that instant death would be better than the suspense which shook |
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his nerves and chilled his heart. Springing forward he drew the bolt and |
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threw the door open. |
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Outside all was calm and quiet. The night was fine, and the stars were |
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twinkling brightly overhead. The little front garden lay before the |
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farmer's eyes bounded by the fence and gate, but neither there nor on |
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the road was any human being to be seen. With a sigh of relief, Ferrier |
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looked to right and to left, until happening to glance straight down at |
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his own feet he saw to his astonishment a man lying flat upon his face |
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upon the ground, with arms and legs all asprawl. |
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So unnerved was he at the sight that he leaned up against the wall with |
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his hand to his throat to stifle his inclination to call out. His first |
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thought was that the prostrate figure was that of some wounded or dying |
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man, but as he watched it he saw it writhe along the ground and into the |
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hall with the rapidity and noiselessness of a serpent. Once within the |
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house the man sprang to his feet, closed the door, and revealed to the |
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astonished farmer the fierce face and resolute expression of Jefferson |
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Hope. |
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"Good God!" gasped John Ferrier. "How you scared me! Whatever made you |
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come in like that." |
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"Give me food," the other said, hoarsely. "I have had no time for bite |
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or sup for eight-and-forty hours." He flung himself upon the [21] cold |
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meat and bread which were still lying upon the table from his host's |
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supper, and devoured it voraciously. "Does Lucy bear up well?" he asked, |
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when he had satisfied his hunger. |
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"Yes. She does not know the danger," her father answered. |
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"That is well. The house is watched on every side. That is why I crawled |
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my way up to it. They may be darned sharp, but they're not quite sharp |
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enough to catch a Washoe hunter." |
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John Ferrier felt a different man now that he realized that he had |
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a devoted ally. He seized the young man's leathery hand and wrung it |
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cordially. "You're a man to be proud of," he said. "There are not many |
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who would come to share our danger and our troubles." |
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"You've hit it there, pard," the young hunter answered. "I have a |
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respect for you, but if you were alone in this business I'd think twice |
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before I put my head into such a hornet's nest. It's Lucy that brings me |
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here, and before harm comes on her I guess there will be one less o' the |
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Hope family in Utah." |
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"What are we to do?" |
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"To-morrow is your last day, and unless you act to-night you are lost. |
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I have a mule and two horses waiting in the Eagle Ravine. How much money |
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have you?" |
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"Two thousand dollars in gold, and five in notes." |
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"That will do. I have as much more to add to it. We must push for Carson |
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City through the mountains. You had best wake Lucy. It is as well that |
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the servants do not sleep in the house." |
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3625 |
While Ferrier was absent, preparing his daughter for the approaching |
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journey, Jefferson Hope packed all the eatables that he could find into |
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a small parcel, and filled a stoneware jar with water, for he knew by |
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3628 |
experience that the mountain wells were few and far between. He had |
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hardly completed his arrangements before the farmer returned with his |
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daughter all dressed and ready for a start. The greeting between the |
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3631 |
lovers was warm, but brief, for minutes were precious, and there was |
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much to be done. |
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"We must make our start at once," said Jefferson Hope, speaking in a low |
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but resolute voice, like one who realizes the greatness of the peril, |
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but has steeled his heart to meet it. "The front and back entrances are |
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watched, but with caution we may get away through the side window and |
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across the fields. Once on the road we are only two miles from the |
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Ravine where the horses are waiting. By daybreak we should be half-way |
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through the mountains." |
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"What if we are stopped," asked Ferrier. |
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Hope slapped the revolver butt which protruded from the front of his |
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tunic. "If they are too many for us we shall take two or three of them |
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with us," he said with a sinister smile. |
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The lights inside the house had all been extinguished, and from the |
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darkened window Ferrier peered over the fields which had been his own, |
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and which he was now about to abandon for ever. He had long nerved |
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himself to the sacrifice, however, and the thought of the honour and |
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happiness of his daughter outweighed any regret at his ruined fortunes. |
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All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad |
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silent stretch of grain-land, that it was difficult to realize that |
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the spirit of murder lurked through it all. Yet the white face and set |
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expression of the young hunter showed that in his approach to the house |
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he had seen enough to satisfy him upon that head. |
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Ferrier carried the bag of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty |
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provisions and water, while Lucy had a small bundle containing a few |
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of her more valued possessions. Opening the window very slowly and |
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carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured the |
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night, and then one by one passed through into the little garden. With |
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bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained |
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the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap |
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which opened into the cornfields. They had just reached this point when |
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the young man seized his two companions and dragged them down into the |
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shadow, where they lay silent and trembling. |
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It was as well that his prairie training had given Jefferson Hope the |
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ears of a lynx. He and his friends had hardly crouched down before the |
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melancholy hooting of a mountain owl was heard within a few yards |
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of them, which was immediately answered by another hoot at a small |
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distance. At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the |
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gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry |
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again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity. |
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"To-morrow at midnight," said the first who appeared to be in authority. |
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"When the Whip-poor-Will calls three times." |
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"It is well," returned the other. "Shall I tell Brother Drebber?" |
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"Pass it on to him, and from him to the others. Nine to seven!" |
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"Seven to five!" repeated the other, and the two figures flitted away |
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in different directions. Their concluding words had evidently been some |
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form of sign and countersign. The instant that their footsteps had died |
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away in the distance, Jefferson Hope sprang to his feet, and helping his |
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companions through the gap, led the way across the fields at the top |
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of his speed, supporting and half-carrying the girl when her strength |
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appeared to fail her. |
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"Hurry on! hurry on!" he gasped from time to time. "We are through the |
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line of sentinels. Everything depends on speed. Hurry on!" |
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3696 |
Once on the high road they made rapid progress. Only once did they |
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meet anyone, and then they managed to slip into a field, and so avoid |
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recognition. Before reaching the town the hunter branched away into a |
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rugged and narrow footpath which led to the mountains. Two dark jagged |
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peaks loomed above them through the darkness, and the defile which led |
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between them was the Eagle Cañon in which the horses were awaiting them. |
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With unerring instinct Jefferson Hope picked his way among the great |
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boulders and along the bed of a dried-up watercourse, until he came to |
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the retired corner, screened with rocks, where the faithful animals had |
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been picketed. The girl was placed upon the mule, and old Ferrier upon |
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one of the horses, with his money-bag, while Jefferson Hope led the |
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other along the precipitous and dangerous path. |
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It was a bewildering route for anyone who was not accustomed to face |
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Nature in her wildest moods. On the one side a great crag towered up a |
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thousand feet or more, black, stern, and menacing, with long basaltic |
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columns upon its rugged surface like the ribs of some petrified monster. |
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On the other hand a wild chaos of boulders and debris made all advance |
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impossible. Between the two ran the irregular track, so narrow in places |
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that they had to travel in Indian file, and so rough that only practised |
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riders could have traversed it at all. Yet in spite of all dangers and |
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difficulties, the hearts of the fugitives were light within them, |
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for every step increased the distance between them and the terrible |
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despotism from which they were flying. |
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They soon had a proof, however, that they were still within the |
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jurisdiction of the Saints. They had reached the very wildest and most |
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desolate portion of the pass when the girl gave a startled cry, and |
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pointed upwards. On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark |
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and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel. He saw them |
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as soon as they perceived him, and his military challenge of "Who goes |
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there?" rang through the silent ravine. |
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3729 |
"Travellers for Nevada," said Jefferson Hope, with his hand upon the |
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3730 |
rifle which hung by his saddle. |
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3732 |
They could see the lonely watcher fingering his gun, and peering down at |
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3733 |
them as if dissatisfied at their reply. |
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3734 |
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3735 |
"By whose permission?" he asked. |
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3737 |
"The Holy Four," answered Ferrier. His Mormon experiences had taught him |
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that that was the highest authority to which he could refer. |
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3740 |
"Nine from seven," cried the sentinel. |
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"Seven from five," returned Jefferson Hope promptly, remembering the |
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3743 |
countersign which he had heard in the garden. |
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"Pass, and the Lord go with you," said the voice from above. Beyond his |
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post the path broadened out, and the horses were able to break into a |
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trot. Looking back, they could see the solitary watcher leaning upon |
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his gun, and knew that they had passed the outlying post of the chosen |
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people, and that freedom lay before them. |
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3754 |
CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS. |
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ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular |
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and rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope's |
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intimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track |
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once more. When morning broke, a scene of marvellous though savage |
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beauty lay before them. In every direction the great snow-capped peaks |
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hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. |
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So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them, that the larch |
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and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a |
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gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them. Nor was the fear entirely |
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an illusion, for the barren valley was thickly strewn with trees and |
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boulders which had fallen in a similar manner. Even as they passed, |
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a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke |
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the echoes in the silent gorges, and startled the weary horses into a |
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gallop. |
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3772 |
As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great |
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mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until |
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they were all ruddy and glowing. The magnificent spectacle cheered the |
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hearts of the three fugitives and gave them fresh energy. At a wild |
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torrent which swept out of a ravine they called a halt and watered their |
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horses, while they partook of a hasty breakfast. Lucy and her father |
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will be upon our track by this time," he said. "Everything depends upon |
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our speed. Once safe in Carson we may rest for the remainder of our |
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lives." |
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During the whole of that day they struggled on through the defiles, and |
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by evening they calculated that they were more than thirty miles from |
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their enemies. At night-time they chose the base of a beetling crag, |
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where the rocks offered some protection from the chill wind, and there |
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huddled together for warmth, they enjoyed a few hours' sleep. Before |
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daybreak, however, they were up and on their way once more. They had |
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seen no signs of any pursuers, and Jefferson Hope began to think that |
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they were fairly out of the reach of the terrible organization whose |
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enmity they had incurred. He little knew how far that iron grasp could |
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reach, or how soon it was to close upon them and crush them. |
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About the middle of the second day of their flight their scanty store |
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of provisions began to run out. This gave the hunter little uneasiness, |
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however, for there was game to be had among the mountains, and he had |
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frequently before had to depend upon his rifle for the needs of life. |
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Choosing a sheltered nook, he piled together a few dried branches and |
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made a blazing fire, at which his companions might warm themselves, for |
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they were now nearly five thousand feet above the sea level, and the air |
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was bitter and keen. Having tethered the horses, and bade Lucy adieu, |
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he threw his gun over his shoulder, and set out in search of whatever |
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chance might throw in his way. Looking back he saw the old man and the |
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young girl crouching over the blazing fire, while the three animals |
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stood motionless in the back-ground. Then the intervening rocks hid them |
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from his view. |
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He walked for a couple of miles through one ravine after another without |
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success, though from the marks upon the bark of the trees, and other |
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indications, he judged that there were numerous bears in the vicinity. |
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At last, after two or three hours' fruitless search, he was thinking of |
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turning back in despair, when casting his eyes upwards he saw a sight |
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which sent a thrill of pleasure through his heart. On the edge of a |
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jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a |
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creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a |
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pair of gigantic horns. The big-horn--for so it is called--was acting, |
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probably, as a guardian over a flock which were invisible to the hunter; |
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but fortunately it was heading in the opposite direction, and had not |
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perceived him. Lying on his face, he rested his rifle upon a rock, and |
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took a long and steady aim before drawing the trigger. The animal sprang |
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into the air, tottered for a moment upon the edge of the precipice, and |
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then came crashing down into the valley beneath. |
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3823 |
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3824 |
The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself |
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with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank. With this trophy |
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over his shoulder, he hastened to retrace his steps, for the evening was |
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3827 |
already drawing in. He had hardly started, however, before he realized |
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the difficulty which faced him. In his eagerness he had wandered far |
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past the ravines which were known to him, and it was no easy matter |
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to pick out the path which he had taken. The valley in which he found |
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himself divided and sub-divided into many gorges, which were so like |
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each other that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other. |
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3833 |
He followed one for a mile or more until he came to a mountain torrent |
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3834 |
which he was sure that he had never seen before. Convinced that he had |
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3835 |
taken the wrong turn, he tried another, but with the same result. Night |
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was coming on rapidly, and it was almost dark before he at last found |
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himself in a defile which was familiar to him. Even then it was no easy |
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Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@fossee.in>
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3838 |
matter to keep to the right track, for the moon had not yet risen, and |
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3839 |
the high cliffs on either side made the obscurity more profound. Weighed |
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3840 |
down with his burden, and weary from his exertions, he stumbled along, |
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3841 |
keeping up his heart by the reflection that every step brought him |
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3842 |
nearer to Lucy, and that he carried with him enough to ensure them food |
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for the remainder of their journey. |
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3844 |
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3845 |
He had now come to the mouth of the very defile in which he had left |
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them. Even in the darkness he could recognize the outline of the cliffs |
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3847 |
which bounded it. They must, he reflected, be awaiting him anxiously, |
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3848 |
for he had been absent nearly five hours. In the gladness of his heart |
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3849 |
he put his hands to his mouth and made the glen re-echo to a loud halloo |
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as a signal that he was coming. He paused and listened for an answer. |
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3851 |
None came save his own cry, which clattered up the dreary silent |
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3852 |
ravines, and was borne back to his ears in countless repetitions. Again |
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|
3853 |
he shouted, even louder than before, and again no whisper came back from |
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3854 |
the friends whom he had left such a short time ago. A vague, nameless |
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Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@fossee.in>
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|
3855 |
dread came over him, and he hurried onwards frantically, dropping the |
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3856 |
precious food in his agitation. |
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3857 |
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|
3858 |
When he turned the corner, he came full in sight of the spot where the |
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|
3859 |
fire had been lit. There was still a glowing pile of wood ashes there, |
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3860 |
but it had evidently not been tended since his departure. The same |
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3861 |
dead silence still reigned all round. With his fears all changed to |
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3862 |
convictions, he hurried on. There was no living creature near the |
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3863 |
remains of the fire: animals, man, maiden, all were gone. It was only |
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3864 |
too clear that some sudden and terrible disaster had occurred during |
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3865 |
his absence--a disaster which had embraced them all, and yet had left no |
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traces behind it. |
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3868 |
Bewildered and stunned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin |
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3869 |
round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling. He |
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3870 |
was essentially a man of action, however, and speedily recovered from |
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his temporary impotence. Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the |
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3872 |
smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help |
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3873 |
to examine the little camp. The ground was all stamped down by the feet |
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3874 |
of horses, showing that a large party of mounted men had overtaken |
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3875 |
the fugitives, and the direction of their tracks proved that they had |
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3876 |
afterwards turned back to Salt Lake City. Had they carried back both of |
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3877 |
his companions with them? Jefferson Hope had almost persuaded himself |
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3878 |
that they must have done so, when his eye fell upon an object which made |
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every nerve of his body tingle within him. A little way on one side of |
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3880 |
the camp was a low-lying heap of reddish soil, which had assuredly |
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3881 |
not been there before. There was no mistaking it for anything but a |
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3882 |
newly-dug grave. As the young hunter approached it, he perceived that a |
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3883 |
stick had been planted on it, with a sheet of paper stuck in the cleft |
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3884 |
fork of it. The inscription upon the paper was brief, but to the point: |
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3885 |
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3886 |
JOHN FERRIER, |
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3887 |
FORMERLY OF SALT LAKE CITY, [22] |
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3888 |
Died August 4th, 1860. |
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The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, |
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then, and this was all his epitaph. Jefferson Hope looked wildly round |
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to see if there was a second grave, but there was no sign of one. Lucy |
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had been carried back by their terrible pursuers to fulfil her original |
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destiny, by becoming one of the harem of the Elder's son. As the young |
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fellow realized the certainty of her fate, and his own powerlessness to |
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prevent it, he wished that he, too, was lying with the old farmer in his |
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last silent resting-place. |
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Again, however, his active spirit shook off the lethargy which springs |
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from despair. If there was nothing else left to him, he could at least |
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devote his life to revenge. With indomitable patience and perseverance, |
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Jefferson Hope possessed also a power of sustained vindictiveness, which |
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he may have learned from the Indians amongst whom he had lived. As he |
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stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could |
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assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought |
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by his own hand upon his enemies. His strong will and untiring energy |
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should, he determined, be devoted to that one end. With a grim, white |
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face, he retraced his steps to where he had dropped the food, and having |
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stirred up the smouldering fire, he cooked enough to last him for a |
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few days. This he made up into a bundle, and, tired as he was, he |
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set himself to walk back through the mountains upon the track of the |
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avenging angels. |
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For five days he toiled footsore and weary through the defiles which he |
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had already traversed on horseback. At night he flung himself down among |
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the rocks, and snatched a few hours of sleep; but before daybreak he was |
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always well on his way. On the sixth day, he reached the Eagle Cañon, |
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from which they had commenced their ill-fated flight. Thence he could |
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look down upon the home of the saints. Worn and exhausted, he leaned |
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upon his rifle and shook his gaunt hand fiercely at the silent |
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widespread city beneath him. As he looked at it, he observed that |
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there were flags in some of the principal streets, and other signs of |
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festivity. He was still speculating as to what this might mean when he |
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heard the clatter of horse's hoofs, and saw a mounted man riding towards |
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him. As he approached, he recognized him as a Mormon named Cowper, to |
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whom he had rendered services at different times. He therefore accosted |
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him when he got up to him, with the object of finding out what Lucy |
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Ferrier's fate had been. |
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"I am Jefferson Hope," he said. "You remember me." |
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The Mormon looked at him with undisguised astonishment--indeed, it was |
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difficult to recognize in this tattered, unkempt wanderer, with ghastly |
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white face and fierce, wild eyes, the spruce young hunter of former |
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days. Having, however, at last, satisfied himself as to his identity, |
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the man's surprise changed to consternation. |
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"You are mad to come here," he cried. "It is as much as my own life is |
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worth to be seen talking with you. There is a warrant against you from |
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the Holy Four for assisting the Ferriers away." |
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"I don't fear them, or their warrant," Hope said, earnestly. "You must |
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know something of this matter, Cowper. I conjure you by everything you |
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hold dear to answer a few questions. We have always been friends. For |
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God's sake, don't refuse to answer me." |
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"What is it?" the Mormon asked uneasily. "Be quick. The very rocks have |
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ears and the trees eyes." |
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"What has become of Lucy Ferrier?" |
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"She was married yesterday to young Drebber. Hold up, man, hold up, you |
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have no life left in you." |
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3955 |
"Don't mind me," said Hope faintly. He was white to the very lips, and |
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had sunk down on the stone against which he had been leaning. "Married, |
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you say?" |
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"Married yesterday--that's what those flags are for on the Endowment |
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House. There was some words between young Drebber and young Stangerson |
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as to which was to have her. They'd both been in the party that followed |
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them, and Stangerson had shot her father, which seemed to give him the |
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best claim; but when they argued it out in council, Drebber's party was |
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the stronger, so the Prophet gave her over to him. No one won't have |
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her very long though, for I saw death in her face yesterday. She is more |
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like a ghost than a woman. Are you off, then?" |
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"Yes, I am off," said Jefferson Hope, who had risen from his seat. His |
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face might have been chiselled out of marble, so hard and set was its |
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expression, while its eyes glowed with a baleful light. |
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"Where are you going?" |
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"Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, |
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strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to |
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the haunts of the wild beasts. Amongst them all there was none so fierce |
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and so dangerous as himself. |
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The prediction of the Mormon was only too well fulfilled. Whether it was |
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the terrible death of her father or the effects of the hateful marriage |
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into which she had been forced, poor Lucy never held up her head again, |
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but pined away and died within a month. Her sottish husband, who had |
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married her principally for the sake of John Ferrier's property, did not |
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affect any great grief at his bereavement; but his other wives mourned |
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over her, and sat up with her the night before the burial, as is the |
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Mormon custom. They were grouped round the bier in the early hours of |
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the morning, when, to their inexpressible fear and astonishment, |
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the door was flung open, and a savage-looking, weather-beaten man in |
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tattered garments strode into the room. Without a glance or a word to |
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the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had |
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once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier. Stooping over her, he |
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pressed his lips reverently to her cold forehead, and then, snatching |
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up her hand, he took the wedding-ring from her finger. "She shall not be |
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buried in that," he cried with a fierce snarl, and before an alarm could |
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be raised sprang down the stairs and was gone. So strange and so brief |
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was the episode, that the watchers might have found it hard to believe |
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it themselves or persuade other people of it, had it not been for the |
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undeniable fact that the circlet of gold which marked her as having been |
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a bride had disappeared. |
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For some months Jefferson Hope lingered among the mountains, leading |
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a strange wild life, and nursing in his heart the fierce desire for |
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vengeance which possessed him. Tales were told in the City of the weird |
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figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted |
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the lonely mountain gorges. Once a bullet whistled through Stangerson's |
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window and flattened itself upon the wall within a foot of him. On |
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another occasion, as Drebber passed under a cliff a great boulder |
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crashed down on him, and he only escaped a terrible death by throwing |
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himself upon his face. The two young Mormons were not long in |
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discovering the reason of these attempts upon their lives, and led |
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repeated expeditions into the mountains in the hope of capturing or |
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killing their enemy, but always without success. Then they adopted the |
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precaution of never going out alone or after nightfall, and of having |
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their houses guarded. After a time they were able to relax these |
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measures, for nothing was either heard or seen of their opponent, and |
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they hoped that time had cooled his vindictiveness. |
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Far from doing so, it had, if anything, augmented it. The hunter's mind |
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was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenge |
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had taken such complete possession of it that there was no room for |
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any other emotion. He was, however, above all things practical. He soon |
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realized that even his iron constitution could not stand the incessant |
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strain which he was putting upon it. Exposure and want of wholesome food |
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were wearing him out. If he died like a dog among the mountains, what |
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was to become of his revenge then? And yet such a death was sure to |
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overtake him if he persisted. He felt that that was to play his enemy's |
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game, so he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to |
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recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his |
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object without privation. |
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His intention had been to be absent a year at the most, but a |
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combination of unforeseen circumstances prevented his leaving the mines |
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for nearly five. At the end of that time, however, his memory of |
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his wrongs and his craving for revenge were quite as keen as on that |
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memorable night when he had stood by John Ferrier's grave. Disguised, |
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and under an assumed name, he returned to Salt Lake City, careless |
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what became of his own life, as long as he obtained what he knew to |
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be justice. There he found evil tidings awaiting him. There had been a |
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schism among the Chosen People a few months before, some of the younger |
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members of the Church having rebelled against the authority of the |
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Elders, and the result had been the secession of a certain number of the |
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malcontents, who had left Utah and become Gentiles. Among these had been |
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Drebber and Stangerson; and no one knew whither they had gone. Rumour |
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reported that Drebber had managed to convert a large part of his |
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property into money, and that he had departed a wealthy man, while his |
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companion, Stangerson, was comparatively poor. There was no clue at all, |
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however, as to their whereabouts. |
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Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of |
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revenge in the face of such a difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never |
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faltered for a moment. With the small competence he possessed, eked out |
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by such employment as he could pick up, he travelled from town to town |
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through the United States in quest of his enemies. Year passed into |
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year, his black hair turned grizzled, but still he wandered on, a human |
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bloodhound, with his mind wholly set upon the one object upon which he |
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had devoted his life. At last his perseverance was rewarded. It was |
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but a glance of a face in a window, but that one glance told him that |
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4058 |
Cleveland in Ohio possessed the men whom he was in pursuit of. He |
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returned to his miserable lodgings with his plan of vengeance all |
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arranged. It chanced, however, that Drebber, looking from his window, |
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had recognized the vagrant in the street, and had read murder in |
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his eyes. He hurried before a justice of the peace, accompanied by |
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Stangerson, who had become his private secretary, and represented to him |
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that they were in danger of their lives from the jealousy and hatred of |
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an old rival. That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and |
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not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks. When at |
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last he was liberated, it was only to find that Drebber's house was |
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deserted, and that he and his secretary had departed for Europe. |
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Again the avenger had been foiled, and again his concentrated hatred |
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urged him to continue the pursuit. Funds were wanting, however, and |
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for some time he had to return to work, saving every dollar for his |
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approaching journey. At last, having collected enough to keep life in |
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him, he departed for Europe, and tracked his enemies from city to |
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city, working his way in any menial capacity, but never overtaking the |
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fugitives. When he reached St. Petersburg they had departed for Paris; |
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and when he followed them there he learned that they had just set off |
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for Copenhagen. At the Danish capital he was again a few days late, for |
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they had journeyed on to London, where he at last succeeded in running |
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them to earth. As to what occurred there, we cannot do better than quote |
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the old hunter's own account, as duly recorded in Dr. Watson's Journal, |
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to which we are already under such obligations. |
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CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN WATSON, M.D. |
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OUR prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any |
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ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself |
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powerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that |
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he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. "I guess you're going to take |
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me to the police-station," he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. "My cab's at |
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the door. If you'll loose my legs I'll walk down to it. I'm not so light |
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to lift as I used to be." |
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Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this |
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proposition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at |
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his word, and loosened the towel which we had bound round his ancles. |
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[23] He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure himself that |
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they were free once more. I remember that I thought to myself, as I eyed |
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him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man; and his dark |
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sunburned face bore an expression of determination and energy which was |
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as formidable as his personal strength. |
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"If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you |
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are the man for it," he said, gazing with undisguised admiration at my |
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fellow-lodger. "The way you kept on my trail was a caution." |
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"You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives. |
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"I can drive you," said Lestrade. |
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"Good! and Gregson can come inside with me. You too, Doctor, you have |
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taken an interest in the case and may as well stick to us." |
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I assented gladly, and we all descended together. Our prisoner made no |
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attempt at escape, but stepped calmly into the cab which had been his, |
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and we followed him. Lestrade mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and |
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brought us in a very short time to our destination. We were ushered into |
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a small chamber where a police Inspector noted down our prisoner's name |
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and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged. The |
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official was a white-faced unemotional man, who went through his |
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duties in a dull mechanical way. "The prisoner will be put before the |
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magistrates in the course of the week," he said; "in the mean time, Mr. |
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Jefferson Hope, have you anything that you wish to say? I must warn you |
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that your words will be taken down, and may be used against you." |
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"I've got a good deal to say," our prisoner said slowly. "I want to tell |
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you gentlemen all about it." |
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"Hadn't you better reserve that for your trial?" asked the Inspector. |
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"I may never be tried," he answered. "You needn't look startled. It |
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isn't suicide I am thinking of. Are you a Doctor?" He turned his fierce |
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dark eyes upon me as he asked this last question. |
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"Yes; I am," I answered. |
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"Then put your hand here," he said, with a smile, motioning with his |
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manacled wrists towards his chest. |
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I did so; and became at once conscious of an extraordinary throbbing and |
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commotion which was going on inside. The walls of his chest seemed to |
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thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful |
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engine was at work. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull |
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humming and buzzing noise which proceeded from the same source. |
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"Why," I cried, "you have an aortic aneurism!" |
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"That's what they call it," he said, placidly. "I went to a Doctor last |
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week about it, and he told me that it is bound to burst before many days |
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passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from over-exposure |
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and under-feeding among the Salt Lake Mountains. I've done my work now, |
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and I don't care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account |
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of the business behind me. I don't want to be remembered as a common |
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cut-throat." |
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The Inspector and the two detectives had a hurried discussion as to the |
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advisability of allowing him to tell his story. |
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"Do you consider, Doctor, that there is immediate danger?" the former |
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asked, [24] |
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"Most certainly there is," I answered. |
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"In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to |
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take his statement," said the Inspector. "You are at liberty, sir, to |
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give your account, which I again warn you will be taken down." |
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"I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting the action |
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to the word. "This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the |
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tussle we had half an hour ago has not mended matters. I'm on the brink |
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of the grave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say is the |
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absolute truth, and how you use it is a matter of no consequence to me." |
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With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began |
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the following remarkable statement. He spoke in a calm and methodical |
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manner, as though the events which he narrated were commonplace enough. |
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I can vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined account, for I have had |
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access to Lestrade's note-book, in which the prisoner's words were taken |
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down exactly as they were uttered. |
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"It don't much matter to you why I hated these men," he said; "it's |
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enough that they were guilty of the death of two human beings--a father |
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and a daughter--and that they had, therefore, forfeited their own |
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lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was |
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impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court. I |
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knew of their guilt though, and I determined that I should be judge, |
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jury, and executioner all rolled into one. You'd have done the same, if |
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you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place. |
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"That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago. She |
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was forced into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over |
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it. I took the marriage ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his |
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dying eyes should rest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts |
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should be of the crime for which he was punished. I have carried |
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it about with me, and have followed him and his accomplice over two |
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continents until I caught them. They thought to tire me out, but they |
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could not do it. If I die to-morrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing |
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that my work in this world is done, and well done. They have perished, |
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and by my hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for, or to desire. |
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"They were rich and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to |
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follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and I found |
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that I must turn my hand to something for my living. Driving and riding |
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are as natural to me as walking, so I applied at a cabowner's office, |
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and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to the |
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owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. There was |
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seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job |
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was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that ever |
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were contrived, this city is the most confusing. I had a map beside me |
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though, and when once I had spotted the principal hotels and stations, I |
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got on pretty well. |
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"It was some time before I found out where my two gentlemen were living; |
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but I inquired and inquired until at last I dropped across them. They |
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were at a boarding-house at Camberwell, over on the other side of the |
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river. When once I found them out I knew that I had them at my mercy. I |
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had grown my beard, and there was no chance of their recognizing me. |
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I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was |
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determined that they should not escape me again. |
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cab, and sometimes on foot, but the former was the best, for then they |
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could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late |
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at night that I could earn anything, so that I began to get behind hand |
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with my employer. I did not mind that, however, as long as I could lay |
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my hand upon the men I wanted. |
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"They were very cunning, though. They must have thought that there was |
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some chance of their being followed, for they would never go out alone, |
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and never after nightfall. During two weeks I drove behind them every |
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day, and never once saw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half |
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the time, but Stangerson was not to be caught napping. I watched them |
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late and early, but never saw the ghost of a chance; but I was not |
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discouraged, for something told me that the hour had almost come. My |
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only fear was that this thing in my chest might burst a little too soon |
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and leave my work undone. |
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"At last, one evening I was driving up and down Torquay Terrace, as the |
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street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to |
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their door. Presently some luggage was brought out, and after a time |
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Drebber and Stangerson followed it, and drove off. I whipped up my horse |
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and kept within sight of them, feeling very ill at ease, for I feared |
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that they were going to shift their quarters. At Euston Station they |
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got out, and I left a boy to hold my horse, and followed them on to the |
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platform. I heard them ask for the Liverpool train, and the guard answer |
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that one had just gone and there would not be another for some hours. |
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Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was rather pleased |
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than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle that I could hear |
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every word that passed between them. Drebber said that he had a little |
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business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he |
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would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him, and reminded |
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him that they had resolved to stick together. Drebber answered that the |
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matter was a delicate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch |
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what Stangerson said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and |
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reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he |
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must not presume to dictate to him. On that the Secretary gave it up |
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as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last |
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train he should rejoin him at Halliday's Private Hotel; to which Drebber |
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answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and made |
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his way out of the station. |
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"The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my |
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enemies within my power. Together they could protect each other, |
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but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with undue |
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precipitation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in |
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vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes |
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him, and why retribution has come upon him. I had my plans arranged by |
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which I should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me |
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understand that his old sin had found him out. It chanced that some days |
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before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in |
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the Brixton Road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It |
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was claimed that same evening, and returned; but in the interval I had |
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taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed. By means of |
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this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could |
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rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house |
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was the difficult problem which I had now to solve. |
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"He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor shops, staying |
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for nearly half-an-hour in the last of them. When he came out he |
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staggered in his walk, and was evidently pretty well on. There was a |
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hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it. I followed it so close |
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that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. |
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We rattled across Waterloo Bridge and through miles of streets, until, |
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to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the Terrace in which he |
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had boarded. I could not imagine what his intention was in returning |
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there; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from |
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the house. He entered it, and his hansom drove away. Give me a glass of |
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water, if you please. My mouth gets dry with the talking." |
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I handed him the glass, and he drank it down. |
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"That's better," he said. "Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour, or |
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more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the |
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house. Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, one of |
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whom was Drebber, and the other was a young chap whom I had never seen |
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before. This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to |
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the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half |
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across the road. 'You hound,' he cried, shaking his stick at him; 'I'll |
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teach you to insult an honest girl!' He was so hot that I think he would |
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have thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only that the cur staggered away |
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down the road as fast as his legs would carry him. He ran as far as the |
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corner, and then, seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. 'Drive me |
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to Halliday's Private Hotel,' said he. |
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"When I had him fairly inside my cab, my heart jumped so with joy that |
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I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. I drove |
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along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might |
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take him right out into the country, and there in some deserted lane |
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have my last interview with him. I had almost decided upon this, when he |
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solved the problem for me. The craze for drink had seized him again, and |
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he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word |
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that I should wait for him. There he remained until closing time, and |
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when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own |
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hands. |
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"Don't imagine that I intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only |
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have been rigid justice if I had done so, but I could not bring myself |
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to do it. I had long determined that he should have a show for his life |
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if he chose to take advantage of it. Among the many billets which I |
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have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once janitor and |
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sweeper out of the laboratory at York College. One day the professor was |
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lecturing on poisions, [25] and he showed his students some alkaloid, |
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as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow |
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poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant |
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death. I spotted the bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when |
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they were all gone, I helped myself to a little of it. I was a fairly |
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good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and |
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each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison. |
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I determined at the time that when I had my chance, my gentlemen should |
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remained. It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than |
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firing across a handkerchief. From that day I had always my pill boxes |
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about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them. |
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"It was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard |
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and raining in torrents. Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within--so |
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glad that I could have shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you |
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gentlemen have ever pined for a thing, and longed for it during twenty |
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long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would |
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understand my feelings. I lit a cigar, and puffed at it to steady my |
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nerves, but my hands were trembling, and my temples throbbing with |
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excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier and sweet Lucy |
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looking at me out of the darkness and smiling at me, just as plain as I |
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see you all in this room. All the way they were ahead of me, one on each |
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side of the horse until I pulled up at the house in the Brixton Road. |
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"There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard, except the |
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dripping of the rain. When I looked in at the window, I found Drebber |
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all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm, 'It's |
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time to get out,' I said. |
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"'All right, cabby,' said he. |
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"I suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that he had mentioned, |
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for he got out without another word, and followed me down the garden. |
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I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little |
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top-heavy. When we came to the door, I opened it, and led him into the |
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front room. I give you my word that all the way, the father and the |
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daughter were walking in front of us. |
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"'It's infernally dark,' said he, stamping about. |
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"'We'll soon have a light,' I said, striking a match and putting it to |
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a wax candle which I had brought with me. 'Now, Enoch Drebber,' I |
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continued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face, 'who am |
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I?' |
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"He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I |
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saw a horror spring up in them, and convulse his whole features, which |
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showed me that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and I |
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saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered |
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in his head. At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed |
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loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I |
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had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me. |
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"'You dog!' I said; 'I have hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. |
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Petersburg, and you have always escaped me. Now, at last your wanderings |
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have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow's sun |
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rise.' He shrunk still further away as I spoke, and I could see on his |
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face that he thought I was mad. So I was for the time. The pulses in my |
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temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit |
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of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me. |
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"'What do you think of Lucy Ferrier now?' I cried, locking the door, and |
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shaking the key in his face. 'Punishment has been slow in coming, but it |
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has overtaken you at last.' I saw his coward lips tremble as I spoke. He |
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4392 |
would have begged for his life, but he knew well that it was useless. |
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"'Would you murder me?' he stammered. |
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"'There is no murder,' I answered. 'Who talks of murdering a mad dog? |
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4397 |
What mercy had you upon my poor darling, when you dragged her from her |
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slaughtered father, and bore her away to your accursed and shameless |
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harem.' |
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4401 |
"'It was not I who killed her father,' he cried. |
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"'But it was you who broke her innocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting |
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the box before him. 'Let the high God judge between us. Choose and |
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4405 |
eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you |
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leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled |
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by chance.' |
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4409 |
"He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my |
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4410 |
knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me. Then I swallowed |
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4411 |
the other, and we stood facing one another in silence for a minute or |
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4412 |
more, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. Shall I |
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4413 |
ever forget the look which came over his face when the first warning |
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4414 |
pangs told him that the poison was in his system? I laughed as I saw |
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it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for |
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a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain |
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4417 |
contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, |
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staggered, and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. I |
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turned him over with my foot, and placed my hand upon his heart. There |
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was no movement. He was dead! |
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"The blood had been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no notice of |
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it. I don't know what it was that put it into my head to write upon the |
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wall with it. Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police |
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upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful. I remembered |
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4426 |
a German being found in New York with RACHE written up above him, and it |
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was argued at the time in the newspapers that the secret societies must |
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have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle |
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the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on |
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a convenient place on the wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found |
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that there was nobody about, and that the night was still very wild. I |
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had driven some distance when I put my hand into the pocket in which |
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I usually kept Lucy's ring, and found that it was not there. I was |
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thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had of her. |
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Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber's |
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body, I drove back, and leaving my cab in a side street, I went boldly |
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up to the house--for I was ready to dare anything rather than lose |
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the ring. When I arrived there, I walked right into the arms of a |
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police-officer who was coming out, and only managed to disarm his |
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suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk. |
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"That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. All I had to do then was |
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to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier's debt. I knew |
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that he was staying at Halliday's Private Hotel, and I hung about all |
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Drebber failed to put in an appearance. He was cunning, was Stangerson, |
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and always on his guard. If he thought he could keep me off by staying |
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indoors he was very much mistaken. I soon found out which was the window |
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of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders |
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which were lying in the lane behind the hotel, and so made my way into |
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his room in the grey of the dawn. I woke him up and told him that the |
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hour had come when he was to answer for the life he had taken so long |
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before. I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the same |
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choice of the poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at the chance of |
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safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my |
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throat. In self-defence I stabbed him to the heart. It would have been |
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the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty |
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hand to pick out anything but the poison. |
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"I have little more to say, and it's as well, for I am about done up. |
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I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I |
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could save enough to take me back to America. I was standing in the |
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yard when a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called |
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Jefferson Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 221B, |
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Baker Street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I |
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knew, this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly |
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snackled [27] as ever I saw in my life. That's the whole of my story, |
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gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer; but I hold that I am |
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just as much an officer of justice as you are." |
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So thrilling had the man's narrative been, and his manner was so |
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impressive that we had sat silent and absorbed. Even the professional |
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detectives, _blasé_ as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to |
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be keenly interested in the man's story. When he finished we sat for |
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some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching |
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of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand |
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account. |
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"There is only one point on which I should like a little more |
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information," Sherlock Holmes said at last. "Who was your accomplice who |
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came for the ring which I advertised?" |
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The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. "I can tell my own secrets," |
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he said, "but I don't get other people into trouble. I saw your |
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advertisement, and I thought it might be a plant, or it might be the |
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ring which I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you'll |
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own he did it smartly." |
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"Not a doubt of that," said Holmes heartily. |
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"Now, gentlemen," the Inspector remarked gravely, "the forms of the law |
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must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before |
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the magistrates, and your attendance will be required. Until then I will |
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be responsible for him." He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson |
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Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our |
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way out of the Station and took a cab back to Baker Street. |
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CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION. |
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WE had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the |
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Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion for our |
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testimony. A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jefferson |
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Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would |
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be meted out to him. On the very night after his capture the aneurism |
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burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the |
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cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able |
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in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well |
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done. |
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"Gregson and Lestrade will be wild about his death," Holmes remarked, as |
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we chatted it over next evening. "Where will their grand advertisement |
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be now?" |
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"I don't see that they had very much to do with his capture," I |
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answered. |
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"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my |
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companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe |
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that you have done. Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a |
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pause. "I would not have missed the investigation for anything. There |
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has been no better case within my recollection. Simple as it was, there |
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were several most instructive points about it." |
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"Simple!" I ejaculated. |
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"Well, really, it can hardly be described as otherwise," said Sherlock |
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Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The proof of its intrinsic simplicity |
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is, that without any help save a few very ordinary deductions I was able |
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to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days." |
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"That is true," said I. |
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"I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is |
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usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this |
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sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very |
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useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise |
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it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason |
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forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who |
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can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." |
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"I confess," said I, "that I do not quite follow you." |
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"I hardly expected that you would. Let me see if I can make it clearer. |
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Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you |
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what the result would be. They can put those events together in their |
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minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are |
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few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to |
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evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led |
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up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning |
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backwards, or analytically." |
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"I understand," said I. |
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"Now this was a case in which you were given the result and had to |
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the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all |
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impressions. I naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I |
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have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks of a cab, which, |
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I ascertained by inquiry, must have been there during the night. I |
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satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the |
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narrow gauge of the wheels. The ordinary London growler is considerably |
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less wide than a gentleman's brougham. |
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"This was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the garden |
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path, which happened to be composed of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable |
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for taking impressions. No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere |
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trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its |
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surface had a meaning. There is no branch of detective science which |
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is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps. |
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Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice |
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has made it second nature to me. I saw the heavy footmarks of the |
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constables, but I saw also the track of the two men who had first passed |
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through the garden. It was easy to tell that they had been before the |
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others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated by |
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the others coming upon the top of them. In this way my second link was |
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formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, |
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one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his |
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stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and |
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elegant impression left by his boots. |
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"On entering the house this last inference was confirmed. My well-booted |
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man lay before me. The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder |
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there was. There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the |
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agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his |
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fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease, or any |
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sudden natural cause, never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their |
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features. Having sniffed the dead man's lips I detected a slightly sour |
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smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon |
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him. Again, I argued that it had been forced upon him from the hatred |
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and fear expressed upon his face. By the method of exclusion, I had |
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arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis would meet the facts. |
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Do not imagine that it was a very unheard of idea. The forcible |
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administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. |
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The cases of Dolsky in Odessa, and of Leturier in Montpellier, will |
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occur at once to any toxicologist. |
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"And now came the great question as to the reason why. Robbery had not |
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been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken. Was it politics, |
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then, or was it a woman? That was the question which confronted me. |
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I was inclined from the first to the latter supposition. Political |
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assassins are only too glad to do their work and to fly. This murder |
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had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator |
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had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there |
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all the time. It must have been a private wrong, and not a political |
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one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription |
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was discovered upon the wall I was more inclined than ever to my |
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opinion. The thing was too evidently a blind. When the ring was found, |
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however, it settled the question. Clearly the murderer had used it to |
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remind his victim of some dead or absent woman. It was at this point |
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that I asked Gregson whether he had enquired in his telegram to |
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Cleveland as to any particular point in Mr. Drebber's former career. He |
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answered, you remember, in the negative. |
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"I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room, which |
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confirmed me in my opinion as to the murderer's height, and furnished me |
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with the additional details as to the Trichinopoly cigar and the length |
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of his nails. I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no |
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signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst |
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from the murderer's nose in his excitement. I could perceive that the |
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track of blood coincided with the track of his feet. It is seldom that |
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any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through |
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emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a |
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robust and ruddy-faced man. Events proved that I had judged correctly. |
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"Having left the house, I proceeded to do what Gregson had neglected. I |
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telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my enquiry |
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to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber. The |
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answer was conclusive. It told me that Drebber had already applied for |
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the protection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson |
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Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that |
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I held the clue to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to |
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secure the murderer. |
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"I had already determined in my own mind that the man who had walked |
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into the house with Drebber, was none other than the man who had driven |
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the cab. The marks in the road showed me that the horse had wandered |
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on in a way which would have been impossible had there been anyone in |
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charge of it. Where, then, could the driver be, unless he were inside |
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the house? Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry |
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out a deliberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third |
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person, who was sure to betray him. Lastly, supposing one man wished |
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to dog another through London, what better means could he adopt than |
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to turn cabdriver. All these considerations led me to the irresistible |
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conclusion that Jefferson Hope was to be found among the jarveys of the |
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Metropolis. |
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"If he had been one there was no reason to believe that he had ceased to |
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be. On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would be |
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likely to draw attention to himself. He would, probably, for a time at |
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least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose |
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that he was going under an assumed name. Why should he change his name |
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in a country where no one knew his original one? I therefore organized |
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my Street Arab detective corps, and sent them systematically to every |
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cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. |
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How well they succeeded, and how quickly I took advantage of it, are |
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still fresh in your recollection. The murder of Stangerson was an |
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incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in |
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any case have been prevented. Through it, as you know, I came into |
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possession of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised. |
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You see the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break |
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or flaw." |
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"It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your merits should be publicly recognized. |
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You should publish an account of the case. If you won't, I will for |
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"You may do what you like, Doctor," he answered. "See here!" he |
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continued, handing a paper over to me, "look at this!" |
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It was the _Echo_ for the day, and the paragraph to which he pointed was |
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devoted to the case in question. |
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"The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden |
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death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch |
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Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson. The details of the case will |
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probably be never known now, though we are informed upon good authority |
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that the crime was the result of an old standing and romantic feud, in |
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which love and Mormonism bore a part. It seems that both the victims |
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belonged, in their younger days, to the Latter Day Saints, and Hope, the |
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deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case has had |
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no other effect, it, at least, brings out in the most striking manner |
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the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson |
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to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at |
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home, and not to carry them on to British soil. It is an open secret |
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that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known |
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Scotland Yard officials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson. The man was |
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apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, |
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who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective |
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line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some |
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degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort |
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will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their |
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services." |
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"Didn't I tell you so when we started?" cried Sherlock Holmes with a |
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laugh. "That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get them a |
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testimonial!" |
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"Never mind," I answered, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the |
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public shall know them. In the meantime you must make yourself contented |
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by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser-- |
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"'Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo |
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Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.'" |
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ORIGINAL TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: |
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[Footnote 1: Frontispiece, with the caption: "He examined with his glass |
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the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most |
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minute exactness." (_Page_ 23.)] |
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[Footnote 2: "JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.": the initial letters in the name are |
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capitalized, the other letters in small caps. All chapter titles are in |
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small caps. The initial words of chapters are in small caps with first |
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letter capitalized.] |
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[Footnote 3: "lodgings.": the period should be a comma, as in later |
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editions.] |
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[Footnote 4: "hoemoglobin": should be haemoglobin. The o&e are |
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concatenated.] |
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[Footnote 5: "221B": the B is in small caps] |
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[Footnote 6: "THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY": the table-of-contents |
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lists this chapter as "...GARDENS MYSTERY"--plural, and probably more |
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correct.] |
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[Footnote 7: "brought."": the text has an extra double-quote mark] |
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[Footnote 8: "individual--": illustration this page, with the |
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caption: "As he spoke, his nimble fingers were flying here, there, and |
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everywhere."] |
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[Footnote 9: "manoeuvres": the o&e are concatenated.] |
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[Footnote 10: "Patent leathers": the hyphen is missing.] |
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[Footnote 11: "condonment": should be condonement.] |
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[Footnote 13: "wages.": ending quote is missing.] |
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[Footnote 14: "the first.": ending quote is missing.] |
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[Footnote 15: "make much of...": Other editions complete this sentence |
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with an "it." But there is a gap in the text at this point, and, given |
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the context, it may have actually been an interjection, a dash. The gap |
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is just the right size for the characters "it." and the start of a new |
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sentence, or for a "----"] |
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[Footnote 16: "tho cushion": "tho" should be "the"] |
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[Footnote 19: "shoving": later editions have "showing". The original is |
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clearly superior.] |
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them seized the little girl, and hoisted her upon his shoulder."] |
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it he saw it writhe along the ground."] |
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[Footnote 22: "FORMERLY...": F,S,L,C in caps, other letters in this line |
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in small caps.] |
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[Footnote 23: "ancles": ankles.] |
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[Footnote 24: "asked,": should be "asked."] |
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[Footnote 25: "poisions": should be "poisons"] |
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text.] |
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[Footnote 27: "snackled": "shackled" in later texts.] |
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[Footnote 29: Heber C. Kemball, in one of his sermons, alludes to his |
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hundred wives under this endearing epithet.] |
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receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy |
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in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER |
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Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. |
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electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers |
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including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from |
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people in all walks of life. |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the |
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assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's |
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goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will |
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remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project |
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and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 |
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Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification |
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number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at |
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http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg |
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Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent |
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permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. |
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The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. |
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Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered |
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throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at |
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business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact |
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information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official |
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page at http://pglaf.org |
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For additional contact information: |
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Chief Executive and Director |
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Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg |
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Literary Archive Foundation |
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Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide |
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freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest |
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array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt |
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status with the IRS. |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating |
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charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United |
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States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a |
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considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up |
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with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we |
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have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition |
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against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who |
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approach us with offers to donate. |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make |
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Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation |
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methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other |
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To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate |
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with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project |
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editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. |
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Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: |
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http://www.gutenberg.org |
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This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, |
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Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to |
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