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His death was seven weeks later, have placed before* us—^no suggestive Men at his time of life do not change 'Between nine and ten last night Police- flap he wrote ''S. H. for J. O." Then v 4 upo4 n the night of May 2d." detail which might help us?" „ all their habits, and exchange willingly constable Cook, of the H division, on he sealed it and addressed it to "Oap- When I glanced over my notes and enlarged at the time of the invention ' Thank you. Pray proceed.'' "There is one th\h£," said John the charming climate of Florida for the duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry tain James Calhoun, Bark Lone Star, records of the Sherlock Holmes cases of bicycling. He was the patentee of "When my father took over the Hor­ Openshaw. He rummaged in hjs coat lonely life" of an English provincial for help and a splash in* the water. ' The Savannah, Georgia." between the years '82 and '90, I am the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his sham property, he. at my request, made pocket, and drawing out a piece of dis­ town. His 'extreme love of solitude night, however, was extremely dark and "That wil await him when he en­ a careful examination of the attic,which colored, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out in England suggests the idea that he stormy, so- that, in spite of th* help of ters port," said he, ehuckling. "It* faced by so many which present strange business met with such success that he had been always locked tip. We found was in fear of some one or something, and interesting features that it is too was able to sell it, and retire upon a upon the table. "I have some remem­ several passersby, it was quite impossi­ may give him a sleepless night. He the brass bpx there, altho its contents brance," said he, ?'that on the day So we may assume as a working hy­ ble to effect a rescue. The alarm, how­ will find it as sure a precursor of his I easy matter to know which to choose handsome- competence. had been destroyed. On the inside of pothesis that it was fear of some one or ana which to leave. Some, however, ' • My uncle Elias emigrated to Amer­ when my unfile bunied the papers I ob­ ever, was given, and, by the aid of the fate as Openshaw did before him." the cover was a piper label, with the served that the small unburned mar- something which drove him from Ameri­ water police, the body was eventually "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" ] have already gained publicity thru the ica when he was a young man, and be­ initials of K. K, !£. repeated upon it, ca. As to what it was he feared, we^ came a planter in Florida, where he was S'ns which lay amid the ashes were of recovered. It proved to be that of a "The leader of the gang. I shall papers, and others have not offered a and 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and ean only deduce that by considering young gentleman whose name, as it apt- have the others, but he first." field for those peculiar qualities which reported to have done very well. At a register' written beneath. These, we is particular color. I'found this single the formidable letters which were re­ my friend possessed in so high a de­ the time of the war he fought in Jack­ sheet upon the floor of his room, and I pears from an envelope which was "How did you trace it, then?" presume, indicated the nature of the am inclined to think that it may be one ceived by himself and his successors. found in his pocket, was John Open' He took a large sheet or' paper from gree, and which it is the object of these son''s army, and afterwards under Hood, papers which had been destroyed by Did you remark the post-marks of those his pocket, all covered with dates and Eapers to illustrate. Some, too, have where he rose to be a •colonel. When of tho papers which £af, perhaps, flut­ letters?«r * shaw, and whose residence is Wear*Hor- affled his analytical skill,, and would Lee laid down his arms my uncle re­ lonel Openshaw. For the rest, there tered out from amoll£ th$ others, and_in' sham. It is conjectured that he may names. « was nothing of much importance in the that way have escarp tfestructiou. Be V The first was from Pondioherry, the have been hurrying down to catch the "I have spent the whole day// said be, as "narratives, beginnings without an turned to his plantation, where he re­ second from Dundee, and the third from ending, while others have been but mained for three or four years! About attic, save a great many scattered pa­ yond the mention- ot ips. I da not see last train from Waterloo station, and he, "oyer Lloyd's registers and the pers and notebooks bearing-upon nfy that it helps us muc think myself London," that in his haste and the extreme dark­ files of the* old papers, following the partially cleared up, and have their ex­ 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe, uncle's life in America. Some of them "F?on\ East London. What do you planations founded rather upon conjec­ and took a small estate in Sussex, near tjiat it is a page/' ;ojfc sojne private ness he missed his path anti walked future career of every vessel which were of the war time, and showed that diary. The writing undoubtedly my deduce from that?" over the edge of one of the small land­ touched at Pondioherry in January and ture and surmise than on that absolute Horsham. He had made* a very con­ he had done hid duty well, and had logical proof which was so clear to him. siderable fortune in* the states, and his uncle's." "Tbey are all seaports.' That the ing places for river steamboats. The February ii ^83. There were thirty- borne the repute of a brave soldier. Holmes moved the4anvp, and we both Writer was on board oi a ship." body exhibited no traces of violence, six ships of ^fai r tonage which were re­ There is, however, one of these last reason for leaving them was his Others were of a date during the re­ which was so remarkable in its details aversion to the negroes, and1 his dislike bent over the sheet oi paper, which ' "Exe/ellent. We have already a and there can be no doubt that the de­ported there during those months. Of construction ofthe southern states, and showed by its ragged edge that it had clue. There can be no doubt that the ceased had been the victim of an unfor­ these, one, the Lone Star, instantly at­ and so startling in its results that I am of the republican policy in extending were mostly concerned with -politcs, probability—the strong probability—is tracted my attention, since, altho it tempted to give some account of it, the franchise to them, He was a indeed bee'tf torn from a Book. It was tunate accident, which should have the for he had evidently taken a strong headed, "March, 1869 " and beneath fbat the writer was on board of a ship. effect of calling the attention of the au­ was reported as having cleared from in spite of the fact that there are points singular man, fierce and quick-temp­ part in opposing the carpetbag poli­ And now let us conside another point. London, the name is that which is in* connection with it which never have ered, very foul-mouthed When he was were the following enigmatical notices: thorities to the condition of the river­ ticians who had been sent down from "4th. Hudson oame. Same old plat­ In the case of Pondioherry, seven weeks side landing stages.' " given to one of the states of the been, and probably never will be, entire­ angry, and of a most retiring disposi­ the north. elapsed between the threat and its ful- Union." i v- ^ rjB* ly cleared up. tion. During all the^years that he lived form. ^ ^r We sat in silence for some minutes, at Horsham I doubt if ever he set foot "Well, it waa the beginning" of '84 7th. Set the pipi ion McCauley^ Jfllment, in Dundee it was only Holmes more depressed and shaken than J'Texas, I think." * * *&k The year ^87 furnished us with a long when my father came to live at Hor­ Parampre, and John Swain, of St. Au Sthree or four days, Does that suggest I had ever seen him. "I was not and am not, sure whlohf series of cases of greater or less in­ in the town. He had a garden and two sham, and all went aa^well as possible anything?" , ,, or three fields round his house, and there gustine. 'i i v. . •"% "That hurts my pride, Watson," ho but I knew that the ship' most have an e terest, of which I retain the records. with us until the Jantaary of '85. On "flth. ^McCauley* cleared. -' "A greater distance to travel," said, at last. "It is a petty feeling, American origin." „ „, Among my headings under this one he would take his exercise, tho very the fourth day after the new year 1 "But the letter had also a greater twelve months I find an* account of the often for weeks on end he would never "10th. John Swatn clesred. -*- no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It "What then?" - " *• > heard %my father give t a sharp cry of ' * 12th. Visited Paramore. All well.' * distance to come." . becomes a personal matter with me now. "I searched the Dundee records, and adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of leave his room. He drank a great deal surprise as we sat together at the break- "Then I do not see the point." of brandy, and smoked very heavily, "Thank you'" safd Holmes, folding and, if God sends me health, I shall set when I f dund that the bark Xone Gjtar the Amateur Mendicant Society, who fasti table. Ther be was, sitting with a up the paper, an^fe,turning it to our "There is at least a presumption that my hand upon this gang. That ho was there in'January, '88, my suspicion held a luxurious club in the lower vault but he would see no society, and did newly-opened envelope in one- hand and the vessel in which the man or men Wot want any friends, not even hia own visitor. "And noW you must on no should come to me for help, and that I became a certainty^ I then inquired;^, of a furniture warehouse, of the facts five dried orange pips in the out­ account lose anpth*?'; instant. We can­ are is a sailing ship. It looks as if they should send him away to his death—!" as to the vessels which lay *t present i% connected with the loss of the British brother. stretched palm of the other one. He always sent their singular warning or not spare time even" to. discuss what He sprang from his chair and paced in the port of London." s a -* *"$ij4 bark Sophy Anderson, of the singular "He didn't mind me, in fact, he took had always laughed at what he called token before them when starting upon about the room in uncontrollable agita­ a fancy to me, for at the time when he you have told me. 3fojJa jnua t get homie "Yes?" * - -**3 adventures of the Grice Patersons in* my cock-and-a-bull story about the instantly" and act. "<* > ? their mission. You see how quickly tion, with a. flush upon his sallow "The Lone Star had arrived here M the island of TJffa, and finally of the saw .me first I was a youngster of Colonel, but he looked very acajted and the „deed followed the sign when it cheeks, atoa a nervous clasping and un- 3 Camberwell poisoning case. In the lat­ twelve or so. This would be in the year puzzled now that the same thing had "What shall I do*!'. *i came from Dundee. If they had come last week. X went dewn to the Albert t ter, as may be remembered, Sherlock 1878, after he had been eight or nine come upon himself. "There is but onfe thing to do. It from Pondioherry in a steamer they dock, and found that she had been;"'* Holmes was able, by winding up the years m England. He begged my father must be done at once. You must put would have arrived almost as soon as " he taken down the river by the early tide Jp " 'Why, what on earth does this this piece of paper which you have _ they this morning, homeward bound ttj %^ dead man's watch, to prove that it had to let me hvewith him, and he was very mean, John?' he stammered. their letter. But, as a matter of fact, been wound up two hours before, and kin»d to me in his way. When he was shown us into the brass box which you seven weeks elapsed. I think that those have decoyed him down there? The Savannah. I wired to Gravesepd, sn4 * "My heart had turned to lead. 'It have described. You must also put in a embankment is not on the direct line learned that she had passed some time "S that therefore the deceased had jjoWe sober he used to be fond of playing is K.TL K.,' said I. seven weeks represented the difference ago; and as the. wind is easterly* I**;7 to bed within that time—a deduction backgammon and draughts with me, and note to say that all the other papers between the mailboat which brought to the station. The bridge, no he would make me his representative "He looked inside the envelope. 'So were burned by yoUr uncle, ana that the letter and the sailing vessel which doubt, was too crowded, even have no doubt that she is now past the V which was of the greatest importance it is/ he cried. "Here are the very this is the only dm which, remains. on such a night, for their Goodwins, and not v«rr far from ths * in clearing up the case. All these I may both with the servants and with the letters. But what is this written above brought the writer." Isle of Wight." . < Ov tradespeople, so that by the time that You must assert that in such words as "It is possible." , ,, purpose. Well% Watson, we shall see sketch out at some future date, but them?' Vill carry conviction with them. Hav­ who will win m the long run. I am "What will yon do, then!*' < " none of them* present such singular I was sixteen I was quite master of the 'Put hte papers on the sundial,' # "More thai* that. It is probable. house. I kept all the keys, and could ing done this, you must at once put And now you see the deadly urgency of goin? out now!" "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He" features as the strange train of cir­ read, peeping over his shoulder. the box out upon the sundial, as direct­ "To the police?" and the two mates are, as I leant, ths cumstances which I have now taken up go where I liked and do what I liked, " 'What papers? What fcuadial!' he this new case, and why I urged young so long as I did not disturb him in his ed. Do you understand?" Openshaw to caution. The blow has "No; I shall be my own police. only native-born Americans in the ship* my pen» to describe. Askfid "Entirely." When I have spun ths web they may The others are Finns and Germans, I It was in the latter days of Sep­ privacy. There was onte singular ex­ " 'The sundial in the garden. There always fallen at the end of the time ception, however, for he had a single "Do not thinfe of revenge, or any­ which it would take the senders to take the flies, but not before." know, alse, that they were all ,three tember, and the equinoctial gales had is no other,' said I; 'but the papers thing of the sort, at present. I think All day I was engaged in my profes­ away from the ship last night. I had set in with exceptional violence. All room, a lumberroom up among the must be those that are destroyed.' travel the distance. But this one comes attics, which was invariably locked, and that we may gain that by means of the from London, and, therefore, we can­ sional work, and ft was late in the it from the stevedore who has been day the wind had screamed and the ram Pooh! said he, gripping hard at law: but we nave our web to weave, not count upon delay." evening before I returned to Baker loading their cargo. By the time that had beaten against the windows, so that which he would never permit either me his courage. 'We are in a civilized land or any one else to enter. With a boy's while theirs is already woven. The first "»ood God!" I cried; "what can it street. Sherlock Holmes had Hot come their sailing-ship reaches Savannah tho even here in the heart of great hand­ here, ana we can't have tomfoolery of consideration is to remove the pressing mean, this relentless persecution?" back yet. It was nearly 10 e'olock mail-boat will have carried this letter, made London we were forced to raise curiosity I have peeped thru the key­ this kind. Where does the thing come hole, but I was never able to see more danger which threatens you. The second "The papers which Openshaw car­ before he entered, looking pale and and the cable will have informed the our minds for the instant from the rou­ from?' is to clear up the mystery a'n'd to punish ried are obviously of vital importance worn. He walked up to the sideboard, police of Savannah that these three tine of life, and to recognize the pres­ than such a collection of old trunks and gentlemen are badly wanted here upon bu'n'dles as would be expected in such a " 'From Dundee,' I answered, glane-- the guilty parties." to the person Or persons in the sailing and, tearing a piece from the loaf, he entee of those great elemental forces ing at the postmark. "I thank you," said the young man, ship. 1 think that it is quite clear that devoured it viciously, washing it down a charge of murder." which shriek at mankind thru the* bars " 'Somejsreposterous practical joke,' rising, and pulling on his overcoat. there must be more than one of them. with a long draught of water. There is ever a flaw, however, in the. of his civilization, like untamed beasts "One day—it was in March, 1883—a said he. 'What have I to do with sun­ "You have given me fresh life and A single man could not have carried "You are hungry," I remarked. best laid of human plans, -and the in a cage. As evening drew in, the letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the dials and papers? I shall take 'wo notice hope. I shall certainly do as you ad­out two deaths in such a way as to de­ ' "Starving. It had escaped my murderers of John Openshaw were j§ storm grew higher and louder, and the table in front of the Colonel's plate. of such nonsense.' vise. '' ceive a coroner's jury. There must memory. I have had nothing since never to receive the orange pips which^ *^i^ wind cried and sobbed like a child in It was not a common thing for him to " 'I should certainly speak to the '' Do not lose an instant. And, above have been several in it, and they must breakfast.'' would show them that another, as eun-" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat receive letters, for his bills were all police.' I said. all, take care of yourself in the mean­ have been men of resource and deter­ "Nothing?" ning and as resolute as themselves, was moodily at otte side of the fireplace paid in ready money, and he had no " 'And be laughed at for my pains. while, for I do not think that there can mination. Their papers they mean to '' Not a bite. I had no time to think upon their track. Very long and very cross-indexing his records of crime, frien'ds of any sort. 'From India I' said Nothing of the sort.' be a doubt that you are threatened by have, be the holder of them who it of it." severe were the equinoctial gales that while I at '•the other was deep in one he, as he took it up, 'Pondicherry post­ " 'Then let me do so?' a very real and imminent danger. How may. In this way you see K. K. K. "And how have you suoeededf" rear. We waited long for the news of of Clark Bnssell's fine sea stories, until mark! What can this be?' Opening it " 'No, I forbid you. I won't have a do you go back?" ceases to be the initials of an indi­ "Well." ?he Lone Star of Savannah, but none the howl of the gale from without hurriedly, out there jumped five little fuss made about such nonsense.' "By train' from Waterloo." vidual, and becomes the badge of a "You have a clew?" ever reached us. We did at least hear seemed to blend with the text, and the dried orange pips, which pattered down "It was in vain' to argue with him, "It is not yet nine. The streets will society." "I have them in the hollow of my that somewhere far out in the Atlantic splash of the rain to lengthen out into upon his plate. I began to laugh at for he was a very obstinate man. I be crowded, so I trust that you may be "But of what society?" hand. Young Openshaw shall not long a shattered stern-post of a boat was the long swash of the sea waves. My this, but the laugh was struck i'rom my went about, however, with a heart in safety. And yet you cannot guard "Have you never—" said Sherlock remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let seen swinging in the trough of a wife was on a visit to her mother's, lips at the sight of his face. His lip which was full of forebodings. yourself too closely." Holmes, bending forward and sinking us put their own devilish trade-mark wave, with the letters "L. S." carved a'n'd for a few days I was a dweller had fallen, his eyes were protruding, "On the third day after the coming "I am armed." his voice—"have you never heard of upon them. It is well thought of 1" upon it, and that is all which we shall once more in my old quarters at Baker his skin the color of putty, and he of the letter my father went from home "That is well. Tomorrow I shall set theKu Klux Klanf" "What do you mean?" ever know of the fate of the Lone street. glared at the envelope which he still to visit an old friend of his. Major to work upon your case." "I never have." He took an orange from the cup­ Star. "Why," said I, glancing up at my held in his tremblitog hand. 'K. K. K.1' Freebody, who is in command of one • "I shall see you atjHorsham, then?" Holmes turned over the leaves of companion, "that was <"iTely the bell. he shrieked, and then, 'My God, myo f the forts upon PortsdoWn* Hill. I "No, your secret ljies in London. It the book upon his knee. "Here it is," "Who could come tonigJS**-' Some friend God, my sins have overtaken me!' was glad that he should go, for it is there that I shall seek it.'' said he, presently, '' Ku Klux Klan. A of yours, perhaps?" " 'What is it, uncle?' I cried. seemed to me that he was farther from '' Then I shall call upon* you in a day, name derived from the fanciful resem­ ''Except yourself I have nonte," " 'Death,' said he, and rising from danger when he was away from home. or in two days, with news as to the box blance to the sound produced by cock­ he answered. "I do not encourage the table he retired to his room, leaving In that, however, I was. in error. Upon and^th,e papers. I shall take your ad­ ing a rifle. This terrible secret society CORNER IN ANCESTORS visitors." me palpitating with horror. I took up Was formed by spme ex-Confederate BOI- the second day of biff absence I received vice in every particular." He shook diers in the southern states after the "A client, then?" the envelope-, and saw scrawled in red a telegram from the Major, imploring hands with us, and took his leave. Out­ ink upon' the inner flap, "just above the civil war, and it rapidly formed local "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing me to come at once. My father had side the wind still screamed, and the branches in different parts of the coun­ CffAPMAN FAMILTt' - less would bring a man out on such a glim, the letter K three times repeated. fallen over one of the deep chalkpits rain splashed and pattered against the There was nothing else save the five try, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, day and at such an hour. But I take which abound in the neighborhood, and window. This stratoge, wild story seemed the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Its Name Appears In Records of Thirteenth Century—Patents of Nobility Granted it that it is more likely to be some dried pips. What could be the reason to have come to us from .amid the mad HI* was lying senseless, with a shattered 4 power was used for political purposes, In Early Days—Family Distinguished In Civil and Military Life, as Well as In crony of the landlady's." of his overpowering terror? I left the skull. I hurried to him, but he passed eleraents^—blown in up6n us like a sheet principally for the terrorizing of the Sherlock Holmes was wron'g in his breakfast table, and as I ascended the away without having ever recovered, his of seaweed in a gale—and now to have negro voters and the murdering and the Realm of Letters—Pilgrim Ancestors Men of Affairs Who Rose High In conjecture, however, for there came a stair I met him coming down with an consciousness. He bad, as it appears, been reabsorbed by t|iem once more. driving from the country of those who Public Esteem—A Good Wife's Epitaph—A Hapless Maiden'* Disregard of the step in the passage and a tapping at the old rusty key, which must have belonged been returning from Fareham m the Sherlock Holmes sat for some time were opposed to its views. Its out­ 8abbath—Heraldic Symbols Denote Knightly Service, Crowned with Victory. ®, door'. He stretched out his long arm to the attic, in one hand, a'n'd a small twilight, and as the country was un­14 sil«nce, with his head sunk forward rages were usually preceded by a warn­ to turn the lamp away from himself brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. known to him, and the chalkpit un- a'n'd his eyes bent upon the red glow of " 'They may do what they like, but ing sent to the marked man in some and towards the vacant chair upon fenced, the jury had no hesitation in the fire. Then he lit his piper and lean­ fantastic but generally recognized Bv ELEANOR LEXINGTON. which a new-comer must sit. "Coma I'll checkmate them still,' said he, with bringing in a verdict of ''Death from ing l>ack in his chair he watched the shape—a Sprig or oak leaves in some in»'" said he. an oath. ' Tell Mary that I shall want a accidental causes.' Carefully as I ex­ blue smokerings as they chased each parts, melon seeds or orange pips in The man who entered was young, fire in my room today, and send down amined every fact Connected with his other np to the ceiling. others. On receiving this the victim Attother forefather was Ralph Chap? to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' some two-and-twenty at the outside, death, I was unable to find anythih£- "I think, WatsOn," he remarked at might either openly abjure his former man, who came over in the Elizabeth "3 well groomed and trimly clad, with "I did as he ordered, aud when the which could suggest the idea of murder. last, "that of all our cases we have ways or might fly from the country. hi 1685. His marriage with Lydia Wells something of refinement and delicacy in lawyer arrived I was asked to step up There were no signs of violence, no had. none more fantastic than this." If he braved the matter out, death is the first cue recorded in the town of his bearing. The steaming umbrella to the room. The fire was burning footmarks, no robbery, no record of "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." would unfailingly come upon him, and Duxbury. It was one of these early which he held in his hattd, and his long brightly, an'd in the grate there was a strangers having been seen upon the '' Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And usually in some strange and unfore­ fathers who recorded upon his wife's shining water-proof told of the fierce mass oi black, fluffy ashes, as of burned roads. And yet I need not^ell you that yet this John Openshaw seems to me to seen manner. So perfect was the or­ tombstone that she was paper, while the brass box stood open weather thru which he had come. He my mind was far from at ease, and that t>e walking amid even greater perils ganization of the society, and so system "A good woman, as the peogfte looked about him anxiously in the glare nnd empty beside it. As I glancecf at I was wellnigh certain that some foul than did the Sholtes." matic its methods, that there is hardly the box I noticed, with a Start, that Zs witness; a better daughte** of the lamp, and I could see that his plot had been woven round him. "But have you," I asked, "formed a case upon record where any man suc­ ' As nor parent* are witnesses! face was pale and his eyes heavy, like upon the lid were printed the treble K ceeded in braying it with impunity, or waich I had read in the morning upon "In this sinister way I came into my any definite conception as to what these A most excellent wife. those of a man who is weighed down inheritance. You will ask me why I did perils are?" in which any of its outrages were traced As her husband is witness! with some great anxiety. the envelope. home to the perpetrators. For some not dispose of it? I answer, because I '' There can be no question* as to their years the organization flourished, in Second to none in plsty, , #l*i "I owe you an apology," he said, " 'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, was well convinced that our troubles nature," he answered. AS God. Is witness." raising his golden pincetoez to his eyes. ' to witWess my will. I leave my estate, were in some way dependent upon an "Then what arc theyt Who is this spite of the efforts of the United States "I trust that I am not intruding. I with all its advantages and all its dis­ incident in my uncle's life, and the Ifc K. K., and Why does he- pursue this government and of the better classes The Chapmans settled la Virginia, fear that I have brought some traces advantages to my brother, your father, danger would be as pressing in one unhappy family?" of the community in the south. Event­ Maryland and Pennsylvania, as well as 1 ually, in the year 1869, the movement in Now England. The Virginia family of the storm and rain into your snug whence it will, no doubt, descend to house as in another. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and rather suddenly eollapsed, altho there cams over with Baleigh. Beuben Chapi chamber.'' you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well "It was in January, '85, that my placed his elbSwa upon the arms of his have been sporadic outbreaks of the man, born in Virginia in 1799, becamS "Give me your coat and umbrella," and good! If you find, you cannot, take poor father met his end, and two years chair, with his finger-tips together. same sort since that date.' governor of Alabama. Another of Vir­ *aic| Holmes. "They may rest here on my advice, my boy, and leave it to and eight months have elapsed since "The ideal reasoner," he remarked, "You will observe," said Holmes, ginia's famous sons was Nathaniel «?; the hook, and will be dry presently. your deadliest etoemy. I am sorry to then. During that time I have lived "Would, when he had once been' shown laying down the volume,'' that the Bud- Chapman, who was the first presiden* You have come up from the southwest, ive you such a two-edged thing, but happily at Horsham, and I had begun a single fact in all its bearings, deduce den breaking up of the society was co­ of the American Medical association, I see.'' f can^t say what turn things are going to nope that this curse had passed away from, it not only all the chain of events incident with the disappearance of and stood at the head of Ms profession* ""Yes, from Horsham." to take. Kindly sign the paper where from the family, and that it had ended, which led up to it, but also all the re­ Openshaw from America with their pa­ A southern poet -and author was John "That clay an'd chalk mixture which Mr. Fordham shows you.' with the last generation1. I had begun sults which would follow^from it. As pers. It may well have been cause and Abney Chapman, ~ whose grandfather-, I see upon your toecaps is quite dis­ "I signed the paper as directed, and to take comfort too soon, however; yes-, Cuvier could correctly describe a whole effect. It is no wonder that he and his Giles, came from Torkville to Virginia tinctive. '' the lawyer took it away with him. The terday morning^ the blow fell in the animal by the contemplation of a single family have some of the more implaca­ in 1750. The Bible which he brought "*I have come for advice.'* singular incident made, as you mayver y shape in which it had come upon bon^, so the observer who has thoroly ble spirits upon their track. You can un­ with Mm is still in good preservation, "That is easily got." think, the deepest impression upon me. my father." understood one link in a series of in­ derstand that this register anddiary may Slfapman and is probably the oldest Bible of fhs # "And help." and I pondered over it, and turned it The young man took from his waist­ cidents, should be able to" accurately implicate some of the first men in the HIS toame is of Saxon origin, from King -James version in the United "That is not always .so easy." every way in my mind without being coat a crumpled envelope, and, turning state all the other ones, both before and South, and that there may be many who ceapman, a chapman, a- merchant. States. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. able to make anything of it. Yet I to the table, he shook out upon it five after. We have not yet grasped the re­ will not sleep easy at night until it is T In Germany the name is Kauf­ I heard from Major "Prendergast how sults which the reason alone can attain The Chapmans were always ready.to could not shake- off the vague feeling little dried oran"ge pips. recovered." man. As early as 1216 the name ap­ shoulder their muskets. We find repre­ you saved him in the Tankerville Club of dread which it left behind tho the to. Problems may be splved in' the "Then the page we have seen—" pears in Whitby, being recorded on" the Scandal." sensation grew less keen as the weeks "This is the envelope," he continued. study which have baffled all those who sentatives in all of the Indian wars sad "The postmark is London—eastern "Is such as we migh T t expect. It ran, rolls of Whitby Abbey. Captain Ben­ "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully passed, and nothing happened to dis­ have sought a solution by the aid of if I remember right, I sent the pips to in the great struggle for independence, division. Within are the very words their senses. To carry the aft, however, jamin Chapman received grants of lanVl Jabez Chapman of East Haddam was accused of cheating at cards." turb the usual routine oi our lives. I which were upon my father's last mes­ A. B. and C,'—that is, Bent the so­ in Ireland from Oliver Cromwell, and 1 "He said that you could solve any­ could see & change in my uncle, how­ to its highest pitchy it is necessary that ciety's warning to them. Then there an officer in the Revolution and ess sage: 'K. K. Kr, and then 'Put the the reasoner should be able to utilize another of the family also had large of the members to ratify the confttitu* thing." ever. He drank more than' ever, and he papers on the sundial.' " are successive entries that A and B Irish holdings, acquired thru Sir Water "Ho said too much." was less inclined for any sort of Society. all the facts which have come to his cleared, or left the country, and finally tion of the United States in 1788. Bey, ''What have you done?" asked knowledge: and this in itself implies, Baleigh, who was a cousin of one Jedediah Chapman was called the rebel "That you are never beaten." Most of his time- he would spend in his Holmes. that O was visited, with, I fear, a sin­ branch of the Chapman family. The room, with the door locked unon the in­ as you will readily see, a possession of ister result for C. Well I think. Toe- preacher by the British, and he was "I have been beaten four times— "Nothing." * all knowledge, which, even ite these r name is also found in» Sweden. such an outspoken patriot that a reward three times by men, and once by a side, but sometimes he would emerge in "Nothing?" tor, that we may let some light into The family were granted patents of .was offered for his head. A band "of woman." a sort of drunken frenzy, and would days of free education and encyclo­ this dark place, and I believe that the burst out of the house ana tear about "To tell the truth"—he sank Ms pedias is a somewhat rare accomplish' only chance young Openshaw has fn* the nobility at an early date in England, forty took an oath that they would "But what is* that compared with the the garden' with a revolver in his hand, face into his thin, white bands—"I ment. It is not so impossible, however", meantime is to: do what I have told him. Scotland and Ireland, and became dis­ neither sleep nor eat until he was in dumber of your successes?" screaming out that he was afraid of no have felt helpless. I have felt like that a man should possess all knowledge There is nothing more to be said or to tinguished ita? civil and military life, as their power, but he always outwitted "It is true that I have been generally man, antl that he was not to "De cooped one of those J>oor rabbits when the which is likely to be useful to him in be done tonight, so band me over my well as in the realm of letters. George them. Upon one occasion he was pur­ successful." up, like a sheep in a pen, by ma*n or snake is writhing towards it. I se'em his work, and this I have endeavored violin, and let us try to forget for half Chapman, poet, was a friend of Shaks- sued by British soldiers and was nearly "Then you may be so with me." to be in the grasp of some resistless, in my case to do. Jf I remember right­ pore. Sir John Chapman was Lord in their grasp, but, reaching the top of devil. When these hot fits were over, inexorable evil, which no foresight and an hour the miserable, weather, and tiia. Mayor of London in 1689. One of the a hill, he turned and waved his hat to "I beg that you will draw your chair however, he would rush tumultuously 1 ly, you on one 4>ccasicm, in the early still more miserable ways of bur f eHow- np to the fire, and favor me with some no precaution can guard against." days of our friendship, defined my farailyr Helior Chapman, so dintin- them. This saved the day for ths in at the door, and lock and bar it meto." . ~- * % ., preacher, 'for the soldiers supposed that details as to your case." behind him, like a man Who can* brazen - *Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. limits in a very precise fashion." gnished himself iif i Kf e that in' death he "It is no ordinary one." it out no longer against the terror which "You must act, man, or you are lost. It ha£ cleared in the moraine, and; found a resting place in Westminster the American army was near, but hid ^ . "None of those which come to me Nothing but energy can save you. This "Yes," I answered,,.laughing. "It the sun^as shining With a subdued Abbey. < from their view oy the hill, so they lies at the roots of his souL At such turned and galloped away. The "rebel , are. I am the last court of appeal." times I have seen his face, even on a is no time for despair.*' t » was a singular document. Philosophy, brightness thru the dim veil which .' One immigrant ancestor" was Bobert "And yet I question, sir, whether, cold day, glisten with moisture, as tho "I have seen the police."•> * '' \ JV astronomy, and politics were marked at hangover the great city Sherlock.} Chapman/ whS was one of the twenty preacher" was chaplain in the army. in all your experience, you have ever it were new raised from a basin. "Ah!" zeTo, I remember.' Botany variable, Holmes was already at breakfast when sent over~by-6ir Richard Saltonstall to Not less than sixteen different listened to a more mysterious and in­ "But they listened to my story with geology profound as ^regards the mud- I came down. ' ~ make settlements in the Connecticut branches of the family are - designated explicable chain of events than those "Well, to come to an end of the mat­ a smile. I am convinced that the inspec­ stainfc from any "region within fifty "You Will excuse me fp* not waiting 4$oiony under-thte -patent of Lord Say in Burke's Armory by their respective which have happened in my own* fam» ter, Mr. Holmes, and Wot to abuse your tor has formed the dpinidn that the let­ miles of town, chemistry eccentric, for you," said he; "I have4 I foresee, and Seat This was in 1635: Bobert coats-of-arms. Those of London and Hy." patience, there came a night when he ters are all practical jokes, and that the anatomy unsystematic, sensational liter­ a very busy day before me in looking came from Yorkshire, England. His Yorkshire families are in the main alike "You fill me with interest," said made one of those drunken sallies from deaths of my relatiolft were really ac­ ature and crime records unique, violin- into this case of young Openshaw's." - estate, near Saybrooke fort, which he —a crescent for the arms and the same Holmes. "Pray give us the essential which he never came back. We found cidents) as the jury stated, and were not player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "What, steps irCtf; you take?" I helped to establish, is still owned by a motto as that given in the reproduction, facts from the commencement, and I him, when we went to search for him, to be connecter with the warnings." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacCo. askedV -#^ <£, — fc* descendant. As one of the legatees of which is the coat-of-arms borne by ths can afterwards question you as to those face downward in a little green-scum­ Holmes shook his clenched hands in Those, I thittk, were the main points d "It will verChiueh < iend upon the the Indian chief TJncas and his sons. Chapmans of Whitby. This is also the details which seem to me to be most med pool, which lay at tlje foot of the the air, ^"Incredible imbecility 1 *{- he my analysis." ^1 1 * results of my TWSJ; in tries. I may Bobert acquired large tracts of land arms of the Irish branch. The shield is Important." garden. There was no sign of any vio­ cried. \ *£,# have to go down to orsham. after an4 he was*, one of the three "pale- per chevron ardent and gules, a cres­ lence, and the water was but two feet Holmes grinned *& the las$ Item,* faces" to? whom the chief left the care cent counterchanged. Crest, a dexter The young man pulled his chair up, "They nave, however, allowed me u '' Well.'' he said,' *I 3say now, «s I said alL" ? , -i\, arm, embowed, habited in mail, hold­ and pushed his wet feet out towards deep, so that the jury, having regard to policeman, who may.remain in the house "You will not go there firttf "*> of his sons, whom he wished educated his known eccentricity, brought in a then, that a man should keep bis little in England. As for himself, he wished ing in the hand a broken tilting spear, ^ the blaze. with me." brain-attic stocked :,wath alt toe furni­ "No; I shall commence*with the efty. enfiled with a chaplet of laurel. Motto, "My ttame," said he, "is John Open­ verdict of suicide. But I, who knew "how •^ "Has he come witb you toWightl" Just r&g the bell, and the maid will to be buried in a coffin, after the man­ he winced from the "very thought of ture that he is likely to use, and the ner of the.^English. Few men rose high­ "Crescit Sub Pondere Virtus"—"Vir-^s shaw, but my own affairs have, as far "No. His orders were to stay in the Test he can put-away* in the lumber- bring up your coffee." toe grows under the imposed wright," >j| as I can understand it, little to do with death, had much ado to persuade myself house." £*, room of his library. Where he can get it As I waited, I lifted the unopened er in public esteem "or proved more nse- or •^Virtue increases under affliction. this awful business. It is an hereditary that he had gone out of, his way to meet Again Holmes raved in the air. * if he wants it. Now, for such a case newspaper from—the table And glanced 'fid .than ^Bobert €hapman. Several of The crescent is a token of the crusaders, matter; so in order to give you an idea it. The matter passed, however, and "Why did you come to me?" he said; as the one which has been submitted to my eye over it. It rested tqion a head­ his letters are extant. One was to Gov­ and it also signifies one who has been of the facts, I must go back to the com­ my father entered into possession pf the "and, above all, why did yo_u not come ns tonight, we need certainly to muster ing which sent a chill to my heart. ernor Winthrop and is addressed "honored by the gracious aspect of his mencement of the affair. estate, a'n'd of some £14.000, whieh lay at once?" all our resources. ,Kindly hand me "Holmes," I cried, "you are too "Ha^tei Hastej Post-haste.^upon His sovereign." The arm in armor denotes "You must know that my grand* to his credit at the bank." "I did not know. It was only to^ay down the letter K of the American En­ late." I * ' " "* Majesty's especial service." Robert's one fitted for the performance of high father had two sons—my uWsle Elias "One moment," Holmes interposed. that I spoke to Major Prendergast cyclopedia which stands upon the shelf "Ahl" said he, laving'down his cup, wife-was Ann Blith, or Bliss. Three of enterprises. The spear is an emblem and my father Joseph. My father had "Your statement is, I fbrsee, *>ne of the about my troubles, and was advised by beside you. Thank* you. Now let ns "I feared^ as much. How was it their sons were prominent in the af- of knightly service and the laurel of a small factory at Coventry, which he Jt XVtXKSU. «*0 *UU»iil. UUH »«H> Jib WCU 9U1U T¥CiW t»J most remarkable to whic'n'T have ever him to come to you." > 'consider the situation, and see what may donef " He spoke calmly, but I could If airs df the colony. victory. -. /

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