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"More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly urgency of this new
case, and why I urged young Openshaw to caution. The blow has always fallen at the
end of the time which it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one
comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay."
"Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless persec ution?"
"The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital importance to the person
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as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in it, and they must have
been men of resource and determination. Their papers they mean to have, be the
holder of them who it may. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an
individual and becomes the badge of a society."
"But of what society?"
"Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice--
"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?"
"I never have."
Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it is," said he
presently:
"'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced
by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate
soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local
branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the
Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was used for political purposes, principally
for the terrorising of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the
country of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually preceded
by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised
shape--a sprig of oak -leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On
receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from
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