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More Tales:
the country. If he braved the matter out, death would unfailingly come upon him,
and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation
of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon New Balance M1300DG record
where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages
were traced home to the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in
spite of the efforts of the United States government and of the better classes of the
community in the South. Eventually, in the year 1869, the movement rather suddenly
collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same so rt since that
date.'
"You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that the sudden breaking
up of the society was coincident with the disappearance of Openshaw from America
with their papers. It may well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and
his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. You can
understand that this register and diary may implicate some of the first men in the
South, and that there may be many who will not sleep easy at night until it is
recovered."
"Then the page we have seen--"
"Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent the pips to A, B, and C' --
that is, sent the society's warning to them. Then there are successive entries that A
and B cleared, or left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a sinister
result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let some light into this dark place, and
I believe that the only chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I
have told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done to-night, so hand me
over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the
still more miserable ways of our fellow-men."
It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdue d brightness
through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at
breakfast when I came down.
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