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warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William
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active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.</em></span></p>
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father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his
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his singular account of his father’s dying words. They are all,
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as he remarks, very much against the son."</p>
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young man’s favour. Don’t you see that you alternately give him
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reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No,
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sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what
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hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and
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scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be
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lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for
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smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country
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hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I
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shall use the carriage to-night."</p>
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your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as
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plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer
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it becomes. Still, of course, one can’t refuse a lady, and such a
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very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your
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which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my
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soul! here is her carriage at the door."</p>
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most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her
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cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her
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overpowering excitement and concern.</p>
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other of us, and finally, with a woman’s quick intuition,
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fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I
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have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn’t do it.
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too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each
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other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no
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one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a
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charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him."</p>
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"You may rely upon my doing all that I can."</p>
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<p>"But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion?
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Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself
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think that he is innocent?"</p>
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<p>"There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking
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defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes."</p>
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there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always
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loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young
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and has seen very little of life yet, and—and—well, he
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were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them."</p>
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favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as
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Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her.</p>
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<p>"Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father
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if I call to-morrow?"</p>
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<p>"I am afraid the doctor won’t allow it."</p>
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<p>"The doctor?"</p>
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<p>"Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for
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years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken
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to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his
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nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive
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who had known dad in the old days in Victoria."</p>
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<p>"Ha! In Victoria! That is important."</p>
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<p>"Yes, at the mines."</p>
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<p>"Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner
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made his money."</p>
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<p>"Yes, certainly."</p>
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<p>"Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to
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me."</p>
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<p>"You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you
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will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do
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tell him that I know him to be innocent."</p>
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<p>"I will, Miss Turner."</p>
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<p>"I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if
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I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She
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hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we
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heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street.</p>
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<p>"I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a
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few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you
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are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I
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call it cruel."</p>
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<p>"I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said
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Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?"</p>
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<p>"Yes, but only for you and me."</p>
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<p>"Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have
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still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?"</p>
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<p>"Ample."</p>
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<p>"Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very
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slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours."</p>
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<p>I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through
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the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel,
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where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a
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yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin,
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however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were
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groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the
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action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and
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gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the
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day. Supposing that this unhappy young man’s story were
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absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely
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unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between
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the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when,
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drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was
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something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the
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nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts?
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I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which
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contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon’s
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deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left
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parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been
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shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot
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upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from
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behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when
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seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it
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did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his
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back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call
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Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying
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reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be
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delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become
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delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how
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he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my
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brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident
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of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the
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murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his
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overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to
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return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was
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kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a
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tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I
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did not wonder at Lestrade’s opinion, and yet I had so much faith
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in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long
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as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young
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McCarthy’s innocence.</p>
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<p>It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone,
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for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town.</p>
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<p>"The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down.
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"It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able
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to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his
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very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not
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wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young
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McCarthy."</p>
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<p>"And what did you learn from him?"</p>
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<p>"Nothing."</p>
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<p>"Could he throw no light?"</p>
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<p>"None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew
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who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced
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now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very
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quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think,
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sound at heart."</p>
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<p>"I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact
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that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as
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this Miss Turner."</p>
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<p>"Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly,
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insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was
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only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away
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five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get
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into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a
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registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can
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imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not
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doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows
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to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort
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which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father,
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at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss
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Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself,
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and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would
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have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with
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his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in
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Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that
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point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however,
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for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious
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+
trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and
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has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the
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Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I
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+
think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all
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|
+
that he has suffered."</p>
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<p>"But if he is innocent, who has done it?"</p>
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+
<p>"Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two
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+
points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with
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+
someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his
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son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would
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+
return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry
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<span class="emphasis"><em>Cooee!</em></span> before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the
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|
+
crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk
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|
+
about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all
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|
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|
+
minor matters until to-morrow."</p>
|
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+
<p>There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke
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+
bright and cloudless. At nine o’clock Lestrade called for us with
|
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+
the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe
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+
Pool.</p>
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+
<p>"There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is
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|
+
said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is
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|
+
despaired of."</p>
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|
+
<p>"An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes.</p>
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|
+
<p>"About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life
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|
+
abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This
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|
+
business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend
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|
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|
+
of McCarthy’s, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I
|
|
558
|
+
have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes.</p>
|
|
560
|
+
<p>"Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody
|
|
561
|
+
about here speaks of his kindness to him."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this
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|
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|
+
McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have
|
|
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|
+
been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of
|
|
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|
+
marrying his son to Turner’s daughter, who is, presumably,
|
|
566
|
+
heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner,
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|
567
|
+
as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would
|
|
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|
+
follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself
|
|
569
|
+
was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not
|
|
570
|
+
deduce something from that?"</p>
|
|
571
|
+
<p>"We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said
|
|
572
|
+
Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts,
|
|
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|
+
Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies."</p>
|
|
574
|
+
<p>"You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard
|
|
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|
+
to tackle the facts."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it
|
|
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|
+
difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth.</p>
|
|
578
|
+
<p>"And that is--"</p>
|
|
579
|
+
<p>"That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that
|
|
580
|
+
all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine."</p>
|
|
581
|
+
<p>"Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes,
|
|
582
|
+
laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley
|
|
583
|
+
Farm upon the left."</p>
|
|
584
|
+
<p>"Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking
|
|
585
|
+
building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches
|
|
586
|
+
of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless
|
|
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|
+
chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight
|
|
588
|
+
of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door,
|
|
589
|
+
when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her
|
|
590
|
+
master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the
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591
|
+
son’s, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured
|
|
592
|
+
these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes
|
|
593
|
+
desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed
|
|
594
|
+
the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool.</p>
|
|
595
|
+
<p>Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent
|
|
596
|
+
as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of
|
|
597
|
+
Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed
|
|
598
|
+
and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines,
|
|
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|
+
while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.
|
|
600
|
+
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips
|
|
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|
+
compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long,
|
|
602
|
+
sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal
|
|
603
|
+
lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated
|
|
604
|
+
upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell
|
|
605
|
+
unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick,
|
|
606
|
+
impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way
|
|
607
|
+
along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of
|
|
608
|
+
the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is
|
|
609
|
+
all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon
|
|
610
|
+
the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either
|
|
611
|
+
side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and
|
|
612
|
+
once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and
|
|
613
|
+
I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous,
|
|
614
|
+
while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the
|
|
615
|
+
conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a
|
|
616
|
+
definite end.</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water
|
|
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|
+
some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the
|
|
619
|
+
Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner.
|
|
620
|
+
Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see
|
|
621
|
+
the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich
|
|
622
|
+
landowner’s dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods
|
|
623
|
+
grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass
|
|
624
|
+
twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds
|
|
625
|
+
which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which
|
|
626
|
+
the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground,
|
|
627
|
+
that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the
|
|
628
|
+
fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager
|
|
629
|
+
face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read
|
|
630
|
+
upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking
|
|
631
|
+
up a scent, and then turned upon my companion.</p>
|
|
632
|
+
<p>"What did you go into the pool for?" he asked.</p>
|
|
633
|
+
<p>"I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon
|
|
634
|
+
or other trace. But how on earth--"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its
|
|
636
|
+
inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and
|
|
637
|
+
there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all
|
|
638
|
+
have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo
|
|
639
|
+
and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the
|
|
640
|
+
lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or
|
|
641
|
+
eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of
|
|
642
|
+
the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his
|
|
643
|
+
waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to
|
|
644
|
+
himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy’s feet. Twice he
|
|
645
|
+
was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are
|
|
646
|
+
deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his
|
|
647
|
+
story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are
|
|
648
|
+
the father’s feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It
|
|
649
|
+
is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this?
|
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650
|
+
Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite
|
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|
+
unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again—of course
|
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|
+
that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up
|
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|
+
and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we
|
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654
|
+
were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a
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|
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|
+
great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced
|
|
656
|
+
his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon
|
|
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|
+
his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he
|
|
658
|
+
remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks,
|
|
659
|
+
gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and
|
|
660
|
+
examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of
|
|
661
|
+
the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among
|
|
662
|
+
the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then
|
|
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|
+
he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the
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|
664
|
+
highroad, where all traces were lost.</p>
|
|
665
|
+
<p>"It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked,
|
|
666
|
+
returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on
|
|
667
|
+
the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a
|
|
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|
+
word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done
|
|
669
|
+
that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab,
|
|
670
|
+
and I shall be with you presently."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove
|
|
672
|
+
back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he
|
|
673
|
+
had picked up in the wood.</p>
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|
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<p>"This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out.
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"The murder was done with it."</p>
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676
|
+
<p>"I see no marks."</p>
|
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677
|
+
<p>"There are none."</p>
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|
+
<p>"How do you know, then?"</p>
|
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679
|
+
<p>"The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few
|
|
680
|
+
days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It
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681
|
+
corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other
|
|
682
|
+
weapon."</p>
|
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683
|
+
<p>"And the murderer?"</p>
|
|
684
|
+
<p>"Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears
|
|
685
|
+
thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian
|
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686
|
+
cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his
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|
+
pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be
|
|
688
|
+
enough to aid us in our search."</p>
|
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689
|
+
<p>Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he
|
|
690
|
+
said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a
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|
691
|
+
hard-headed British jury."</p>
|
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692
|
+
<p>"Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own
|
|
693
|
+
method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon,
|
|
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+
and shall probably return to London by the evening train."</p>
|
|
695
|
+
<p>"And leave your case unfinished?"</p>
|
|
696
|
+
<p>"No, finished."</p>
|
|
697
|
+
<p>"But the mystery?"</p>
|
|
698
|
+
<p>"It is solved."</p>
|
|
699
|
+
<p>"Who was the criminal, then?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"The gentleman I describe."</p>
|
|
701
|
+
<p>"But who is he?"</p>
|
|
702
|
+
<p>"Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a
|
|
703
|
+
populous neighbourhood."</p>
|
|
704
|
+
<p>Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said,
|
|
705
|
+
"and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking
|
|
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|
+
for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the
|
|
707
|
+
laughing-stock of Scotland Yard."</p>
|
|
708
|
+
<p>"All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance.
|
|
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|
+
Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before
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|
710
|
+
I leave."</p>
|
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711
|
+
<p>Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where
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|
712
|
+
we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in
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|
713
|
+
thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds
|
|
714
|
+
himself in a perplexing position.</p>
|
|
715
|
+
<p>"Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit
|
|
716
|
+
down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don’t
|
|
717
|
+
know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a
|
|
718
|
+
cigar and let me expound."</p>
|
|
719
|
+
<pre class="literallayout">"Pray do so."</pre>
|
|
720
|
+
<p>"Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about
|
|
721
|
+
young McCarthy’s narrative which struck us both instantly,
|
|
722
|
+
although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One
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|
723
|
+
was the fact that his father should, according to his account,
|
|
724
|
+
cry <span class="emphasis"><em>Cooee!</em></span> before seeing him. The other was his singular dying
|
|
725
|
+
reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but
|
|
726
|
+
that was all that caught the son’s ear. Now from this double
|
|
727
|
+
point our research must commence, and we will begin it by
|
|
728
|
+
presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true."</p>
|
|
729
|
+
<p>"What of this <span class="emphasis"><em>Cooee!</em></span> then?"</p>
|
|
730
|
+
<p>"Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The
|
|
731
|
+
son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that
|
|
732
|
+
he was within earshot. The <span class="emphasis"><em>Cooee!</em></span> was meant to attract the
|
|
733
|
+
attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But
|
|
734
|
+
<span class="emphasis"><em>Cooee</em></span> is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used
|
|
735
|
+
between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the
|
|
736
|
+
person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was
|
|
737
|
+
someone who had been in Australia."</p>
|
|
738
|
+
<p>"What of the rat, then?"</p>
|
|
739
|
+
<p>Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened
|
|
740
|
+
it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria,"
|
|
741
|
+
he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand
|
|
742
|
+
over part of the map. "What do you read?"</p>
|
|
743
|
+
<p>"ARAT," I read.</p>
|
|
744
|
+
<p>"And now?" He raised his hand.</p>
|
|
745
|
+
<p>"BALLARAT."</p>
|
|
746
|
+
<p>"Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his
|
|
747
|
+
son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter
|
|
748
|
+
the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat."</p>
|
|
749
|
+
<p>"It is wonderful!" I exclaimed.</p>
|
|
750
|
+
<p>"It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down
|
|
751
|
+
considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point
|
|
752
|
+
which, granting the son’s statement to be correct, was a
|
|
753
|
+
certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite
|
|
754
|
+
conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak."</p>
|
|
755
|
+
<p>"Certainly."</p>
|
|
756
|
+
<p>"And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only
|
|
757
|
+
be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could
|
|
758
|
+
hardly wander."</p>
|
|
759
|
+
<p>"Quite so."</p>
|
|
760
|
+
<p>"Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the
|
|
761
|
+
ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that
|
|
762
|
+
imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal."</p>
|
|
763
|
+
<p>"But how did you gain them?"</p>
|
|
764
|
+
<p>"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of
|
|
765
|
+
trifles."</p>
|
|
766
|
+
<p>"His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length
|
|
767
|
+
of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces."</p>
|
|
768
|
+
<p>"Yes, they were peculiar boots."</p>
|
|
769
|
+
<p>"But his lameness?"</p>
|
|
770
|
+
<p>"The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than
|
|
771
|
+
his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped—he
|
|
772
|
+
was lame."</p>
|
|
773
|
+
<p>"But his left-handedness."</p>
|
|
774
|
+
<p>"You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded
|
|
775
|
+
by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from
|
|
776
|
+
immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can
|
|
777
|
+
that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind
|
|
778
|
+
that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had
|
|
779
|
+
even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special
|
|
780
|
+
knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian
|
|
781
|
+
cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and
|
|
782
|
+
written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different
|
|
783
|
+
varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the
|
|
784
|
+
ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss
|
|
785
|
+
where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety
|
|
786
|
+
which are rolled in Rotterdam."</p>
|
|
787
|
+
<p>"And the cigar-holder?"</p>
|
|
788
|
+
<p>"I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he
|
|
789
|
+
used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the
|
|
790
|
+
cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife."</p>
|
|
791
|
+
<p>"Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which
|
|
792
|
+
he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as
|
|
793
|
+
truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the
|
|
794
|
+
direction in which all this points. The culprit is--"</p>
|
|
795
|
+
<p>"Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of
|
|
796
|
+
our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor.</p>
|
|
797
|
+
<p>The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His
|
|
798
|
+
slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of
|
|
799
|
+
decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and
|
|
800
|
+
his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual
|
|
801
|
+
strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled
|
|
802
|
+
hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air
|
|
803
|
+
of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an
|
|
804
|
+
ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were
|
|
805
|
+
tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that
|
|
806
|
+
he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.</p>
|
|
807
|
+
<p>"Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my
|
|
808
|
+
note?"</p>
|
|
809
|
+
<p>"Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to
|
|
810
|
+
see me here to avoid scandal."</p>
|
|
811
|
+
<p>"I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall."</p>
|
|
812
|
+
<p>"And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my
|
|
813
|
+
companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question
|
|
814
|
+
was already answered.</p>
|
|
815
|
+
<p>"Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It
|
|
816
|
+
is so. I know all about McCarthy."</p>
|
|
817
|
+
<p>The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried.
|
|
818
|
+
"But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you
|
|
819
|
+
my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at
|
|
820
|
+
the Assizes."</p>
|
|
821
|
+
<p>"I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely.</p>
|
|
822
|
+
<p>"I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It
|
|
823
|
+
would break her heart—it will break her heart when she hears
|
|
824
|
+
that I am arrested."</p>
|
|
825
|
+
<p>"It may not come to that," said Holmes.</p>
|
|
826
|
+
<p>"What?"</p>
|
|
827
|
+
<p>"I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter
|
|
828
|
+
who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests.
|
|
829
|
+
Young McCarthy must be got off, however."</p>
|
|
830
|
+
<p>"I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for
|
|
831
|
+
years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a
|
|
832
|
+
month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol."</p>
|
|
833
|
+
<p>Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand
|
|
834
|
+
and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he
|
|
835
|
+
said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson
|
|
836
|
+
here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the
|
|
837
|
+
last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall
|
|
838
|
+
not use it unless it is absolutely needed."</p>
|
|
839
|
+
<p>"It’s as well," said the old man; "it’s a question whether I
|
|
840
|
+
shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I
|
|
841
|
+
should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the
|
|
842
|
+
thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but
|
|
843
|
+
will not take me long to tell.</p>
|
|
844
|
+
<p>"You didn’t know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil
|
|
845
|
+
incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of
|
|
846
|
+
such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years,
|
|
847
|
+
and he has blasted my life. I’ll tell you first how I came to be
|
|
848
|
+
in his power.</p>
|
|
849
|
+
<p>"It was in the early '60’s at the diggings. I was a young chap
|
|
850
|
+
then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at
|
|
851
|
+
anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck
|
|
852
|
+
with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you
|
|
853
|
+
would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and
|
|
854
|
+
we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time
|
|
855
|
+
to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings.
|
|
856
|
+
Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party
|
|
857
|
+
is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang.</p>
|
|
858
|
+
<p>"One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and
|
|
859
|
+
we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers
|
|
860
|
+
and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of
|
|
861
|
+
their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed,
|
|
862
|
+
however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of
|
|
863
|
+
the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the
|
|
864
|
+
Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his
|
|
865
|
+
wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every
|
|
866
|
+
feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made
|
|
867
|
+
our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted
|
|
868
|
+
from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and
|
|
869
|
+
respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in
|
|
870
|
+
the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money,
|
|
871
|
+
to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too,
|
|
872
|
+
and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice.
|
|
873
|
+
Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down
|
|
874
|
+
the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned
|
|
875
|
+
over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was
|
|
876
|
+
going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me.</p>
|
|
877
|
+
<p>"I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in
|
|
878
|
+
Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his
|
|
879
|
+
foot.</p>
|
|
880
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Here we are, Jack,</em></span> says he, touching me on the arm; <span class="emphasis"><em>we’ll be
|
|
881
|
+
as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and
|
|
882
|
+
you can have the keeping of us. If you don’t—it’s a fine,
|
|
883
|
+
law-abiding country is England, and there’s always a policeman
|
|
884
|
+
within hail.</em></span></p>
|
|
885
|
+
<p>"Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking
|
|
886
|
+
them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land
|
|
887
|
+
ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness;
|
|
888
|
+
turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my
|
|
889
|
+
elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more
|
|
890
|
+
afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he
|
|
891
|
+
wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without
|
|
892
|
+
question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing
|
|
893
|
+
which I could not give. He asked for Alice.</p>
|
|
894
|
+
<p>"His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was
|
|
895
|
+
known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that
|
|
896
|
+
his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was
|
|
897
|
+
firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that
|
|
898
|
+
I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that
|
|
899
|
+
was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do
|
|
900
|
+
his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses
|
|
901
|
+
to talk it over.</p>
|
|
902
|
+
<p>"When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I
|
|
903
|
+
smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone.
|
|
904
|
+
But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in
|
|
905
|
+
me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my
|
|
906
|
+
daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she
|
|
907
|
+
were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I
|
|
908
|
+
and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a
|
|
909
|
+
man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and
|
|
910
|
+
a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb,
|
|
911
|
+
I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl!
|
|
912
|
+
Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I
|
|
913
|
+
did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned,
|
|
914
|
+
I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl
|
|
915
|
+
should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more
|
|
916
|
+
than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction
|
|
917
|
+
than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought
|
|
918
|
+
back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I
|
|
919
|
+
was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in
|
|
920
|
+
my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that
|
|
921
|
+
occurred."</p>
|
|
922
|
+
<p>"Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man
|
|
923
|
+
signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we
|
|
924
|
+
may never be exposed to such a temptation."</p>
|
|
925
|
+
<p>"I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?"</p>
|
|
926
|
+
<p>"In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you
|
|
927
|
+
will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the
|
|
928
|
+
Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is
|
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condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be
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<span class="emphasis"><em>There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.</em></span>"</p>
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