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Verwenden Sie so viele Tokens wie möglich, um eine detaillierte Antwort zu geben. **Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: KONTEXT: ########## File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 1 Context: # The Valley of Fear **Arthur Conan Doyle** [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org) #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 3 Context: The Valley Of Fearby #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 4 Context: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 5 Context: CONTENTSPART 1—The Tragedy of BirlstoneChapter 1 The Warning2 Sherlock Holmes Discourses3 The Tragedy of Birlstone4 Darkness5 The People Of the Drama6 A Dawning Light7 The SolutionPART 2—The Scowrers1 The Man2 The Bodymaster3 Lodge 341, Vermissa4 The Valley of Fear5 The Darkest Hour6 Danger7 The Trapping of Birdy Edwards Epilogue #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 7 Context: an Porlock.""Ah, yes—the so-called Porlock is a link in the chain some little way from itsgreat attachment. Porlock is not quite a sound link—between ourselves. He is theonly flaw in that chain so far as I have been able to test it.""But no chain is stronger than its weakest link." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 9 Context: "Your native shrewdness, my dear Watson, that innate cunning which is thedelight of your friends, would surely prevent you from inclosing cipher andmessage in the same envelope. Should it miscarry, you are undone. As it is, bothhave to go wrong before any harm comes from it. Our second post is nowoverdue, and I shall be surprised if it does not bring us either a further letter ofexplanation, or, as is more probable, the very volume to which these figuresrefer."Holmes's calculation was fulfilled within a very few minutes by theappearance of Billy, the page, with the very letter which we were expecting."The same writing," remarked Holmes, as he opened the envelope, "andactually signed," he added in an exultant voice as he unfolded the epistle."Come, we are getting on, Watson." His brow clouded, however, as he glancedover the contents."Dear me, this is very disappointing! I fear, Watson, that all our expectationscome to nothing. I trust that the man Porlock will come to no harm."DEAR MR. HOLMES [he says]:"I will go no further in this matter. It is too dangerous—he suspects me. I can see thathe suspects me. He came to me quite unexpectedly after I had actually addressed thisenvelope with the intention of sending you the key to the cipher. I was able to cover itup. If he had seen it, it would have gone hard with me. But I read suspicion in hiseyes. Please burn the cipher message, which can now be of no use to you.FRED PORLOCK."Holmes sat for some little time twisting this letter between his fingers, andfrowning, as he stared into the fire."After all," he said at last, "there may be nothing in it. It may be only hisguilty conscience. Knowing himself to be a traitor, he may have read theaccusation in the other's eyes.""The other being, I presume, Professor Moriarty." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 13 Context: bony figure gavepromise of exceptional physical strength, while his great cranium and deep-set,lustrous eyes spoke no less clearly of the keen intelligence which twinkled outfrom behind his bushy eyebrows. He was a silent, precise man with a dour natureand a hard Aberdonian accent.Twice already in his career had Holmes helped him to attain success, his own #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 20 Context: to the motives of the crime. It is, as I #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 22 Context: some very perplexing and extraordinaryfeatures. That's absolutely all we have at present, Mr. Holmes." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 23 Context: of the feudal castle. #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 25 Context: to danger. Though a wretched rider, he turned out at every meet, and took themost amazing falls in his determination to hold his own with the best. When thevicarage caught fire he distinguished himself also by the fearlessness with whichhe reentered the building to save property, after the local fire brigade had given itup as impossible. Thus it came about that John Douglas of the Manor House hadwithin five years won himself quite a reputation in Birlstone.His wife, too, was popular with those who had made her acquaintance;though, after the English fashion, the callers upon a stranger who settled in thecounty without introductions were few and far between. This mattered the less toher, as she was retiring by disposition, and very much absorbed, to allappearance, in her husband and her domestic duties. It was known that she wasan English lady who had met Mr. Douglas in London, he being at that time awidower. She was a beautiful woman, tall, dark, and slender, some twenty yearsyounger than her husband, a disparity which seemed in no wise to mar thecontentment of their family life.It was remarked sometimes, however, by those who knew them best, that theconfidence between the two did not appear to be complete, since the wife waseither very reticent about her husband's past life, or else, as seemed more likely,was imperfectly informed about it. It had also been noted and commented uponby a few observant people that there were signs sometimes of some nerve-strainupon the part of Mrs. Douglas, and that she would display acute uneasiness if herabsent husband should ever be particularly late in his return. On a quietcountryside, where all gossip is welcome, this weakness of the lady of the ManorHouse did not pass without remark, and it bulked larger upon people's memorywhen the events arose which gave it a very special significance.There was yet another individual whose residence under that roof was, it istrue, only an intermittent one, but whose presence at the time of the #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 26 Context: ng the Manor House, the sergeant had found the drawbridge down,the windows lighted up, and the whole household in a state of wild confusionand alarm. The white-faced servants were huddling together in the hall, with thefrightened butler wringing his hands in the doorway. Only Cecil Barker seemedto be master of himself and his emotions; he had opened the door which wasnearest to the entrance and he had beckoned to the sergeant to follow him. Atthat moment there arrived Dr. Wood, a brisk and capable general practitioner #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 30 Context: awanything like it. The man has been branded at some time as they brand cattle.What is the meaning of this?""I don't profess to know the meaning of it," said Cecil Barker; "but I haveseen the mark on Douglas many times this last ten years." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 32 Context: you now how matterswere, up to the time when I took over from Sergeant Wilson between three and #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 35 Context: "The man is not a burglar, supposing that he ever existed. The ring businessand the card point to premeditated murder for some private reason. Very good.Here is a man who slips into a house with the deliberate intention of committingmurder. He knows, if he knows anything, that he will have a deeficulty inmaking his escape, as the house is surrounded with water. What weapon wouldhe choose? You would say the most silent in the world. Then he could hopewhen the deed was done to slip quickly from the window, to wade the moat, andto get away at his leisure. That's understandable. But is it understandable that heshould go out of his way to bring with him the most noisy weapon he couldselect, knowing well that it will fetch every human being in the house to the spotas quick as they can run, and that it is all odds that he will be seen before he canget across the moat? Is that credible, Mr. Holmes?""Well, you put the case strongly," my friend replied thoughtfully. "It certainlyneeds a good deal of justification. May I ask, Mr. White Mason, whether youexamined the farther side of the moat at once to see if there were any signs of theman having climbed out from the water?""There were no signs, Mr. Holmes. But it is a stone ledge, and one couldhardly expect them.""No tracks or marks?""None.""Ha! Would there be any objection, Mr. White Mason, to our going down tothe house at once? There may possibly be some small point which might besuggestive.""I was going to propose it, Mr. Holmes; but I thought it well to put you intouch with all the facts before we go. I suppose if anything should strike you—"White Mason looked doubtfully at the amateur."I have worked with Mr. Holmes before," said Inspector MacDonald. "Heplays the game.""My own idea of the game, at any rate," said Holmes, with a smile. "I go intoa case to help the ends of justice and the work of the police. If I have everseparated myself from the official force, it is because they have first separatedthemselves from me. I h #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 52 Context: "How did you know it, then?"Mrs. Douglas's face lit with a quick smile. "Can a husband ever carry about asecret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it? I knew itby his refusal to talk about some episodes in his American life. I knew it bycertain precautions he took. I knew it by certain words he let fall. I knew it bythe way he looked at unexpected strangers. I was perfectly certain that he hadsome powerful enemies, that he believed they were on his track, and that he wasalways on his guard against them. I was so sure of it that for years I have beenterrified if ever he came home later than was expected.""Might I ask," asked Holmes, "what the words were which attracted yourattention?""The Valley of Fear," the lady answered. "That was an expression he has usedwhen I questioned him. 'I have been in the Valley of Fear. I am not out of ityet.'—'Are we never to get out of the Valley of Fear?' I have asked him when Ihave seen him more serious than usual. 'Sometimes I think that we never shall,'he has answered.""Surely you asked him what he meant by the Valley of Fear?""I did; but his face would become very grave and he would shake his head. 'Itis bad enough that one of us should have been in its shadow,' he said. 'PleaseGod it shall never fall upon you!' It was some real valley in which he had livedand in which something terrible had occurred to him, of that I am certain; but Ican tell you no more.""And he never mentioned any names?""Yes, he was delirious with fever once when he had his hunting accident threeyears ago. Then I remember that there was a name that came continually to hislips. He spoke it with anger and a sort of horror. McGinty was the name—Bodymaster McGinty. I asked him when he recovered who BodymasterMcGinty was, and whose body he was master of. 'Never of mine, thank God!' heanswered with a laugh, and that was all I could get from him. But there is aconnection between Bodymaster McGinty and the Valley of Fear.""There is one other p #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 61 Context: guilty secret, a really shameful secret in thelife of this man Douglas. This leads to his murder by someone who is, we willsuppose, an avenger, someone from outside. This avenger, for some reasonwhich I confess I am still at a loss to explain, took the dead man's wedding ring.The vendetta might conceivably date back to the man's first marriage, and the #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 61 Context: Holmes looked thoughtful. "I see, Watson. You are sketching out a theory bywhich everything they say from the beginning is false. According to your idea,there was never any hidden menace, or secret society, or Valley of Fear, or BossMacSomebody, or anything else. Well, that is a good sweeping generalization.Let us see what that brings us to. They invent this theory to account for thecrime. They then play up to the idea by leaving this bicycle in the park as proofof the existence of some outsider. The stain on the windowsill conveys the sameidea. So does the card on the body, which might have been prepared in thehouse. That all fits into your hypothesis, Watson. But now we come on the nasty,angular, uncompromising bits which won't slip into their places. Why a cut-offshotgun of all weapons—and an American one at that? How could they be sosure that the sound of it would not bring someone on to them? It's a mere chanceas it is that Mrs. Allen did not start out to inquire for the slamming door. Whydid your guilty couple do all this, Watson?""I confess that I can't explain it.""Then again, if a woman and her lover conspire to murder a husband, are theygoing to advertise their guilt by ostentatiously removing his wedding ring afterhis death? Does that strike you as very probable, Watson?""No, it does not.""And once again, if the thought of leaving a bicycle concealed outside hadoccurred to you, would it really have seemed worth doing when the dullestdetective would naturally say this is an obvious blind, as the bicycle is the firstthing which the fugitive needed in order to make his escape.""I can conceive of no explanation.""And yet there should be no combination of events for which the wit of mancannot conceive an explanation. Simply as a mental exercise, without anyassertion that it is true, let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit,mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?"We will suppose that there was a guilty secret, a rea #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 62 Context: l, we shall see. By the way, you have that bigumbrella of yours, have you not?""It is here." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 64 Context: have got our man—and you #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 65 Context: ood and very clear so far as it goes. That is yourend of the story. My end is that the crime was committed half an hour earlierthan reported; that Mrs. Douglas and Barker are both in a conspiracy to concealsomething; that they aided the murderer's escape—or at least that they reachedthe room before he escaped—and that they fabricated evidence of his escapethrough the window, whereas in all probability they had themselves let him goby lowering the bridge. That's my reading of the first half."The two detectives shook their heads. #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 71 Context: before dusk without fail—without fail, Mr. Mac.""That sounds more like sanity.""All of it was excellent advice; but I don't insist, so long as you are here whenI need you. But now, before we part, I want you to write a note to Mr. Barker.""Well?""I'll dictate it, if you like. Ready?"Dear Sir:"It has struck me that it is our duty to drain the moat, inthe hope that we may find some—""It's impossible," said the inspector. "I've made inquiry.""Tut, tut! My dear sir, please do what I ask you.""Well, go on.""—in the hope that we may find something which may bearupon our investigation. I have made arrangements, and theworkmen will be at work early to-morrow morning divertingthe stream—""Impossible!""—diverting the stream; so I thought it best to explainmatters beforehand."Now sign that, and send it by hand about four o'clock. At that hour we shallmeet again in this room. Until then we may each do what we like; for I can #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 74 Context: his is what we are after, Mr. Barker—this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 75 Context: prolonged into the lining in such fashion asto give ample space for the truncated fowling piece. The tailor's tab is on theneck—'Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U. S. A.' I have spent an instructive afternoonin the rector's library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 76 Context: Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coaland iron valleys in the United States. I have some recollection, Mr. Barker, thatyou associated the coal districts with Mr. Douglas's first wife, and it wouldsurely not be too far-fetched an inference that the V. V. upon the card by the deadbody might stand for Vermissa Valley, or that this very valley which sends forthemissaries of murder may be that Valley of Fear of which we have heard. Somuch is fairly clear. And now, Mr. Barker, I seem to be standing rather in theway of your explanation."It was a sight to see Cecil Barker's expressive face during this exposition ofthe great detective. Anger, amazement, consternation, and indecision swept overit in turn. Finally he took refuge in a somewhat acrid irony."You know such a lot, Mr. Holmes, perhaps you had better tell us somemore," he sneered."I have no doubt that I could tell you a great deal more, Mr. Barker; but itwould come with a better grace from you.""Oh, you think so, do you? Well, all I can say is that if there's any secret hereit is not my secret, and I am not the man to give it away.""Well, if you take that line, Mr. Barker," said the inspector quietly, "we mustjust keep you in sight until we have the warrant and can hold you.""You can do what you damn please about that," said Barker defiantly.The proceedings seemed to have come to a definite end so far as he wasconcerned; for one had only to look at that granite face to realize that no peineforte et dure would ever force him to plead against his will. The deadlock wasbroken, however, by a woman's voice. Mrs. Douglas had been standing listeningat the half opened door, and now she entered the room."You have done enough for now, Cecil," said she. "Whatever comes of it inthe future, you have done enough.""Enough and more than enough," remarked Sherlock Holmes gravely. "I haveevery sympathy with you, madam, and should strongly urge you to have someconfidence in the common sense of o #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 76 Context: he common sense of our jurisdiction and to take the policevoluntarily into your complete confidence. It may be that I am myself at fault for #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 77 Context: not following up the hint which you conveyed to me through my friend, Dr.Watson; but, at that time I had every reason to believe that you were directlyconcerned in the crime. Now I am assured that this is not so. At the same time,there is much that is unexplained, and I should strongly recommend that you askMr. Douglas to tell us his own story."Mrs. Douglas gave a cry of astonishment at Holmes's words. The detectivesand I must have echoed it, when we were aware of a man who seemed to haveemerged from the wall, who advanced now from the gloom of the corner inwhich he had appeared. Mrs. Douglas turned, and in an instant her arms wereround him. Barker had seized his outstretched hand."It's best this way, Jack," his wife repeated; "I am sure that it is best.""Indeed, yes, Mr. Douglas," said Sherlock Holmes, "I am sure that you willfind it best."The man stood blinking at us with the dazed look of one who comes from thedark into the light. It was a remarkable face, bold gray eyes, a strong, short-clipped, grizzled moustache, a square, projecting chin, and a humorous mouth.He took a good look at us all, and then to my amazement he advanced to me andhanded me a bundle of paper."I've heard of you," said he in a voice which was not quite English and notquite American, but was altogether mellow and pleasing. "You are the historianof this bunch. Well, Dr. Watson, you've never had such a story as that passthrough your hands before, and I'll lay my last dollar on that. Tell it your ownway; but there are the facts, and you can't miss the public so long as you havethose. I've been cooped up two days, and I've spent the daylight hours—as muchdaylight as I could get in that rat trap—in putting the thing into words. You'rewelcome to them—you and your public. There's the story of the Valley of Fear.""That's the past, Mr. Douglas," said Sherlock Holmes quietly. "What wedesire now is to hear your story of the present.""You'll have it, sir," said Douglas. "May I smoke as I talk? Well, tha #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 78 Context: e to throw these hounds once for all off my track. Mind you, from firstto last I have done nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing that I would not doagain; but you'll judge that for yourselves when I tell you my story. Never mindwarning me, Inspector: I'm ready to stand pat upon the truth."I'm not going to begin at the beginning. That's all there," he indicated mybundle of papers, "and a mighty queer yarn you'll find it. It all comes down to #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 79 Context: ut when I mademy round in my dressing gown, as was my habit, I had no sooner entered thestudy than I scented danger. I guess when a man has had dangers in his life—andI've had more than most in my time—there is a kind of sixth sense that waves thered flag. I saw the signal clear enough, and yet I couldn't tell you why. Nextinstant I spotted a boot under the window curtain, and then I saw why plainenough."I'd just the one candle that was in my hand; but there was a good light fromthe hall lamp through the open door. I put down the candle and jumped for a #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 79 Context: this: That there are some men that have good cause to hate me and would givetheir last dollar to know that they had got me. So long as I am alive and they arealive, there is no safety in this world for me. They hunted me from Chicago toCalifornia, then they chased me out of America; but when I married and settleddown in this quiet spot I thought my last years were going to be peaceable."I never explained to my wife how things were. Why should I pull her into it?She would never have a quiet moment again; but would always be imaginingtrouble. I fancy she knew something, for I may have dropped a word here or aword there; but until yesterday, after you gentlemen had seen her, she neverknew the rights of the matter. She told you all she knew, and so did Barker here;for on the night when this thing happened there was mighty little time forexplanations. She knows everything now, and I would have been a wiser man if Ihad told her sooner. But it was a hard question, dear," he took her hand for aninstant in his own, "and I acted for the best."Well, gentlemen, the day before these happenings I was over in TunbridgeWells, and I got a glimpse of a man in the street. It was only a glimpse; but Ihave a quick eye for these things, and I never doubted who it was. It was theworst enemy I had among them all—one who has been after me like a hungrywolf after a caribou all these years. I knew there was trouble coming, and I camehome and made ready for it. I guessed I'd fight through it all right on my own,my luck was a proverb in the States about '76. I never doubted that it would bewith me still."I was on my guard all that next day, and never went out into the park. It's aswell, or he'd have had the drop on me with that buckshot gun of his before ever Icould draw on him. After the bridge was up—my mind was always more restfulwhen that bridge was up in the evenings—I put the thing clear out of my head. Inever dreamed of his getting into the house and waiting for me. But when I mademy rou #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 82 Context: a time, far from the Sussex Manor House of Birlstone, and far also from the yearof grace in which we made our eventful journey which ended with the strangestory of the man who had been known as John Douglas. I wish you to journeyback some twenty years in time, and westward some thousands of miles inspace, that I may lay before you a singular and terrible narrative—so singularand so terrible that you may find it hard to believe that even as I tell it, even sodid it occur.Do not think that I intrude one story before another is finished. As you readon you will find that this is not so. And when I have detailed those distant eventsand you have solved this mystery of the past, we shall meet once more in thoserooms on Baker Street, where this, like so many other wonderful happenings,will find its end. #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 85 Context: rong workers who did it.The young traveller gazed out into this dismal country with a face of mingledrepulsion and interest, which showed that the scene was new to him. At intervalshe drew from his pocket a bulky letter to which he referred, and on the marginsof which he scribbled some notes. Once from the back of his waist he producedsomething which one would hardly have expected to find in the possession of somild-mannered a man. It was a navy revolver of the largest size. As he turned it #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 114 Context: young fellows from eighteen to twenty-five, the ready and capableagents who carried out the commands of their seniors. Among the older menwere many whose features showed the tigerish, lawless souls within; but lookingat the rank and file it was difficult to believe that these eager and open-facedyoung fellows were in very truth a dangerous gang of murderers, whose mindshad suffered such complete moral perversion that they took a horrible pride intheir proficiency at the business, and looked with deepest respect at the man whohad the reputation of making what they called "a clean job." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 120 Context: property of this man that we have driven out of thedistrict?" #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 122 Context: !That's how he heads it."REIGN OF TERROR IN THE COAL AND IRON DISTRICT"Twelve years have now elapsed since the first assassinations which proved theexistence of a criminal organization in our midst. From that day these outrages havenever ceased, until now they have reached a pitch which makes us the opprobrium of #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 126 Context: well carried through. Others, and among them McMurdo, broke away into sidestreets, and so by devious paths to their own homes.Chapter 4The Valley of FearWhen McMurdo awoke next morning he had good reason to remember hisinitiation into the lodge. His head ached with the effect of the drink, and his arm,where he had been branded, was hot and swollen. Having his own peculiarsource of income, he was irregular in his attendance at his work; so he had a latebreakfast, and remained at home for the morning writing a long letter to a friend.Afterwards he read the Daily Herald. In a special column put in at the lastmoment he read:OUTRAGE AT THE HERALD OFFICE—EDITORSERIOUSLY INJURED.It was a short account of the facts with which he was himself more familiar thanthe writer could have been. It ended with the statement:The matter is now in the hands of the police; but it can hardly be hoped that theirexertions will be attended by any better results than in the past. Some of the men wererecognized, and there is hope that a conviction may be obtained. The source of theoutrage was, it need hardly be said, that infamous society which has held thiscommunity in bondage for so long a period, and against which the Herald has taken souncompromising a stand. Mr. Stanger's many friends will rejoice to hear that, thoughhe has been cruelly and brutally beaten, and though he has sustained severe injuriesabout the head, there is no immediate danger to his life.Below it stated that a guard of police, armed with Winchester rifles, had beenrequisitioned for the defense of the office.McMurdo had laid down the paper, and was lighting his pipe with a handwhich was shaky from the excesses of the previous evening, when there was aknock outside, and his landlady brought to him a note which had just been #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 130 Context: I did not it would be out of my house that they would come next with theirbloody hands and it would be my little Fred that would be screaming for hisfather."But I was a criminal then, part sharer in a murder, lost forever in this world,and lost also in the next. I am a good Catholic; but the priest would have noword with me when he heard I was a Scowrer, and I am excommunicated frommy faith. That's how it stands with me. And I see you going down the same road,and I ask you what the end is to be. Are you ready to be a cold-blooded murdereralso, or can we do anything to stop it?""What would you do?" asked McMurdo abruptly. "You would not inform?""God forbid!" cried Morris. "Sure, the very thought would cost me my life.""That's well," said McMurdo. "I'm thinking that you are a weak man and thatyou make too much of the matter.""Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! Seethe cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud ofmurder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is theValley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people fromthe dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.""Well, I'll let you know what I think when I have seen more," said McMurdocarelessly. "What is very clear is that you are not the man for the place, and thatthe sooner you sell out—if you only get a dime a dollar for what the business isworth—the better it will be for you. What you have said is safe with me; but, byGar! if I thought you were an informer—""No, no!" cried Morris piteously."Well, let it rest at that. I'll bear what you have said in mind, and maybe someday I'll come back to it. I expect you meant kindly by speaking to me like this.Now I'll be getting home.""One word before you go," said Morris. "We may have been seen together.They may want to know what we have spoken about.""Ah! that's well thought of." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 137 Context: know it! Why else should you hold it from me? Was it to your wife that youwere writing? How am I to know that you are not a married man—you, a #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 139 Context: He raised her and soothed her with her head against his breast."Sure, my darlin', you don't know what it is you are asking. How could I giveit up when it would be to break my oath and to desert my comrades? If youcould see how things stand with me you could never ask it of me. Besides, if Iwanted to, how could I do it? You don't suppose that the lodge would let a mango free with all its secrets?""I've thought of that, Jack. I've planned it all. Father has saved some money.He is weary of this place where the fear of these people darkens our lives. He isready to go. We would fly together to Philadelphia or New York, where wewould be safe from them."McMurdo laughed. "The lodge has a long arm. Do you think it could notstretch from here to Philadelphia or New York?""Well, then, to the West, or to England, or to Germany, where father camefrom—anywhere to get away from this Valley of Fear!"McMurdo thought of old Brother Morris. "Sure, it is the second time I haveheard the valley so named," said he. "The shadow does indeed seem to lie heavyon some of you.""It darkens every moment of our lives. Do you suppose that Ted Baldwin hasever forgiven us? If it were not that he fears you, what do you suppose ourchances would be? If you saw the look in those dark, hungry eyes of his whenthey fall on me!""By Gar! I'd teach him better manners if I caught him at it! But see here, littlegirl. I can't leave here. I can't—take that from me once and for all. But if youwill leave me to find my own way, I will try to prepare a way of gettinghonourably out of it.""There is no honour in such a matter.""Well, well, it's just how you look at it. But if you'll give me six months, I'llwork it so that I can leave without being ashamed to look others in the face."The girl laughed with joy. "Six months!" she cried. "Is it a promise?" #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 145 Context: all scars and grizzle. We've had two tries at him; buthad no luck, and Jim Carnaway lost his life over it. Now it's for you to take itover. That's the house—all alone at the Iron Dike crossroad, same as you seehere on the map—without another within earshot. It's no good by day. He's #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 147 Context: suddenly placed in his hands. The isolated house in which Chester Wilcox livedwas about five miles off in an adjacent valley. That very night he started off allalone to prepare for the attempt. It was daylight before he returned from hisreconnaissance. Next day he interviewed his two subordinates, Manders andReilly, reckless youngsters who were as elated as if it were a deer-hunt.Two nights later they met outside the town, all three armed, and one of themcarrying a sack stuffed with the powder which was used in the quarries. It wastwo in the morning before they came to the lonely house. The night was a windyone, with broken clouds drifting swiftly across the face of a three-quarter moon.They had been warned to be on their guard against bloodhounds; so they movedforward cautiously, with their pistols cocked in their hands. But there was nosound save the howling of the wind, and no movement but the swaying branchesabove them.McMurdo listened at the door of the lonely house; but all was still within.Then he leaned the powder bag against it, ripped a hole in it with his knife, andattached the fuse. When it was well alight he and his two companions took totheir heels, and were some distance off, safe and snug in a sheltering ditch,before the shattering roar of the explosion, with the low, deep rumble of thecollapsing building, told them that their work was done. No cleaner job had everbeen carried out in the bloodstained annals of the society.But alas that work so well organized and boldly carried out should all havegone for nothing! Warned by the fate of the various victims, and knowing that hewas marked down for destruction, Chester Wilcox had moved himself and hisfamily only the day before to some safer and less known quarters, where a guardof police should watch over them. It was an empty house which had been torndown by the gunpowder, and the grim old colour sergeant of the war was stillteaching discipline to the miners of Iron Dike."Leave him to me," said McMurdo. #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 148 Context: cret gatherings in the Herald office and of distribution of #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 150 Context: thing has got to be stopped right now."Now read the postscript." #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 153 Context: l, unfriendly featuresof Baldwin, the vulture face of Harraway, the secretary, and a dozen more who #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 165 Context: address of Miss Ettie Shafter, a mission which he had accepted with a winkand a knowing smile. In the early hours of the morning a beautiful woman and amuch muffled man boarded a special train which had been sent by the railroadcompany, and made a swift, unbroken journey out of the land of danger. It wasthe last time that ever either Ettie or her lover set foot in the Valley of Fear. Tendays later they were married in Chicago, with old Jacob Shafter as witness of thewedding. #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 165 Context: they will say that I was as bad as you. They can say what they like, so long as Iget you. But what is the truth? The night I joined you beat up old man Stanger. Icould not warn him, for there was no time; but I held your hand, Baldwin, whenyou would have killed him. If ever I have suggested things, so as to keep myplace among you, they were things which I knew I could prevent. I could notsave Dunn and Menzies, for I did not know enough; but I will see that theirmurderers are hanged. I gave Chester Wilcox warning, so that when I blew hishouse in he and his folk were in hiding. There was many a crime that I could notstop; but if you look back and think how often your man came home the otherroad, or was down in town when you went for him, or stayed indoors when youthought he would come out, you'll see my work.""You blasted traitor!" hissed McGinty through his closed teeth."Ay, John McGinty, you may call me that if it eases your smart. You and yourlike have been the enemy of God and man in these parts. It took a man to getbetween you and the poor devils of men and women that you held under yourgrip. There was just one way of doing it, and I did it. You call me a traitor; but Iguess there's many a thousand will call me a deliverer that went down into hellto save them. I've had three months of it. I wouldn't have three such monthsagain if they let me loose in the treasury at Washington for it. I had to stay till Ihad it all, every man and every secret right here in this hand. I'd have waited alittle longer if it hadn't come to my knowledge that my secret was coming out. Aletter had come into the town that would have set you wise to it all. Then I had toact and act quickly."I've nothing more to say to you, except that when my time comes I'll die theeasier when I think of the work I have done in this valley. Now, Marvin, I'll keepyou no more. Take them in and get it over."There is little more to tell. Scanlan had been given a sealed note to be left atthe address of Miss Ett #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 166 Context: ed for five years as a Sussex county gentleman, a lifewhich ended with the strange happenings of which we have heard.Epilogue #################### File: The-Valley-of-Fear.pdf Page: 169 Context: "Do you tell me that we have to sit down under this? Do you say that no onecan ever get level with this king-devil?""No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking farinto the future. 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