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Holmes jumped from the tree
by Adrian Conan Doyle
Great joy was felt by everyone on the Moon when a Moon Air Force squadron reported that the way the Earth-men were carrying on the danger of a visit by Earth Space-ships no longer existed.
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Concluding the ADVENTURE of the DARK ANGELS
back. Quite a treasure trove, I am about to jump down and I want you both to watch the exact place where I land. Sol" He stepped to one side. “Now, what do you see?"
"Two small indentations."
"Precisely. The marks of my heels. Look wider."
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"By Jingo!" eried the con- stable. "There are four, two! They are identical."
'THERE STANDS
THE MURDERER' SAID HOLMES
into the victim
himself of the Mola Vita, together, with
is an ugly word, only Mr Sherlock Holmes,' he sald but into his family. But the the penalties for breaking
"Save that the others are not quite so deep."
"Murder
"The man was lighter!" ejaculated.
I
quietly.
"Bravo, Watson. Well,
T
think that we have seen all that we need."
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***There
atands the murderer
of Josua Ferrers,” he sold in a quiet voice.
Tonston stepped forward, a smile upon his pale face,
"You are wrong," he said steadily, "The Executioner of Josua Ferrers.”
For a moment, he stood be- fore us meeting our horrified atares with the serenity of one whose duly has been meritori- ously fulfilled. Then, with a rattle of handcuffs, the constabla leaped upon his man.
Tonston made
attempt
to struggle and with his hands accompanying his captor to the door when my friend's voice brought them to a halt...
manacled before him he was
"What have you done with
mon had been careful to cover them. his features with his hand, "And an ugly deed. Though despite the fact that he was "That Josua Ferrers Was not, perhaps, to the Malo Vitaș. looking
of this dread society not at Jorua Ferrers number but at his daughter, thereby there can now be little doubt," "What nonsense is this!"* The officer fixed Holmes with
auggesting to my mind that he Holmes added solemnly, as he his earnest eyes.
recognition by Miss closed the book. "What was his It?" he demanded. "Look here,
"Tut, I was relying upon your feared
we shall probably as much of Slefly to fil in Ferrers
sa by her offence, sir," he said. "I'm clean out of knowledge
never know and yet one may
The prisoner looked at him What's my depth.
all this a small details that I may father.
hazard a pretty shrewd guess.
silently.
mean?”
have overlooked. However, as "Next, it seemed to me that
the dismiss as nonsense ou
"Article 10 is surely among "I ask," continued Holmer, the cold deadly approach of the "Probably your
of this terrible sergeant's name
the Mala Vita's most singular "because if you have not de- rules, for it states simply that stroyed it then it is best that I And
from door to breakfast now, let us join the others."
Learn a
any member destroy it myself, and that ua- who discovers the identity
of read." death. remind you, Watson,
secret
stripes, Constable Kibble. society, it will doubtless interest fatal prints from tree to doo
When we reached the house, the police officer showed us in-
to
sparsely-furnished a long.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR
AFTER hearing from Miss Daphne Ferrers, how her
father had received three mysterious prints, oach showing angels dressed in black, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sot off for his secluded estate in the New Forest. But they are not in time to prevent a tragedy. They find the body of Josua Ferrers under a cedar tree.. The throat hað bóon cút from ear to ear, Mr James Tonston, who had formerly managed the victim's vineyards in Sicily, télis Holmes how, from a distance, he saw Ferrore pût his hands to his throat and then stagger and fall. Both the local doctor and police. constable suspect suicide.
A
the
you to
facts."
Lew of
the inferred an intimate Dic, the penalty for
"Have a
care, Mr Holmes," "To you, Dr Nordham, and to Constable Kibble, there will appear to be gaps in my brief account," my friend continued, "But, I will address, myself to you, Watson, as you were prew.
during sent
Miss
narrative.
of
Ferrers's Josua
circuni ho
the Grand Master scribed habits, possibly an un- the challenged right house
sald
"Rest assured that the paper ght to enter the would
destroyed,” place the that Ferrers laid emphatle in is already and thereby card on the table without the structions on his daughter that James Tonston, "and that the necessity for forced windows her answer to all inquiries must Mala Vita preserves the secrets In parting be that she knew nothing of his of the Mala Vita. and smashed locks,
affairs, adding only that the take this word of warning to "From the first, certain name of the maker was in the heart. It is that you know-too.......
in Ferrers's features
Miss Ferrers's butt of the gun. ·
Though your life may Blogular narrative 1
be an honoured one, Mr Sher- stirred chord In my vague memory, but it was not until your remark, Watson, about a
"Not a gun, mark you, foot in the open grave that a the gun, which clearly flood of light burst suddenly dicated that the person receiv- into my consciousness.”
"It was obvious from the first that her father was hiding from some peril of so relentless a nature that even in the depth of this deserted countryside he went in fear of his Hio.
"As the man, had come from Sicily, an island notorious for 'he power and vindictiveness of its Becret Societies, the most likely explanation Was that
some
I
сет-
some
arms
much.
lock
Holmes, it is most uEXIM likely to be a long one." Then
but
in-
with a cold'.smile in his grey eyes he passed from the room.
Ing the message might be ex- It was an hour later and a pected to recognise some specific full moon was rising when my AS SHERLOCK
the words friend and I, after parting from to which Holmes
weapon paused
must refer. It is sufficient to Dr Nordham, turned our backs for a moment to add that the gun found beside upon Abbotstanding, now gaunt draw something the body of Josua Ferrers is and black against the night from his cope
ape unique to the members of the and not nut on 100, toward pocket, I glanced Sicilian Socret Societies.
at the others.
like some lean, eager fox- you pay particular regard that "You will recall that they chest and his pale
.
..
took
Beaulicu village, where, we planned to stay at the Inn and
chin
S the doctor and room with a groined roof. either ho had offended some
Nordham, who Tonston vanished Doctor
was such organisation or as a man Though the old room was rapidly **When he weat to the take the morning train back to writing at a table in through the par- window,
bar he had transgressed
deepening into dusk, a sullen assignation Ferrers carried the town. looked up at
our vital rule. A he made no at- red light from the last rays of gun with him not as a weapon terres, Holmeḥ was entrance. "Well, Mr Holmes?" tempt to invoke the police, the
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but as peace offering valuable
shall long remember that galvanised into activity.
inclined to the latter suppost the window illumined the ab- *You are preparing your roon and For a while he circled the
this became a
воде Borbed
of Dr Nord- only for what is contained roll wonderful five roles walk expressions
orded up in the butt. Bearing white fire and deepest shadow
in lo
along a road all dappled with grass around the dead man remarked. "May I suggest that of the Dark Angels.
port, I percnive,” my friend tainty with the first appearance ham and the constable. Tons mind what we now
know, ton stood in the shadows, his in no doubt that it was a paper where the great trees ↳ met on his hands and knees,
folded across hia
"that named
the above our heads and the forest or document you do not convey a false im- were nine in number, Watson, eyes
glittering Grand Master of the Mala Vita diger peered at us from the hound casting for its scent, pression."
fixed immovably upon and which by some unhappy clumps of glistening bracken. and that the print, inscribed Holmes. Once he stopped and peered
had fallen chance
into fia with the numerals ‘8/3′ WES
during his Dr Nordham gazed atonily at nailed to a tree in the avenue
Bicllian
HOLMES walked at the ground very closely,
"It was to certain passages membership. To destroy it W?B *y.
with. bls then, rising to his feet, he Holmos. "I fail to understand on December 29,
in this book, a forerunner of Heckothurn'a
useless. He had seen the name Secret Societies and
upon his breast whipped his lens from his you," he said. "Can you not be
WOR→ ha doomed. But,
and · It was not that my momory was recalled
until we Wore pocket and proceeded to a more explicit?"
was alw by Dr Watson's words," my though his own life
descending 1218 searching examination of
The "Very well. What are your
next visitation
friend continued. "Here is what ready forfeited, he was playing for the life of his daughter.
hill above the the trunk of the cedar.
a law views on the death. of Mr place on February 11, exactly the author has to say on Suddenly he stiffened, and Josu Ferrers, of Abbotstand- six weeks and three days from certain socret society which was Ferrers can have no idea of the village, that he broke his slience,
introduced
actual identity of the assassin It was little enough that ho Bielly acti into December 20, but this time the first ing?" at his gesture the constable
angels, six in number, were some three centuries ago. This who had been selected for the said then but for some yeason
formidable
work: beyond the fact that the his words'have nained in my ho organisation, and I hastened to his side. "Tut gir, there is no ques- nailed to the front door.
writes, aptly named the Mala Unknown must of necessity be mind, Holmes pointed with his tion of views. We have both
"On March 24 came the third Vita, communicates with its a fellow-member,
"You know me sufficiently vanal and medical evidence he handed the that Jesus Ferrers Anger to
and last appearance, exactly six mombers through a variety of committed'
"Concealed in the fork of the well, Watson, to nequit the of to the police officer. suicide
weaks after, the second. The signs including angels, demons glaes
by cutting his own.
above the prearranged all false sentiment, said he, dreaded heralds of death, again and the winged lion. -.
meating place the murderer lay "when I confess that there is Unine in mumber but now with- knot," he said quietly.
out inscription, lay on the very
"The candidate for member in wall as a leopard waits for: an urge upon me tonight to "A remarkable man, this Mr "What do you sce?"
platter of the master of Abbot ship, if successful in his trials sheep and, when his victim walk for a while in the ruined Ferrers," Holmes observed,
standing.
of initiation, which frequently halted beneath him, he drew cloisters of Beaulieu Abbey. It "who, not content with commit- "Looks to
knife and leaping to the was the abode of men include that of murder,
fakes his like a
Who T Απ
listened: to
died Miss oath of fealty with one foot in ground seized him from behind lived and hair, sir," replied Constable ng suicide by cutting his jugu-
lar vein, must continue to Ferrers's voice and calculated an open grave,
and cut his throats Pan
themselves and with each other, Kibble, gazing through the sever the rest of his neck with the dates rapidly in my mind,
"When he had. searched lens. "No, it's not a hair. an ordinary clasp-knife, until I was dismayed by the dis "Punishment or intraction of Ferrera's body for the paper "We have seen much evil
in the It's a brown thread."
words of Mr Touston covery that the final nine of the the society's rules is relentless and eventually found it in the our time, not least of which here he had cut: his throat Dark Angels assuming them to and, where death is the price, bult of the gun, his loathsome the misuse of noble qualities "Quite so. Perhaps you would always felt that,
literally from ear to ear. I have represent the same period of three separate warnings are task was completed. He forgot, such as loyalty courage and
were I to time, as the first, brought kindly remova it and place it commit murder, I should avoid date to May 7.
the given of the approaching doom, however, that in doing it he determination for purposes that Today!
the second following six weeks had left his heelmarks on the are in themselves ignoble In this anvelopɑ. Now, Walam, errors of that kind.”
and three days after, the first, turf and two threads from his the older grow dem give me a hand up." Holmes:
I knew then that I was too and the third six weeks after brown twood coat on the rough forcibly is it burne MY FRIEND'S Ja. But, if I could not save the second. 2-1.
Berk off to triển scrambled into the fork of the
words were fole her father, I might avenge him troe' and, supporting himself by
lowed by him and, (with that object, I aktselor. "Tollow! moment of tense ed the problem from a different ing, pa siletice, Then Dranga.
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