Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 305, 4 November 1921 — Page 11

PAGE ELEVEN The Five Orange Pips By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, fcy Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The McClure Newspaper Syndicate,

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 1921.

PART THREE "Did you remark the postmarks of those letters?" queried Sherlock Holmes. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the third from London." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship. "Excellent We have already a clew. There can be no doubt that the probability the strong probability is that he writer was on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only tome three or four days. Does that suggest anything?" "A greater distance to travel." "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Then I do not 6ee the point." "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always sent their singular warning or token before them when starting upon their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. But as a matter of fact seven weeks elapsed. I think that those seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which brought the letter, and the sailing-vessel which brought the writer." "It Is possible." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openfhaw to caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "Good God!" I cried; "what can it mean, this relentless persecution?" "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital importance to the person or persons in the sailingship. I think that it it quite clear that there must be more than one of them. A single mn could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in it, and they rau6t have been men of resource and determination. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an Individual, and becomes the badge of a society." "But of what society?" "Have you never' said Sherlock Holmes', bending forward and sinking his voice-r-"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "I never have," Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it is," said he, presently, '"Ku Klux Klan.' A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern States after the Civil War. and it rapidly formed local branches io different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorizing of the negro voters, and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were opposed

to its Views. Ita niitrseAs veer tiRimtlv

preceded by a warning 6ent to the.

marKea man in some rantastio but gen-1 CrallV recoenfzpri shane a cnrifi' - at 1

oak-leaves in some nartn. melon seeds :

or orange pips in others. On receiving ,

mis tne vicum might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the GOUntrv. Tf ha hrannl thft

matter out, death would unfailingly

come upon nun, and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner. So .

perfect was the organization of the society, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which jmv of Ita

home to the perpetrators. For some!

years tne organization flourished, in spite of the efforts of the United States Government and of the better classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year 1869. the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the valume, "that the sudden breaking up of the society , was coincident with the disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate some of the first men In the South, and that there may be many who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "Then the page we have seen " "Is such as we might expect It ran, if I remember right 'send the pips to A, B, and C,' that is, sent the society's warning to them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or left the country, and finally that C was visited, I fear, a sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only chance young Openshaw has in the mean time is to do what I have told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin, and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen."

The Women's Patriotic Society of Japan is probably the largest organization of its kind in the world. It has more than 1,000,000 members.

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