gloria_scott.txt

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<s> I WAS AS YOU MAY THINK WATSON HORRIFIED AT THIS UNEXPECTED NEWS </s>
<s> WHAT HAS CAUSED IT </s>
<s> I ASKED </s>
<s> AH THAT IS THE POINT </s>
<s> JUMP IN AND WE CAN TALK IT OVER WHILE WE DRIVE </s>
<s> YOU REMEMBER THAT FELLOW WHO CAME UPON THE EVENING BEFORE YOU LEFT US </s>
<s> PERFECTLY </s>
<s> QUOTE DO YOU KNOW WHO IT WAS THAT WE LET INTO THE HOUSE THAT DAY </s>
<s> I HAVE NO IDEA </s>
<s> IT WAS THE DEVIL HOLMES HE CRIED </s>
<s> I STARED AT HIM IN ASTONISHMENT </s>
<s> YES IT WAS THE DEVIL HIMSELF </s>
<s> WE HAVE NOT HAD A PEACEFUL HOUR SINCE NOT ONE </s>
<s> THE GOVERNOR HAS NEVER HELD UP HIS HEAD FROM THAT EVENING AND NOW THE LIFE HAS BEEN CRUSHED OUT OF HIM AND HIS HEART BROKEN ALL THROUGH THIS ACCURSED HUDSON </s>
<s> WHAT POWER HAD HE THEN </s>
<s> QUOTE AH THAT IS WHAT I WOULD GIVE SO MUCH TO KNOW </s>
<s> THE KINDLY CHARITABLE GOOD OLD GOVERNOR HOW COULD HE HAVE FALLEN INTO THE CLUTCHES OF SUCH A RUFFIAN </s>
<s> BUT I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE COME HOLMES </s>
<s> I TRUST VERY MUCH TO YOUR JUDGMENT AND DISCRETION AND I KNOW THAT YOU WILL ADVISE ME FOR THE BEST </s>
<s> WE WERE DASHING ALONG THE SMOOTH WHITE COUNTRY ROAD WITH THE LONG STRETCH OF THE BROADS IN FRONT OF US GLIMMERING IN THE RED LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN </s>
<s> FROM A GROVE UPON OUR LEFT I COULD ALREADY SEE THE HIGH CHIMNEYS AND THE FLAGSTAFF WHICH MARKED THE SQUIRE'S DWELLING </s>
<s> MY FATHER MADE THE FELLOW GARDENER SAID MY COMPANION AND THEN AS THAT DID NOT SATISFY HIM HE WAS PROMOTED TO BE BUTLER </s>
<s> THE HOUSE SEEMED TO BE AT HIS MERCY AND HE WANDERED ABOUT AND DID WHAT HE CHOSE IN IT </s>
<s> THE MAIDS COMPLAINED OF HIS DRUNKEN HABITS AND HIS VILE LANGUAGE </s>
<s> THE DAD RAISED THEIR WAGES ALL ROUND TO RECOMPENSE THEM FOR THE ANNOYANCE </s>
<s> THE FELLOW WOULD TAKE THE BOAT AND MY FATHER'S BEST GUN AND TREAT HIMSELF TO LITTLE SHOOTING TRIPS </s>
<s> AND ALL THIS WITH SUCH A SNEERING LEERING INSOLENT FACE THAT I WOULD HAVE KNOCKED HIM DOWN TWENTY TIMES OVER IF HE HAD BEEN A MAN OF MY OWN AGE </s>
<s> I TELL YOU HOLMES I HAVE HAD TO KEEP A TIGHT HOLD UPON MYSELF ALL THIS TIME AND NOW I AM ASKING MYSELF WHETHER IF I HAD LET MYSELF GO A LITTIE MORE I MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A WISER MAN </s>
<s> WELL MATTERS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE WITH US AND THIS ANIMAL HUDSON BECAME MORE AND MORE INTRUSIVE UNTIL AT LAST ON HIS MAKING SOME INSOLENT REPLY TO MY FATHER IN MY PRESENCE ONE DAY I TOOK HIM BY THE SHOULDERS AND TURNED HIM OUT OF THE ROOM </s>
<s> HE SLUNK AWAY WITH A LIVID FACE AND TWO VENOMOUS EYES WHICH UTTERED MORE THREATS THAN HIS TONGUE COULD DO </s>
<s> I DON'T KNOW WHAT PASSED BETWEEN THE POOR DAD AND HIM AFTER THAT BUT THE DAD CAME TO ME NEXT DAY AND ASKED ME WHETHER I WOULD MIND APOLOGIZING TO HUDSON </s>
<s> I REFUSED AS YOU CAN IMAGINE AND ASKED MY FATHER HOW HE COULD ALLOW SUCH A WRETCH TO TAKE SUCH LIBERTIES WITH HIMSELF AND HIS HOUSEHOLD </s>
<s> AH MY BOY SAID HE IT IS ALL VERY WELL TO TALK BUT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW I AM PLACED </s>
<s> BUT YOU SHALL KNOW VICTOR </s>
<s> I'LL SEE THAT YOU SHALL KNOW COME WHAT MAY </s>
<s> YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE HARM OF YOUR POOR OLD FATHER WOULD YOU LAD </s>
<s> HE WAS VERY MUCH MOVED AND SHUT HIMSELF UP IN THE STUDY ALL DAY WHERE I COULD SEE THROUGH THE WINDOW THAT HE WAS WRITING BUSILY </s>
<s> QUOTE THAT EVENING THERE CAME WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE A GRAND RELEASE FOR HUDSON TOLD US THAT HE WAS GOING TO LEAVE US </s>
<s> HE WALKED INTO THE DINING ROOM AS WE SAT AFTER DINNER AND ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION IN THE THICK VOICE OF A HALF DRUNKEN MAN </s>
<s> I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF NORFOLK SAID HE </s>
<s> I'LL RUN DOWN TO MR. BEDDOES IN HAMPSHIRE </s>
<s> HE'LL BE AS GLAD TO SEE ME AS YOU WERE I DARESAY </s>
<s> YOU'RE NOT GOING AWAY IN AN UNKIND SPIRIT HUDSON I HOPE SAID MY FATHER WITH A TAMENESS WHICH MADE MY BLOOD BOIL </s>
<s> I'VE NOT HAD MY POLOGY SAID HE SULKILY GLANCING IN MY DIRECTION </s>
<s> QUOTE QUOTE VICTOR YOU WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE USED THIS WORTHY FELLOW RATHER ROUGHLY QUOTE SAID THE DAD TURNING TO ME </s>
<s> ON THE CONTRARY I THINK THAT WE HAVE BOTH SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY PATIENCE TOWARDS HIM I ANSWERED </s>
<s> OH YOU DO DO YOU HE SNARLED </s>
<s> VERY GOOD MATE </s>
<s> WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT </s>
<s> HE SLOUCHED OUT OF THE ROOM AND HALF AN HOUR AFTERWARDS LEFT THE HOUSE LEAVING MY FATHER IN A STATE OF PITIABLE NERVOUSNESS </s>
<s> NIGHT AFTER NIGHT I HEARD HIM PACING HIS ROOM AND IT WAS JUST AS HE WAS RECOVERING HIS CONFIDENCE THAT THE BLOW DID AT LAST FALL </s>
<s> QUOTE AND HOW </s>
<s> I ASKED EAGERLY </s>
<s> IN A MOST EXTRAORDINARY FASHION </s>
<s> A LETTER ARRIVED FOR MY FATHER YESTERDAY EVENING BEARING THE FORDINGHAM POSTMARK </s>
<s> MY FATHER READ IT CLAPPED BOTH HIS HANDS TO HIS HEAD AND BEGAN RUNNING ROUND THE ROOM IN LITTLE CIRCLES LIKE A MAN WHO HAS BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF HIS SENSES </s>
<s> WHEN I AT LAST DREW HIM DOWN ON TO THE SOFA HIS MOUTH AND EYELIDS WERE ALL PUCKERED ON ONE SIDE AND I SAW THAT HE HAD A STROKE </s>
<s> DOCTOR FORDHAM CAME OVER AT ONCE </s>
<s> WE PUT HIM TO BED BUT THE PARALYSIS HAS SPREAD HE HAS SHOWN NO SIGN OF RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS AND I THINK THAT WE SHALL HARDLY FIND HIM ALIVE </s>
<s> YOU HORRIFY ME TREVOR </s>
<s> I CRIED </s>
<s> WHAT THEN COULD HAVE BEEN IN THIS LETTER TO CAUSE SO DREADFUL A RESULT </s>
<s> NOTHING </s>
<s> THERE LIES THE INEXPLICABLE PART OF IT </s>
<s> THE MESSAGE WAS ABSURD AND TRIVIAL </s>
<s> AH MY GOD IT IS AS I FEARED </s>
<s> AS HE SPOKE WE CAME ROUND THE CURVE OF THE AVENUE AND SAW IN THE FADING LIGHT THAT EVERY BLIND IN THE HOUSE HAD BEEN DRAWN DOWN </s>
<s> AS WE DASHED UP TO THE DOOR MY FRIEND'S FACE CONVULSED WITH GRIEF A GENTLEMAN IN BLACK EMERGED FROM IT </s>
<s> WHEN DID IT HAPPEN DOCTOR ASKED TREVOR </s>
<s> QUOTE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU LEFT </s>
<s> DID HE RECOVER CONSCIOUSNESS </s>
<s> FOR AN INSTANT BEFORE THE END </s>
<s> ANY MESSAGE FOR ME </s>
<s> ONLY THAT THE PAPERS WERE IN THE BACK DRAWER OF THE JAPANESE CABINET </s>
<s> MY FRIEND ASCENDED WITH THE DOCTOR TO THE CHAMBER OF DEATH WHILE I REMAINED IN THE STUDY TURNING THE WHOLE MATTER OVER AND OVER IN MY HEAD AND FEELING AS SOMBRE AS EVER I HAD DONE IN MY LIFE </s>
<s> WHAT WAS THE PAST OF THIS TREVOR PUGILIST TRAVELLER AND GOLD DIGGER AND HOW HAD HE PLACED HIMSELF IN THE POWER OF THIS ACID FACED SEAMAN </s>
<s> WHY TOO SHOULD HE FAINT AT AN ALLUSION TO THE HALF EFFACED INITIALS UPON HIS ARM AND DIE OF FRIGHT WHEN HE HAD A LETTER FROM FORDINGHAM </s>
<s> THEN I REMEMBERED THAT FORDINGHAM WAS IN HAMPSHIRE AND THAT THIS MR. BEDDOES WHOM THE SEAMAN HAD GONE TO VISIT AND PRESUMABLY TO BLACKMAIL HAD ALSO BEEN MENTIONED AS LIVING IN HAMPSHIRE </s>
<s> THE LETTER THEN MIGHT EITHER COME FROM HUDSON THE SEAMAN SAYING THAT HE HAD BETRAYED THE GUILTY SECRET WHICH APPEARED TO EXIST OR IT MIGHT COME FROM BEDDOES WARNING AN OLD CONFEDERATE THAT SUCH A BETRAYAL WAS IMMINENT </s>
<s> SO FAR IT SEEMED CLEAR ENOUGH </s>
<s> BUT THEN HOW COULD THIS LETTER BE TRIVIAL AND GROTESQUE AS DESCRIBED BY THE SON </s>
<s> HE MUST HAVE MISREAD IT </s>
<s> IF SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE INGENIOUS SECRET CODES WHICH MEAN ONE THING WHILE THEY SEEM TO MEAN ANOTHER </s>
<s> I MUST SEE THIS LETTER </s>
<s> IF THERE WAS A HIDDEN MEANING IN IT I WAS CONFIDENT THAT I COULD PLUCK IT FORTH </s>
<s> FOR AN HOUR I SAT PONDERING OVER IT IN THE GLOOM UNTIL AT LAST A WEEPING MAID BROUGHT IN A LAMP AND CLOSE AT HER HEELS CAME MY FRIEND TREVOR PALE BUT COMPOSED WITH THESE VERY PAPERS WHICH LIE UPON MY KNEE HELD IN HIS GRASP </s>
<s> HE SAT DOWN OPPOSITE TO ME DREW THE LAMP TO THE EDGE OF THE TABLE AND HANDED ME A SHORT NOTE SCRIBBLED AS YOU SEE UPON A SINGLE SHEET OF GRAY PAPER </s>
<s> THE SUPPLY OF GAME FOR LONDON IS GOING STEADILY UP IT RAN </s>
<s> HEAD KEEPER HUDSON WE BELIEVE HAS BEEN NOW TOLD TO RECEIVE ALL ORDERS FOR FLY PAPER AND FOR PRESERVATION OF YOUR HEN PHEASANT'S LIFE </s>
<s> QUOTE I DARESAY MY FACE LOOKED AS BEWILDERED AS YOURS DID JUST NOW WHEN FIRST I READ THIS MESSAGE </s>
<s> THEN I REREAD IT VERY CAREFULLY </s>
<s> IT WAS EVIDENTLY AS I HAD THOUGHT AND SOME SECRET MEANING MUST LIE BURIED IN THIS STRANGE COMBINATION OF WORDS </s>
<s> OR COULD IT BE THAT THERE WAS A PREARRANGED SIGNIFICANCE TO SUCH PHRASES AS FLY PAPER AND HEN PHEASANT </s>
<s> SUCH A MEANING WOULD BE ARBITRARY AND COULD NOT BE DEDUCED IN ANY WAY </s>
<s> AND YET I WAS LOATH TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS THE CASE AND THE PRESENCE OF THE WORD HUDSON SEEMED TO SHOW THAT THE SUBJECT OF THE MESSAGE WAS AS I HAD GUESSED AND THAT IT WAS FROM BEDDOES RATHER THAN THE SAILOR </s>
<s> I TRIED IT BACKWARD BUT THE COMBINATION LIFE PHEASANT'S HEN WAS NOT ENCOURAGING </s>
<s> THEN I TRIED ALTERNATE WORDS BUT NEITHER THE OF FOR NOR SUPPLY GAME LONDON PROMISED TO THROW ANY LIGHT UPON IT </s>
<s> AND THEN IN AN INSTANT THE KEY OF THE RIDDLE WAS IN MY HANDS AND I SAW THAT EVERY THIRD WORD BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST WOULD GIVE A MESSAGE WHICH MIGHT WELL DRIVE OLD TREVOR TO DESPAIR </s>
<s> THE GAME IS UP </s>
<s> HUDSON HAS TOLD ALL </s>
<s> FLY FOR YOUR LIFE </s>
<s> VICTOR TREVOR SANK HIS FACE INTO HIS SHAKING HANDS </s>
<s> IT MUST BE THAT I SUPPOSE SAID HE </s>
<s> THIS IS WORSE THAN DEATH FOR IT MEANS DISGRACE AS WELL </s>
<s> BUT WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THESE HEADKEEPERS AND HEN PHEASANTS </s>
<s> IT MEANS NOTHING TO THE MESSAGE BUT IT MIGHT MEAN A GOOD DEAL TO US IF WE HAD NO OTHER MEANS OF DISCOVERING THE SENDER </s>
<s> YOU SEE THAT HE HAS BEGUN BY WRITING QUOTE THE GAME IS QUOTE AND SO ON </s>
<s> AFTERWARDS HE HAD TO FULFIL THE PREARRANGED CIPHER TO FILL IN ANY TWO WORDS IN EACH SPACE </s>
<s> HE WOULD NATURALLY USE THE FIRST WORDS WHICH CAME TO HIS MIND AND IF THERE WERE SO MANY WHICH REFERRED TO SPORT AMONG THEM YOU MAY BE TOLERABLY SURE THAT HE IS EITHER AN ARDENT SHOT OR INTERESTED IN BREEDING </s>
<s> DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING OF THIS BEDDOES </s>
<s> WHY NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT SAID HE I REMEMBER THAT MY POOR FATHER USED TO HAVE AN INVITATION FROM HIM TO SHOOT OVER HIS PRESERVES EVERY AUTUMN </s>
<s> THEN IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY FROM HIM THAT THE NOTE COMES SAID I. IT ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS SECRET WAS WHICH THE SAILOR HUDSON SEEMS TO HAVE HELD OVER THE HEADS OF THESE TWO WEALTHY AND RESPECTED MEN </s>
<s> ALAS HOLMES I FEAR THAT IT IS ONE OF SIN AND SHAME CRIED MY FRIEND </s>
<s> BUT FROM YOU I SHALL HAVE NO SECRETS </s>
<s> HERE IS THE STATEMENT WHICH WAS DRAWN UP BY MY FATHER WHEN HE KNEW THAT THE DANGER FROM HUDSON HAD BECOME IMMINENT </s>
<s> I FOUND IT IN THE JAPANESE CABINET AS HE TOLD THE DOCTOR </s>
<s> TAKE IT AND READ IT TO ME FOR I HAVE NEITHER THE STRENGTH NOR THE COURAGE TO DO IT MYSELF </s>
<s> THESE ARE THE VERY PAPERS WATSON WHICH HE HANDED TO ME AND I WILL READ THEM TO YOU AS I READ THEM IN THE OLD STUDY THAT NIGHT TO HIM </s>
<s> THEY ARE ENDORSED OUTSIDE AS YOU SEE SOME PARTICULARS OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BARK GLORIA SCOTT FROM HER LEAVING FALMOUTH ON THE EIGHTH OCTOBER ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE TO HER DESTRUCTION IN N. LAT. FIFTEEN DEGREES TWENTY </s>
<s> W. LONG. TWENTY FIVE DEGREES FOURTEEN ON NOVEMBER SIXTH </s>
<s> IT IS IN THE FORM OF A LETTER AND RUNS IN THIS WAY </s>
<s> MY DEAR. DEAR SON. NOW THAT APPROACHING DISGRACE BEGINS TO DARKEN THE CLOSING YEARS OF MY LIFE I CAN WRITE WITH ALL TRUTH AND HONESTY THAT IT IS NOT THE TERROR OF THE LAW IT IS NOT THE LOSS OF MY POSITION IN THE COUNTY NOR IS IT MY FALL IN THE EYES OF ALL WHO HAVE KNOWN ME WHICH CUTS ME TO THE HEART BUT IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT YOU SHOULD COME TO BLUSH FOR ME YOU WHO LOVE ME AND WHO HAVE SELDOM I HOPE HAD REASON TO DO OTHER THAN RESPECT ME </s>
<s> BUT IF THE BLOW FALLS WHICH IS FOREVER HANGING OVER ME THEN I SHOULD WISH YOU TO READ THIS THAT YOU MAY KNOW STRAIGHT FROM ME HOW FAR I HAVE BEEN TO BLAME </s>
<s> ON THE OTHER HAND IF ALL SHOULD GO WELL WHICH MAY KIND GOD ALMIGHTY GRANT THEN IF BY ANY CHANCE THIS PAPER SHOULD BE STILL UNDESTROYED AND SHOULD FALL INTO YOUR HANDS I CONJURE YOU BY ALL YOU HOLD SACRED BY THE MEMORY OF YOUR DEAR MOTHER AND BY THE LOVE WHICH HAS BEEN BETWEEN US TO HURL IT INTO THE FIRE AND TO NEVER GIVE ONE THOUGHT TO IT AGAIN </s>
<s> QUOTE IF THEN YOUR EYE GOES ON TO READ THIS LINE I KNOW THAT I SHALL ALREADY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AND DRAGGED FROM MY HOME OR AS IS MORE LIKELY FOR YOU KNOW THAT MY HEART IS WEAK BE LYING WITH MY TONGUE SEALED FOREVER IN DEATH </s>
<s> IN EITHER CASE THE TIME FOR SUPPRESSION IS PAST AND EVERY WORD WHICH I TELL YOU IS THE NAKED TRUTH AND THIS I SWEAR AS I HOPE FOR MERCY </s>
<s> MY NAME DEAR LAD IS NOT TREVOR </s>
<s> I WAS JAMES ARMITAGE IN MY YOUNGER DAYS AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND NOW THE SHOCK THAT IT WAS TO ME A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN YOUR COLLEGE FRIEND ADDRESSED ME IN WORDS WHICH SEEMED TO IMPLY THAT HE HAD SURPRISED MY SECRET </s>
<s> AS ARMITAGE IT WAS THAT I ENTERED A LONDON BANKINGHOUSE AND AS ARMITAGE I WAS CONVICTED OF BREAKING MY COUNTRY'S LAWS AND WAS SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION </s>
<s> DO NOT THINK VERY HARSHLY OF ME LADDIE </s>
<s> IT WAS A DEBT OF HONOUR SO CALLED WHICH I HAD TO PAY AND I USED MONEY WHICH WAS NOT MY OWN TO DO IT IN THE CERTAINTY THAT I COULD REPLACE IT BEFORE THERE COULD BE ANY POSSIBILITY OF ITS BEING MISSED </s>
<s> BUT THE MOST DREADFUL ILL LUCK PURSUED ME </s>
<s> THE MONEY WHICH I HAD RECKONED UPON NEVER CAME TO HAND AND A PREMATURE EXAMINATION OF ACCOUNTS EXPOSED MY DEFICIT </s>
<s> THE CASE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DEALT LENIENTLY WITH BUT THE LAWS WERE MORE HARSHLY ADMINISTERED THIRTY YEARS AGO THAN NOW AND ON MY TWENTY THIRD BIRTHDAY I FOUND MYSELF CHAINED AS A FELON WITH THIRTY SEVEN OTHER CONVICTS IN THE TWEEN DECKS OF THE BARK CLORIA SCOTT BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA </s>
<s> IT WAS THE YEAR FIFTY FIVE WHEN THE CRIMEAN WAR WAS AT ITS HEIGHT AND THE OLD CONVICT SHIPS HAD BEEN LARGELY USED AS TRANSPORTS IN THE BLACK SEA </s>
<s> THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMPELLED THEREFORE TO USE SMALLER AND LESS SUITABLE VESSELS FOR SENDING OUT THEIR PRISONERS </s>
<s> THE GLORIA SCOTT HAD BEEN IN THE CHINESE TEATRADE BUT SHE WAS AN OLD FASHIONED HEAVY BOWED BROAD BEAMED CRAFT AND THE NEW CLIPPERS HAD CUT HER OUT </s>