: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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This book-collection file includes 38 books -- Sherlock Holmes, Challenger, historical novels, other novels, and non-fiction. Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories: A Study in Scarlet, novel, 1887; The Sign of the Four, novel, 1890; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1891-1892 (A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1892-1893; The Hound of the Baskervilles, novel, 1901-1902; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1903-1904; The Valley of Fear, novel, 1914- 1915; His Last Bow, collection of stories originally published 1908-1913 and 1917 . Challenger Novels: The Lost World and The Poison Belt. Historical Novels: Micah Clarke, 1888; The White Company, 1891; The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales, 1892; The Refugees, 1893; Rodney Stone, 1896; Uncle Bernac, 1897; Sir Nigel, 1906. Books about War: The Great Boer War; The War in South Africa; A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916. Other Fiction: The Adventures of Gerard; Beyond the City; The Captain of the Polestar and Other Stories; A Desert Drama, Tragedy of the Korosko; The Doings of Raffles Haw; A Duet With Occasional Chorus; The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard; The Firm of Girdlestone; The Green Flag; The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales; The Mystery of Cloomber; The Parasite; The Stark Munro Letters; Tales of Terror and Mystery; Through the Magic Door. Spiritualism: The New Revelation; The Vital Message. Medicine: Round the Red Lamp, Facts and Fancies of the Medical Life.

CHAPTER IV.  A FLIGHT FOR LIFE.


 

 ON the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon  Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having  found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada  Mountains, he entrusted him with his message to Jefferson  Hope.  In it he told the young man of the imminent danger  which threatened them, and how necessary it was that he  should return.  Having done thus he felt easier in his mind,  and returned home with a lighter heart.

 

As he approached his farm, he was surprised to see a horse  hitched to each of the posts of the gate.  Still more  surprised was he on entering to find two young men in  possession of his sitting-room.  One, with a long pale face,  was leaning back in the rocking-chair, with his feet cocked  up upon the stove.  The other, a bull-necked youth with  coarse bloated features, was standing in front of the window  with his hands in his pocket, whistling a popular hymn.   Both of them nodded to Ferrier as he entered, and the one  in the rocking-chair commenced the conversation.

 

"Maybe you don't know us," he said. "This here is the son of  Elder Drebber, and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who travelled with  you in the desert when the Lord stretched out His hand and  gathered you into the true fold."

 

"As He will all the nations in His own good time," said the  other in a nasal voice;"He grindeth slowly but exceeding small."

 

John Ferrier bowed coldly.  He had guessed who his visitors were.

 

"We have come," continued Stangerson,"at the advice of our  fathers to solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of  us may seem good to you and to her.  As I have but four wives  and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my  claim is the stronger one."

 

"Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson," cried the other;"the question  is not how many wives we have, but how many we can keep.   My father has now given over his mills to me, and I am the  richer man."

 

"But my prospects are better," said the other, warmly.  "When the Lord removes my father, I shall have his tanning yard  and his leather factory.  Then I am your elder, and am higher  in the Church."

 

"It will be for the maiden to decide," rejoined young Drebber,  smirking at his own reflection in the glass. "We will leave  it all to her decision."

 

During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the  doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs  of his two visitors.

 

"Look here," he said at last, striding up to them,"when my  daughter summons you, you can come, but until then I don't  want to see your faces again."

 

The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement.   In their eyes this competition between them for the maiden's  hand was the highest of honours both to her and her father.

 

"There are two ways out of the room," cried Ferrier;"there is  the door, and there is