Talk:The Five Orange Pips

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[edit] the breaking of the KKK

"In fact, at the time, the Ku Klux Klan was already decisively broken by the U.S. authorities, with its revival in 1915 still long in the future"

I think this should be reworded. After all the short story itself offers an explanation of why the KKK lost power: "the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the disappearance of Openshaw from America" as Sherlock Holmes says himself. As written, this implies an oversight which simply isn't there. 85.227.226.168 18:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] incomprehensible

I removed the following passage:

"In Sept 1887 John Openshaw receives a letter postmarked from London's Eastern division and the same message his father received. The only clue John can furnish is a diary page marked March 1869 in which "pips" are sent to three men of whom two have "cleared" and one was "Visited" which he had found in a fireplace among the burned papers."

Feel free to put it back again if you can untangle the grammar 85.227.226.168 18:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)