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"What now?" I asked. Toby has lost his character of infallibility. He acted, according

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to his light, said Holmes, lifting him down from the barrel and walking him out of the

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timber yard. "If you consider how much creasod is carted about London in one day, it is

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no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed. It is much used now, especially

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for the seasoning of wood. Poor Toby is not to blame."

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We must get on the main centre again, I suppose. Yes, and, fortunately, we have no distance

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to go. Evidently, what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's place was that there

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were two different trails running in opposite directions. We took the wrong one. It only

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remains to follow the other. There is no difficulty about this. On leading Toby to the place

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where we had committed his fault, he cast about in a wide circle and finally dashed off

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in a fresh direction. We must take care that he does not now bring us to the place where

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the creasote battle came from I observed. I had thought of that, but you notice that

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he keeps on the pavement, whereas the barrel passed down the roadway. No, we are on the

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true scent now. It tended down towards the riverside, running through Belmont Place

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and Prince's Street. At the end of Broad Street, it ran right down to the water's edge, where

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there was a small wooden wharf. Toby led us to the very edge of this and there stood

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whining, looking out on the dark current beyond. We are out of Laxat homes. They have taken

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a boat here. Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge

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of the wharf. We took Toby round to each in turn, but though he sniffed earnestly, he

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made no sign. Close to the rude landing stage was a small brick house with a wooden plaque

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hard slung out through the second window. Mordekai Smith was printed across it in large

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letters and underneath boats to hire by the hour or day. A second inscription above the

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door informed us that a steam launch was kept, a statement which was confirmed by a great

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pile of coke upon the jetty. Sherlock Holmes looked slowly round and his face assumed

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an ominous expression. "This looks bad," said he. "These fellows are sharp than I expected.

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They seem to have covered their tracks. Their has, I fear, been, pre-concerted management

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here." He was approaching the door of the house when it opened and a little curly headed

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lad of six came running out, followed by a stoutish red faced woman with a large sponge

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in her hand. "You come back here and be washed, Jack," she shouted. "Come back, you young

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imp. For if your father comes home and finds you like that, he'll let us hear of it."

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Dear little chap said home strategically. "What a rosy, cheeked young rascal."

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"Now, Jack. Is there anything you would like?"

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The youth pondered for a moment. "I'd like a shilling," said he. "Nothing you would like

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better. I'd like two shilling better, the prodigy answered after some thought. Here you are,

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catch. A fine child, Mrs Smith." "Lord, bless you, sir. He is at that, and forward. You

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get the most too much for me to manage, especially when my man is always away days at a time."

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"Away," he said, homes, in a disappointed voice. "I am sorry for that. For I wanted to speak

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to Mr Smith." "He's been away since yesterday morning, sir, and

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treats to tell I'm beginning to feel frightened about him. But if it was about a boat, sir,

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maybe I could serve as well. I wanted to hire his steam launch."

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"Why?" "Bless you, sir. It is in the steam launch that he has gone. That worked puzzled

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to me. For I know, there ain't more coals in it than would take her to about Wollitchenback.

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If he had been away in the barge, I'd have thought nothing. For many a time, a job is

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taking his father's graves in. And then, if there was much doing there, he might have stayed

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over. But what good is a steam launch without coals?"

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He might have bought at the Wharf down the river. He might, sir, but it weren't his way.

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Many a time I heard him call out the prices they charge for a few odd bags. Besides, I don't

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like that wooden-legged man with his ugly face in Outland just talk. What did he always

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go knocking on about here for? A wooden-legged man said Holmes, with bland surprise.

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"Yes, sir, a brown monkey-faced chap that called more once for my old man."

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"It was him that roused him up yesterday night, and what's more, my man knew he was coming,

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free of steam up in the launch. I tell you straight, sir, I don't feel easy my mind about

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it." "But, my dear Mrs Smith," said Holmes, shrugging his shoulders. "You are frightening

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yourself about nothing. How could you possibly tell that it was a wooden-legged man who came

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in the night? I don't quite understand how you can be so sure?"

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His voice, sir, I knew his voice, which is kind of thick and foggy. He tapped at the

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grinder about three it would be. "Show a leg, matey," said he, "time to turn out guard."

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My old man woke up to him. That's my oldest. And a way they went, without so much as a word

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to me. I could hear the wooden-legged clacking on the stones.

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And what's the wooden-legged man alone? Couldn't say I'm sure, sir. I didn't hear

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no one else. I am sorry, Mrs Smith. For I wanted a steam launch, and I've heard good

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reports of the, let me see, what's her name? The aurora, sir. Ah, she's not that old green

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launch with the yellow line with broad on the beam. No indeed. She's a trim little thing.

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As any on the river, she's been fresh-painted, black with two red strings.

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"Thanks." "I hope that you'll hear soon from Mr Smith. I'm going down the river, and if

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I should see anything at the aurora, I shall let him know that you're uneasy."

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"A black funnel, you say? No, sir. Black with a white band."

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"Ah, of course. It was the sides which were black. Good morning, Mrs Smith. There is a boatman

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here with a wary. What's it? We shall take it and cross the river."

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The main thing with people of that sort, said Holmes, as we sat in the sheets of the wary,

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is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you.

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If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest,

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as it were, you are very likely to get what you want.

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Of course, now seems pretty clear, said I. "What will you do then? I would engage a launch

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and go down the river on the track of the aurora." My dear fellow, it would be a colossal

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task. She may have touched at any warmth on either side of the stream between here and

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Greenwich. Below the bridge, there is a perfect labyrinth of landing places for miles. It

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would take you days and days to exhaust them if you set about it alone.

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Employ the police then? No. I shall probably call Athenley Jones in the last moment. He is

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not a bad fellow, and I should not like to do anything which would injure him professionally.

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Did I ever fancy for working it out myself? Now that we have gone so far.

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Could we advertise then? Asking for information from warfingers? Worse and worse. Our men would

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know that the chase is hot on their heels, and they would be off and out in the country.

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As it is, they are likely enough to leave, but as long as they think they are perfectly

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safe, they will be in no hurry. Jones's energy will be of use to us there, for his view on

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the case is sure to push itself into the daily press, and the runaways will think that everyone

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is off on the wrong send. "What are we going to do then?" I asked, as we landed near Milbrook

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Penitentiary. "Take this handsome. Drive home, have some breakfast, and get an hour's sleep.

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It is quite on the cards that we may be afoot tonight again. Stop at the telegraph office,

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Cabby. We will keep Toby, for he may be of use to us yet."

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We pulled up at the great Peter Street Post Office, and Holmes dispatched his wire. "Do you

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think that is too?" he asked, as we resumed our journey. "I am sure I don't know."

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"Do you remember the Baker Street Division of the Detective Police Form who I employed

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in the Jefferson Hope case?" "Well, said I laughing." "This is just the case where they might

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be invaluable. If they fail, I have other resources, but I shall try them first."

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That wire was to my dirty little lieutenant, Wiggins, and I expect that he and his gang

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will be with us before we have finished our breakfast. It was between eight and nine o'clock

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now, and I was conscious of a strong reaction up to the successive excitement of the night.

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I was limp and wary, be fogged in the mind and fatigued in the body. I had not the professional

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enthusiasm which carried my companion on, nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract

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intellectual problem. As far as the death of Bartholomew Shalt, I went, I had heard little

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glit of him, and could feel no intense antithopathy to his murderers. The treasure, however, was a different

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matter. That, all part of it belonged rightfully to Miss Morston's. While there was a chance

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of recovering, I was ready to devote my life to the one object. True. If I found it, it

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would probably put a fiever beyond my reach. Yet it would be petty and selfish love which

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would be influenced by such a thought as that. If Holmes could work to find the criminals,

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I had a tenfold stronger reason to urge me on to find the treasure.

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A bar for Baker Street, and a complete change freshened me up wonderfully. When I came down

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to our room, I found the breakfast laid, and Holmes pouring out the coffee. Here it is,

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said he, laughing and pointing at an open newspaper. The energetic Jones and the ubiquitous reporter

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have fixed up between them, but they have had enough of the case, better have your ham and

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eggs first. I took the paper from him and read the short notice, which was headed "mysterious

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business" at Appanord. "About twelve o'clock last night," said the

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standard. "Mr. Bartholomey's shelter of Pondickery Lodge, Appanord, was found dead in

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his room under circumstances which point fell play. As far as we can learn, no actual traces

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of violence were found upon Miss Shaltos' body, but a valuable collection of Indian gems

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which the deceased gentleman had inherited from his father had been carried off. The discovery

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was first made by Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who had called at the house with Mr.

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Thaddeus Shaltos, brother of the deceased. By a singular piece of good fortune, Mr. Athanely

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Jones and the well-known member of the Detective Police Force happened to be at Norwood Police

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station and was on the ground within half an hour of the first alarm. His trained and experienced

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faculties were at once directed towards the detection of the criminals. With the gratifying

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result that the brother Thaddeus Shaltos has already been arrested, together with the

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Housekeeper Mrs. Bernstein, an Indian butler named Laurow and a porter or gatekeeper named

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MacMurdo. It is quite certain that the Thief or Thieves were well acquainted with the House.

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For Mr. Jones' well-known technical knowledge and his powers of minute observation had enabled

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him to prove conclusively that the Miss Gryants could not have entered by the door or by the

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window, but must have made their way across the roof of the building and so through a trap

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door into the room which communicated with that in which the body was found.

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This fact which has been very clearly made out proves conclusively that it was no mere

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haphazard burglary. The prompt and energetic action of the offices of the law shows the

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great advantage of the presence on such occasions of a singular vigorous and masterful mind.

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We cannot but think of it, supplies an argument to those who had wished to see our detectives

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more decentralized and so brought into closer more effective touch with the cases of which

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is their duty to investigate.

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"Isn't it gorgeous," said Holmes, grinning over his coffee cap. "What do you think of it?"

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I think that we have had to close shave ourselves of being arrested for the crime. So do I. I

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wouldn't answer for our safety now if he should happen to have another of his attacks of

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energy. At that moment there was a loud ring at the bell and I could hear Mrs. Hudson,

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our land lady, raising her voice in a wall of exposculation in dismay. "By heaven's homes,"

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I said half-rising, "I believe that they are really after us."

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No, it's not quite so bad is that. It's an unofficial force, the Baker Street to regulars.

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As he spoke, there came a swift pattern of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high

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voices, and in rushed, a dozen dirty and ragged little street tariffs. There was some show

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of discipline among them, despite their tumultuous entry, for they instantly drew up in a line

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and stood facing us with expectant faces.

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One of their numbers, taller and older than the others, stood forward with an air of lounging

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superiority, which was very funny in such a deserpetal little scarecrow. "I got your message,"

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sir, said he, and brought him on sharp, free-bobbing a tanner for the tickets.

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"Here you are," said Holmes, "producing some silver. In future you can report to me,

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Wiggins, and you to me. I cannot have the house invaded in this way. However, it is just as

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well that you should all hear the instructions. I want you to find the whereabouts of a steam

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launch called the aurora, owner, Mordekai Smith, black with two red streaks, funnel black with

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a white band. She is down the river somewhere. I want one boy to be at Mordekai Smith's

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landing stage opposite Milbrank to say if the boat comes back. You must divide it out amongst

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yourselves and do both banks thoroughly. Let me know the moment you have news. Is that

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all clear?" "Yes, Governor," said Wiggins.

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The old scourlet of pay, and a guinea to the boy who finds the boat, "Here's a day in advance,

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now off you go." He handed them a shilling each, and away they buzzed down the stairs, and

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I saw them a moment later streaming down the street.

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"If the launch is above the water, they will find her," said Holmes, as he rose from the

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table and lit his pipe. "They can go everywhere, see everything, over here, everyone. I expect

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to hear before evening what they have spotted."

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In the meanwhile, we can do nothing but wait the results. We cannot pick up the broken

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trail until we find either the aurora or Mr Mordekai Smith.

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"Obey, could he eat these scraps, I dare say? Are you going to bed, Holmes?"

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"No, I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though

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idleness exhaust me completely. I am going to smoke and to think over the queer business to

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which my fair client is introduced us. If ever man had an easy task, this avar's ought

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to be. Wooden-legged men are not so common, but the other man must, I should think, be

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absolutely unique."

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The other man again? "I have no wish to make a mystery of him, to you anyway, but you must

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have formed your own opinion. Now, do consider the data. Dominulative footmarks, toes never

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fettered by boots, naked feet, stone-headed wooden mace, great adulity, small poison darts.

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What do you make of all this?"

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"A savage, I exclaimed. Perhaps one of those Indians who were the associates of Jonathan

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Small."

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Hardly that city. When first I saw signs of strange weapons, I was inclined to think so,

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that the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views. Some of the

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inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are small men, but none could have left such marks

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as that. The Hindu proper has long and thin feet. The sandal wearing, mahumidians have the

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great toe well separated from the others, because the tongue is commonly passed between.

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These little darts too could only be shot in one way. They are from a blowpipe. Now, then.

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Where are we to find our savage?"

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South American, I hazarded. He stretched his hands up and took down a bulky volume from

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the shelf. This is the first volume of a gazettea which is now being published. It may be looked

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upon as the very latest authority. "What have we here?"

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Anderman islands. Situated 340 miles to the north of Sumatra in the Bay of Bengal.

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Hmm. What's all this? Moist climate, coral reefs, sharks, port Blair, convict barracks,

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Rutland Island, cottonwoods. "I hear, here we are."

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The aborigines of the Anderman Islands may perhaps claim the distinction of being the smallest

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race upon the earth. Through some anthropodjelistic prefer the Bushmen of Africa, the digger Indians

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of America and the Tierra del Fuegians. The average height is rather below 4 feet, although

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many full grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this. They are a fierce,

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a roast, an intractable people, though capable of forming most voted friendships when their

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confidence has once been gained. Mark that Watson. Now, then listen to this. They are naturally

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hideous, having large, missape in heads, small, fierce eyes and distorted features. Their

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feet and hands, however, are remarkably small. So intractable and fierce are they, that

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all efforts of the British official, have failed to win them over in any degree. They have

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always been a terror to ship wreck crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs

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or shooting them with their poisoned arrows. These massacres are invariably concluded by

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a cannibal feast. Nice, amiable people, Watson. If this fellow had been left to his own

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unnated devices, this affair may have taken an even more ghastly turn. I fancy that, even

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as it is, Jonathan Small would give a good deal not to have employed him. But how came

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he to have so singular a companion? Ah, that is more than I can tell. Since, however, we

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had already determined that Small had come to the Andermans, it is not so very wonderful

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that this islander should be with him. No doubt, wish we'll know all about it in time.

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Look here, Watson. You look regularly done. Lie down here on the sofa and see if I can

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put you to sleep. He took up his violin, from the corner, and as I stretched myself out,

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he began to play some low, dreamy, melodious air, his own no doubt, for he had a remarkable

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gift for him for a vization. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs, his earnest face,

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and the rise and fall of his bow. But then, I seem to be floated peacefully away upon a soft

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sea of sound, until I found myself in Dreamland, with the sweet face of Mary Morston, looking

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down upon me.

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