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Books at bedtime. The sign of the four. Chapter 9 A break in the chain.

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It was late in the afternoon before I woke. Strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes

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still sat exactly as I had left him, saved that he had laid aside his violin and was deep

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in a book. He looked across at me as I stood, and I noticed that his face was dark and

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troubled. "You have slept soundly," he said. "I feared that our talk would wake you. I

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heard nothing," I answered. "Have you had fresh news, then?"

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Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected some definite

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by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found

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of the launch. It is a provoking check that every hour is of importance.

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Can I do anything? I am perfectly fresh now and quite ready for another night's outing.

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"Nope, we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we go ourselves, the message might come

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in our absence and delay me caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard.

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Then I shall run over to Campbellwell and call upon Miss Cecil Foster. She asked for me

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yesterday. Ah, on Miss Cecil Foster asked Ohms, with a twinkle of a smile in his eyes?"

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"Well, of course. Miss Morston too. They were anxious to hear what happened. I would not

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tell them too much," said Ohms. "Women are never to be entirely trusted, not the best

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of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious statement. I should be back in an hour

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or two, I remark. All right, good luck, but I say, if you are crossing the river, you may

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as well return Toby. For I don't think it is all likely that we shall have any use of

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her now."

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I took our mongrel accordingly and left him, together with a half-sovereign at the old

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naturalists in Pinchin Lane. At Campbellwell, I found Miss Morston a little wary after her

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night's adventures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Porrester II was full of curiosity.

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I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dreadful parts of the tragedy.

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Thus, although I spoke of Mr. Shaltos' death, I said nothing of the exact manner or method

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of it. With all my emissions, however, there was enough to startle an amazem. It is a romance,

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cried Mrs. Porrester, an injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a

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wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked oil. And

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who night errants to the rescue, and admits Miss Morston, with a bright glance at me.

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"Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don't think that you

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are nearly excited enough. Just imagine would it must be to be so rich and to have the

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world at your feet?"

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It sent a little thrill of joy to my heart, to notice that she showed no sign of elation

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at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head as though the matter

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were on which she had small interest.

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"It is," Mr. Shaltos said at her amancho, she said. "Nothing else is of any consequence,

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but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is arduated to

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clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge. It was evening before I left Canberwell,

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and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair,

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but he had disappeared. I looked out in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none."

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I suppose that Mr. Shaltos Holmes has gone out, I said to Mrs. Huston, as she came up to

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the low of the blinds. "No, sir. He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir, sinking

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her voice into an impressive whisper? I am afraid for his health."

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"Why so, Mrs. Hudson?" "Well, he is that strange, sir. After you was gone, he walked and he

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walked up and down and up and down until I was weary of the sound of his footsteps. Then

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I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang, he came out on

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the stairhead with, "What is that, Mrs. Hudson?"

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"And now, he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever.

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I hope he's not going to be ill, sir. I venture to say something to him about cooling

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medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don't know how I ever got

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out of the room. I don't think you have any cause to be uneasy, Mrs. Hudson, I answered.

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I have seen him like this before. He has some small matter upon his mind which makes him

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rest in it. I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy

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when through the long night I still, from time to time, heard the dulled sad of his tread,

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and knew how his keen spirit was chaffing against this involuntary inaction."

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At breakfast time, he looked worn and haggard with a little fleck of feverish colour upon

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either cheek. "You are knocking yourself up, old man," I remarked. "I heard you marching

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about in the night." "No, I could not sleep," he answered. "The infernal problem is consuming

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me. It is too much to be balked by so petty and obstacle, when all else has been overcome."

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I know the men, the launch, everything, and yet I can get no good news. I have set other

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agencies at work and used every means that my disposal. The whole river has been searched

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on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall

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come to the conclusion soon that they have scuttle the craft, but there are objections to that,

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or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a wrong scent. No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries

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made, and there is a launch of that description. Could it have gone up the river? I have considered

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that possibility too, and there is a search party who will work up as far as Richmond. If

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no news comes today, I shall start off myself tomorrow and go for the men rather than the

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boat, but surely, surely we shall have heard something. We did not, however, not a word came

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to us, either from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of

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the papers upon the Norwood tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate

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thaddy's shoulder. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, saved that

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in inquest was to be held upon the following day. I walked over to Campbellwell in the evening

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to report our ill-success to the ladies, and on my return I found homes dejected and somewhat

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mirrored. He could hardly reply to my questions, and busyed himself all evening in the abtruse

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chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending

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at last in a smell which barely drove me out of the apartment. Up to the small hours of

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the morning I could hear the clinking of his test tubes which told me that he was still

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engaged in his malodeurous experiments. In the early morning I woke with a start and was

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surprised to find him standing by my bedside, clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea jacket

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and a coarse red scarf around his neck. I am off down the river what's in said he. I've

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been turning it over in my mind and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying

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at all events. Surely I can come with you then said I? No. You can be much more useful.

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If you will remain here with my representatives, I am loath to go for as is quiet on the

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cards that some message may come during the day through Wiggins who was despondent about

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it last night. I want you to open all notes and telegrams and to act on your own judgement

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if any knew should come. Can I rely on you? Most certainly. I am afraid that you will not

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be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself. If I am in luck

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however, I may not be gone so very long, I shall have news of some sort before I get back.

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I had heard nothing of him by breakfast time. On opening the standard however, I found

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that there was a fresh illusion to the business. With reference to the upper norwood tragedy

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remarked, "We have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex

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and mysterious than was it originally supposed." Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite

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impossible that Mr Thaddeus Shulto could have been in any way concerned in the matter.

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He and the housekeeper Mrs Bernstein were both released yesterday evening. It is believed

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however that the police have a clue as to the real culprits and that is being prosecuted

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by Mr Atelny Jones of Scotland Yard with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Further

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arrests may be expected at any moment. That is satisfactory so far as it goes, Thought

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I. Friend Shulto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clue may be, though it seems

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to be stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder.

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I tossed the paper down upon the table, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement

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in the agony column. It ran in this way. Lost.

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Whereas Mordekai Smith, Boatman and his son Jim left Smith Wharf at or about 3 o'clock

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last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with

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the white band. The sum of five pounds will be paid to anyone who can give information

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to Mrs Smith at Smith's Wharf or at 221 B Baker Street as to the whereabouts of said Mordekai

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Smith and the launch Aurora. This was clearly Holmes is doing. The Baker Street address

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was enough to prove that. It struck me though as rather ingenious because it might be read

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by the fugitives without their seeing it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her

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missing husband.

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It was a long day, every time that a knock came to the door or a sharp step passed in

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the street. I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement.

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I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to a strange quest until the illusorted

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and vilianious pair whom we were put for touring. Could there be, I wondered, some radical

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thought in my companions reasoning? Might he be suffering for some huge self deception?

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Was it not possible that his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon

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faulty premises? I had never known him to be wrong, and yet the keenest reason had made

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occasionally be deceived. He was likely I thought to fall into error through the over-refinement

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of his logic, his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a planer and

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more commonplace one lay ready to hand. Yet on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence

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and I had heard the reasons for his deductions.

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When I looked back on the long chain of curious circumstances, many of them triviling themselves,

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but all tending in the same direction. I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes

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is explanations were incorrect, the true theory must be equally odd and startling.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, there was a loud peel at the bell, an authoritative voice

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in the hall, and to my surprise, no less a person than Mr. Athenali Jones was shown up to

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me. Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense

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who had taken over the case so confidently up and nor would. His expression was downcast,

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and his bearing me, and even apologetic.

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"Good day, sir." "Good day," said he, "Mr. Sherlock Holmes as out, I understand."

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"Yes, I cannot be sure when he will be back, but perhaps you would care to wait, take that

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chair and try one of these cigars."

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"Thank you, I don't mind if I do," said he, mopping his face with his red bandana hench

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chief.

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"And a whisky and solder?"

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"Well, half a glass. It is very hot for this time of year, and I have a good deal to worry

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and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood case. I remember that you expressed one."

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"Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it. I have had my neck drawn tightly around Mr.

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Shulto's ear, when pop he went through the hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove

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an alibi which could not be shaken."

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On the time he left his brother's room, he was never out of sight of someone or another,

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so it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap doors. It's a very dark case,

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and my professional credit is at stake. I should be very glad of a little assistance.

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We all need help sometimes, said I.

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Your friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful man, sir, said he, in a husky and confidential

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voice. He's a man who is not to be beat. I have known that young man go into a good many

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cases, but I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. He is a regular

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in his methods, and a little quick perhaps in jumping at theories, but on the whole, I think

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he would have made a most promising officer, and I don't care who knows it. I've had a

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wire from him this morning by which I understand that he has got some clue to this shaltoe

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business. Here is the message. He took the telegram out of his pocket and handed it to

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me. It was dated from popular at 12 o'clock. Go to Baker Street at once, it said, "If

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I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the shaltoe gang. You can

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come with us tonight if you want to be in at the finish." This sounds well. He is evidently

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picked up the cent against it, I. Then he has been at fault two exclaim chains with evidence

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satisfaction. Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course, this may prove to be

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a false alarm, but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But

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there is someone at the door, perhaps this is he. A heavy step was heard ascending the stair

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with a great wheezing and a rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath.

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Once or twice he stopped, I saw the climb were too much for him, but at last he made his

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way to our door and entered. His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard.

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He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old pea jacket buttoned up to his throat.

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His back was bowed and his knees were shaky and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As

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he leaned upon a thick, open cudgel, his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw the air into

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his lungs. He had a coloured scarf around his chin, and I could see little of his face,

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a pair of keen dark eyes, over hung by bushy white brows and a long grey side whiskers.

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Altogether he gave me the impression of a respectable master mariner who had fallen

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into the years of poverty. "Why is it my man?" I asked. He looked about him in the slow methodical

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fashion of old age. "Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?" said he.

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"No, but I am acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him."

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"It was to him himself, I was to tell it," said he. "But I tell you that I am acting for him.

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Was it about more to kiesmith's boat?" "Yes, I know where it is, and I know where the men is,

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he is after, and I know where the treasure is. I know all about it. And tell me, and I shall let him know."

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"It was to him, I was to tell it," he repeated, with the petulant, obstinacy of a very old man.

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"Well, you must wait for him." "No, no, I ain't going to lose a whole day to please no one.

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If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don't care

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about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word."

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He shuffled towards the door, but a thinly jones got in front of him.

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"Wait a bit, my friend," said he. "You have important information, and you must not walk off.

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We shall keep you, whether you like to or not until our friend returns."

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The old man made a little run towards the door, but as a thinly jones put his broad back up

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against it, he recognised the uselessness of resistance.

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Pretty sort of treatment there, so he cried, stamping his stick. "I come here to see a gentleman,

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and you too, who I've never seen in my life, sees me and treat me in this fashion."

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"You will be none the worse," I said. "We shall recompense you for the loss of your time.

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Sit here on the sofa, and you will not have a long to wait."

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He came across suddenly enough and seeed himself with a face resting on his hands.

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"Jones and I" resumed our cigars, and our talk. Suddenly, however, Holmes' voice broke in a

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pond. "I think that you might offer me a cigar too," he said. "We're both started in our chairs."

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There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quite amusement. "Homers, I explained.

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You're here, but where is the old man?" Here is the old man, said he, holding out a heap of white

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hair. Here he is, wig, whiskers, eyebrows and all. I thought my disguise was pretty good,

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but I hardly expected that it would stand that test. "You rogue," cried Jones, highly delighted.

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"You would have made an actor, and a rare one. You had a proper workhorse cough,

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and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pounds a week."

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"I thought I knew the glint of your eye, though. You didn't get away from us so easily," he said.

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"I've been working in that get-up all day," said he, lighting his cigar. "You see,

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a good many other criminal classes begin to know me, especially since our friend here took to

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publishing some of my cases, so I can only go on the wall path under some simple disguise like this."

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"You got my wire?" "Yes, that was what brought me here."

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"Has your case prospered?" "It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners,

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and there is no evidence against the other two." "Never mind. We shall give you or two others in

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the place of them, but you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official

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credit, but you must act on the line that I point out. Is that agreed?"

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"Intirely. If you will help me to the men." "Well, then, in the first place, I shall want a

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fast police boat, a steam launch, to be at the Westminster Stairs at seven o'clock."

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"That is easily managed. There is always one about there, but I can step across the road in

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telephone to make sure. Then, I shall want two starch men in case of resistance."

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"There will be two or three in the boat, what else?" "When we secure the men, we shall get the

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treasure. I think that it would be a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young

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lady, to whom half of it is rightfully belonging. Let her be the first person to open it."

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"Hey Watson, it would be a great pleasure to me." "Rather in a regular proceedings," said

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Joan, shaking his head. "However, the whole thing is regular, and I suppose we must wink at it."

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"The treasure must afterwards be handed over to the authorities until after the official

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investigation." "Certainly. That is easily managed." "One other point. I should very much like to have

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a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small himself. You know, I like the work,

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the detail of my cases out, but is there no objection to me having an unofficial interview with him?"

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"Either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long as he is efficiently guarding."

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"Well, you are the master of this situation. I have had no proof yet of the existence of this

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Jonathan Small. However, if you can catch him, I don't see how I can refuse you an interview with him."

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"That is understood then. Perfectly. Is there anything else?"

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"Only that I insist upon you dining with this. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and

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a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines." "Watson, you have never yet

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recognized my merits as a housekeeper."

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