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is

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on

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there's a very pretty young woman

crossing the

street and I think she may be coming

here incidentally I have glanced over

your latest account of my work oh

yes honestly I cannot

congratulate detection is it ought to be

an exact

science observation deduction a cold un

emotional subject you have attempted to

Ting it with Romanticism which has much

the same effect as if you'd worked a

love story or an elopment into the fifth

proposition of

uclid who can

that there's a young lady to see you Mr

Holmes

it's Mar m I have no recollection of the

name you come this way don't go doctor I

may need

you I was

right thank

you Miss [ __ ] good

afternoon I've come to you Mr Holmes

because

you once enabled my employer Mrs Cil

Forester to um unravel a minor domestic

complication she was much impressed with

your kindness and

skill thank

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you I can hardly imagine anything more

strange more utterly inexplicable than

the situation in which I find myself

State your case you will I'm sure excuse

me if your friend would be good enough

to

remain he might be of inestimable

service to me of

course briefly the facts are these

my father was an officer in an Indian

regiment my mother died when I was still

quite a child and and he was forced to

send me home despite the fact that I had

no relatives

here I was placed in a comfortable

boarding establishment at Edinburgh and

I remained there until I was 17 years of

age in that same year my father who was

a senior captain of his regiment

obtained um 12 months leave and returned

home he telegraphed to me from London to

say that he hadd arrived all safe and

directed me to come down at once giving

the langum hotel us his

address his message as I remember was

full of love and

kindness on reaching London I drove

straight to the langum hotel and was in

informed that Captain [ __ ] was staying

there but that he'd gone out the night

before and had not

returned so I

waited all

day without news of

him

and that

night on the advice of the manager of

the

hotel I communicated with the police

the next day we advertised in all the

newspapers our inquiries led to no

result from that day to

this no word has ever been heard of my

unfortunate

father he came home with his heart so

full of hope to find some peace some

comfort in

instead the

date the 3rd of December exactly 10

years

ago his

luggage remained at the hotel

oh there was nothing in it to suggest a

clue some clothes some books and a

considerable number of Curiosities from

the anderman

islands my father had been one of the

officers in charge of the conflict guard

there bson this place is a mess had you

any friends in time only one that we

know of major shalto of his own

regiment the 34th Bombay Infantry

we communicated with the major of course

but you did not seem to know that his

brother officer was in England it's a

singular

case I have not yet communicated to you

the most singular

part 4 years later an advertisement

appeared in the times asking for the

address of Mary [ __ ] and stating that

it would be to her advantage to come

forward there was no name

appended I had at the time just entered

the family of Mrs cile Forester in the

capacity of governor and on her advice I

published my address in the

advertisement

column that same day there appeared

through the post a small cardboard box

addressed to

me which I found to

contain very large lustrous

Pearl no word of writing was enclosed

and since then every year upon the same

date there has always appeared a similar

box containing a similar Pearl with no

clue as to the

sender they have been pronounced by an

expert to be of a rare variety and of of

considerable

value you can see for yourself that they

are very

handsome

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your case is most

interesting something else has occurred

to you yes and no later than

today that is why I have come to

you this letter arrived through the post

this

morning which you will perhaps read for

yourself envelope

please

London postmark October 7 man's thumb

mark on

Corner probably

Postman best quality paper six p a

packet particular man in his

station

whatson be at the third pillar from the

left outside the lysm theater tonight at

7:00 if you're distrustful bring two

friends you are a wrong woman and shall

have

Justice do not bring the police if you

do all will be in vain your unknown

friend well really this is a very pretty

little problem what do you intend to do

miss molon well that is exactly what I

want to ask you well then you and I

shall go

together what Dr Watson is the very man

your correspondence has two

friends but would he come I should be

proud and happy if I can be of any

service oh you're both very kind I've

led a retired life and have no friends

whom I could appeal

to if I'm here at six it will do I

suppose yes but you must not be later

goodbye miss Moler Goodbye Mr Holmes or

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or

by FL

Deary by

FL by FL

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Deary what a very attractive

woman it is of the first importance not

to allow your judgment to be biased by

personal qualities a client to me is a

mere unit a factor in a problem Holmes

you're an automatan a calculating

machine there's something positively in

human in you at time I assure you the

most winning woman I ever knew was

hanged for poisoning three little

children for their insurance money and

the most repellent man of my

acquaintance is a philanthropist who

spent nearly quarter of a million upon

the London poor however in this

case I never make exceptions an

exception disproves the rule I'm going

out I'll see you in a

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n

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had he any friends in time only one that

we know of major shter of his own

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regiment there's no great mystery in

this matter the facts appear to admit

only one explanation are you solved it

already I found on Consulting the back

files of the times that major schalter

of upper Norwood late the 34th Bombay

infantry died just six years

ago Mrs Hudson You're dreadfully

underf I may be very obtuse holes but I

failed to see what this suggests really

you surprised me then look at it this

way then Captain [ __ ]

disappears the only person in London

whom he could have visited is major

shalto major sh denies having heard that

he was even in London four years later

shalto dies within a week of his death

Captain Mor's daughter receives a

valuable present which is repeated from

year to year and now culminates in a

letter which describes her as a wronged

woman but what wrong can it possibly

refer to except this deprivation of her

father take

measure

G and why should these prison begin

immediately after shelter's death unless

it is but shelter's an knows something

of the mystery and Desir to make

compensation are you ready

Watson and

waiting have you any alternative theory

that will meet the facts what strange

compensation and how strangely made what

time is it it's a little past the

hour

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evening Robert even

sir why should somebody write her a

letter now rather than six years ago

again the letter speaks of giving her

justice what Justice can she have it is

too much to suppose that her father is

still alive and there is no other

Injustice in her case that you know of

there are

difficulties but there are always always

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difficulties good evening Mr Holmes I do

hope I'm not good

evening by the way a a curious paper was

found in Papa's desk which nobody could

understand I don't suppose it is of the

slightest importance but I I thought you

might like to see it so I brought it

with me

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the paper appears to be of Indian

manufacturer at some point has been

pinned to a

board the diagram upon it appears to be

the plan part of a large building with

numerous Halls corridors and

passages there's a cross in red ink and

beside it is written 3.37 from

left there is a curious hieroglyphic

the sign of

fall K sing indent Sing jagadish Sing

Jonathan small the paper has been kept

carefully in a pocketbook the one side

is as clean as the

other it was in his pocket book that we

found it deserve it kathin was

most I begin to suspect that this case

may be much deeper and more subtle than

I had at First

supposed

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no

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no CH

no

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hey are you the part you come with Miss

[ __ ] I am Miss [ __ ] and these two

gentlemen are my companions I must ask

you to give me your word that neither of

your companions is a police officer I

give you my word

B some snow

l

s awaits

you show them in K muda show them

straight in to

me your servant Miss

[ __ ] your servant to

gentleman come in come in come in come

in to to my uh my little

sanctum I I I trust you have no

objection to uh tobacco

smoke the balic odor of Eastern

tobacco I am a little

nervous and I I find my hooker to be an

invaluable

stif you will excuse me Mr shalto but I

am here at your request to learn

something which you desire to tell me it

is getting very late and I should wish

the interview to be as short as

possible

but it must take some

time before

we have to go to

norward to see brother

Bartholomew we must all

see if we can get the

better

of brother

Bartholomew he is angry with me

for taking the course that has

seemed right to

me you cannot imagine what a terrible

fellow he

is when he is

angry if we are to go to Norwood it

would perhaps be as well if we were to

start at once

no no that would hardly do I don't know

what he would say if we came upon him in

that sudden way no I I must prepare You

by showing you where we all

stand to to to each

other I must uh lay the

facts before

you as I know them

myself my father

the late Major John

Shoto came to live at poner

Lodge in

Norwood some 11 years

ago he had prospered in India and

brought back with him a considerable sum

of money a collection of valuable

Curiosities and a staff of native

servants with these

advantages he lived in great

luxury my brother and I were at

University at the time we did know

however that that some mystery some

positive

danger overhung our

father he was very fearful of going out

alone and he employed two PR R fighters

to guard him Williams who drove you here

tonight uh was one of them for some

reason he never told anyone my father

had a marked aversion to men with wooden

legs on one occasion he actually fired

his revolver at a one-legged

man a harmless Tradesman as it turned

out

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well I I'll remember we had to pay a

considerable sum to I it

up then

suddenly my

father received a

letter it was obviously

a a great shock to

him

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out out of the

room out of the

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room what was

in the

letter we could never

discover for years my father had

suffered with an enlarged

spleen and from that moment on he became

rapidly

worse one night the doctor informed us

there was no

hope and that he wished to make a last

communication to

us

my dear

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s when we were in

India my

friend Boston and

I came into possession of a a

considerable

treasure I brought

it home with me to this

house where it still

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Li on the day that

[ __ ] arrived home from the

East he

came and straight to this

house to

claim his

share we gave our word shto a promise we

give our word and our oath stop fabling

them another life another world a solemn

promise if you Tred to betray me [ __ ]

if you dare to cross

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me my

God the man is dead now you have nothing

to fear sir I will arrange everything

this and so it was done Miss [ __ ] in

secrecy of course but with

respect this is disgraceful Mr schelter

your father's Behavior was quite

unforgivable please

doctor I knew in my heart that he was

dead my father was not a

Wellman I'm only glad he did not suffer

you're very brave Miss [ __ ]

what concerns me now is the reason for

this quarrel I cannot imagine how my

father came to be involved with that

treasure I'm afraid that that is not

clear to to me miss m I can only tell

you my father's instructions concerning

it my

my of poor [ __ ]

often

the the the

greed a cursed greed that has been my

besetting sin throughout my life has has

robbed her of the

treasure half of which at

least should be

hers you see

that

chap

there on the queen botle

I had the design of of sending it to

her

but I could not bear to part with

them

you my

sons will see that Miss [ __ ] gets her

share of the

treasure

pass

the

treasure is just

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hidden get him

away for Christ sake get him

away we ran to the window and out into

the garden but the Intruder was gone my

father was

dead we soon had more striking proof

that there were secret agencies at work

all around us the next day my father's

bedroom was broken into and this was

fixed to his

chest

remarkable it is the siik symbol for the

numero

four

what the paper means and who our secret

visitor or visitors were we we never

found

out my my brother and I were much

excited as you can imagine of the

treasure my father had spoken but try as

we might we couldn't find it it was

maddening to think that the hiding place

was on his very lips when he when he

died we could judge the splendor of the

riches by the Chaplet that he had taken

out the pearls were evidently of Great

Value and my brother was a verse to part

with them for between friends he was a

little inclined to my father's fault and

it was all I could do was to persuade

him to allow me to send Miss [ __ ] a

detached Pearl at regular intervals so

that she would not feel

destitute it was a kindly thought

it was very good of you

well we were your trustees that was the

way I looked at it although my brother

did not altogether see it in that light

we had plenty of money ourselves it

would have been in

such bad taste to have treated a young

lady in so scurvy a

fashion

yesterday an event of extreme importance

occurred

we found the

treasure hence my instant

communication to you Miss [ __ ] now all

we have to do is to drive to

Norwood and claim our

share we shall be uh expected if not

entirely welcome visitors you have done

well from first to last Mr

schelter my health is somewhat

fragile I am compelled to be a valid

judin

Arian

pleas

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we dug up every inch of the garden

without discovering

anything brother Bartholomew is such a

clever

fellow do you know how he found out

where the treasure was tell

me he made measurements everywhere all

along the top along the side inside and

he found out he was 4 foot out at the

top we found our father had made a false

room and and so he smashed through the

the L and the plaster and and there was

the the treasure chest lying across the

the

rafters he has computed the value of the

treasure to be more than 1 half million

Sterling

Mrs

burnstone Mrs burnstone is the only lady

in the house um wait

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here Mr thus I'm so glad you come I'm so

glad you come

sir

what a strange

place looks as if all the moles in

England have been let loosen

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it there's something a Miss with B you

the house my nurse won't

St

oh bless sweet C face oh but I've been

sorely tried this day hi Mrs

bstone Mr baralu shut himself in his

room and I can't get a word out of him

his bed hasn't been slept in and he

hasn't been down for any food I dare not

disturb him at his work you know what he

like when at his work look after him

miss

m

there now do try to calm down look I'm

sure everything will be all right I do

hope you're all right Miss sit down

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over come on come

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on

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which is the

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dog

there's something devilish in this

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mon

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the sign of fall again what in God's

name does it mean it means murder

we brought the treasure down there last

night we put it

there now it's G what time is

that I don't know 6 or or

7:00 I I heard him lock the door after

after I

left must have been the last person to

to see him

alive and now he's

dead I think I did it I think it was me

I wouldn't why I wouldn't have asked you

to why I'll go mad I know gently gently

gently Mr Shelton I suggest that you go

down to the police station and tell them

everything that you know we shall wait

here until you return

Holmes look at this careful forgive me

it's poisoned

H well Watson we have a little time

let's make the most of it oh this is an

insoluble mystery to me it grows darker

instead of clearer no no no no it clears

every instant I only required a few

missing links to have an entirely

connected case simple as the case seems

now there may be something deeper

underlying it now how did these people

come and how did they go people well it

takes more than one perhaps more than

two to remove a heavy treasure chest to

a place like this the door has not been

open since last night so how about these

windows sned on the

inside hinges

the roof quite Out Of Reach no drain pip

near and yet someone has entered this

way look

Watson is that scuff on the

Sill

look at this

SP and this and this this is a very

pretty demonstration but that that's not

a footmark something much more valuable

to us this is the mark of a boot and

this and this the

mark of the Timber toe he's just a

wooden Leed

man and someone

else a very able and efficient Ally

could you scale that wall

Watson absolutely impossible I a it it

is so but suppose you had a friend who

lowered you this good stal rope securing

at first to this ring I think if you

were an active man you'd be able to

swarm up wooden leg at all you would

Depart of course in the same fashion and

then your friend would pull up the

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Rope close the window snet on the inside

and depart in the manner he originally

came well the thing grows more

unintelligible than ever how about this

mysterious Ally how did he get into the

room yes this Ally he he lifts this case

from the regions of the common place but

the door is locked the

window

inaccessible the Great's too small how

then you will not follow my precept how

often have I said to you but once you

have eliminated the impossible whatever

remains however improbable must be the

truth he must have come in through the

roof excellent Watson hold this lamp Let

Us carry our res to the room above the

secret room which the treasure was

found the

skyl holes a child has done this horrid

thing my memory failed me or I should

have been able to forell

it theyve learned all we can From Here

let us go

down what is your theory about those

foot marks my dear wson try a little

analysis yourself you know my methods

apply them I cannot conceive of anything

that will cover the

facts you will

soon

when in

luck our little

Ally has trod in the cread oh oh you

fond of animals is he yes very good

lovely

fire well well well well quite a nice

little place you got here

indeed that is the accredited

representatives of the Lord unless I'm

very very much mistaken now

Watson before they come what do you make

of this poor fellow the muscles are a

stiff as a board a state of extreme

contraction far exceeding the usual WI M

quite so coupled with this Distortion of

the face the hypocritic smile grea

Sedonas as the old writers call it what

would that suggest to your

mind death from a powerful vegetable

alkaloid some strictly like substance

that produces

teetus

well to the light come along gentlemen

to the right pop the St

this

Thorn not an English

Thorn I think it is not right that miss

m remain in this stricken house I

suggest you step away and take her home

Watson and then go on to three pinch in

Lane Lamberth and ask for Toby three

pinch in Lane I'd rather have Toby's

Health than that of the whole detective

force of London

well here's a pretty

business place is as full as a Rabbid

Warren I think you may recollect

me Mr FY

Jones

why of course I

do Mr Sherlock Holmes the the deest I'll

never forget the way you lectured us all

about the bishop gate jewel

case true you set us on the right track

then but I think you'll own now it was

more by good luck than good guidance it

was a a very simple reasoning oh come

now come never be ashamed to own

up but

uh what is all

this it's a bad business Bad

Business Stern facts

here no room for theories it's lucky I

happened to be up and norward on another

case when I got the message how do you

think this man died now this is not a

case for me to theorize over no no still

we can't deny you hit the nail on the

head

sometimes

door locked I understand

Jewels worth a fortune missing how with

the windows fastened but there was a

footstep on the sill Windows fastened

nothing to do with its Common

Sense n could have died in a fit I

suppose I have a

theory these flashes come to me

sometimes Sergeant outside of you please

and you too Mr

sh what do you think of this

Holmes shto has confessed he was with

his brother last

night brother dies in a fit shter walks

off for the treasure how about that

whereupon the dead man very

considerately gets up and locks the door

from the

inside

hi

there's a flaw there

somewhere let us apply common sense to

the matter they were brothers there was

a

quadrel brother

Bartholomew dead Jewels gone and master

thus evidently in a disturbed State of

Mind his appearance well not attractive

you

see I'm weaving a web around thus the

net begins to close upon

Him

Jones that

splinter which I firmly believe to be

poisoned that card and that curiously

shaped instrument were lying there on

the

table confirms my my

theory in every

respect the house is full of Indian

Curiosities all points to

thadius

but how did he

escape there is a trap door in the roof

Sergeant pray ask Mr shalto to step this

way is see facts are better than

theories after all my view of the case

is confirmed there is a trapdor

communicating with roof and it is partly

open it was I who opened

it Mr thus shter it is my duty to inform

you that anything you say will be taken

down and may be used in evidence against

you I arrest you in the Queen's name as

being concerned in the death of your

brother I did didn't I tell you that

don't trouble yourself Mr shter I think

I can engage to clear you of this charge

don't promise too much Mr theorist you

may find it a harder matter than you

think not only will I clear Mr shalto

but I will give you a description of the

two men who were in this room last night

one was a poorly educated man strong

active with his right leg off wearing a

stump worn away on the inner side his

left boot has a coarse square toe

Soul he has an iron band around the

heel he's much sunburned middle-aged and

has a certain amount of skin missing

from the palm of one

hand and the other

one he's rather a curious

person I hope before long to be able to

introduce you to the pair of

them

Watson go to three Pinchin Lane lamber

and ask for

Toby I'd rather have Toby's help and

that of the whole detective force of

London

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Mr

Toby Mr

Toby Mr Toby get out of it you dun and

holigan go on get out of it or turn my

dogs on you all 43 of them I'm looking

for Mr

Toby I got a wiper in this bag and I'll

tip it out over your head if you don't

hook it it's urgent that I find him I

won't be arguing with one two three and

down I've come for Mr Sherlock

Holmes

Mr Sherlock holes well who would have S

it there are

C

dear from Mr Sherlock H why didn't you

say so come

in my one there cuz he bites something

withous oh yes he does now naughty

naughty don't you bite gentlemen this

gentleman is a friend of Mr Sherlock

Holmes and any friend of Mr Sherlock h

is a friend of

mine I don't mind him he'll just give

you a nice friendly squeeze I'll give

him the run of the room because he keeps

down the beetle something

beautiful now what did you say Mr

Sherlock wanted Toby Toby yes Toby oh

well Toby's number seven there along on

the left here you give him these and

Toby will go along with you that's quite

as a lamb hey Toby wake up come on

there's work for you to do a gentleman

come here to see you

Toby come

on it do make me laugh sometimes as

Toby come on come on come on

wson it's all right Officer it's Mr

Holmes coach Run come on

Toby

well done you've got

Toby

come here comes blondon I'm coming

down

homes look at these

ones I found them in the gutter oh thank

you Mrs

Bon you smell the

creot a found Jones arrested not only

Thaddius but the gamekeeper the

gatekeeper and two of the Indian

servants I was lucky to escape myself

what hellish thing Watson are you on for

a bit of a trudge of

course you and Toby game is they come

when there's a good holding scent Now

find him go Toby

SP seek Toby seek go seek

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Him spended won

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spended

lucky the rail has

stopped the scent will lie on the road

in spite of their

start ah How Sweet the morning air

is have you brought your pistol once no

I have my stick we may need it if we get

to the land Al Peg I'll leave to you be

the Ally to me come

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now what the juice is the matter with

the

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dog

they took a

boat they said they didn't take a cab or

a balloon they must have been met at the

water's

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edge

Toby

Toby

Toby

kby

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kby he's lost his character for

infallibility no no no no T is not to

B those barrels are filled with

Creos the Cent is divided so like good

Huntsman Watson we must cast the dog

again and find the true one

Tabby

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Tabby well out of luck they've taken a

boat from

here these people are clever than I

thought now Watson these people show

precon seted management

here modai

Smith you come back here and have your

face washed Jack oh you young I I'll get

your dad to give you a proper Ida when

he gets

back ay cheek young R SCH is there

anything you'd like Jack I'd like it's

shilling

fine young Lads you've got there Mrs

Smith Lord bless you sir he is that and

forward he gets almost too much for me

to manage especially when my man is away

days at a time ah it's a Pity about that

I was hoping to hide a boat from him a

steam launch well bless you sir is in

the steam launch that he is gone ah

didn't like the bloker did the eye not

at all very rough with a wooden leg come

taping at our window in the middle of

the night and a way they went without a

word to me now this man with a wooden

leg was he alone seemed he might have

had an animal with

him a dog don't look like no dog to me

sir more like something you find in the

zoo it's a prity about the launch it's

the old green bird with a yellow l oh no

no sir no the Aurora has just been fresh

painted black with gold trim ah there of

course with the white funnel no sir

black funnel ah yes of course well thank

you Mrs Smith goodbye Jack

boy the main thing with people of that

sort is never to let them think that

information is of the slightest

importance to you if you do they will

instantly shut up like an

oyster well our course seems pretty

clear now what would you do

then get on the track of the Aurora it

would take days we got months to search

every war for landing place and yard

between here and grenage what do you

propose as our quar has no reason to

fear that he's being hunted I propose

first of all a bath and shave and then a

good meal and then some hours of sleep

at the same time mobilizing the Baker

Street division of the detective police

force

in other words the

Irregulars oh the energetic Jones and

the uous reporter have fixed up the case

between them Watson look at

this yeah

this

Mr Jones's trained and experienced

faculties were at once directed towards

the detection of the

criminals his well-known technical

knowledge and powers of minute

observation well it gets better

still The Prompt and energetic action of

the officers of the law shows the great

advantage of a single vigorous and

masterful

mind isn't it gorgeous had a close shade

from being arrested ourselves I wouldn't

answer for our safety now if he has

another of his attacks of

energy could

have

sorry said nothing of

this you cannot Poss

go it's all right Mrs Hudson they are my

guests

look that's

off I got your message I bought them up

sharp free Bob and a tenner for the

tickets now

Wiggins in future they can report to you

and you to me I cannot have the house

invaded in this way oi stop

that sorry

no I want you to find the steamboat

Aurora Aurora owner modai

Smith black with gold trim Richmond to

Graves end both sides of the river right

sir how much old scal pay a guinea to

the boy who finds the

boat here is a day in

advance

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if the launch is above water the

Irregulars will find

her they can go everywhere see

everything if a man had an easy task

this of ours ought to be wooden-legged

men are not so common and this other man

must be

unique

the Aborigines of the Andaman Islands

May perhaps claim the distinction of

being the smallest race upon this

Earth they are the fierce morose and

intractable people they're capable of

forming the most devoted friendships

when their confidence has once been

gained they have always been a teror to

Shipwrecked

Crews braining the survivors with their

stonee headed clubs or shooting them

with

with poisoned

arrows these massacres are usually

concluded by a cannibal

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Feast

nice amiable

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people

and what time would you like your dinner

Mr H how past 8 The Day After

Tomorrow you wear yourself out old man I

heard you marching about all night you

really must get some rest I can't sleep

this infernal problem is consuming me no

news none none whatsoever the whole

River's been searched from both sides

Mrs Smith's not HED from my husband it's

too much to be bulked by so petty an

obstacle when all else has been

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overcome

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say

anything n

nothing

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wa shovel you feel up come

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my I won't kill you again

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boy

with a nice little craft right is a good

boat this we built a rear in this yard

vastest boat on the river what's she in

for refers to a Rudder that's the order

I can't find anything to mess with it I

want in the Water by 6:00 tonight fully

cold and steam up right Mr Smith she'll

be ready 6:00 sharp mine for have two

gentlemen that'll not be kept

waiting right

it's this Norwood case Doctor I had a

great deal to worry and try me and this

case is a very dark one

too thank you I should be most grateful

for Mr Holmes's help your friend is a

wonderful man and not to be

beat well you may be in for a long wait

no I don't think

so go to Baker Street at once if I not

returned wait for me I am close on the

track of the

shalang come with us tonight if you want

to be in at the kill good so he's on the

scent

again he's been at fault too is

he even the best of us are thrown off

sometimes yes Sherlock Holmes what is it

are you Mr Sherlock Holmes no but I'm AC

acting for him I've come about

this but if you have any information you

may give it to

me there's a reward is it about the

steam launch Aurora I'm telling no one

but Mr Sherlock Holm no no no come come

inside I'm a police

officer you look like one no you will be

recompensed for your loss of time you

will not have long to wait sit

down

cigar Mr Jones oh thank you very

much as I was saying doctor I consider

your friend Mr Sherlock Holmes is a man

not to be beat he would have made a most

promising police officer I don't care

who knows it with a little more

discipline and a lot less Theory thank

you you might offer me one

you roll you you would have made an

actor and a rare one you had the proper

workhouse cough and those weak legs are

yours they worth £1 each a police

officer I'm flattered Jones I shall need

a police launch at the Westminster steps

the fastest you have two star men

yourself myself Watson all of us armed

that is easily arranged I will telephone

the local

station we go to the tower stop upit

Jacobson's

yard how did you find the Aurora then

well I reasoned that the launch couldn't

be far off in spite of its invisibility

so gentlemen where could it be well out

of the water I suppose in a repair or

boat Builder's yard

exactly

one of my boys is waiting by the yard to

give us the signal you planned it all

very neatly Mr Holmes but if the affair

were in my hands I should have a body of

police in the yard and arrested them

when they came down which would have

been never this man small is a pretty

shrewd fellow anything suspicious and he

would lie snug for another

week sir we're opposite Jacobson yard

now shall we move Downstream a little no

this mist may be of advantage to us we

must lie low and

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wait

your boy signaling I can see him

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plainly

there's the Aurora going like the devil

she is very fast I doubt if we shall

catch her we must catch her pil it on

stokers I'll never forgive myself if she

puts to have the heels of

us Pasta Pasta the the

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go

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p on the coal

stoker we must have a even if we burn

the boat

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keep the light steady I can almost make

out his

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companion

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we weade

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I it arer given all the steam you've

got I think we gained a

little I'm sure we should be up with

here in a

minute

move the light more to the

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left keep it

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steady

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raing

Z

what's happening on that

boat they're fighting

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among

pegler

police he

to go go R

help we all our

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what the

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look what a

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face

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hey

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yeah

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oh

wait

wait let him R himself

out

all

so Jonathan

small I'm sorry it just come to

this and so am I

sir then I give you my word gentlemen I

never laid hands on young Mr shelto of

course you didn't your little friend's

Dart killed him while you were still

climbing the

Rope

you speak as if you were

there well if it had been all major

shter I would have swung for him with a

li

heart but to be lagged over this young

should

was

cured must make a clean breast of it if

you do I may be of used

to quite a family

party to P that flask

myself

now how are you going

small here has moraler at Grave's end

upward BN for the Brazil I nearly made

it another man at the engines and you'd

never have caught

us where's the key my

man at the bottom of the

river now look here we've had enough of

you tonight more bring the cut in man

I'm warning you it's all right C we're

nearly at the

steps I suggest that we go back to Baker

Street and I think Miss [ __ ] should be

there what

that's not the regulation way Mr Holmes

well I can at least promise you a nice

warming

drink very well

gentlemen well miss

[ __ ] I am pleased and proud to have

been able to bring the thief to

justice justice

a pretty

Justice whose loot is this if it is not

ours where is the justice that I should

give it up to those that have never

earned it you forget' we know nothing of

this

matter we cannot tell how far Justice

may have originally been on your

side well

sir you had been very fair spoken to

me though I con see that it's you that I

have to thank for

these these bracelets on my

wrist still I bear no grudge for

that if you want to hear my story I have

no wish to hold it back and what I say

to you is God's

truth every word of

it

when I was a

lad I took the queen shillin and was

posted out to India with the third

Buffs

a crocodile snapped this off when I was

bathing in the

ganes

well the sore bones had my stump in the

tire Barrel nice and

quick I was young and

strong I got my discharge and this

fellow it's been a good Sur report to

me so there I was a [ __ ] of

20 but I liked it out

there so I found myself a job as an

overseer on an indigo

Farm was on Horseback all day so that

was

fine but I was never in luck for

long without a note of warning the great

Mutiny was on

us I can't came back to the farm one

evening to find my master and all his

family had been

murdered I didn't wait by that same

evening I was in the Ford of Agra the

nearest city still held by the

British the old Ford of Agra it's queer

Place

huge it's full of passages and

rooms more entrances than you can count

there were many gates and because I was

an ex Soldier and British they put me in

charge of one of them and gave me a

couple of siks who'd stayed loyal to

us was a lonely

place my two punjabis were experienced

fighting

men Kart sing and Indigent

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Singh

Rebel no sah the fort is

safe there are no Rebels this side of

the

river you must be with us or you must be

silenced forever with you how we want

you to be rich which is why you British

came to this

land well I have no objection to being

rich then swear by the bones of your

father to raise no hand and speak no

word against us now or ever

afterwards then you will have quarter of

the

treasure but there are only three of us

Jag Singh my foster brother he must have

his

share there is no time

s

decide well provided the Ford is in no

kind of

danger I

swear what would you have done Mr

Holmes I strongly suspect I'd have done

exactly as you

did yes I know the seik he's not a man

to be trifled

with one of their local

Rogers Rich's Crees of course he'd gone

in with the rebels

but he wanted to hedge his

bet just in case the British came out on

top so he made a plot to get half his

treasure hidden in the Ford of

Agra sending one of his men with it in

the guise of a

merchant and jagod sing kar's brother to

be the guide they come challenge him in

the usual way give him no cause for the

fear what that then we will do what has

to be

done who goes

there friend

s the Vance will be

recognized what have you with

you a box old box having some family

papers no good to nobody side only for

myself

S I am no ordinary

beggar you will have money s and

Governor s

also

take him to the main guard

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room

never was a man more compassed round

with

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death

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if AED had escaped the whole affair

would have come out I should have been

shot most

like which of you would have held back

his

musket Cara was for burning him that's

their religion but such a fire was

impossible

POS jagod dish was for throwing him down

into the great ditch below the fort for

the Jackal to clean

up no doubt he was

right I was for showing some respect for

the

dead then we turned to the

Box this

box inside were more gems than I could

ever even have dreamed of

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143 diamonds of the first water

including the great Mogul the second

largest stone in

existence 97

emeralds 170

rubies 40 carbunkle 61 a

Gates

jagadish was right it was a great

mistake you made burying the body as you

did would you not say so

Watson yes indeed the body not burned in

India is soon discovered so you and your

three companions were found guilty and

sent away for life to the penal colony

and the anderman islands Blair Island

was a Hope

Town never was a place worse

named it was a place to

sweat a place to

rot a place to

die and I sweated there year after year

until your father arrived Mr

Austin

cor you will not maltreat the white

prisoner if that was again you'll be

caught

Marshal he was our administrative

officer and he gave me a nice cushy

Billet in the

dispensary he was as good and kind a

Christian gentleman as I ever come

across and I hold no grudge against him

oh you

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miss thank you Mr

small well as I sat thinking about the

treasure I could see all the officers

and the prison officials that they're

the drinking and they're

gambling major shelto never had much

luck night after night he was the

loser some people are born like that

it's all up with me [ __ ] I'm

ruined I shall have to send in my

papers I don't suppose you could manage

another a couple of hundred hey I've had

a pretty nasty face of myself and I have

a daughter back home to support and I've

got two wretched Sons ruin hey damn

pity

so you decided to approach your

benefactor Captain

[ __ ] he was often in the dispensary the

tropical climate didn't agree with him

his heart was weak and his blood was all

poisoned knowing that he would wish to

share any arrangement with his friend

the officer in command major schelter

yes sir it seemed the safest way it is

your own private concern over which of

course you have the power of disposing

as you think

best thank you for that advice sir thank

you

indeed but the fact is being in the

position I am I need

help so of

help I need a

partner well I'm sure major schelter and

myself would like to help you if we

could we could at least talk about it

that is of course if we can agree as to

terms there's only one bargain a man in

my position can

make in exchange for my freedom and that

of my three companions we shall give you

a fifth share to divide between you you

a

fifth that isn't very much 50,000 at the

least anyway how can we possibly give

you your freedom you know it's

impossible all we need is a boat and

Provisions there are plenty of little

yachts and Ys in Kata or

Madras well enough to serve our

purpose If Only They were just the one

of you none none or all we have sworn it

it the four of us must always act

together

now calm yourself short C yourself calm

yourself think about it man think about

it small is a man of his word he will

not abandon his

friends I think I think we may very well

trust

him we met the next morning in the small

hours I had our written agreement in

every

detail we being officers in the army of

her majesty Queen Victoria we being

officers in the army of her majesty

Queen Victoria do swear on the Holy

Bible that this agreement will always

remain sacred and binding to us to swear

on the Holy Bible that this agreement

will always remain sacred and binding to

us I gave each of them a plan showing

the position of the treasure

look at

that that brings back

memories shter took the expert to India

found the treasure and took it back with

him to England yes when we had the news

Captain [ __ ] was as angry as I was he

swore to me he would go home and settle

the matter with

shelter

so he would if he

lived but that was not to

be from that day I lived only for

vengeance

I thought of it by

day I nursed it by night to get to

shalto dab my hands on his throat that

was my one

thought as luck would have it one of the

Islanders have been brought into my

dispensary more than half dead from a

snake bite and in common Humanity I did

my best for him somehow he pulled

through and became

very devoted to

me a funny little

fell well you gentlemen caught a glimpse

of him yourselves No Doubt last

night he was Storch and true as little

Tonga no man ever had a more faithful

mate being by trade a fisherman he had a

goodish sized native boat and he agreed

to try to escape with

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me

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after 10 days we were picked up by a

Trader with a cargo of pilgrims from

Malay Bound for

jida after many months we worked our way

across the world to

London

a remarkable

account and now I think Miss [ __ ] might

like to see the great agura treasure

which will surely make her one of the

richest young ladies in England Watson

there's no key I'm sure our old poker

will

oblige

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this is your doing small yes I put the

treasure away where you shall never lay

hand on

it no living man or woman has any right

to it unless it is the three men in the

anderman convict barracks and

myself I know now that I cannot have the

use of it no more can

they but I have acted all along for them

as much as for

myself it's been the sign of four with

us

always where is

it where the key

is and where little tonger

is I saw your launch Mis catches and I

saw a little Tonga go over the

side I put the loot in a safe place you

are deceiving us small if you had wished

to throw the treasure into the temps it

would have been easier to have thrown

box at all easier for me to throw and

easier for you to

recover was clever enough to hunt me

down is clever enough to pick up a box

from the bottom of the

river I am sorry no I'm glad the

treasure is

lost it's been nothing but a curse to

every man who was owned

it an early death to my poor

father and slavery for life to me and my

companions I spent the first half of my

life life digging a break water in the

andamans and I'm likely to spend the

other half digging ditches on D

more well Holmes duty is Duty and I've

gone rather far in bringing him here I

shall feel more at ease when I have our

Storyteller here under lock and key I am

obliged to you for your

assistance good day to you Dr W

miss

m ah after you small you seem a bit

handy with that Wooden Leg of

yours

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I feel most ashamed that you Mr Holmes

and you dear Dr Watson have had to put

yourselves into such Peril on my behalf

oh that's all over and forgotten Mrs

Forester has sent her carriage for Miss

[ __ ] I'll impose on you no longer

gentleman you must be exhausted yes I

confess the reaction is already upon me

I should be as limp as a rag for a week

I'm so very grateful to you for clearing

my father's

name

I'm so very grateful to you

both seems so

unfair you've done all the work in this

business and aeli Jones gets all the

credit what remains for

you for me the pleasure of having solved

an interesting case almost

single-handed and for you not I the

pleasure of writing it up in your

usual fled and romantic

Style

what a very attractive

woman was

she I hadn't

noticed

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