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Chapter 5 of The Sign of the 
four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

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This LibriVox recording is in 
the public domain. 

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Chapter 5, the tragedy of 
pondicherry Lodge. 

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It was nearly eleven o'clock. 
When we reach this final stage 

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of our nights Adventures, we had
left the damp fog of the great 

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City behind us and the night was
fairly fine. 

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A warm wind blew from the 
westward and heavy clouds moved 

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slowly across the sky, with half
a moon peeping occasionally 

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through the Rifts. 
It was clear enough to see for 

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some distance, but Thaddeus 
sholto took down one of the side

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lamps from The Carriage to give 
us a better light upon our way. 

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Pondicherry Lodge stood in its 
own grounds and was Gert round 

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with a very high stone. 
Wall topped with broken glass, a

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single narrow iron, clamps door 
form. 

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The only means of entrance on 
this, our guide knocked with a 

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peculiar Postman like rat tat. 
Who is there? 

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Cried. 
A Gruff voice from within it? 

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Is I McMurdo you surely know my 
Knock. 

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By this time, there was a 
grumbling sound and the clanking

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and jarring of keys, the door, 
swung heavily back and a short, 

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deep chested, man. 
Stood in the opening with the 

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yellow light of the lantern 
shining upon his protruded face 

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and twinkling distrustful eyes. 
That you mr. 

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Thaddeus. 
But who are the others? 

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I had no orders about them from 
the master. 

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No McMurdo. 
You surprised me. 

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I told my brother last night 
that I should bring some 

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friends. 
He ain't been out his room 

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today. 
Mr. Thaddeus, and I have no 

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orders, you know, very well that
I must stick to regulations. 

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I can let you in, but your 
friends must just stop where 

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they are. 
This was an unexpected obstacle.

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Thaddeus sholto looked about him
in a perplexed and helpless 

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manner. 
This is too bad of you McMurdo. 

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He said, if I guarantee them 
that's enough for you, there is 

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the young lady to. 
She can't wait on the public 

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road at this hour. 
Very sorry, mr. 

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Thaddeus said the porter, 
inexorably vote, maybe a friends

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of yours and yet no friends are 
the Masters. 

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He paid me well to do my duty 
and my do L. 

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Do, I don't know, none of your 
friends. 

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Oh, yes, you do. 
McMurdo cried, Sherlock, Holmes,

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Genie, Ali. 
I don't think you can have 

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forgotten me. 
Don't you remember the amateur 

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who fought three rounds with you
at Alison's rooms on the night 

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of your benefit tour years back?
Not mr. 

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Sherlock Holmes Road, the 
prizefighter God's truth. 

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How could I have mistook you if 
instead of standing there? 

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So quiet, you just stepped up 
and give me that cross it of 

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yours under the jaw. 
I don't know new without 

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question. 
Your one that is wasted your 

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gifts. 
You have you might have aimed 

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high, if you join the fancy, You
see Watson, if all else fails me

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I have still one of the 
scientific professions open to 

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me said Holmes laughing have 
friend won't keep us out in the 

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cold now I am sure in your come 
sir in you come you and your 

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friends. 
He answered very sorry. 

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Mr. Thaddeus but orders are very
strict at the be certain of your

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friends before I let em in. 
Inside a gravel path, wound 

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through desolate grounds to a 
huge clump of a house square and

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prosaic all plunged in Shadow 
save where a Moonbeam struck, 

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one corner and glimmered in a 
Garret window, the vast size of 

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the building with its Gloom and 
it's deathly. 

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Silence. 
Struck a chill to the heart. 

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Even Thaddeus, sholto seemed ill
at ease and the lantern quivered

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and rattled in his hand. 
I cannot understand it. 

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He said, There must be some 
mistake. 

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I distinctly told Bartholomew 
that we should be here and yet 

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there is no light in his window.
I do not know what to make of 

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it. 
Does he always guard the 

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premises in this way? 
Asked Holmes. 

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Yes. 
He has followed my father's 

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custom. 
He was the favorite son, you 

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know, and I sometimes think that
my father may have told him more

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than he ever told me that is 
Bartholomew's window up there 

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where the Moonshine strikes, it 
is quite bright but there is no 

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light from within, I think none 
said Holmes. 

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But I see the glint of light in 
that little window beside the 

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door. 
Oh, that is the housekeeper's 

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room. 
That is where old mrs. 

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Bernstone sits, she can tell us 
all about it, but perhaps you 

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would not mind waiting here for 
a minute or two. 

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For if we all go in together and
she has no word of our coming, 

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she may be alarmed, but hush, 
what is that? 

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He held up the Lantern and his 
hand shook until the circles of 

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light flickered and wave, it all
around us, miss morstan seized 

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my wrist. 
And we all stood with thumping 

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Hearts straining. 
Our ears from the great black 

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house there sounded through the 
Silent Night, the saddest and 

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most pitiful of sounds, the 
shrill broken whimpering of a 

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frightened woman, It is mrs. 
Bernstone said sholto she is the

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only woman in the house. 
Wait here. 

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I shall be back in a moment. 
He heard for the door and 

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knocked in his peculiar way. 
We could see a tall old woman 

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admit him and sway with pleasure
at the very sight of him. 

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I'll mr. 
Thaddeus sir. 

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I'm so glad you've come. 
I am so glad you've come mr. 

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Thaddeus sir. 
We heard her reiterated 

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rejoicings until the door was 
closed and her voice died away 

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into a muffled monotone. 
I'll guided left us the lantern 

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homes. 
Swung, it slowly round and 

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peered keenly at the house and 
at the great rubbish heaps, 

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which cumbered the grounds Miss 
morstan and I stood together and

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her hand was in mine. 
A wondrous subtle thing is love 

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for here. 
We were to had never seen each 

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other before that day. 
Between whom no word or even 

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look of affection had ever 
passed and yet. 

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Now, in an hour of trouble hands
in Think of Lee sort for each 

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other. 
I have marveled at it since, but

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at the time, it seemed the most 
natural thing that I should go 

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out to her. 
So and as she has often told me 

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there was in her. 
Also, the instinct to turn to me

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for comfort and protection. 
So we stood hand in hand, like 

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two children and there was peace
in our hearts, for all the dark 

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things that surrounded us, what 
a strange place, she said, 

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looking around. 
It looks as though all the moles

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in England of Let loose in it. 
I've seen something of the sort 

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on the side of a hill near 
Ballarat, where the Prospectors 

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have been at work. 
And from the same cause said, 

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Holmes these are the traces of 
the treasure-seekers. 

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You must remember that they were
six years looking for it. 

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No wonder that the grounds look 
like a gravel pit at that 

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moment. 
The door of the house burst open

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and Thaddeus sholto. 
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thrown forward and Terror in his
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There is something amiss with 
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He cried. 
I am frightened, my nerves. 

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Can't stand it. 
He was DDOS, blubbering with 

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fear and is twitching feeble 
face peeping out from the great 

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astrakhan. 
Collar. 

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Had the helpless appealing 
expression of a terrified Child.

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Come into the house, said Holmes
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Yes, do pleaded Thaddeus sholto.
I really do not feel equal to 

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giving directions. 
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housekeeper's room, which stood 
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passage. 
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down with a scared, look and 
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the site of Miss morstan 
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effect upon her. 
God bless your sweet. 

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Calm face. 
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SOB. 
It does me. 

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Good to see you. 
Oh, but I have been sorely. 

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Tried this day. 
I'll companion patted her sin 

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work, Warren hand and murmured. 
Some few words of kindly womanly

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Comfort, which brought the color
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Bloodless cheeks, Masters, 
locked himself in and will not 

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answer me, she explained all 
day. 

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I've waited to hear from him for
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an hour ago I feared that 
something was amiss. 

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So I went up and peeped Through 
the Keyhole you must go up mr. 

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Thaddeus. 
You must go up and look for Elf 

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I seen mr. 
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sorrow for 10 long years, but I 
never saw him was such a face on

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him as that. 
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and led the way for 30 as 
sholto's teeth were chattering 

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in his head. 
So shaken, was he that I had to 

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pass my hand under his arm. 
As he went up the stairs for his

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knees. 
Were trembling under him twice 

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as we ascended, homes, whipped 
his lens out of his pocket and 

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carefully. 
Examined marks, which appeared 

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to me to be Mia, shapeless, 
smudges of dust upon the 

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Cocoanut matting, which served 
as a stair carpet. 

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He walked slowly from step to 
step holding the lamp and 

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shooting Keen glance has to 
right and left. 

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Miss morstan had remained behind
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The third flight of stairs ended
in a straight, passage of some 

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length with a great picture in 
Indian tapestry upon the right 

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of it and three doors upon the 
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in the same slow and methodical 
way, while we kept close at his 

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heels. 
With our long, black Shadows 

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streaming backwards down the 
corridor. 

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The side door was that which we 
were seeking homes knocked 

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without receiving any answer, 
and then tried to turn the 

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handle and force it open. 
It was locked on the inside. 

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However, and by a broad and 
Powerful bolt, as we could see, 

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when we set our lamp up against 
it, the key being turned. 

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However, the whole was not 
entirely closed Sherlock, 

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Holmes, bent down to it and 
instantly rose again with a 

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sharp in taking of the breath. 
There is something devilish in 

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this. 
Watson said he more moved and I 

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had ever before seen him. 
What do you make of it? 

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I stooped to the hole and 
recoiled in horror, Moonlight 

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was streaming into the room and 
it was bright with a vague and 

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Shifty. 
Radiance looking straight at me 

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and suspended as it were in the 
air. 

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For all beneath was in Shadow. 
Their hunger face, the very face

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of our companion saw dias, There
was the same high shining head. 

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The same circular bristle of red
hair, the same bloodless 

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countenance, the features were 
set, however, in a horrible 

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smile, a fixed and unnatural 
grin which in that still and 

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moonlit room was more jarring to
the nerves than any scowl or 

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contortion. 
So like was the face to that, of

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our little friend that I looked 
round at him to make sure that 

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he was indeed with us. 
Then I recall to mind that he 

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had mentioned to us, that his 
brother and he were twins. 

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This is terrible. 
I said two homes. 

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What is to be done? 
The door must come down. 

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He answered and springing 
against it. 

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He put all his weight upon the 
lock. 

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It creaked and groaned but did 
not yield together. 

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We flung ourselves upon it. 
Once more and this time it gave 

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way with a sudden snap and we 
found ourselves within 

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Bartholomew sholto is chamber. 
It appeared to have been fitted 

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up as a chemical laboratory, a 
double line of glass. 

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Stoppard bottles was drawn up 
upon the wall, opposite, the 

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door, and a table was littered 
over with Bunsen, burners test 

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tubes and retorts in the corners
to carboys of acid in wicker. 

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Baskets, one of these appeared 
to leak or to have been broken 

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for a stream of dark colored. 
Liquid had trickled out from it 

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and the air was Heavy with a 
peculiarly pungent tar-like. 

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Oh, A set of steps. 
Did it one side of the room in 

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the midst of a litter of Lathe 
and plaster and above them, 

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there was an opening in the 
ceiling, large enough for a man 

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to pass through at the foot of 
the steps. 

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A long coil of rope was thrown 
carelessly together. 

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By the table in a wooden 
armchair. 

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The Master of the House was 
seated all in a heap with his 

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head sunk upon his left shoulder
and that ghastly inscrutable 

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smile upon his face. 
He was stiff and cold and had 

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clearly been dead many hours. 
It seemed to me that not only 

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his features, but all his limbs 
were twisted and turned. 

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In the most fantastic fashion by
his hand upon the table, their 

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lair, Instrument a brown clothes
grain stick with a stone head, 

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like a hammer rudely lashed on, 
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It was a torn sheet of notepaper
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it, Holmes glanced at it, then 
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You see he said with a 
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eyebrows in the light of the 
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I read with a thrill of horror 
the sign of the four in God's 

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name. 
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I asked it means murder said he 
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I expected it. 
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He pointed to what looked like a
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skin, just above the ear. 
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is a thorn, you may pick it out,
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poisoned, I took it up between 
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It came away from the skin, so 
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left behind one tiny Speck of 
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had been. 
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to me said, I it grows darker 
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contrary, he answered it clears.
Every instant, I only require a 

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few missing links to have an 
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We had almost forgotten our 
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Since we entered the chamber, he
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doorway, the very picture of 
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moaning to himself suddenly. 
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sharp querulous cry. 
The treasure is Come. 

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He said they have robbed him of 
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There is a hole through which we
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I helped him to do it. 
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him, I left him here last night 
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I came downstairs. 
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It was 10:00 and now he is dead.
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and I shall be suspected of 
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Oh, yes. 
I am sure I shall. 

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But you don't think so 
gentlemen. 

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Surely you don't think it was? 
I is it likely that I would have

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brought you here if it were a 
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Oh dear. 
Oh dear, I know that I shall go 

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mad. 
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his feet in a kind of convulsive
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You have no reason for fear mr. 
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putting his hand upon his 
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Take my advice and drive down to
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matter, to the police offered to
assist them in every way we 

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shall wait, here until your 
return. 

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The little man obeyed in a half 
stupefied fashion, and we heard 

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him stumbling down the stairs, 
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End of chapter 5. 
End of chapter 5.