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Chapter 9 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 9, a break in the chain.
It was late in the afternoon 

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before I woke strengthened and 
refreshed Sherlock Holmes still 

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sat exactly as I had left him 
say that he had laid aside his 

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violin and was deep in a book. 
He looked across at me as I 

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stirred and I noticed that his 
face was dark and troubled. 

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You have slept soundly. 
He said I feared that our talk 

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would wake you I heard nothing. 
I answered have. 

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You had fresh news then 
unfortunately? 

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No I confess that, I'm surprised
and disappointed. 

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I expected something definite by
this time. 

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Wiggins has just been up to 
report. 

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He says that no Trace can be 
found at the launch. 

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It is a provoking check for 
every hour is of importance. 

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Can I do anything? 
I am perfectly fresh now and 

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quite ready for another night's 
outing. 

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Now we can do nothing, we can 
only wait. 

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If we go ourselves, the message 
might come in our absence And 

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Delay because you can do what 
you will but I must remain on 

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guard. 
Then I shall run over to 

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camberwell and call upon mrs. 
Cecil Forrester she asked me to 

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yesterday on. 
Mrs. Cecil Forrester asked 

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Holmes with the twinkle of a 
smile in his eyes. 

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Well of course Miss morstan to 
they were anxious to hear what 

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happened. 
I would not tell them too much 

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said, Holmes, women are never to
be entirely trusted, not the 

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best of them. 
I did not pause to argue over 

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this atrocious sentiment. 
I should be back in an hour or 

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two. 
I remarked All right, good luck.

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But I say, if you are crossing 
the river, you may as well 

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return. 
Toby for, I don't think it is at

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all likely that we shall have 
any use for him. 

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Now, I took our Mongrel 
accordingly and left him 

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together with a half-sovereign 
at the old naturalist sin, 

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Pinchin Lane at camberwell. 
I found miss morstan a little 

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weary after her nights 
Adventures, but very eager to 

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hear the news. 
Mrs. Forrester to was full of 

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curiosity. 
I told them all we had done 

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suppressing. 
However, the more Dreadful parts

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of the tragedy thus, although I 
spoke of mr. 

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Sholto's death. 
I said, nothing of the exact 

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Manner and method of it with all
my emissions. 

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However, there was enough to 
startled and amazed them. 

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It is a romance Pride. 
Mrs. Forrester an injured lady, 

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half a million and treasure a 
black cannibal in the 

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wooden-legged Ruffian. 
They take the Case of the 

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conventional dragon, all Wicked 
Earl and to knight-errant to the

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rescue added Miss morstan with a
bright glance at me. 

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Why marry your fortune depends 
upon the issue of this search? 

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I don't think that you are 
nearly excited enough. 

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Just imagine what it must be to 
be so rich and have the world at

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your feet. 
It sent a little thrill of joy 

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to my heart. 
To notice that she showed no 

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sign of elation at the prospect.
On the contrary. 

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She gave a toss of her proud 
head as though the matter one in

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which she took small interest. 
It is for mr. 

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Thaddeus sholto that I'm 
anxious. 

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She said, nothing else is of any
consequence. 

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But I think that he has behaved 
most kindly and honorably 

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throughout, it is our duty to 
clear him of this Dreadful and 

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unfounded charge it was evening 
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quite dark. 
By the time I reached home my 

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companions book and pipe lay by 
his chair. 

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But he had disappeared. 
I looked about in the hope of 

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seeing a note, but there. 
None, I suppose that mr. 

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Sherlock Holmes has gone out. 
I said to mrs. 

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Hudson, and she came up to lower
the blinds. 

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No, sir. 
He's gone to his room, sir. 

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Do you know, sir, singing a 
voice into an impressive? 

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Whisper, I'm afraid for his 
health. 

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Why so mrs. 
Hudson. 

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Well, is that strange sir after 
he was gone? 

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He walked and he walked up and 
down and up and down until I was

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weary of the sound of his 
footstep. 

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Then I heard him talking to 
himself and much ring. 

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And every time the bell rang 
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with what is that? 
Mrs. Hudson and now he's slammed

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off to his room but I can hear 
him walking away the same as 

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ever. 
I hope he's not going to be ill 

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sir. 
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him about cooling medicine, but 
he turned on me. 

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So is such a look that I don't 
know. 

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However, I got out of the room. 
I don't think you have any cause

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to be uneasy. 
Mrs. Hudson. 

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I answered, I've seen him like 
this before, yes. 

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Some small matter upon his mind,
which makes him Restless. 

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I tried to speak likely to are 
worthy landlady, but I was 

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myself, somewhat uneasy went 
through the long night. 

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I still from time to time heard 
the dull sound of his tread and 

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knew how his Keen Spirit was 
chafing against this involuntary

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in action. 
At breakfast time, he looked 

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worn and Haggard with a little 
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either cheek. 
You're locking yourself up old 

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man. 
I remarked I heard you marching 

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about in the night. 
No, I could not sleep. 

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He answered this infernal 
problem is consuming me. 

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It is too much to be booked by 
so pity and obstacle when all 

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else have been overcome, I know 
the men, the launch everything, 

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and yet I can get no news. 
I have set other agencies at 

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work and used every means at my 
disposal. 

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The whole river has been 
searched on either side, but 

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there is no news nor has mrs. 
Smith heard of her husband, I 

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shall come to the conclusion 
soon that they have scuttled 

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crafts but there are objections 
to that Oh, that mrs. 

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Smith has put us on the wrong 
scent. 

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Now I think that may be 
dismissed. 

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I had inquiries made and there 
is a launch of that description.

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Could it have gone up the river?
I have considered that 

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possibility to and there is a 
search party who will work up as

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far as Richmond if no news comes
today. 

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I shall start off myself 
tomorrow and go for the men 

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rather than the boat. 
But surely surely we shall hear 

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something. 
We did not. 

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However, not a word came to us. 
Either from Wiggins or from the 

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other agencies, there were 
articles in most of the papers 

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upon the Norwood tragedy, All 
appeared to be rather hostile to

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the unfortunate Thaddeus sholto 
no fresh details were to be 

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found. 
However, in any of them say that

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an inquest was to be held upon 
the following day, I walked over

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to camberwell in evening to 
report, our ill, success to the 

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ladies. 
And on my return, I found Holmes

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dejected and somewhat morose. 
He would hardly reply to my 

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questions and busied himself all
evening in an abstruse chemical 

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analysis which involved much 
Eating of retorts and Distilling

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of vapors ending at last in a 
smell, which fairly drove me out

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of the apartment up to the small
hours of the morning. 

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I could hear the clinking of his
test tubes, which told me that 

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he was still engaged in his 
malodorous experiment. 

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In the early Dawn, I woke with a
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him standing by my bedside clad,
in a rude, sailor dress with a 

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pea-jacket and a course, Red 
Scarf round his neck. 

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I'm off down the river. 
Watson said he, I have been 

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turning it over in my mind and I
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It is worth trying at all 
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Surely, I can come with you. 
Then said, I know you can be 

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much more useful. 
If you remain here as my 

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representative, I am loathe to 
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It is quite on the cards, that 
some message may come during the

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day. 
Wiggins was despondent about it.

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Last night, I want you to open 
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act on your own judgment. 
If any news should come, can I 

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rely upon you? 
Most certainly, I am afraid that

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you will not be able to wire to 
me for I Bobby tell yet where I 

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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 

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of some sort or other before I 
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I had heard nothing of him by 
breakfast time, on opening the 

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standard. 
However, I found that there was 

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a fresh allusion to the business
with reference to the upper 

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Norwood tragedy. 
It remarked. 

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We have reason to believe that 
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more complex and mysterious than
was originally supposed fresh 

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evidence has shown that. 
It is quite impossible that mr. 

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Thaddeus sholto could have been 
in any way concerned in the 

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matter he and the housekeeper 
mrs. 

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Bernstone were both released 
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It is believed, however, that 
the police have a clue as to the

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real culprits and that it is 
being prosecuted. 

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By mr. 
Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard

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with all his well-known energy 
and suggest e further arrests. 

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May be expected at any moment. 
That is satisfactory so far as 

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it goes taut, I friend sholto is
safe at any rate. 

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I wonder what the fresh clue 
maybe though. 

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It seems to be a stereotype form
whenever the police have made a 

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blunder. 
I tossed a paper down upon the 

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table, but at that moment, my I 
caught an advertisement in the 

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agony column it ran in this way.
Lost whereas Mordecai Smith 

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boatmen and his son. 
Jim left Smith's Wharf at or 

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about 3:00 last Tuesday Morning 
in the steam launch Aurora black

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with two red stripes funnel, 
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The summer 5 pounds will be paid
to anyone who can give 

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information to mrs. 
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221B Baker Street as to the 
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Mordecai Smith and the lon 
Aurora. 

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This was clearly Holmes is doing
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enough to prove that it struck 
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it might be read by the 
fugitives without their seeing 

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in it more than the natural 
anxiety of a wife for her 

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missing husband. 
It was a long day every time 

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that a knock came to the door or
a sharp step past in the street,

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I imagine that it was either 
homes returning or an answer to 

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his advertisement. 
I tried to read but my thoughts 

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would They're off to our Strange
Quest and to the ill-assorted 

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and villainous pair whom we were
pursuing. 

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Could there be, I wondered some 
radical floor in my companions 

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reasoning? 
Might he be suffering from some 

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huge self-deception? 
Was it not possible? 

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That is Nimble and speculative 
mind had built up. 

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This wild Theory upon faulty 
premises I'd never known him to 

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be wrong. 
And yet, the keenest reasoning 

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May occasionally be deceived. 
He was likely, I thought to fall

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into error through the over 
refinement of his logic, his 

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preference for a subtle and 
bizarre explanation. 

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When a planer and more 
commonplace one. 

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Lay ready to his hand? 
Yet, on the other hand, I had 

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myself seen the evidence and I 
had heard the reasons for his 

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deductions. 
When I look back on a long chain

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of curious circumstances, Many 
of them trivial in themselves, 

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but all tending in the same 
direction. 

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I could not disguise from 
myself, that even if homes is 

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explanation were incorrect, the 
true theory must be equally, 

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Ultra and startling at 3:00 in 
the afternoon, there was a loud 

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peel at the bell and 
authoritative voice in the hall.

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And to my surprise, no less a 
person, a mr. 

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Athelney Jones was shown up to 
me very different, was he 

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however, from the Bruce, And 
masterful professor of Common 

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Sense who had taken over the 
case. 

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So confidently at upper Norwood,
his expression was downcast and 

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his bearing Meek and even 
apologetic Good day, sir. 

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Good day said, he mr. 
Sherlock Holmes. 

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He's out. 
I understand. 

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Yes, and I can't be sure when 
he'll be back, but perhaps you 

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would care to wait, take that 
chair. 

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And try one of these cigars 
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said he mopping his face with a 
red bandana handkerchief and a 

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whiskey and soda. 
Well, half a glass, it is very 

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odd for the time of year and I 
have had a good deal to worry 

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and try me. 
You know, my theory about this 

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Norwood case, I remember that 
you expressed one. 

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Well, I've been obliged to 
reconsider it at my net drawn. 

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Tightly round, mr. 
Sholto sir. 

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When Pop, he went through a hole
in the middle of it. 

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He was able to prove an alibi 
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the time that he left his 
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of sight of someone or other so 
it could not be here. 

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You climbed over roofs and 
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dark case and my Professional 
Credit is at stake I should be 

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very glad of a little 
assistance. 

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We all need help. 
Sometimes said I your friend mr.

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Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful 
man. 

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Sir said he in a Husky and 
confidential voice. 

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He's a man who is not to be 
beat. 

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I've known that young man going 
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never saw the case yet. 
He could not throw a light upon.

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He's a regular in his methods 
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jumping at series, but on the 
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made a most promising officer 
and I don't care who knows it. 

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I've had a wire from him this 
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that he has got some clue to 
this sholto business. 

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Here is a message. 
He took the telegram out of his 

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pocket and handed it to me. 
It was dated, From Poplar at 

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12:00 go to Baker Street at 
once. 

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It said, if I have not returned 
wait for me, I am close on the 

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track of the sholto gang. 
You can come with us tonight if 

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you want to be in at the Finish.
This sounds well, he's evidently

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picked up the scent. 
Again said I oh, then he has 

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been at fault to exclaimed Jones
with evident satisfaction. 

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Even the best of us are thrown 
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Of course, this may prove to be 
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as an officer of the law to 
allow no chance to slip. 

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But there is someone at the door
Perhaps it is he I have you step

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with her, I just sending the 
stair with a great wheezing and 

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rattling as from a man who is 
solely. 

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Put to it for breath once or 
twice. 

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He stopped as though the climb 
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last he made his way to our door
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Corresponded to the sounds, 
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He was an agent man, clad in 
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jacket. 
Buttoned up to his throat. 

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His back was bowed, his knees 
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Thing was painfully asthmatic, 
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and cudgel, his shoulders heaved
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into his lungs. 
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his chin and I could see little 
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Save a pair of keen dark eyes 
overhung by bushy, white brows 

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and long grey side-whiskers, all
together, he gave me the 

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impression of a respectable 
Master Mariner, who had fallen 

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into years and poverty. 
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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 no 

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but I'm acting for him. 
You can tell me any message you 

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have for him. 
It was to him himself. 

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I was to tell it said he But I 
tell you that I'm acting for 

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him. 
It was it about Mordecai Smith, 

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boat? 
Yes, I know as well where he is 

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and I knows where the many is 
after our and I knows where the 

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treasure is. 
Hi knows all about it. 

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Then tell me and I shall let him
know. 

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I was to him I was to tell it 
you repeated with a petulant. 

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Obstinacy of A Very Old Man. 
Well, you must wait for him. 

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No, no. 
I ain't going to lose a whole 

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day to please, no one. 
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Owns a near then, mr. 
Owns must find it all out for 

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himself. 
I don't care about the look of 

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either you and I won't tell a 
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He shuffled towards the door, 
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of him. 
Wait a bit, my friend said he, 

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you have important information 
and you must not walk off. 

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We shall keep you whether you 
like it or not until our friend 

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returns. 
The old man made a little run 

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towards the door, but as 
athelney Jones put his broad 

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back up against it. 
He recognized the uselessness of

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resistance. 
Pretty sore treatment. 

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This he cried stamping, his 
stick, I come here to see it 

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gentlemen and you too, who I 
never saw in my life sees me and

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treat me in this fashion. 
You will be none. 

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The worse. 
I said, we shall recompense you 

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for the loss of your time. 
Sit over here on the sofa and 

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you will not have long to wait. 
he came across sullenly, enough 

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and seated himself with his face
resting on his hands Jones and I

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resumed our cigars and our talk 
suddenly, however, homes, his 

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voice broke in upon us, I think 
that you might offer me a cigar 

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to. 
He said we both started in our 

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chairs. 
There was homes sitting close to

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us with an air of quiet. 
Amusement homes. 

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I exclaimed you here but where's
the old man? 

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Here is the old man said he 
holding out a heap of white hair

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here. 
He is wig, whiskers eyebrows. 

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And all I thought my disguise 
was pretty good, but I hardly 

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expected that it would stand. 
That tests, are you Rogue? 

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Cried, Jones, highly delighted. 
You would have made an actor and

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a rare one. 
You had the proper workout scoff

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and those weak legs of yours are
worth 10 pound a week. 

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I thought I knew the glint of 
your, I though you didn't get 

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away from us so easily, you see.
I have been working in that 

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getup all day. 
Said he lighting a cigar. 

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You see a good many of the 
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me especially since our friend 
here, took to publishing some of

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my cases. 
So I can only go on the warpath 

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under some simple disguise, like
this. 

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

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here. 
How has your case prospered? 

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It has all come to nothing. 
I've had to release two of my 

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prisoners and there is no 
evidence against the other two, 

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never mind, which will give you 
two others in the place of them.

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But you must put yourself under 
my orders. 

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You are welcome to all the 
official credit. 

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But you must act on the line 
that I point out is that agreed 

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entirely if you'll help me to 
the men. 

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Well, then, in the first place, 
I shall want a fast police. 

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And a steam launch to be at the 
Westminster stares at 7:00, Matt

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is easily managed. 
There's always one about there, 

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but I can step across the road 
and telephone to make sure then 

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I shall want to stanch men in 
case of resistance, there will 

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be two or three in the boat. 
What else when we secure the 

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man? 
We shall get the treasure. 

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I think that it would be a 
pleasure to my friend here to 

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take the box round to the young 
lady to whom half of it 

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rightfully belongs. 
Let her be the first open it. 

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Hey Watson. 
It will be a great pleasure to 

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me. 
Rather an irregular proceeding 

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said Jones shaking his head. 
However, the whole Is it regular

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when I suppose? 
He must wink at it. 

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The treasure must after was 
behind it. 

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Over to the authorities until 
after the official 

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investigation. 
Certainly that is easily managed

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one other point. 
I should much like to have a few

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details about this matter, from 
the lips of Jonathan small 

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himself. 
You know, I like to work the 

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detail of my cases out there is 
no objection to my having an 

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unofficial interview with him. 
Either here in my rooms or 

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elsewhere as long as he is 
efficiently guarded. 

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Well, you are Master of the 
situation. 

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I've had no proof yet of the 
existence of this Jonathan 

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small. 
However, if you can catch him, I

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don't see how I can refuse. 
You an interview with him. 

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That is understood, then 
perfectly. 

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Is there anything else only that
I insist upon your dining with 

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us, it will be ready in half an 
hour, I have Oysters and a brace

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of grouse with something a 
little choice in white, wines 

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Watson. 
You've never yet recognized my 

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merits as a housekeeper. 
End of chapter 9.