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Chapter 12 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 12, the strange story of
Jonathan. 

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Small, a very patient man was 
that inspector in the cab for it

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was a weary time. 
Before I rejoined him his face 

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clouded over when I showed him 
the empty box. 

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There goes the reward said he 
gloomily were. 

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There's no money. 
There's no pay this night's 

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work. 
Would have been worth it? 

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Tenner each to Sam Brown and me 
if The Treasure of been there. 

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Mr. Thaddeus sholto is rich. 
Man. 

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I said, he'll see that. 
You're rewarded Treasurer or no.

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The inspector shook, his head 
despondently. 

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However, it's a bad job, he 
repeated, and so mr. 

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Athelney Jones will think his 
forecast proved to be correct 

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for the detective looked blank 
enough. 

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When I got to Baker Street and 
showed him, the empty box, they 

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had only just arrived homes, The
Prisoner and he for they had 

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changed their plans. 
So far as to report themselves 

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at a station upon the way, my 
companion lounged in his 

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armchair with his usual 
listless. 

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Expression while small Sate 
stolidly opposite to him with 

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his wooden leg, cocked over his 
sound one. 

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As I exhibited the empty box, he
leaned back in his chair and 

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laughed aloud. 
This is your doing small. 

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Said, athelny Jones, angrily! 
Yes! 

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I've put it away where you shall
never lay a hand upon it. 

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He cried exultantly. 
It is my treasure. 

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And if I can't add the loot, 
I'll take darn good care that no

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one else does I tell. 
Tell you that no living man has 

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any right to it unless it is 
three men who are in the Andaman

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convict barracks and myself. 
I know now that I cannot have 

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the use of it, and I know that 
they cannot, I have acted all 

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through for them as much as for 
myself, it's been the sign of 

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four with us. 
Always well, I know now that 

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they would have had me do just 
what I've done, and throw the 

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treasure into the Thames, rather
than Let It Go to kith or kin of

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sholto or of morstan. 
It was not to make them Rich 

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that we did for achmat. 
You'll find the treasure where 

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the key is and we're little 
Tonga. 

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Is when I saw that your launch 
must catch us. 

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I put the loot away in a safe 
place. 

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There are no rupees for you this
journey. 

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You are deceiving a small. 
So that's only Jones sternly. 

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If you would wish to throw the 
treasure into the Thames, it 

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would have been easier for you 
to have thrown box and all 

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easier for me to throw and 
easier for you to recover. 

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He answered with a shrewd 
sidelong, look a man. 

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That was clever enough to hunt 
me down, is clever enough to 

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pick an iron box from the bottom
of a river. 

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Now that they are scattered over
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harder job went to my heart to 
do it though. 

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I was If mad, when you came up 
with us, however, there's no 

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good grieving over it. 
I've had ups in my life and I've

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had downs, but I've learned not 
to cry over spilled milk. 

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This is a very serious Mass 
small. 

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So the detective, if you would 
help Justice instead of 

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thwarting, it in this way, you 
have had a better chance at your

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trial Justice. 
Snarl the ex-convict are pretty 

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Justice. 
Whose loot is this, if it is not

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ours, where is the Justice to? 
I should give it up to those who

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have never owned it. 
Look how I have earned it 20, 

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long years in that fever, 
written swamp all day at work 

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Under The Mangrove, tree. 
All Night chained up in the 

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filthy convict Huts bitten by 
mosquitoes racked with egg 

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bullied by Every curse in 
blackface policemen who love to 

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take it out of a white man. 
That was how I earned the Agra 

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treasure. 
And you talk to me a Justice 

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because I cannot bear to feel 
that I've paid this price, only 

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that another may enjoy it. 
I would rather swing a score of 

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times or have one of the tongass
darts in my IDE and live in a 

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convict cell. 
And feel that another man is at 

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his, he's in a palace with the 
money that should be mine. 

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Small had dropped his mask of 
stoicism and all this came out 

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in a wild world of words, while 
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handcuffs Clank together, with 
the impassioned movement of his 

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hands, I could understand as I 
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the man, that it was no 
groundless or unnatural Terror, 

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which are possessed major sholto
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injured convict was upon his 
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You forget that we know nothing 
of all this said, Holmes 

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quietly, we have not heard your 
story and we cannot tell how far

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Justice May originally have been
on your side. 

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Well sir, you've been very fair 
spoken to me though. 

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I can see that. 
I have you to thank that. 

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I have these bracelets upon my 
wrists. 

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Still, are you bear? 
No grudge for that. 

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It is all fair and above board. 
If you want to hear my story I 

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have no wish to hold it back. 
What I say to you is God's 

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truth. 
With every word of it. 

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Thank you. 
You can put the glass beside me 

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here and I'll put my lips to it 
if I'm dry. 

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I am a Worcestershire man. 
Myself, born near pershore. 

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I daresay you would find a HEPA 
Smalls living there. 

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Now if you were to look I have 
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around there. 
But the truth is that I was 

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never much of a credit to the 
family and I doubt if they would

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be. 
So very glad to see me. 

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They were all steady Chapel 
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well-known and respected over 
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Well I was always a bit of a 
Rover At last. 

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However, when I was about 18, I 
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I got into a mess over a girl 
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again by taking the Queen's 
Shilling and join the 3D Buffs 

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which was just starting for 
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I wasn't destined to do much 
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However, I just got past a goose
step and learn to handle my 

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musket when I was fool enough to
go swimming in the Ganges, 

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luckily for me my company, 
Sergeant, John older was in the 

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water at the same time and he 
was one of the finest swimmers 

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in the service. 
A crocodile took me just as I 

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was halfway cross and nipped off
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surgeon would have done just 
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What with the shock and the loss
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I fainted I should have drowned 
if holder had not caught hold of

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me and paddle for the bank, I 
was five months in hospital over

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it. 
And when At Last I was able to 

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limp out of it with this Timber 
tow strap to my stump, I find 

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myself invalided out of the army
and unfitted for any active 

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occupation. 
I was as you can imagine, pretty

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down on my luck at this time 
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I was a useless cripple or not 
yet in my 20th year. 

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However, my Misfortune soon 
proving to be a blessing in 

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disguise, a man named Abel 
white, it would come out there 

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as an indigo planter wanted an 
overseer to look after his 

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coolies and keep them up to 
their work, he happened to be a 

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friend of our Colonels, who had 
taken to an interest to me since

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the accident. 
To make a long story short. 

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The colonel recommended me 
strongly for the post and as the

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work was mostly to be done on 
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My leg was no great obstacle 
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I had enough money left to keep 
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What I had to do was to ride 
over the plantation, to keep an 

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eye on the men as they worked 
and to report the idlers the pay

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was fair. 
I had comfortable, quarters and 

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altogether. 
I was content to spend the 

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remainder of my life in Indigo, 
planting mr. 

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Abel White was a kind man and 
you would often drop into my 

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little Shanty and smoke a pipe 
with me for white folk out there

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feel are Arts, warm to each 
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home, Well, I was never in Lux 
weilong suddenly without a note 

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of warning, the great Mutiny 
broke upon us, one month, India 

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layers, still, and peaceful to 
all appearances, sir, Ian Kent, 

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the next, there were 200,000 
black Devils let loose and the 

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country was a perfect hell of 
course you know all about it 

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gentlemen a deal more than I do 
very like since reading is not 

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in my line. 
I only know what I saw in my own

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eyes. 
How Plantation was at a place 

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called mature near the border of
the Northwest provinces night 

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after night. 
The whole sky was a light with a

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burning Bungalows and day after 
day. 

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We had small companies of 
Europeans passing through our 

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state with their wives and 
children on their way to Agra 

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where with a nearest troops mr. 
Abel white was an obstinate, 

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man, he had it in his head that 
the affair had been Added that 

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it would blow over as suddenly 
as it had sprung up there. 

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He sat on his Veranda drinking 
whiskey pegs and smoking. 

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Sure, Roots, while the country 
was in a blaze about him, of 

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course, we stuck by him. 
Ian Dawson, who with his wife 

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used to do the bookwork and the 
managing. 

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Well, One Fine Day. 
The crash came I've been away on

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a distant Plantation and was 
riding slowly home in the 

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evening. 
When my eye fell upon something 

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all huddle together at the 
bottom of a A steep nullah. 

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I wrote down to see what it was 
and the cold struck through my 

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art. 
When I found it was Dawson's 

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wife. 
All cut into ribbons and a half 

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eaten by jackals and native 
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A little further up. 
The road Dawson himself was 

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lying on his face quite Dead 
with an empty revolver in his 

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hand and for sepoys lying across
each other in front of him. 

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I reined up my arse wondering 
which way I should turn. 

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But at that moment I saw Thick 
Smoke curling up from Able 

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whites Bungalow and the Flames 
beginning to burst through the 

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roof. 
I knew then that I could do my 

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employer. 
No good. 

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But we'd only throw my own life 
away if I meddled in the matter.

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From Where I Stood, I could see 
hundreds of the black fiends 

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with their Red Coats. 
Still on their backs, dancing 

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and Howling around the burning 
house. 

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Some of them pointed at me and a
couple of bullets sang past my 

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head. 
So I broke away Across The Paddy

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fields and found myself late at 
night, safe within the walls at 

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Agra. 
As it proved, however there was 

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no great safety there. 
Either the whole country was up 

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like a swarm of bees wherever 
the English could collect in 

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little bands, they held just a 
ground, their guns, commanded 

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everywhere else. 
They were helpless fugitives. 

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It was a fight of the millions 
against hundreds and the 

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cruelest part of it was that 
these men that we fought against

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foot horse and Gunners were, our
own picts troops, whom we had 

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taught and trained handling, our
own weapons. 

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And blowing, our Bugle calls at 
Agra there with a 3D Bengal. 

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Fusiliers, some seeks to troops 
of offs and a battery of 

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artillery, a volunteer Corps of 
Clark's and Merchants had been 

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formed. 
And this, I joined wooden leg 

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and all We went out to meet the 
rebels at chartres gunge early 

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in July and we beat them back 
for a time but how powder gave 

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out and we had to fall back upon
the city nothing but the worst 

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news came to us from every side 
which is not to be wondered at 

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for if you look at the map 
you'll see that we were right in

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the heart of it. 
Look now is rather better than 

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100 miles to the East and can't 
pour about as far to the South 

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for every point on a compass. 
There was nothing but torture 

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and murder and outraged. 
The city of Agra is a great 

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place swarming with Fanatics and
fierce devil worshippers all 

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sorts how handful of men were 
lost among the narrow winding 

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streets. 
Our leader moved across the 

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river therefore and took up his 
position in the Old Fort at 

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Agra. 
I don't know if any of you 

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gentlemen have ever read or 
heard anything of that Old Fort,

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it is a very queer place. 
The queries that ever I was in 

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and I have been in Rum Corners 
to. 

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First of all, it is enormous in 
size. 

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I should think that the 
enclosure must be acres and 

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Acres, there is a modern part 
which took all our Garrison, 

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women children stores and 
everything else was plenty of 

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room over but the modern part is
nothing like the size of the old

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quarter, where nobody goes and 
which is given over to the 

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Scorpions. 
And the centipedes is all full 

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of great deserted holes and 
winding passages and long. 

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Corridors twisting in and out. 
So that is easy enough for folk 

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to get lost in it. 
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that any one went into it do now
and again, a party, with torches

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might go exploring. 
The river washes along the front

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of the Old Fort and so protects 
it. 

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But on the sides and behind 
there are many doors and these 

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had to be guarded, of course, in
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that which was actually held by 
our troops. 

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We were short-handed with hardly
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the building and to serve the 
guns. 

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It was impossible for us, 
therefore, to station a strong 

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guard, and every one of the 
innumerable Gates. 

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What we did was to organize a 
central House in the middle of 

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the fort and to leave each gate 
under the charge of one, white 

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man and two or three natives. 
I was selected to take charge 

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during certain hours of the 
night of a small isolated door 

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upon the southwest side of the 
building to seek troopers were 

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placed under my command and I 
was instructed, if anything went

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wrong to find my musket, when I 
might rely upon help come in at 

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once from the central guard, as 
the guard was a good 200 Paces 

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away. 
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was cut up into a Labyrinth of 
passages and corridors, I had 

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great doubts as to whether they 
could arrive in time to be of 

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any use, in case of an actual 
attack. 

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Well, I was pretty proud of 
having a small command given me 

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since I was a raw recruit and a 
game legged. 

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One at that for two nights, I 
kept the watch with my punjabis,

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they were tall fierce-looking, 
chaps Mahomet Singh, and 

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Abdullah Khan by name both old 
Fighting men who had borne arms.

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Is this a Chilean Waller? 
They could talk English pretty 

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well, but I could get little out
of them. 

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They preferred to stand together
and jabber all night in their 

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queer seek lingo for myself. 
I used to stand outside the 

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Gateway, looking down on the 
broad, winding River and on the 

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twinkling lights of the great 
City. 

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The beating of the drums, the 
rattle of the tom-toms and the 

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yells and howls of the rebels 
drunk with opium, and with bang 

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were enough to remind us all 
night of our dangerous neighbors

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across the stream, every two 
hours. 

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The officer of the night used to
come round to all the posts to 

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make sure that all was. 
Well, the third night in my 

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watch was dark and dirty with a 
small driving rain. 

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It was dreary work standing in 
the Gateway hour after hour in 

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such weather. 
I tried again and again to make 

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my seeks talk but without much 
success at 2:00 in the morning, 

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the rounds past and broke for a 
moment, the weariness of the 

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night finding that my companions
would not be led into 

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conversation. 
I took out my pipe and lay down 

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my musket to strike the match in
an instant. 

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The two Sikhs were upon me, one 
of them snatched my thigh lockup

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and leveled it at my head. 
While the other held a great 

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knife to my throat and swore 
between his teeth that he would 

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plunge it into me if Moved a 
step. 

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My first thought was that these 
fellows were in League with the 

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rebels and this was the 
beginning of an assault. 

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If our door were in the ends of 
the sepoys, the place Must Fall 

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and the women and children be 
treated as they were in kanpur. 

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Maybe you gentlemen, think that 
I'm just making out a case for 

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myself. 
But I give you my word that when

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I thought of that, oh, I felt 
the point of the knife at my 

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throat. 
I open my mouth with the 

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intention of giving a screen if 
it was my last one. 

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One, which might alarm the main 
guard. 

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The man who held me seem to know
my thoughts for even as I brace 

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myself to do it. 
He whispered don't make a noise,

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the fort is safe enough. 
There are no Rebel dogs on the 

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side of the river. 
There was The Ring Of Truth in 

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what he said. 
And I knew that, if I raise my 

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voice, I was a dead, man. 
I could read it in the fellows 

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brown eyes. 
I waited there for in silence, 

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to see what it was that he 
wanted from me. 

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Listen to me, say Abe said the 
taller and fiercer of the pair, 

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the one whom they called 
Abdullah Khan. 

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You must either be with us now 
or you must be silenced forever.

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The thing is, do greater one for
us to hesitate either. 

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You are heart and soul. 
Us on your oath, on the cross of

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the Christians or your body. 
This night shall be thrown into 

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the ditch and we shall pass over
to our brothers in the rebel 

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Army. 
There is no middle way, which is

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e to be death or life. 
We can only give you three 

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minutes to decide for the time 
is passing, and all must be done

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before the rounds come again. 
How can I decide said? 

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I you have not told me what you 
want of me, but I tell you now 

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that if it is anything against 
the safety of the fort, I'll 

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have no truck with it, so you 
can drive home your knife and 

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welcome, it is nothing against 
the fort said, he we only ask 

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you to do that to which your 
countrymen come to this land 

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for, we ask you to be rich. 
If you would be one of us, this 

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night, we will swear to you upon
the naked knife. 

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And by the threefold Oaks Which 
no Zeke was ever known to break 

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that you shall have, your fair 
share of the loot, a quarter of 

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the treasure shall be yours. 
We can say, no Farrah. 

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But what is the treasure then I 
asked, I'm is ready to be rich 

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as you can be if you will, but 
show me how it can be done. 

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You would swear, then said he by
the bones of your father by the 

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honor of your mother by the 
cross of your faith to raise, no

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hand and speak, no word against 
us, either now or afterwards I 

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will swear it. 
I answered provided that the 

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fort is not endangered. 
Then my comrade and I will swear

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that you shall have a quarter of
the treasure, which shall be 

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equally divided. 
Among the four of us there are 

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but three said, I know dust 
Akbar must have his share. 

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We can tell the tale to you 
while we await them. 

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Do you stand at the gate? 
Mahomet Singh and give notice of

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that coming the think stands 
thus Sipe. 

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And I tell it to you because I 
know that an oath is binding 

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upon a wedding ghee and that we 
made trust you had you been a 

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lying in do though, you had 
sworn by all the gods in their 

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first temples, your blood would 
have been put upon the knife and

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your body in the water. 
But the sick knows the 

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Englishmen and the Englishmen 
knows the seek. 

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How can then do? 
What I have to say? 

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There is a Rajah in the northern
provinces who has much wealth, 

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though. 
His lungs are small, much has 

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come to him from his father and 
more still, he has set by 

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himself for years of a low 
nature and Hoards his gold 

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rather than spend it when the 
troubles broke out, you would be

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friends, both with the lion and 
the tiger with the sepoys, and 

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with the company's Raj, Soon. 
However, it seemed to him that 

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the white men's day was come for
through all the land. 

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He could hear of nothing but 
their death and their overthrow 

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yet being a careful man. 
He made such plans that come 

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what may half at least of his 
treasure, should be left to him 

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that which was in gold and 
silver. 

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He kept by him in the vaults of 
his Palace, but the most 

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precious stones and the choices 
pearls that he had, he put in an

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iron box and sent it by a trusty
servant. 

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Who Under the guise of a 
merchant, should take it to the 

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fort at Agra there to lie until 
the land is at peace. 

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Thus, if the rebels won, he 
would have his money, but if the

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company conquered, his Jews 
would be saved to him. 

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Having thus divided his hoard, 
he threw himself into the cause 

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of the sepoys since they were 
strong upon his borders by doing

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this Marquess eyeb, his property
becomes the do of those who have

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been true to their salt. 
This pretended Merchants who 

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travels, under the name of Ahmed
is now in the city of Agra and 

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desires to gain his way into the
fort, he has with him as 

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traveling companion. 
My foster brother dust Akbar, 

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who knows his secret Dust Akbar,
as promised, this night, to lead

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him to a side, posten of the 
fort. 

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And has chosen this one voice 
purpose here, he will come 

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presently. 
And here you will find Mahomet 

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Singh and myself, awaiting him. 
The place is lonely unknown. 

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Sure. 
No, of his coming. 

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The world shall know of the 
merchant achmet? 

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No more. 
But the great treasure of the 

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Rajah shall be divided Among Us.
What say you to it sahib In 

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Worcestershire. 
The life of a man. 

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Seems a great and a sacred 
thing, but it is very different 

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when there is Fire and Blood all
around you. 

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And you've been used to meeting 
death at every turn. 

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Whether I've met the merchants 
lived or died was a thing as 

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light as air to me. 
But at the talk about the 

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treasure, my heart turned to it 
and I thought of what I might do

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in the old country with it. 
And now my folk would stare when

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they saw their ne'er-do-well 
coming back with his pockets. 

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Full of gold moidores, are you 
there for it? 

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He made up my mind. 
Abdullah, Khan, however, 

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thinking I hesitated press the 
matter more closely, Consider. 

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Sahib said he that is this man 
is taken by the kommandant 

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you'll be hung or shot and his 
jurisdiction by the government. 

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So that no man will be a rupee, 
the better for them. 

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Now since we do the taking of 
him, why should we not do the 

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rest as well? 
The jewels will be as well with 

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us as in the company's coffers. 
There will be enough to make 

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every one of us Richmond and 
great chiefs. 

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No one can know about the matter
for here. 

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We are cut off from Um all men, 
what could be better for the 

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purpose? 
Say again, inside whether you 

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are with us or if we must look 
upon you as an enemy, I am with 

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you heart and soul said, I it 
is, well, he answered Hannah me 

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back my firelock. 
You see that? 

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We trust you for your word like,
ours is not to be broken. 

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We have now only to wait for my 
brother and the merchant Does 

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your brother know then? 
I, what you will do? 

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I asked the plan is this, he has
devised it. 

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We will go to the gate and share
the watch with Mahomet Singh. 

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The rain was still falling 
steadily for was just the 

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beginning of the wet season 
Brown heavy clouds were drifting

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across the sky and it was hard 
to see more than a stone cast. 

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A deep moat lay in front of our 
door. 

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But the water was in place is 
nearly dried up and he could 

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easily be crossed. 
It was strange to me to be 

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standing there with these two 
wild punjabis waiting for the 

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man who was coming to his death.
Suddenly my eye caught, the 

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glint of a shaded Lantern at the
other side of the moat it, 

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vanished among the mound, heaps,
and then appeared again coming 

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slowly in an, our Direction. 
Here they are. 

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I exclaimed, you would challenge
him sahib as usual. 

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Whispered Abdullah give him no, 
cause for fear, send us in with 

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him and we shall do the rest. 
While you stay here on guard, 

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have the lantern already to 
uncover that we may be sure that

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it is indeed, the man, the law. 
Diet, flick it on words. 

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Now stopping and now advancing 
until I could see two dark 

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figures upon the other side of 
the moat, I let them scramble 

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down the sloping Bank, Splash 
through the mire and climb 

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halfway up to the gate before I 
challenge them who goes there. 

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Said I in a subdued voice 
Friends came the answer, I 

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uncovered my Lantern and through
a flood of light upon them. 

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The first was an enormous seek 
with a black beard which swept 

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nearly down to his cummerbund 
outside of a show. 

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I'd never seen so tall. 
A man, the other was a little 

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fat round fellow with a great 
yellow turban and a bundle in 

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his hand done up in a shawl. 
He seemed to be all in a quiver 

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with fear for his hands twitched
as if he had the egg and his 

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head. 
Turning to the left and right 

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with two bright little twinkling
eyes like a mouse. 

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When he Ventures out from his 
whole, gave me the chills to 

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think it killing him, but I 
thought of a treasure and my art

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set as hard as a flint within 
me. 

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When he saw my white face, he 
gave a little cheer up of joy 

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and came running up towards me, 
your predictions. 

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Are you babe? 
He punted your protection for 

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the unhappy Merchant. 
Ahmed, I have traveled across 

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rajputana that I might seek the 
shelter of the fort, at a Ra, I 

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have been robbed and beaten and 
abused because I have been a 

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friend of the company. 
It is a blessed night this, when

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I'm once more in safety, I and 
my poor possessions, what have 

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you in the bundle? 
I asked an iron box, he 

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answered, which contains one or 
two little family matters, which

442
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,400
are of no value to others, but 
which I should be sorry to lose 

443
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,300
yet. 
I am not a beggar and I shall 

444
00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:57,300
reward you young side and your 
governor Also, if you would give

445
00:25:57,300 --> 00:26:02,100
me the shelter, I asked I could 
not trust myself to speak longer

446
00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,200
with a man. 
The more I looked at his fat, 

447
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,500
frightened face, the harder did 
it scene that we should slay him

448
00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,400
in Cold Blood, it was best to 
get it over. 

449
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,200
Take him to the main guard said.
I the to seeks closed in upon 

450
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,300
him on each side and a giant 
walk behind while they marched 

451
00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,600
in, through the dark Gateway. 
Never was a man. 

452
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,200
So compassed round with death. 
I remained at the Gateway with a

453
00:26:28,208 --> 00:26:31,200
lantern. 
I could hear the measure Tramp 

454
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,000
of the footsteps. 
Sounding through the whole only 

455
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,000
corridors suddenly it ceased and
I heard voices and a scuffle 

456
00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:42,700
with the sound of blows a moment
later there came to my horror a 

457
00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:46,300
Russia footsteps coming in my 
direction with a loud breathing 

458
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:50,200
of a running man, I turn my 
Latin down the long straight 

459
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,700
passage and there was the fat 
man running like the wind wind 

460
00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:56,900
with a smear of blood across his
face and close at his heels 

461
00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,000
Bound. 
In like a tiger, the great 

462
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000
black-bearded sake with a knife 
flashing in his hand. 

463
00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,800
I've never seen a man run so 
fast as that little Merchant. 

464
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:09,600
He was gaining on the seek and I
could see that if he wants past 

465
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,500
me and got to the open air, he 
would save himself yet. 

466
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,000
My heart. 
Softened to him again. 

467
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000
The thought of his treasure. 
Turned me, Arden, bitter. 

468
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,500
I cast my firelock between his 
legs as he raced past and he 

469
00:27:22,508 --> 00:27:25,500
rolled twice over like a shot 
rabbit here. 

470
00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:29,100
We could stagger to his feet. 
The seek was upon him and buried

471
00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:33,100
his knife twice in his side. 
A man, never, uttered moan or 

472
00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:35,700
move muscle, but lay, where he 
had fallen. 

473
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,400
I think myself that you may have
broken his neck with the fall. 

474
00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:43,000
You see, gentlemen, that I'm 
keeping my promise. 

475
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:46,800
I am telling you every work of 
the business, just exactly as it

476
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,100
happened, whether it is in my 
favor or not, he stopped and 

477
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:55,000
held out his manacled hands for 
the Whiskey and Water, which 

478
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,100
Holmes had brewed for him for 
myself. 

479
00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:01,100
I confess that I had now 
conceived the utmost horror of 

480
00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:04,600
the man, not only for this 
cold-blooded business in which 

481
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,700
he had been concerned, but even 
more for the somewhat flippant 

482
00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:12,400
and careless way in which he 
narrated It, Whatever punishment

483
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,000
was in store for him, I felt 
that he might expect no sympathy

484
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,300
from me Sherlock Holmes and 
Jones sat with their hands upon 

485
00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:22,400
their knees. 
He's deeply interested in the 

486
00:28:22,408 --> 00:28:27,300
story, but with the same disgust
written upon their faces, you 

487
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:30,600
may have observed it for there 
was a touch of defiance in his 

488
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,700
voice and manner as he proceeded
It was all very bad. 

489
00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,900
No doubt said he. 
I should like to know how many 

490
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:42,100
fellows in my shoes would have 
refused to share of this loot. 

491
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,400
When they knew that, they would 
have their throats cut for their

492
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,600
pains. 
Besides, it was my life or is 

493
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:52,400
when once he was in the fort. 
If he had got out, dull business

494
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,000
would come to light, and I 
should have been court-martialed

495
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,500
and shot as likely as not for 
people who are not very leaning 

496
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,900
at a time like that. 
Go on with your story said home 

497
00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:06,600
shortly. 
Well, we carried him in Abdullah

498
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,700
Akbar and I are fine. 
Wait, you was to, for all that 

499
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:13,100
you are so short Mom, it's Singh
was left to guard the door. 

500
00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:16,200
We took him to a place which 
seeks it already prepared. 

501
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,300
It was some distance off where a
winding passage leads to a great

502
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,000
empty. 
All the brick walls of which 

503
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,500
were all crumbling to Pieces. 
The Earth. 

504
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:29,100
Floor had sunk in at one place, 
making a natural grave. 

505
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:32,800
So we left achmat, the merchant,
they're having first covered him

506
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,800
over with loose bricks. 
This done, we all went back to 

507
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,900
the treasure it lay where he had
dropped it when he was first 

508
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:43,600
attacked. 
The box was the same, which Now 

509
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,400
lies upon the table. 
A key was hung by a silken cord 

510
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,200
to that carved handle upon the 
top. 

511
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,700
We opened it and the light of 
the lantern gleamed upon a 

512
00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,000
collection of gems, such as I've
read off. 

513
00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,400
And thought about when I was 
little lad at pershore, it was 

514
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,200
blinding to look upon them. 
When we had feasted our eyes, we

515
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,000
took them all out and made a 
list of them. 

516
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:09,200
I will 143 diamonds of the first
war, including one, which was 

517
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,200
called. 
I believe the great Mogul and is

518
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,000
said to be the second largest 
stone in existence in the 197 

519
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,000
very fine emeralds and 170 
Ruby's some of which however 

520
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,300
were small. 
There were 40 carbuncles, 210, 

521
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:30,800
sapphires, 61 our gates and a 
great quantity of barrels onix's

522
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,400
Cat's Eyes. 
Turquoise is another Stones the 

523
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:37,600
Renamed of which I did not know.
At the time though, I have 

524
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,800
become more familiar with them. 
Since besides this, there were 

525
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,400
nearly 300, very fine, pearls, 
12 of, which were set in a gold 

526
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,600
Coronet. 
By the way, these last have been

527
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,600
taken out of the chest and we're
not there when I recovered it. 

528
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,600
After we had counted our 
treasure, we put them back into 

529
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,700
the chest and carried them to 
the Gateway, to show them, to 

530
00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:03,000
Mom it sing. 
And we saw only renewed our oath

531
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,100
to stand by each other and be 
true to our secret. 

532
00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,200
We agreed to conceal, our loot, 
in a safe place, until the 

533
00:31:10,208 --> 00:31:13,300
country, should be at peace 
again, and then to divide it 

534
00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:17,000
equally among ourselves. 
There was no use dividing it at 

535
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,800
present for of gems of such 
value of found upon us who were 

536
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,300
caused suspicion. 
And there was no privacy in the 

537
00:31:23,308 --> 00:31:25,700
fort nor any place where we 
could keep them. 

538
00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,700
We carried the Box therefore 
into the same Hall, where we 

539
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,900
buried the body and they're 
under the certain bricks in the 

540
00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:37,500
best-preserved wall, we made a 
hollow and put our treasure, we 

541
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,300
made careful note of the place 
and next day, I drew for plans, 

542
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,500
one for each of us and put the 
sign of the four of us, at the 

543
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,300
The bottom for we had sworn, we 
should each always act for all 

544
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,600
so that none might take 
advantage. 

545
00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:55,300
That is an oath that I can put 
my hand to my heart. 

546
00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,100
And swear that I have never 
broken. 

547
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,000
Well, there's no use my telling 
you gentlemen, what came of the 

548
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,400
Indian Mutiny. 
After Wilson, took Delhi and 

549
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,500
sakhalin relieved. 
Look, now the back of the 

550
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:09,100
business was broken fresh 
troops. 

551
00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,800
Came pouring in and Nana sahib 
made himself scarce over the 

552
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,300
frontier a flying column under 
Colonel grated came round to 

553
00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:19,800
Agra and cleared the Pandy's 
away from it. 

554
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:23,700
P seem to be settling upon the 
country and we four were 

555
00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:26,900
beginning to hope that the time 
was at hand when we might safely

556
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,300
go off with our shares of 
Plunder in a moment. 

557
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,300
However, our hopes were 
Shattered by our being arrested 

558
00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:37,100
as the murderers of Ahmed. 
It came about in this way. 

559
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:42,200
When the Roger put his jewels 
into the hands of achmat, he did

560
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,500
it because he knew that he was a
trustee Mann, they are 

561
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,900
suspicious folk in the East. 
However, so what does this Raja 

562
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:50,700
do? 
But take a second, even more 

563
00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:54,200
trusty servant and set him to 
play the Spy upon the first. 

564
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:58,300
This second man was ordered 
never to let Ahmed out of his 

565
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:01,100
sight and he followed him, like 
his shadow. 

566
00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,500
You went after him that night 
and saw him passed through the 

567
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,200
doorway. 
Of course, he thought he'd taken

568
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,700
refuge in the fort and applied 
for admission there, himself 

569
00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,000
next day, but couldn't find no 
trace of achmat. 

570
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,500
This seemed to him so strange 
that he spoke about it to a 

571
00:33:17,508 --> 00:33:20,300
sergeant of guides who brought 
it to the ears of the 

572
00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,200
commandant. 
A thorough search was quickly 

573
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:28,200
made and the body was discovered
thus at the very moment that we 

574
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,400
thought that all was safe, we 
were all for seized and brought 

575
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,500
to trial on a charge of murder, 
three of us because we had held 

576
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,500
Like that night and the force 
because he was known to have 

577
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:39,800
been in the company of the 
murdered. 

578
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,500
Man, not a word about the jewels
came out at the trial for the 

579
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:46,800
Roger had been deposed and 
driven out of India. 

580
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:49,600
So no one had any particular 
interest in them. 

581
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:54,700
The murderer of her was clearly 
made out and it was certain that

582
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,500
we must all have been concerned 
in it. 

583
00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:00,600
The three seeks got penal 
servitude for life and I was 

584
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,600
condemned to death. 
Though, my sentence was 

585
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,200
afterwards commuted into the 
same. 

586
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,199
As the others. 
It was rather a queer position 

587
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,199
that we found ourselves in then 
are we were all four Tied by the

588
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,500
leg and with precious little 
chance of ever getting out 

589
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:18,199
again, while we each held a 
secret which might have put each

590
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,600
of us in a palace. 
If we could only have made use 

591
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,500
of it, it was enough to make a 
man, eat his heart out to have 

592
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,400
to stand the kick and the cuff 
of every Petty, jack-in-office 

593
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:29,900
of rice to eat and water to 
drink. 

594
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:34,000
When that gorgeous Fortune was. 
Eddie for him outside, just 

595
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,199
waiting to be picked up, might 
have driven me mad, but I was 

596
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:42,100
always a pretty stubborn one, so
I just held on and bided my time

597
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,699
at last, it seemed to me to have
come. 

598
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,800
I was changed from Agra to 
Madras. 

599
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,800
And from there to Blair island 
in the andamans, there are very 

600
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,199
few white convicts at this 
settlement and as I had behaved 

601
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,300
well from the first, I soon 
found myself a sort of 

602
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:03,000
privileged person. 
I was given a In Hope Town, 

603
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,100
which is a small place on the 
slopes of Mount Harriet. 

604
00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,900
And I was left pretty much to 
myself. 

605
00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:13,100
She's a dreary fever, stricken 
place and all behind our little 

606
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,700
clearings was, infested with 
wild cannibal natives who were 

607
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:19,900
ready enough to blow a poison 
dart at as if they saw a chance 

608
00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:24,700
it was Diggin and ditching and 
young plant in and a dozen other

609
00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:29,000
things to be done. 
So we were busy enough all day 

610
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:32,800
though in the evening, we had a 
little time to ourselves among 

611
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,800
other things. 
I learned to dispense drugs, for

612
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,900
the surgeon and picked up a 
smattering of his knowledge. 

613
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,500
All the time, I was on the 
lookout for a chance of Escape 

614
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,000
but is hundreds of miles from 
any other land and there's a 

615
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,400
little or no wind in those Seas.
So it was a terribly difficult 

616
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,400
job to get away. 
The surgeon, dr. 

617
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,900
Summerton was a fast sporting 
young Chap. 

618
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,700
And the other young officers 
would meet in his rooms of an 

619
00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:00,900
evening and play cards surgery 
where I used to make up my drugs

620
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,700
was next to his sitting room 
with a small window between us 

621
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,100
often. 
If I felt Lonesome, I used to 

622
00:36:08,107 --> 00:36:11,200
turn out the lamp in the 
surgery, and then standing 

623
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,600
there. 
I could hear their talk and 

624
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,800
watch their play. 
Are you fond of a hand of cards 

625
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,900
myself? 
And he was almost as good as 

626
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:22,100
having one to watch the others. 
There was major sholto Captain 

627
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,900
morstan and Lieutenant Bromley 
Brown, who were in command of 

628
00:36:25,908 --> 00:36:29,400
the Native troops. 
And there was a surgeon himself 

629
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,700
and two or three prison 
officials, crafty old hands who 

630
00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,500
played A Nice Slice, safe game, 
very snug little party. 

631
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:39,700
They used to make. 
Well, there was one thing which 

632
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:42,600
very soon struck me. 
And that was that the soldiers 

633
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,700
used always to lose and the 
civilians to win mind. 

634
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:50,500
I don't say that there was 
anything unfair, but so it was. 

635
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,700
These prison chaps had done 
little else than play cards ever

636
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,800
since they had been at the 
andamans and they knew each 

637
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,200
other's gain to a point while 
the others just play to pass the

638
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,800
time and through their cards 
down anyhow night. 

639
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,700
After night, the soldiers got 
up, poor and men and the poor 

640
00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:11,600
they got The more keen they were
to play a major shoulder was the

641
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,700
hardest hit. 
He used to pay notes and goal at

642
00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:18,500
first but soon it came to notes 
of hand and for big sums. 

643
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,400
He sometimes would win for a few
deals just to give him heart. 

644
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:25,500
And then the luck would get set 
in against him worse than ever, 

645
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,100
or day, would wonder about as 
black as Thunder, and he took to

646
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:32,900
drinking a good deal, more than 
was good for him. 

647
00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,700
One night, he lost even more 
heavily than usual. 

648
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,700
I was sitting in my heart when 
he and Captain morstan came 

649
00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:44,200
stumbling along on the way to 
their quarters, they were bosom 

650
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,100
friends, those two and never far
apart. 

651
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,700
The major was raving about his 
losses. 

652
00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,700
It's all that morstan. 
He was saying, as they pass my 

653
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:56,300
art, I shall have to send you my
papers. 

654
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,500
I'm a ruined man knots and sell 
chap said, the other slapping 

655
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,900
him upon the shoulder. 
I've had a nasty face of myself,

656
00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:08,700
but that was all I could hear 
but it was enough to set me 

657
00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:13,000
thinking couple of days later 
major shoulder was strolling on 

658
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,900
the beach so I took the chance 
of speaking to him. 

659
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,500
I wish to have your advice. 
Major said I well small what is 

660
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:23,500
it? 
He asked taking his cheroot from

661
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:27,000
his lips. 
I wanted to ask you sir said I 

662
00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:30,500
who is a proper person to whom 
hidden treasure should be handed

663
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:33,100
over? 
I know where Alpha million was 

664
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:36,700
lies, and as I cannot use it 
myself, I thought, perhaps, the 

665
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,000
best thing I could do, would be 
to hand it over to the proper 

666
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,500
authorities. 
And then, perhaps they would get

667
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,900
my sentence. 
Shortened for me half a million 

668
00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:49,000
small, he gasped looking hard on
me to see if I was in Earnest 

669
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,200
quite that sir, in jewels and 
Pearls, it lies there, ready for

670
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,500
anyone. 
And the queer thing about it is 

671
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,400
that the real owner is outlawed 
in cannot, hold property. 

672
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,500
Said it belongs to the first 
Comer. to government small, he 

673
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,400
stammered to government but he 
said it in a halting fashion and

674
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,700
I knew in my heart that I got to
him, You think then sir, that I 

675
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,700
should give the information to 
the governor general said, I 

676
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,800
quietly? 
Well, well, you must not do 

677
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,000
anything rash or that you might 
repent. 

678
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,400
Let me hear all about it. 
Small, give me the facts. 

679
00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:31,600
I told him the old story with 
small changes so that he could 

680
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,900
not identify the places when I 
had finished. 

681
00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,900
He stood stockstill and full of 
thought I could see by the 

682
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:42,100
twitch of his lip, there was a 
struggle going on within him. 

683
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,900
This is a very important matter 
small. 

684
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:50,600
He said at last, you must not 
say a word to anyone about it 

685
00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:55,400
and I shall see you again soon. 
Two nights later he and his 

686
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,100
friend Captain morstan came to 
my heart in the dead of the 

687
00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:02,500
night with a lantern. 
I want you just to let Captain 

688
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:06,000
morstan hear that story from 
your own lips, small City. 

689
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:10,600
I repeat it as I told it before.
It rings. 

690
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,600
True. 
A said he it's good enough to 

691
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,900
act upon Captain morstan, nodded
look here small said the major. 

692
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:24,000
We've been talking it over my 
friend here and I and we've come

693
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,700
to the conclusion that this 
secret of yours is hardly a 

694
00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,400
government matter. 
After all, it is a private 

695
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,900
concern of your own which of 
course you have the power of 

696
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:38,800
disposing of as you think best. 
Now, the question is, what price

697
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,000
would you ask for it? 
We might be inclined to take it 

698
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,200
up and at least look into it. 
If we could agree as to turn, 

699
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,200
Terms. 
He tried to speak in a cool 

700
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,800
careless way but his eyes were 
shining with excitement and 

701
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,000
greed. 
Why. 

702
00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:58,300
As to that gentleman, I answered
trying also to be cool but 

703
00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:01,900
feeling as excited as he did, 
there is only one bargain, which

704
00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:05,600
a man in my position can make. 
I shall want you to help me do 

705
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,600
my freedom and to help my three 
companions to. 

706
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,300
There's, we shall then take you 
into partnership and give you a 

707
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:13,900
fifth-year to divide between 
you. 

708
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:21,100
Hmm, said he, I fifth share. 
That is not very tempting. 

709
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,600
It will come to 50,000 of Peace 
said, I but how can we gain your

710
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,000
freedom? 
You know, very well that you 

711
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,500
asked an impossibility, nothing 
of the sort. 

712
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:35,000
I answered. 
I thought I'd all out to the 

713
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,200
Last Detail. 
The only bar to our Escape is 

714
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,800
that we can get no boat fit for 
the voyage and no Provisions to 

715
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,100
last us for so long a Time. 
There are plenty of little 

716
00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,200
yachts and y'all's at Calcutta 
or Madras which would serve our 

717
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,100
turn. 
Well, do you bring one over? 

718
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,100
We shall engage to get a border 
by night and if you're drop us 

719
00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:58,200
on any part of the Indian coast,
you'll have done your part of 

720
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,800
the bargain. 
If there were only one, he said,

721
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:06,900
None. 
Or all I answered, we have sworn

722
00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:08,600
it. 
The four of us must always act 

723
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,200
together. 
You see, morstan said he small 

724
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,000
is a man of his word. 
He does not flinch from his 

725
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,600
friend. 
I think we may very well trust 

726
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,300
him. 
It's a dirty business, the other

727
00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:25,700
answered it. 
As you say, the money would save

728
00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:31,000
our commissions, handsomely. 
Well, small said, the major we 

729
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,200
must I suppose try and meet you.
We must first, of course, test 

730
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,100
the truth of your story. 
Tell me where the box is hid and

731
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:41,900
I shall get leave of absence and
go back to India in the monthly 

732
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:44,300
relief, boat to inquire into the
affair. 

733
00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:48,700
Not so fast said I growing 
colder. 

734
00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:52,500
As he got heart, I must have the
consent of my three comrades. 

735
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,500
I tell you that it is for or non
with us nonsense, he broke in. 

736
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,700
What of three black fellows to 
do with our agreement black or 

737
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:05,100
blue? 
Said, I they are in with me and 

738
00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:08,200
we are all together. 
Well, the matter ended by a 

739
00:43:08,207 --> 00:43:11,800
second meeting in which Mahomet 
Singh Abdullah, Khan and dust 

740
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,100
Akbar, were all present. 
We talked the matter over again.

741
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:17,800
And at last we came to an 
arrangement. 

742
00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:20,800
We were to provide both the 
officers with charts of the part

743
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,000
of the Agra Fort and mark the 
place in the wall, where the 

744
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,100
treasure was hid major sholto 
was to go to India to test our 

745
00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:30,800
story. 
If he found the box, he was to 

746
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,900
leave it there to send out a 
small yacht provision for a 

747
00:43:33,908 --> 00:43:37,400
voyage, which was to lie of 
Rutland Island and to which we 

748
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,500
were to make our way. 
And finally, to return to his 

749
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:44,200
Dewey's, Captain morstan was 
then to apply for leave of 

750
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,400
absence to meet us at Agra and 
there we would have have a final

751
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,900
division of the treasure. 
He taking the major share as 

752
00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:55,600
well as his own all this. 
We sealed by the most solemn 

753
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,500
Oaths, that the mind could 
think. 

754
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,500
Or the lips. 
Utter, I sat up all night with 

755
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:04,200
paper and ink and by the morning
I had the two charts already 

756
00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:09,400
signed with the sign of four is 
of Abdullah Akbar, Muhammad and 

757
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,700
myself. 
Well gentlemen, I weary you with

758
00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:15,900
my long story and I know that my
friend, mr. 

759
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:18,900
Jones is impatient to get me 
safely, stowed in choki. 

760
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:23,400
I'll make it as short as I can. 
The villain schulter went off to

761
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,800
India, but he never came back 
again. 

762
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:29,400
Captain morstan showed me his 
name among a list of passengers 

763
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:32,900
in one of the male boats. 
Very shortly afterwards, his 

764
00:44:32,900 --> 00:44:35,900
uncle had died. 
Leaving him a fortune, and he 

765
00:44:35,900 --> 00:44:39,300
had left the Army yet. 
He could stoop to treat five men

766
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,700
as he had treated us. 
Morstan went over to Agra 

767
00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:46,200
shortly afterwards and found as 
we expected that the treasure 

768
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,700
was indeed gone. 
The scoundrel had stolen it 

769
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,200
without carrying out. 
One of the conditions on which 

770
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,000
we had sold him, the secret from
that day, I lived only for 

771
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,900
vengeance. 
I thought of it by day and I 

772
00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:01,900
nursed it by night. 
It became an overpowering 

773
00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:05,500
absorbing passion with me. 
I cared nothing for the law, 

774
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:10,400
nothing for The Gallows to 
escape to track down Schult 02. 

775
00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:15,500
I end up on his throat, that was
my one thought, even the Agra 

776
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:18,200
treasure had come to be a 
smaller thing in my mind than 

777
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,500
the slaying of Xolo. 
Well, I've set my mind on many 

778
00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:26,100
things in this life and never 
one, which I did not carry out, 

779
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:30,600
but it was weary years. 
Before my time came, I have told

780
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,700
you that I had picked up 
something of medicine one day 

781
00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:35,700
when dr. 
Samet and was down with a fever,

782
00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:38,800
a little and demand Islander was
picked up by a convict gang in 

783
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,300
the woods. 
He was sick to death. 

784
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,700
They're gone to a lonely place 
to die. 

785
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,300
I took him in hand, though. 
He was as venomous as a young 

786
00:45:47,300 --> 00:45:50,400
snake, and after a couple of 
months I got him. 

787
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,200
All right? 
And were able to walk. 

788
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,800
He took a kind of fancy to me 
then, and would hardly go back 

789
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,700
to his woods, but was always 
hanging about my Hut. 

790
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,300
I learned a little of his lingo 
from him and this made him, all 

791
00:46:02,300 --> 00:46:06,500
the funder of me. 
Tonga for that was his name was 

792
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,800
a fine, Boatman and owned a big 
roomy canoe of his own. 

793
00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:13,400
When I found out that he was 
devoted to me and would do 

794
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,500
anything to serve me. 
I saw my chance of Escape, I 

795
00:46:17,508 --> 00:46:20,500
talked it over with him, he was 
to bring his boat round on a 

796
00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:23,800
certain night to an old Wharf, 
which was never guarded and 

797
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,100
there he was to pick me up. 
I gave him directions to have 

798
00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:30,200
several Goods of water and a lot
of yams cocoanuts and sweet 

799
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,800
potatoes. 
He was stanchion. 

800
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,000
True, was little Tonga. 
No man. 

801
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,500
Ever had a more faithful mate, 
at the Knight named, he had his 

802
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:42,100
boat at the Wharf as it chanced.
However, there was one of the 

803
00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:45,800
convict guard down there. 
A vile Payton who had never 

804
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,700
missed a chance of insulting and
injuring me, I'd always vowed 

805
00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:53,100
Vengeance. 
And now, I had my chance, it was

806
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:56,500
as if fate had placed him in my 
way that I might pay my debt. 

807
00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:00,200
Before I left the island, he 
stood on the bank with his back 

808
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,700
to me and his Carbine on his 
shoulder. 

809
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,400
I looked about for a stone to 
beat out his brains with but 

810
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,100
none. 
Could I see an aqueous? 

811
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:13,200
Thought came into my head and 
showed me where I could lay my 

812
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,800
hand on a weapon. 
I sat down in the darkness and 

813
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,500
unstrapped my wooden leg we'ii 
long hops. 

814
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,100
I was on him he put his carbine 
to his shoulder and I struck him

815
00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:26,400
full and not the whole front of 
his skull in. 

816
00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:28,500
You can see the split in the 
wood. 

817
00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:32,700
Now where I am we both went down
together For I could not keep my

818
00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:37,700
balance but when I got up I 
found him still lying quiet 

819
00:47:37,700 --> 00:47:40,300
enough. 
I'm a for the boat. 

820
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,300
And in an hour, we were well, 
out at Sea Tonga had brought all

821
00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:47,400
his Earthly possessions, with 
him, his arms, and his gods, 

822
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,500
among other things, yet, a long 
bamboo Spear and some Andaman. 

823
00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:56,200
Coconut matting with which I 
made a sort of sale for 10 days.

824
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,900
We were beaten about trusting to
luck and on the 11th, we were 

825
00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:03,400
picked up by a Trader, which Is 
going from Singapore to Jeter 

826
00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:08,600
with a cargo of Malay pilgrims. 
They were a run crowd and Tonga 

827
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,900
and I soon managed to settle 
down among them they had one 

828
00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:15,300
very good quality. 
They let you alone and ask no 

829
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:18,300
questions. 
Well if I were to tell you all 

830
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:21,000
the adventures at my little Chum
and I went through, you would 

831
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,700
not thank me for. 
I would have you here until the 

832
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:27,500
Sun was shining here and there 
we drifted about the world. 

833
00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:31,400
Something always turning up to 
keep us from London all the 

834
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,600
However I never lost sight of my
purpose. 

835
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,500
I would dream of shelter at 
night a hundred times. 

836
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:43,000
I've killed him in my sleep at 
last however some three or four 

837
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,200
years ago we found ourselves in 
England, I had no great 

838
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,600
difficulty in finding where 
sholto lived and I set to work 

839
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,800
to discover whether he had 
realized the treasure or if he 

840
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,400
still had it, I made friends 
with someone who could help me. 

841
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,100
I name no names for, I don't 
want to get anyone else in a 

842
00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:03,400
hole. 
All, and I soon found that he 

843
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:08,200
still had the jewels, then I try
to get it him in many ways, but 

844
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,400
he was pretty Sly, and always to
prizefighters, besides his sons 

845
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,800
and his kit, mud guard, on guard
over him one day. 

846
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,500
However, I got word that he was 
dying. 

847
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,100
I hurried at once to the Garden 
mad that he should slip out of 

848
00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:25,700
my clutches like that, and 
looking through the window, I 

849
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:28,600
saw him lying in his bed with 
his sons on each side of him. 

850
00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:31,900
Ida come through and take my 
chance with the three of them 

851
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,500
only even as I looked at him in 
his jaw dropped. 

852
00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:38,700
And I knew that he was gone. 
I got into his room that same 

853
00:49:38,700 --> 00:49:42,000
night though and I searched his 
papers to see if there was any 

854
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:46,300
record of where he did now 
Jules, it was not aligned 

855
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,600
however, so I came away bitter 
and Savage as a man could be. 

856
00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:54,900
Before I left, I be thought me 
that I've ever met my seek 

857
00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:57,200
friends. 
Again, it will be a satisfaction

858
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,100
to know that I had left some 
Mark of iron. 

859
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:02,000
Richard. 
So I scroll down the sign of the

860
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,000
four of us as it had been on the
chart and I pinned it on his 

861
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,900
bosom. 
It was too much that he should 

862
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:12,000
be taken to the Grave without 
some token from the men whom he 

863
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,600
had robbed and be fooled. 
We owned a living at this time, 

864
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,200
by my exhibiting poor Tonga at 
fairs and other such places as a

865
00:50:19,207 --> 00:50:23,000
black cannibal. 
He would eat raw meat and dances

866
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,300
War dance. 
So he always had a handful of 

867
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:29,200
pennies after a day's work. 
I still heard all the news from 

868
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,300
pondicherry Lodge. 
And for some years, there was no

869
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:36,800
news to hear, except that they 
were hunting for the treasure at

870
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,200
last, however, came what we had 
waited for so long. 

871
00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:44,000
The treasure had been found. 
It was up at the top of the 

872
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,800
house and mr. 
Bartholomew sholto as chemical 

873
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,400
laboratory. 
I came at once and had a look at

874
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,900
the place, but I could not see 
how with my wooden leg. 

875
00:50:53,900 --> 00:50:58,500
I was to make my way up to it. 
I learned however, about a trap 

876
00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:00,900
door in the roof and also about 
mr. 

877
00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:04,900
Sholto supper hour. 
It seemed to me that I can 

878
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:08,600
manage to thing easily through 
Tonga, I brought him out with me

879
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,900
with a long rope wound around 
his waist. 

880
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,800
He could climb like a cat and he
soon made his way through the 

881
00:51:14,808 --> 00:51:19,400
roof, but as ill luck would have
it Bartholomew, sholto was still

882
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,200
in room to his cost Tonga 
thought he had done something 

883
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,800
very clever in killing him for 
when I came up by the Rope. 

884
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,800
I found him strutting about as 
proud as a peacock. 

885
00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:34,400
Very much surprised, was he when
I made it in with the ropes, end

886
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:38,100
and cursed him for a little 
bloodthirsty imp, I took the 

887
00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:41,700
treasure box and let it down and
then slid down myself. 

888
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,400
Having first left the sign of 
the four upon the table to show 

889
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,800
that the jewels had come back at
last to those, who'd most right 

890
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,500
to them. 
Tonga, then pulled up the Rope, 

891
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:54,100
close the window and made off 
the way they had come. 

892
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,700
I don't know that I have 
anything else to tell you, I had

893
00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:00,600
heard a Waterman's speak of the 
speed. 

894
00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:03,800
Of Smith's launched the Aurora. 
So I thought should be a 

895
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,900
handicraft for our Escape. 
I engage with all Smith's and 

896
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:10,300
was to give him a big. 
Some if he got a safe to our 

897
00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:14,500
ship, he knew no doubt that 
there was some screw loose but 

898
00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:17,900
he was not in our secrets all 
this is the truth. 

899
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,200
If I tell it to you gentlemen it
is not to amuse you for you've 

900
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:26,300
not done me a very good turn but
is because I believe the best 

901
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:29,700
defense I can make is just to 
hold back nothing but let all 

902
00:52:29,700 --> 00:52:33,400
the world know how Sadly, I have
myself been served by major 

903
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,900
sholto and now innocent. 
I am of the death of his son. 

904
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:43,900
A very remarkable account said 
Sherlock Holmes a fitting wind 

905
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:46,300
up to an extremely interesting 
case. 

906
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,700
There is nothing at all new to 
me in the latter part of your 

907
00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:54,100
narrative except that you 
brought your own rope that I did

908
00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:57,000
not know. 
By the way, I had hoped that 

909
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,000
Tonga had lost all his darts yet
he managed to shoot one at us in

910
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,900
the boat. 
He had lost them all sir, except

911
00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:07,000
one, which was in his blowpipe 
at the time. 

912
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,800
Of course, said Holmes, I had 
not thought of that. 

913
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,300
Is there any other point which 
you would like to ask about us? 

914
00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:19,500
A convict affably? 
I think not. 

915
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,100
Thank you. 
My companion answered well ohms,

916
00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:26,600
said, athelney Jones. 
You are a man to be humid and we

917
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,800
all know that you are a 
connoisseur of crime, but Dewey 

918
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,100
is dewy, and I have gone rather 
far into What you and your 

919
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:35,900
friend asked me, I shall feel 
more at ease. 

920
00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:39,100
When we have a Storyteller here,
safe under lock and key. 

921
00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:43,100
The cab still Waits and there 
are two inspectors downstairs. 

922
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:46,200
I'm much obliged to you both for
your assistance. 

923
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,000
Of course you'll be wanted at 
the trial, good night to you. 

924
00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:56,100
Good night gentlemen, both said 
Jonathan small, you first small 

925
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,700
remark, the weary Jones as they 
left the room. 

926
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,800
I'll take particular care that 
you don't Club me with your 

927
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,000
wooden leg. 
Egg, whatever you may have done 

928
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,700
to the gentleman at the Andaman 
Isles. 

929
00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:09,400
Well, there's the end of our 
little drama. 

930
00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:12,800
I remarked after we had sat 
sometimes smoking in silence. 

931
00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:16,300
I fear that it may be the last 
investigation in which I shall 

932
00:54:16,300 --> 00:54:18,400
have the chance of studying your
methods. 

933
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,600
Miss morstan has done me the 
honor to accept me as a husband 

934
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,400
in perspective. 
He gave me a most dismal groan. 

935
00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:32,800
I feared as much said he I 
really cannot congratulate you I

936
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,600
was a little hurt. 
Have you any reason to be 

937
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:39,700
dissatisfied with my choice? 
I asked not at all. 

938
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,900
I think she is one of the most 
Charming young ladies I have 

939
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:46,800
ever met and might have been 
most useful in such work as we 

940
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,100
have been doing. 
She had a decided genius that 

941
00:54:50,100 --> 00:54:54,000
way, witness the way in which 
she preserved that Agra plan 

942
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,900
from all the other papers of her
father. 

943
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,600
But love is an emotional thing 
and whatever is emotional is 

944
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,800
opposed to that true Reason 
which I place above all things? 

945
00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:09,100
I should never marry myself. 
Lest I bias my judgment. 

946
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,300
I trust said I laughing at my 
judgment May survive the ordeal 

947
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:19,100
but you look weary, yes. 
The reaction is already upon me.

948
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,600
I shall be as limp as a rag for 
a week. 

949
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,200
Strange said, I how terms of 
what in another man? 

950
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,700
I should call laziness alternate
with your fits of Splendid 

951
00:55:29,700 --> 00:55:34,200
energy and vigor Yes, he 
answered there are in me the 

952
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,300
makings of a very fine loafer 
and also a pretty spry sort of 

953
00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:40,900
fellow. 
I often think of those lines of 

954
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:46,300
old gutter Sharda, Dusty not you
of no Iron Men shall steal shoof

955
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,200
then some vordigan man, vaugant 
some Shellman dashed off. 

956
00:55:51,500 --> 00:55:54,100
By the way, I prepare of this 
Norwood business. 

957
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,800
You see that they had as I 
surmised a Confederate in the 

958
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,700
house who could be none other 
than laulau the butler. 

959
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,200
So Jones actually has the 
undivided honor of having caught

960
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,200
one fish in his Great Hall. 
The division seems rather 

961
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,900
unfair. 
I remarked you have done all the

962
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:16,300
work in this business. 
I get a wife out of it, Jones 

963
00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:21,000
gets the credit pray what 
remains for you for me. 

964
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:25,300
Said Sherlock Holmes, there 
Still Remains the cocaine bottle

965
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,900
and he stretched his long. 
White hand up for it. 

966
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:35,200
End of chapter 12 and end of the
sign of the four by Sir. 

967
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:40,800
Arthur Conan Doyle narrated by 
David Clarke BG David dot 

968
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,600
wordpress.com, and www.by coffee
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969
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:47,300
Thank you for listening.