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<s> WE DID INDEED GET A FLEETING VIEW OF A STRETCH OF THE THAMES WITH THE LAMPS SHINING UPON THE BROAD SILENT WATER BUT OUR CAB DASHED ON AND WAS SOON INVOLVED IN A LABYRINTH OF STREETS UPON THE OTHER SIDE </s>
<s> WORDSWORTH ROAD SAID MY COMPANION </s>
<s> PRIORY ROAD </s>
<s> LARK HALL LANE </s>
<s> STOCKWELL PLACE </s>
<s> ROBERT STREET </s>
<s> COLD HARBOUR LANE </s>
<s> OUR QUEST DOES NOT APPEAR TO TAKE US TO VERY FASHIONABLE REGIONS </s>
<s> WE HAD INDEED REACHED A QUESTIONABLE AND FORBIDDING NEIGHBOURHOOD </s>
<s> LONG LINES OF DULL BRICK HOUSES WERE ONLY RELIEVED BY THE COARSE GLARE AND TAWDRY BRILLIANCY OF PUBLIC HOUSES AT THE CORNER </s>
<s> THEN CAME ROWS OF TWO STORIED VILLAS EACH WITH A FRONTING OF MINIATURE GARDEN AND THEN AGAIN INTERMINABLE LINES OF NEW STARING BRICK BUILDINGS THE MONSTER TENTACLES WHICH THE GIANT CITY WAS THROWING OUT INTO THE COUNTRY </s>
<s> AT LAST THE CAB DREW UP AT THE THIRD HOUSE IN A NEW TERRACE </s>
<s> NONE OF THE OTHER HOUSES WERE INHABITED AND THAT AT WHICH WE STOPPED WAS AS DARK AS ITS NEIGHBOURS SAVE FOR A SINGLE GLIMMER IN THE KITCHEN WINDOW </s>
<s> ON OUR KNOCKING HOWEVER THE DOOR WAS INSTANTLY THROWN OPEN BY A HINDOO SERVANT CLAD IN A YELLOW TURBAN WHITE LOOSE FITTING CLOTHES AND A YELLOW SASH </s>
<s> THERE WAS SOMETHING STRANGELY INCONGRUOUS IN THIS ORIENTAL FIGURE FRAMED IN THE COMMONPLACE DOORWAY OF A THIRD RATE SUBURBAN DWELLING HOUSE </s>
<s> THE SAHIB AWAITS YOU SAID HE AND EVEN AS HE SPOKE THERE CAME A HIGH PIPING VOICE FROM SOME INNER ROOM </s>
<s> SHOW THEM IN TO ME KHITMUTGAR IT SAID </s>
<s> QUOTE SHOW THEM STRAIGHT IN TO ME QUOTE </s>
<s> CHAPTER FOUR THE STORY OF THE BALD HEADED MAN </s>
<s> WE FOLLOWED THE INDIAN DOWN A SORDID AND COMMON PASSAGE ILL LIT AND WORSE FURNISHED UNTIL HE CAME TO A DOOR UPON THE RIGHT WHICH HE THREW OPEN </s>
<s> A BLAZE OF YELLOW LIGHT STREAMED OUT UPON US AND IN THE CENTRE OF THE GLARE THERE STOOD A SMALL MAN WITH A VERY HIGH HEAD A BRISTLE OF RED HAIR ALL ROUND THE FRINGE OF IT AND A BALD SHINING SCALP WHICH SHOT OUT FROM AMONG IT LIKE A MOUNTAIN PEAK FROM FIR TREES </s>
<s> HE WRITHED HIS HANDS TOGETHER AS HE STOOD AND HIS FEATURES WERE IN A PERPETUAL JERK NOW SMILING NOW SCOWLING BUT NEVER FOR AN INSTANT IN REPOSE </s>
<s> NATURE HAD GIVEN HIM A PENDULOUS LIP AND A TOO VISIBLE LINE OF YELLOW AND IRREGULAR TEETH WHICH HE STROVE FEEBLY TO CONCEAL BY CONSTANTLY PASSING HIS HAND OVER THE LOWER PART OF HIS FACE </s>
<s> IN SPITE OF HIS OBTRUSIVE BALDNESS HE GAVE THE IMPRESSION OF YOUTH </s>
<s> IN POINT OF FACT HE HAD JUST TURNED HIS THIRTIETH YEAR </s>
<s> YOUR SERVANT MISS MORSTAN HE KEPT REPEATING IN A THIN HIGH VOICE </s>
<s> YOUR SERVANT GENTLEMEN </s>
<s> PRAY STEP INTO MY LITTLE SANCTUM </s>
<s> A SMALL PLACE MISS BUT FURNISHED TO MY OWN LIKING </s>
<s> AN OASIS OF ART IN THE HOWLING DESERT OF SOUTH LONDON </s>
<s> WE WERE ALL ASTONISHED BY THE APPEARANCE OF THE APARTMENT INTO WHICH HE INVITED US </s>
<s> IN THAT SORRY HOUSE IT LOOKED AS OUT OF PLACE AS A DIAMOND OF THE FIRST WATER IN A SETTING OF BRASS </s>
<s> THE RICHEST AND GLOSSIEST OF CURTAINS AND TAPESTRIES DRAPED THE WALLS LOOPED BACK HERE AND THERE TO EXPOSE SOME RICHLY MOUNTED PAINTING OR ORIENTAL VASE </s>
<s> THE CARPET WAS OF AMBER AND BLACK SO SOFT AND SO THICK THAT THE FOOT SANK PLEASANTLY INTO IT AS INTO A BED OF MOSS </s>
<s> TWO GREAT TIGER SKINS THROWN ATHWART IT INCREASED THE SUGGESTION OF EASTERN LUXURY AS DID A HUGE HOOKAH WHICH STOOD UPON A MAT IN THE CORNER </s>
<s> A LAMP IN THE FASHION OF A SILVER DOVE WAS HUNG FROM AN ALMOST INVISIBLE GOLDEN WIRE IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM </s>
<s> AS IT BURNED IT FILLED THE AIR WITH A SUBTLE AND AROMATIC ODOUR </s>
<s> MR. THADDEUS SHOLTO SAID THE LITTLE MAN STILL JERKING AND SMILING </s>
<s> THAT IS MY NAME </s>
<s> YOU ARE MISS MORSTAN OF COURSE </s>
<s> AND THESE GENTLEMEN QUOTE </s>
<s> THIS IS MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THIS DOCTOR WATSON </s>
<s> A DOCTOR EH CRIED HE MUCH EXCITED </s>
<s> HAVE YOU YOUR STETHOSCOPE </s>
<s> MIGHT I ASK YOU WOULD YOU HAVE THE KINDNESS </s>
<s> I HAVE GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO MY MITRAL VALVE IF YOU WOULD BE SO VERY GOOD </s>
<s> THE AORTIC I MAY RELY UPON BUT I SHOULD VALUE YOUR OPINION UPON THE MITRAL </s>
<s> I LISTENED TO HIS HEART AS REQUESTED BUT WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANYTHING AMISS SAVE INDEED THAT HE WAS IN AN ECSTASY OF FEAR FOR HE SHIVERED FROM HEAD TO FOOT </s>
<s> IT APPEARS TO BE NORMAL I SAID </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU HAVE NO CAUSE FOR UNEASINESS QUOTE </s>
<s> YOU WILL EXCUSE MY ANXIETY MISS MORSTAN HE REMARKED AIRILY </s>
<s> I AM A GREAT SUFFERER AND I HAVE LONG HAD SUSPICIONS AS TO THAT VALVE </s>
<s> I AM DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT THEY ARE UNWARRANTED </s>
<s> HAD YOUR FATHER MISS MORSTAN REFRAINED FROM THROWING A STRAIN UPON HIS HEART HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALIVE NOW </s>
<s> I COULD HAVE STRUCK THE MAN ACROSS THE FACE SO HOT WAS I AT THIS CALLOUS AND OFFHAND REFERENCE TO SO DELICATE A MATTER </s>
<s> MISS MORSTAN SAT DOWN AND HER FACE GREW WHITE TO THE LIPS </s>
<s> I KNEW IN MY HEART THAT HE WAS DEAD SAID SHE </s>
<s> I CAN GIVE YOU EVERY INFORMATION SAID HE AND WHAT IS MORE I CAN DO YOU JUSTICE AND I WILL TOO WHATEVER BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW MAY SAY </s>
<s> I AM SO GLAD TO HAVE YOUR FRIENDS HERE NOT ONLY AS AN ESCORT TO YOU BUT ALSO AS WITNESSES TO WHAT I AM ABOUT TO DO AND SAY </s>
<s> THE THREE OF US CAN SHOW A BOLD FRONT TO BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW </s>
<s> BUT LET US HAVE NO OUTSIDERS NO POLICE OR OFFICIALS </s>
<s> WE CAN SETTLE EVERYTHING SATISFACTORILY AMONG OURSELVES WITHOUT ANY INTERFERENCE </s>
<s> NOTHING WOULD ANNOY BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW MORE THAN ANY PUBLICITY QUOTE </s>
<s> HE SAT DOWN UPON A LOW SETTEE AND BLINKED AT US INQUIRINGLY WITH HIS WEAK WATERY BLUE EYES </s>
<s> FOR MY PART SAID HOLMES WHATEVER YOU MAY CHOOSE TO SAY WILL GO NO FURTHER </s>
<s> I NODDED TO SHOW MY AGREEMENT </s>
<s> THAT IS WELL </s>
<s> THAT IS WELL SAID HE </s>
<s> MAY I OFFER YOU A GLASS OF CHIANTI MISS MORSTAN </s>
<s> OR OF TOKAY </s>
<s> I KEEP NO OTHER WINES </s>
<s> SHALL I OPEN A FLASK </s>
<s> NO </s>
<s> WELL THEN I TRUST THAT YOU HAVE NO OBJECTION TO TOBACCO SMOKE TO THE BALSAMIC ODOUR OF THE EASTERN TOBACCO </s>
<s> I AM A LITTLE NERVOUS AND I FIND MY HOOKAH AN INVALUABLE SEDATIVE </s>
<s> HE APPLIED A TAPER TO THE GREAT BOWL AND THE SMOKE BUBBLED MERRILY THROUGH THE ROSE WATER </s>
<s> WE SAT ALL THREE IN A SEMICIRCLE WITH OUR HEADS ADVANCED AND OUR CHINS UPON OUR HANDS WHILE THE STRANGE JERKY LITTLE FELLOW WITH HIS HIGH SHINING HEAD PUFFED UNEASILY IN THE CENTRE </s>
<s> QUOTE WHEN I FIRST DETERMINED TO MAKE THIS COMMUNICATION TO YOU QUOTE SAID HE QUOTE I MIGHT HAVE GIVEN YOU MY ADDRESS BUT I FEARED THAT YOU MIGHT DISREGARD MY REQUEST AND BRING UNPLEASANT PEOPLE WITH YOU </s>
<s> I TOOK THE LIBERTY THEREFORE OF MAKING AN APPOINTMENT IN SUCH A WAY THAT MY MAN WILLIAMS MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE YOU FIRST </s>
<s> I HAVE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN HIS DISCRETION AND HE HAD ORDERS IF HE WERE DISSATISFIED TO PROCEED NO FURTHER IN THE MATTER </s>
<s> YOU WILL EXCUSE THESE PRECAUTIONS BUT I AM A MAN OF SOMEWHAT RETIRING AND I MIGHT EVEN SAY REFINED TASTES AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE UNAESTHETIC THAN A POLICEMAN </s>
<s> I HAVE A NATURAL SHRINKING FROM ALL FORMS OF ROUGH MATERIALISM </s>
<s> I SELDOM COME IN CONTACT WITH THE ROUGH CROWD </s>
<s> I LIVE AS YOU SEE WITH SOME LITTLE ATMOSPHERE OF ELEGANCE AROUND ME </s>
<s> I MAY CALL MYSELF A PATRON OF THE ARTS </s>
<s> IT IS MY WEAKNESS </s>
<s> THE LANDSCAPE IS A GENUINE COROT AND THOUGH A CONNOISSEUR MIGHT PERHAPS THROW A DOUBT UPON THAT SALVATOR ROSA THERE CANNOT BE THE LEAST QUESTION ABOUT THE BOUGUEREAU </s>
<s> I AM PARTIAL TO THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL </s>
<s> YOU WILL EXCUSE ME MR. SHOLTO SAID MISS MORSTAN BUT I AM HERE AT YOUR REQUEST TO LEARN SOMETHING WHICH YOU DESIRE TO TELL ME </s>
<s> IT IS VERY LATE AND I SHOULD DESIRE THE INTERVIEW TO BE AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE </s>
<s> AT THE BEST IT MUST TAKE SOME TIME HE ANSWERED FOR WE SHALL CERTAINLY HAVE TO GO TO NORWOOD AND SEE BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW </s>
<s> WE SHALL ALL GO AND TRY IF WE CAN GET THE BETTER OF BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW </s>
<s> HE IS VERY ANGRY WITH ME FOR TAKING THE COURSE WHICH HAS SEEMED RIGHT TO ME </s>
<s> I HAD QUITE HIGH WORDS WITH HIM LAST NIGHT </s>
<s> YOU CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT A TERRIBLE FELLOW HE IS WHEN HE IS ANGRY </s>
<s> QUOTE IF WE ARE TO GO TO NORWOOD IT WOULD PERHAPS BE AS WELL TO START AT ONCE QUOTE I VENTURED TO REMARK </s>
<s> HE LAUGHED UNTIL HIS EARS WERE QUITE RED </s>
<s> THAT WOULD HARDLY DO HE CRIED </s>
<s> I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WOULD SAY IF I BROUGHT YOU IN THAT SUDDEN WAY </s>
<s> NO I MUST PREPARE YOU BY SHOWING YOU HOW WE ALL STAND TO EACH OTHER </s>
<s> IN THE FIRST PLACE I MUST TELL YOU THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL POINTS IN THE STORY OF WHICH I AM MYSELF IGNORANT </s>
<s> I CAN ONLY LAY THE FACTS BEFORE YOU AS FAR AS I KNOW THEM MYSELF </s>
<s> MY FATHER WAS AS YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED MAJOR JOHN SHOLTO ONCE OF THE INDIAN ARMY </s>
<s> HE RETIRED SOME ELEVEN YEARS AGO AND CAME TO LIVE AT PONDICHERRY LODGE IN UPPER NORWOOD </s>
<s> HE HAD PROSPERED IN INDIA AND BROUGHT BACK WITH HIM A CONSIDERABLE SUM OF MONEY A LARGE COLLECTION OF VALUABLE CURIOSITIES AND A STAFF OF NATIVE SERVANTS </s>
<s> WITH THESE ADVANTAGES HE BOUGHT HIMSELF A HOUSE AND LIVED IN GREAT LUXURY </s>
<s> MY TWINBROTHER BARTHOLOMEW AND I WERE THE ONLY CHILDREN </s>
<s> I VERY WELL REMEMBER THE SENSATION WHICH WAS CAUSED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CAPTAIN MORSTAN </s>
<s> WE READ THE DETAILS IN THE PAPERS AND KNOWING THAT HE HAD BEEN A FRIEND OF OUR FATHER'S WE DISCUSSED THE CASE FREELY IN HIS PRESENCE </s>
<s> HE USED TO JOIN IN OUR SPECULATIONS AS TO WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED </s>
<s> NEVER FOR AN INSTANT DID WE SUSPECT THAT HE HAD THE WHOLE SECRET HIDDEN IN HIS OWN BREAST THAT OF ALL MEN HE ALONE KNEW THE FATE OF ARTHUR MORSTAN </s>
<s> WE DID KNOW HOWEVER THAT SOME MYSTERY SOME POSITIVE DANGER OVERHUNG OUR FATHER </s>
<s> HE WAS VERY FEARFUL OF GOING OUT ALONE AND HE ALWAYS EMPLOYED TWO PRIZE FIGHTERS TO ACT AS PORTERS AT PONDICHERRY LODGE </s>
<s> WILLIAMS WHO DROVE YOU TONIGHT WAS ONE OF THEM </s>
<s> HE WAS ONCE LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION OF ENGLAND </s>
<s> OUR FATHER WOULD NEVER TELL US WHAT IT WAS HE FEARED BUT HE HAD A MOST MARKED AVERSION TO MEN WITH WOODEN LEGS </s>
<s> ON ONE OCCASION HE ACTUALLY FIRED HIS REVOLVER AT A WOODEN LEGGED MAN WHO PROVED TO BE A HARMLESS TRADESMAN CANVASSING FOR ORDERS </s>
<s> WE HAD TO PAY A LARGE SUM TO HUSH THE MATTER UP </s>
<s> MY BROTHER AND I USED TO THINK THIS A MERE WHIM OF MY FATHER'S BUT EVENTS HAVE SINCE LED US TO CHANGE OUR OPINION </s>
<s> QUOTE EARLY IN ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO MY FATHER RECEIVED A LETTER FROM INDIA WHICH WAS A GREAT SHOCK TO HIM </s>
<s> HE NEARLY FAINTED AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE WHEN HE OPENED IT AND FROM THAT DAY HE SICKENED TO HIS DEATH </s>
<s> WHAT WAS IN THE LETTER WE COULD NEVER DISCOVER BUT I COULD SEE AS HE HELD IT THAT IT WAS SHORT AND WRITTEN IN A SCRAWLING HAND </s>
<s> HE HAD SUFFERED FOR YEARS FROM AN ENLARGED SPLEEN BUT HE NOW BECAME RAPIDLY WORSE AND TOWARDS THE END OF APRIL WE WERE INFORMED THAT HE WAS BEYOND ALL HOPE AND THAT HE WISHED TO MAKE A LAST COMMUNICATION TO US </s>
<s> WHEN WE ENTERED HIS ROOM HE WAS PROPPED UP WITH PILLOWS AND BREATHING HEAVILY </s>
<s> HE BESOUGHT US TO LOCK THE DOOR AND TO COME UPON EITHER SIDE OF THE BED </s>
<s> THEN GRASPING OUR HANDS HE MADE A REMARKABLE STATEMENT TO US IN A VOICE WHICH WAS BROKEN AS MUCH BY EMOTION AS BY PAIN </s>
<s> I SHALL TRY AND GIVE IT TO YOU IN HIS OWN VERY WORDS </s>
<s> I HAVE ONLY ONE THING HE SAID WHICH WEIGHS UPON MY MIND AT THIS SUPREME MOMENT </s>
<s> IT IS MY TREATMENT OF POOR MORSTAN'S ORPHAN </s>
<s> THE CURSED GREED WHICH HAS BEEN MY BESETTING SIN THROUGH LIFE HAS WITHHELD FROM HER THE TREASURE HALF AT LEAST OF WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERS </s>
<s> AND YET I HAVE MADE NO USE OF IT MYSELF SO BLIND AND FOOLISH A THING IS AVARICE </s>
<s> THE MERE FEELING OF POSSESSION HAS BEEN SO DEAR TO ME THAT I COULD NOT BEAR TO SHARE IT WITH ANOTHER </s>
<s> SEE THAT CHAPLET TIPPED WITH PEARLS BESIDE THE QUININE BOTTLE </s>
<s> EVEN THAT I COULD NOT BEAR TO PART WITH ALTHOUGH I HAD GOT IT OUT WITH THE DESIGN OF SENDING IT TO HER </s>
<s> YOU MY SONS WILL GIVE HER A FAIR SHARE OF THE AGRA TREASURE </s>
<s> BUT SEND HER NOTHING NOT EVEN THE CHAPLET UNTIL I AM GONE </s>
<s> AFTER ALL MEN HAVE BEEN AS BAD AS THIS AND HAVE RECOVERED </s>
<s> I WILL TELL YOU HOW MORSTAN DIED HE CONTINUED </s>
<s> HE HAD SUFFERED FOR YEARS FROM A WEAK HEART BUT HE CONCEALED IT FROM EVERY ONE </s>
<s> I ALONE KNEW IT </s>
<s> WHEN IN INDIA HE AND I THROUGH A REMARKABLE CHAIN OF CIRCUMSTANCES CAME INTO POSSESSION OF A CONSIDERABLE TREASURE </s>
<s> I BROUGHT IT OVER TO ENGLAND AND ON THE NIGHT OF MORSTAN'S ARRIVAL HE CAME STRAIGHT OVER HERE TO CLAIM HIS SHARE </s>
<s> HE WALKED OVER FROM THE STATION AND WAS ADMITTED BY MY FAITHFUL OLD LAL CHOWDAR WHO IS NOW DEAD </s>
<s> MORSTAN AND I HAD A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS TO THE DIVISION OF THE TREASURE AND WE CAME TO HEATED WORDS </s>
<s> MORSTAN HAD SPRUNG OUT OF HIS CHAIR IN A PAROXYSM OF ANGER WHEN HE SUDDENLY PRESSED HIS HAND TO HIS SIDE HIS FACE TURNED A DUSKY HUE AND HE FELL BACKWARD CUTTING HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CORNER OF THE TREASURE CHEST </s>
<s> WHEN I STOOPED OVER HIM I FOUND TO MY HORROR THAT HE WAS DEAD </s>
<s> FOR A LONG TIME I SAT HALF DISTRACTED WONDERING WHAT I SHOULD DO </s>