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<s> MY FIRST IMPULSE WAS OF COURSE TO CALL FOR ASSISTANCE BUT I COULD NOT BUT RECOGNIZE THAT THERE WAS EVERY CHANCE THAT I WOULD BE ACCUSED OF HIS MURDER </s>
<s> HIS DEATH AT THE MOMENT OF A QUARREL AND THE GASH IN HIS HEAD WOULD BE BLACK AGAINST ME </s>
<s> AGAIN AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY COULD NOT BE MADE WITHOUT BRINGING OUT SOME FACTS ABOUT THE TREASURE WHICH I WAS PARTICULARLY ANXIOUS TO KEEP SECRET </s>
<s> HE HAD TOLD ME THAT NO SOUL UPON EARTH KNEW WHERE HE HAD GONE </s>
<s> THERE SEEMED TO BE NO NECESSITY WHY ANY SOUL EVER SHOULD KNOW </s>
<s> I WAS STILL PONDERING OVER THE MATTER WHEN LOOKING UP I SAW MY SERVANT LAL CHOWDAR IN THE DOORWAY </s>
<s> HE STOLE IN AND BOLTED THE DOOR BEHIND HIM </s>
<s> QUOTE DO NOT FEAR SAHIB QUOTE HE SAID QUOTE NO ONE NEED KNOW THAT YOU HAVE KILLED HIM </s>
<s> LET US HIDE HIM AWAY AND WHO IS THE WISER </s>
<s> I DID NOT KILL HIM SAID I. LAL CHOWDAR SHOOK HIS HEAD AND SMILED </s>
<s> I HEARD IT ALL SAHIB SAID HE L. HEARD YOU QUARREL AND I HEARD THE BLOW </s>
<s> BUT MY LIPS ARE SEALED </s>
<s> ALL ARE ASLEEP IN THE HOUSE </s>
<s> LET US PUT HIM AWAY TOGETHER </s>
<s> THAT WAS ENOUGH TO DECIDE ME </s>
<s> IF MY OWN SERVANT COULD NOT BELIEVE MY INNOCENCE HOW COULD I HOPE TO MAKE IT GOOD BEFORE TWELVE FOOLISH TRADESMEN IN A JURY BOX </s>
<s> LAL CHOWDAR AND I DISPOSED OF THE BODY THAT NIGHT AND WITHIN A FEW DAYS THE LONDON PAPERS WERE FULL OF THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF CAPTAIN MORSTAN </s>
<s> YOU WILL SEE FROM WHAT I SAY THAT L. CAN HARDLY BE BLAMED IN THE MATTER </s>
<s> MY FAULT LIES IN THE FACT THAT WE CONCEALED NOT ONLY THE BODY BUT ALSO THE TREASURE AND THAT I HAVE CLUNG TO MORSTAN'S SHARE AS WELL AS TO MY OWN </s>
<s> I WISH YOU THEREFORE TO MAKE RESTITUTION </s>
<s> PUT YOUR EARS DOWN TO MY MOUTH </s>
<s> THE TREASURE IS HIDDEN IN </s>
<s> AT THIS INSTANT A HORRIBLE CHANGE CAME OVER HIS EXPRESSION HIS EYES STARED WILDLY HIS JAW DROPPED AND HE YELLED IN A VOICE WHICH I CAN NEVER FORGET KEEP HIM OUT </s>
<s> FOR CHRIST'S SAKE KEEP HIM OUT </s>
<s> WE BOTH STARED ROUND AT THE WINDOW BEHIND US UPON WHICH HIS GAZE WAS FIXED </s>
<s> A FACE WAS LOOKING IN AT US OUT OF THE DARKNESS </s>
<s> WE COULD SEE THE WHITENING OF THE NOSE WHERE IT WAS PRESSED AGAINST THE GLASS </s>
<s> IT WAS A BEARDED HAIRY FACE WITH WILD CRUEL EYES AND AN EXPRESSION OF CONCENTRATED MALEVOLENCE </s>
<s> MY BROTHER AND I RUSHED TOWARDS THE WINDOW BUT THE MAN WAS GONE </s>
<s> WHEN WE RETURNED TO MY FATHER HIS HEAD HAD DROPPED AND HIS PULSE HAD CEASED TO BEAT </s>
<s> QUOTE WE SEARCHED THE GARDEN THAT NIGHT BUT FOUND NO SIGN OF THE INTRUDER SAVE THAT JUST UNDER THE WINDOW A SINGLE FOOTMARK WAS VISIBLE IN THE FLOWER BED </s>
<s> BUT FOR THAT ONE TRACE WE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT THAT OUR IMAGINATIONS HAD CONJURED UP THAT WILD FIERCE FACE </s>
<s> WE SOON HOWEVER HAD ANOTHER AND A MORE STRIKING PROOF THAT THERE WERE SECRET AGENCIES AT WORK ALL ROUND US </s>
<s> THE WINDOW OF MY FATHER'S ROOM WAS FOUND OPEN IN THE MORNING HIS CUPBOARDS AND BOXES HAD BEEN RIFLED AND UPON HIS CHEST WAS FIXED A TORN PIECE OF PAPER WITH THE WORDS THE SIGN OF THE FOUR SCRAWLED ACROSS IT </s>
<s> WHAT THE PHRASE MEANT OR WHO OUR SECRET VISITOR MAY HAVE BEEN WE NEVER KNEW </s>
<s> AS FAR AS WE CAN JUDGE NONE OF MY FATHER'S PROPERTY HAD BEEN ACTUALLY STOLEN THOUGH EVERYTHING HAD BEEN TURNED OUT </s>
<s> MY BROTHER AND I NATURALLY ASSOCIATED THIS PECULIAR INCIDENT WITH THE FEAR WHICH HAUNTED MY FATHER DURING HIS LIFE BUT IT IS STILL A COMPLETE MYSTERY TO US </s>
<s> THE LITTLE MAN STOPPED TO RELIGHT HIS HOOKAH AND PUFFED THOUGHTFULLY FOR A FEW MOMENTS </s>
<s> WE HAD ALL SAT ABSORBED LISTENING TO HIS EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE </s>
<s> AT THE SHORT ACCOUNT OF HER FATHER'S DEATH MISS MORSTAN HAD TURNED DEADLY WHITE AND FOR A MOMENT I FEARED THAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO FAINT </s>
<s> SHE RALLIED HOWEVER ON DRINKING A GLASS OF WATER WHICH I QUIETLY POURED OUT FOR HER FROM A VENETIAN CARAFE UPON THE SIDE TABLE </s>
<s> SHERLOCK HOLMES LEANED BACK IN HIS CHAIR WITH AN ABSTRACTED EXPRESSION AND THE LIDS DRAWN LOW OVER HIS GLITTERING EYES </s>
<s> AS I GLANCED AT HIM I COULD NOT BUT THINK HOW ON THAT VERY DAY HE HAD COMPLAINED BITTERLY OF THE COMMONPLACENESS OF LIFE </s>
<s> HERE AT LEAST WAS A PROBLEM WHICH WOULD TAX HIS SAGACITY TO THE UTMOST </s>
<s> MR. THADDEUS SHOLTO LOOKED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER OF US WITH AN OBVIOUS PRIDE AT THE EFFECT WHICH HIS STORY HAD PRODUCED AND THEN CONTINUED BETWEEN THE PUFFS OF HIS OVERGROWN PIPE </s>
<s> MY BROTHER AND I SAID HE WERE AS YOU MAY IMAGINE MUCH EXCITED AS TO THE TREASURE WHICH MY FATHER HAD SPOKEN OF </s>
<s> FOR WEEKS AND FOR MONTHS WE DUG AND DELVED IN EVERY PART OF THE GARDEN WITHOUT DISCOVERING ITS WHEREABOUTS </s>
<s> IT WAS MADDENING TO THINK THAT THE HIDING PLACE WAS ON HIS VERY LIPS AT THE MOMENT THAT HE DIED </s>
<s> WE COULD JUDGE THE SPLENDOUR OF THE MISSING RICHES BY THE CHAPLET WHICH HE HAD TAKEN OUT </s>
<s> OVER THIS CHAPLET MY BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW AND I HAD SOME LITTLE DISCUSSION </s>
<s> THE PEARLS WERE EVIDENTLY OF GREAT VALUE AND HE WAS AVERSE TO PART WITH THEM FOR BETWEEN FRIENDS MY BROTHER WAS HIMSELF A LITTLE INCLINED TO MY FATHER'S FAULT </s>
<s> HE THOUGHT TOO THAT IF WE PARTED WITH THE CHAPLET IT MIGHT GIVE RISE TO GOSSIP AND FINALLY BRING US INTO TROUBLE </s>
<s> IT WAS ALL THAT I COULD DO TO PERSUADE HIM TO LET ME FIND OUT MISS MORSTAN'S ADDRESS AND SEND HER A DETACHED PEARL AT FIXED INTERVALS SO THAT AT LEAST SHE MIGHT NEVER FEEL DESTITUTE </s>
<s> IT WAS A KINDLY THOUGHT SAID OUR COMPANION EARNESTLY IT WAS EXTREMELY GOOD OF YOU </s>
<s> THE LITTLE MAN WAVED HIS HAND DEPRECATINGLY </s>
<s> WE WERE YOUR TRUSTEES HE SAID THAT WAS THE VIEW WHICH I TOOK OF IT THOUGH BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW COULD NOT ALTOGETHER SEE IT IN THAT LIGHT </s>
<s> WE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY OURSELVES </s>
<s> I DESIRED NO MORE </s>
<s> BESIDES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCH BAD TASTE TO HAVE TREATED A YOUNG LADY IN SO SCURVY A FASHION </s>
<s> LE MAUVAIS GODT MENE AU CRIME </s>
<s> THE FRENCH HAVE A VERY NEAT WAY OF PUTTING THESE THINGS </s>
<s> OUR DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT WENT SO FAR THAT I THOUGHT IT BEST TO SET UP ROOMS FOR MYSELF SO I LEFT PONDICHERRY LODGE TAKING THE OLD KHITMUTGAR AND WILLIAMS WITH ME </s>
<s> YESTERDAY HOWEVER I LEARNED THAT AN EVENT OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE HAS OCCURRED </s>
<s> THE TREASURE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED </s>
<s> I INSTANTLY COMMUNICATED WITH MISS MORSTAN AND IT ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO DRIVE OUT TO NORWOOD AND DEMAND OUR SHARE </s>
<s> I EXPLAINED MY VIEWS LAST NIGHT TO BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW SO WE SHALL BE EXPECTED IF NOT WELCOME VISITORS QUOTE </s>
<s> MR. THADDEUS SHOLTO CEASED AND SAT TWITCHING ON HIS LUXURIOUS SETTEE </s>
<s> WE ALL REMAINED SILENT WITH OUR THOUGHTS UPON THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WHICH THE MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS HAD TAKEN </s>
<s> HOLMES WAS THE FIRST TO SPRING TO HIS FEET </s>
<s> YOU HAVE DONE WELL SIR FROM FIRST TO LAST SAID HE </s>
<s> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE YOU SOME SMALL RETURN BY THROWING SOME LIGHT UPON THAT WHICH IS STILL DARK TO YOU </s>
<s> BUT AS MISS MORSTAN REMARKED JUST NOW IT IS LATE AND WE HAD BEST PUT THE MATTER THROUGH WITHOUT DELAY </s>
<s> OUR NEW ACQUAINTANCE VERY DELIBERATELY COILED UP THE TUBE OF HIS HOOKAH AND PRODUCED FROM BEHIND A CURTAIN A VERY LONG BEFROGGED TOPCOAT WITH ASTRAKHAN COLLAR AND CUFFS </s>
<s> THIS HE BUTTONED TIGHTLY UP IN SPITE OF THE EXTREME CLOSENESS OF THE NIGHT AND FINISHED HIS ATTIRE BY PUTTING ON A RABBIT SKIN CAP WITH HANGING LAPPETS WHICH COVERED THE EARS SO THAT NO PART OF HIM WAS VISIBLE SAVE HIS MOBILE AND PEAKY FACE </s>
<s> MY HEALTH IS SOMEWHAT FRAGILE HE REMARKED AS HE LED THE WAY DOWN THE PASSAGE </s>
<s> I AM COMPELLED TO BE A VALETUDINARIAN </s>
<s> OUR CAB WAS AWAITING US OUTSIDE AND OUR PROGRAMME WAS EVIDENTLY PREARRANGED FOR THE DRIVER STARTED OFF AT ONCE AT A RAPID PACE </s>
<s> THADDEUS SHOLTO TALKED INCESSANTLY IN A VOICE WHICH ROSE HIGH ABOVE THE RATTLE OF THE WHEELS </s>
<s> QUOTE BARTHOLOMEW IS A CLEVER FELLOW QUOTE SAID HE </s>
<s> HOW DO YOU THINK HE FOUND OUT WHERE THE TREASURE WAS </s>
<s> HE HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS SOMEWHERE INDOORS SO HE WORKED OUT ALL THE CUBIC SPACE OF THE HOUSE AND MADE MEASUREMENTS EVERYWHERE SO THAT NOT ONE INCH SHOULD BE UNACCOUNTED FOR </s>
<s> AMONG OTHER THINGS HE FOUND THAT THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING WAS SEVENTY FOUR FEET BUT ON ADDING TOGETHER THE HEIGHTS OF ALL THE SEPARATE ROOMS AND MAKING EVERY ALLOWANCE FOR THE SPACE BETWEEN WHICH HE ASCERTAINED BY BORINGS HE COULD NOT BRING THE TOTAL TO MORE THAN SEVENTY FEET </s>
<s> THERE WERE FOUR FEET UNACCOUNTED FOR </s>
<s> THESE COULD ONLY BE AT THE TOP OF THE BUILDING </s>
<s> HE KNOCKED A HOLE THEREFORE IN THE LATH AND PLASTER CEILING OF THE HIGHEST ROOM AND THERE SURE ENOUGH HE CAME UPON ANOTHER LITTLE GARRET ABOVE IT WHICH HAD BEEN SEALED UP AND WAS KNOWN TO NO ONE </s>
<s> IN THE CENTRE STOOD THE TREASURE CHEST RESTING UPON TWO RAFTERS </s>
<s> HE LOWERED IT THROUGH THE HOLE AND THERE IT LIES </s>
<s> HE COMPUTES THE VALUE OF THE JEWELS AT NOT LESS THAN HALF A MILLION STERLING </s>
<s> AT THE MENTION OF THIS GIGANTIC SUM WE ALL STARED AT ONE ANOTHER OPEN EYED </s>
<s> MISS MORSTAN COULD WE SECURE HER RIGHTS WOULD CHANGE FROM A NEEDY GOVERNESS TO THE RICHEST HEIRESS IN ENGLAND </s>
<s> SURELY IT WAS THE PLACE OF A LOYAL FRIEND TO REJOICE AT SUCH NEWS YET I AM ASHAMED TO SAY THAT SELFISHNESS TOOK ME BY THE SOUL AND THAT MY HEART TURNED AS HEAVY AS LEAD WITHIN ME </s>
<s> I STAMMERED OUT SOME FEW HALTING WORDS OF CONGRATULATION AND THEN SAT DOWNCAST WITH MY HEAD DROOPED DEAF TO THE BABBLE OF OUR NEW ACQUAINTANCE </s>
<s> HE WAS CLEARLY A CONFIRMED HYPOCHONDRIAC AND I WAS DREAMILY CONSCIOUS THAT HE WAS POURING FORTH INTERMINABLE TRAINS OF SYMPTOMS AND IMPLORING INFORMATION AS TO THE COMPOSITION AND ACTION OF INNUMERABLE QUACK NOSTRUMS SOME OF WHICH HE BORE ABOUT IN A LEATHER CASE IN HIS POCKET </s>
<s> I TRUST THAT HE MAY NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THE ANSWERS WHICH I GAVE HIM THAT NIGHT </s>
<s> HOLMES DECLARES THAT HE OVERHEARD ME CAUTION HIM AGAINST THE GREAT DANGER OF TAKING MORE THAN TWO DROPS OF CASTOR OIL WHILE I RECOMMENDED STRYCHNINE IN LARGE DOSES AS A SEDATIVE </s>
<s> HOWEVER THAT MAY BE I WAS CERTAINLY RELIEVED WHEN OUR CAB PULLED UP WITH A JERK AND THE COACHMAN SPRANG DOWN TO OPEN THE DOOR </s>
<s> THIS MISS MORSTAN IS PONDICHERRY LODGE SAID MR. THADDEUS SHOLTO AS HE HANDED HER OUT </s>
<s> CHAPTER FIVE THE TRAGEDY OF PONDICHERRY LODGE </s>
<s> IT WAS NEARLY ELEVEN O'CLOCK WHEN WE REACHED THIS FINAL STAGE OF OUR NIGHT'S ADVENTURES </s>
<s> WE HAD LEFT THE DAMP FOG OF THE GREAT CITY BEHIND US AND THE NIGHT WAS FAIRLY FINE </s>
<s> A WARM WIND BLEW FROM THE WESTWARD AND HEAVY CLOUDS MOVED SLOWLY ACROSS THE SKY WITH HALF A MOON PEEPING OCCASIONALLY THROUGH THE RIFTS </s>
<s> IT WAS CLEAR ENOUGH TO SEE FOR SOME DISTANCE BUT THADDEUS SHOLTO TOOK DOWN ONE OF THE SIDELAMPS FROM THE CARRIAGE TO GIVE US A BETTER LIGHT UPON OUR WAY </s>
<s> PONDICHERRY LODGE STOOD IN ITS OWN GROUNDS AND WAS GIRT ROUND WITH A VERY HIGH STONE WALL TOPPED WITH BROKEN GLASS </s>
<s> A SINGLE NARROW IRON CLAMPED DOOR FORMED THE ONLY MEANS OF ENTRANCE </s>
<s> ON THIS OUR GUIDE KNOCKED WITH A PECULIAR POSTMAN LIKE RAT TAT </s>
<s> WHO IS THERE CRIED A GRUFF VOICE FROM WITHIN </s>
<s> IT IS I MCMURDO </s>
<s> YOU SURELY KNOW MY KNOCK BY THIS TIME QUOTE </s>
<s> THERE WAS A GRUMBLING SOUND AND A CLANKING AND JARRING OF KEYS </s>
<s> THE DOOR SWUNG HEAVILY BACK AND A SHORT DEEP CHESTED MAN STOOD IN THE OPENING WITH THE YELLOW LIGHT OF THE LANTERN SHINING UPON HIS PROTRUDED FACE AND TWINKLING DISTRUSTFUL EYES </s>
<s> THAT YOU MR. THADDEUS </s>
<s> BUT WHO ARE THE OTHERS </s>
<s> I HAD NO ORDERS ABOUT THEM FROM THE MASTER </s>
<s> NO MCMURDO </s>
<s> YOU SURPRISE ME </s>
<s> I TOLD MY BROTHER LAST NIGHT THAT I SHOULD BRING SOME FRIENDS </s>
<s> HE HAIN'T BEEN OUT O' HIS ROOMS TO DAY MR. THADDEUS AND I HAVE NO ORDERS </s>
<s> YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT I MUST STICK TO REGULATIONS </s>
<s> I CAN LET YOU IN BUT YOUR FRIENDS THEY MUST JUST STOP WHERE THEY ARE QUOTE </s>
<s> THIS WAS AN UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE </s>
<s> THADDEUS SHOLTO LOOKED ABOUT HIM IN A PERPLEXED AND HELPLESS MANNER </s>
<s> THIS IS TOO BAD OF YOU MCMURDO HE SAID </s>
<s> IF I GUARANTEE THEM THAT IS ENOUGH FOR YOU </s>
<s> THERE IS THE YOUNG LADY TOO </s>
<s> SHE CANNOT WAIT ON THE PUBIIC ROAD AT THIS HOUR </s>
<s> VERY SORRY MR. THADDEUS SAID THE PORTER INEXORABLY </s>
<s> FOLK MAY BE FRIENDS O' YOURS AND YET NO FRIEND O' THE MASTER'S </s>
<s> HE PAYS ME WELL TO DO MY DUTY AND MY DUTY I'LL DO </s>
<s> I DON'T KNOW NONE O' YOUR FRIENDS QUOTE </s>
<s> OH YES YOU DO MCMURDO CRIED SHERLOCK HOLMES GENIALLY </s>
<s> I DON'T THINK YOU CAN HAVE FORGOTTEN ME </s>
<s> DON'T YOU REMEMBER THAT AMATEUR WHO FOUGHT THREE ROUNDS WITH YOU AT ALISON'S ROOMS ON THE NIGHT OF YOUR BENEFIT FOUR YEARS BACK </s>
<s> NOT MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES ROARED THE PRIZE FIGHTER </s>
<s> GOD'S TRUTH HOW COULD I HAVE MISTOOK YOU </s>
<s> IF INSTEAD O' STANDIN' THERE SO QUIET YOU HAD JUST STEPPED UP AND GIVEN ME THAT CROSS HIT OF YOURS UNDER THE JAW I'D HA KNOWN YOU WITHOUT A QUESTION </s>
<s> AH YOU'RE ONE THAT HAS WASTED YOUR GIFTS YOU HAVE </s>
<s> YOU MIGHT HAVE AIMED HIGH IF YOU HAD JOINED THE FANCY QUOTE </s>
<s> YOU SEE WATSON IF ALL ELSE FAILS ME I HAVE STILL ONE OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROFESSIONS OPEN TO ME SAID HOLMES LAUGHING </s>
<s> OUR FRIEND WON'T KEEP US OUT IN THE COLD NOW I AM SURE </s>
<s> IN YOU COME SIR IN YOU COME YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS HE ANSWERED </s>
<s> VERY SORRY MR. THADDEUS BUT ORDERS ARE VERY STRICT </s>
<s> HAD TO BE CERTAIN OF YOUR FRIENDS BEFORE I LET THEM IN </s>
<s> INSIDE A GRAVEL PATH WOUND THROUGH DESOLATE GROUNDS TO A HUGE CLUMP OF A HOUSE SQUARE AND PROSAIC ALL PLUNGED IN SHADOW SAVE WHERE A MOONBEAM STRUCK ONE CORNER AND GLIMMERED IN A GARRET WINDOW </s>
<s> THE VAST SIZE OF THE BUILDING WITH ITS GLOOM AND ITS