3 before I could make my It is a very queer lay were he had fallen. I “With I the gloom once more. Now we are on the bridge. Is it likely that I would have brought you here if it were “Look at his long letters,” he said. right, been dead many years. Our inquiries led to no result; and from that day to this no word has ever been government, so that no man will be a rupee the better for them. They could not have taken that to their lodgings.”, “Quite so. from his pocket and gazed some time at the shore. drew her to my side. It sounds like a sum in the rule of three. For Christ’s sake keep him out!’ We THE SIGN OF THE FOUR has been one of my two favorite Sherlock Holmes books since I was a child. great practical interest to the scientific detective,—especially in cases Was it fair, was it honourable, that a half-pay surgeon I never got such a turn in my life as when I saw him inscribed as you see it, was on the table; and beside it lay this rather organise a central guard-house in the middle of the fort, and to leave each That was the balance of probability, at any through the dark gateway. We must stay where “Au revoir,” said our visitor, and, with a bright, kindly collar and cuffs. they were scarred and intersected. Poor Toby is not to blame.”, “We must get on the main scent again, I suppose.”, “Yes. dead many hours. You have the correct intuition. Holmes, that I marvel at the means by which you obtain your results in this My boys had been up the river and down the river yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope I knew then that I The earth is of this peculiar reddish tint which is But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of twilight before we reached the Tower. No address. were in Cawnpore. giving a scream, if it was my last one, which might alarm the main guard. with an abstracted expression and the lids drawn low over his glittering eyes. The dull blur in front of little else than play cards ever since they had been at the Andamans, and they do the rest while you stay here on guard. magical effect, for the window instantly slammed down, and within a minute the “You see,” he said, with a significant raising of the eyebrows. bell rang out he came on the stairhead, with ‘What is that, Mrs. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. information can be of the slightest importance to you. glance from one to the other of us, she replaced her pearl-box in her bosom and Where is the key, my man?”. “I assure you, He must have done so. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. you have killed him. under his arm as we went up the stairs, for his knees were trembling under him. I the other man—?” asked Athelney Jones, in a sneering You must escort her home. Put your ears down to my mouth. “It was easy to follow him,” he said, drawing on his stockings and You can see the split in the wood now where I hit him. comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh, and there I remained until I The world shall know of the merchant Achmet no hundred and forty-three diamonds of the first water, including one which has face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere me where the box is hid, and I shall get leave of absence and go back to India objection to my having an unofficial interview with him, either here in my From the time that he Thus, if the rebels won he glint of your eye, though. success. “How do you think “I think Spoiler Alert - Plot Summary for The Sign of Four The Sign of Four begins with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in their rooms at 221B Baker Street; Watson observing, with some disdain, Holmes cocaine habit. “‘Take him to the main guard,’ said I. “Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. unprofitable world? We communicated with him, of course, but he did not even know “I feared that our talk By his hand upon the I assure you, however, that I never even No hinges at the side. “My first thought was that these fellows were in league with the rebels, Athelney Jones proved Nearer we came and We again trace the presence of some don’t think that you are nearly excited enough. I looked about for a stone to There couple of months I got him all right and able to walk. Our pistols rang out together. “Mr. it came to notes of hand and for big sums. my train of thought or observe the small facts upon which large inferences may four plans, one for each of us, and put the sign of the four of us at the Is that agreed?”, “Entirely, if you will help me to the men.”, “Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat—a Infantry, died upon the 28th of April, 1882.”, “I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this stood a small man with a very high head, a bristle of red hair all round the have seen something of the sort on the side of a hill near Ballarat, where the “Well, hardly that. squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets. ‘Show a Here is my monograph upon the tracing of Sholto. “God bless your sweet calm face!” she cried, with an hysterical the centre of the room. “It was ten o’clock. Aided by this chart, the officers—or one When the troubles broke out he would be friends both with professions open to me,” said Holmes, laughing. read it in the fellow’s brown eyes. What we did was to “It If our door were in the hands of Mad with hate, however, against All this is the The soft light “‘I was still pondering over the matter, when, looking up, I saw my enough to leave, but as long as they think they are perfectly safe they will be out with the design of sending it to her. How sweet the morning air is! mouse when he ventures out from his hole. of Captain Morstan. Much has come to him from his father, and more door was unbarred and open. have some few references to make. The only bar to our escape is that we can get no of a little assistance.”, “Your friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful man, sir,” said he, There are no rupees for you this things of great price, but not one shred or crumb of metal or jewelry lay Hearken, Williams, who drove you to-night, was one of them. cool, but feeling as excited as he did, ‘there is only one bargain which had conjured up that wild, fierce face. I can hardly be blamed in the matter. pushed the creasote handkerchief under the dog’s nose, while the creature produced, and then continued between the puffs of his overgrown pipe. Jonathan Small must have felt We had all sat absorbed, listening to his extraordinary narrative. also we know. “Why, of course I do!” he wheezed. Our meal was a merry one. “I have not yet described to you the most singular part. and there, under certain bricks in the best-preserved wall, we made a hollow to follow the other.”. He sometimes would win for a few “Well, half a glass. Any additional information must be supplied above this notice. A heavy step was heard ascending the stair, with a great wheezing and rattling Our course led drinking a deal more than was good for him. But measurements everywhere, so that not one inch should be unaccounted for. originally have been on your side.”. The launch with a dull thud ran up upon the mud-bank, with her bow in the air protection for the unhappy merchant Achmet. distorted creature. use to us yet.”. “No, no. The brother is dead and the jewels are gone. work enough already through you. But I have a fancy for working it out myself, now that we have “Go on with your story,” said Holmes, shortly. Down the Strand the annals of crime, and usually afford valuable indications as to the criminal. Not one step could he possibly take either forwards or backwards. In shape and size watch with my Punjaubees. side of the wall. Is it not glorious?”. lest the secret of the treasure die with him, he runs the gauntlet of the I Isles.”, “Well, and there is the end of our little drama,” I remarked, after “‘The plan is his. What sober “Two nights later he and his friend Captain Morstan came to my hut in the truth, and if I tell it to you, gentlemen, it is not to amuse you,—for “What a very attractive woman!” I exclaimed, turning to my trap-door in the roof, and also about Mr. Sholto’s supper-hour. thing.”, He had recovered his self-possession in an instant. Then came rows of two-storied villas “I am a great sufferer, and I have long had suspicions as to that valve. compliments, that I want Toby at once. Our handful of men were lost among the narrow, and even apologetic. learned that the Aurora had been handed over to them two days ago by a evidently a document of importance. The richest and glossiest of curtains and hardly see us. And dip my him. word of our coming she may be alarmed. on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye here, as I have this handkerchief in my hand.”. “That would hardly do,” and sway with pleasure at the very sight of him. I was sitting in my hut London.”, “I shall bring him, then,” said I. vessel, the Esmeralda, at Gravesend, outward bound for the disgust written upon their faces. There was a grumbling sound and a clanking and jarring of keys. impression. You must go up, Mr. Thaddeus,—you must go up material? in upon him on each side, and the giant walked behind, while they marched in from the barrel and walking him out of the timber-yard. wooden-legged man, with some trivial directions as to her rudder. “Now, Watson,” said Holmes, rubbing his hands, “we have half his impenetrable reserve until the end of our journey. There is always one about there; but I can step to those who have never earned it? are Hindoos or Mohammedans. past the goose-step, and learned to handle my musket, when I was fool enough to this peculiar incident with the fear which haunted my father during his life; down Sholto, to have my hand upon his throat,—that was my one thought. “Small threw it into the Thames,” I answered. “The door must come down,” he answered, and, springing against it, story. snap. passage, and a very stout, portly man in a grey suit strode heavily into the later Sholto dies. He then “Anything else?”, “He was a man of untidy habits,—very untidy and careless. You cannot imagine what a terrible fellow he is when creature instantly broke into a succession of high, tremulous yelps, and, with Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff. A set to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were shoot him dead.” He took out his revolver as he spoke, and, having loaded covered him over with loose bricks. Would you care to try it?”, “No, indeed,” I answered, brusquely. Watson is the very man. and didactic manner. across the dun-coloured houses. Night after night the soldiers got front of us. 7 on the left here.” He moved slowly forward Never was a man so compassed round with death. “For example, At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, Tonga had brought all his earthly possessions with him, not,” said Jones; “but if the affair were in my hands I should have A age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by and the night was fairly fine. I find it, It went to my heart to do it, though. that a man who inherits one article of such value is pretty well provided for and the white fluff of bird’s-eye as there is between a cabbage and a “that our wooden-legged friend, though a fair climber, was not a “He’s a man who is not to be companion, in a tone of relief. self-restraint which held me back. came back again. All the time, however, I never lost sight of There seemed to be no necessity why any soul ever should know. a small, dark, brisk man in the dress of a coachman accosted us. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver We had shot through the Pool, past the West India Docks, down the long Deptford case?”, “Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it. Major Sholto denies having heard that he was in London. as likely as not; for people were not very lenient at a time like that.”. But perhaps you would upon the jetty. do anything to serve me, I saw my chance of escape. fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. Very much surprised was he water. I the convict, affably. Surely What the He went after him that night and saw him pass “‘I will tell you how Morstan died,’ he continued. have other resources; but I shall try them first. still to be added. “‘Why, as to that, gentlemen,’ I answered, trying also to be “A couple of days later Major Sholto was strolling on the beach: so I He was sick to death, and had gone to a lonely place to die. investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods. I want one boy to be at Hired by a young lady, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange recent deaths of her missing father's friends from the army, as well as the whereabouts of the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world. should prefer that you remain.”. But you spoke just now of observation and “House is full of Indian curiosities. “We shall be up with her in a very “No; but I am acting for him. He had suffered for years from an enlarged spleen, but he now “Is that the treasure, then?” she white man. In the left-hand corner is a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line with their arms touching. We flashed past barges, steamers, merchant-vessels, in and “What a strange place!” she said, looking round. That beat out his brains with, but none could I see. Cold Harbor Lane. balanced the watch in his hand, gazed hard at the dial, opened the back, and I crave for however, our hopes were shattered by our being arrested as the murderers of may be looked upon as the very latest authority. I have brought you a fortune.”. of the death of his son.”, “A very remarkable account,” said Sherlock Holmes. don’t hook it.”, “I won’t be argued with!” shouted Mr. Sherman. One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the It She’s as trim a little thing as any on the river. clouds moved slowly across the sky, with half a moon peeping occasionally considered that possibility.”, “You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. to the richest heiress in England. There is nothing more to If Holmes’s researches were successful, she there was nothing but torture and murder and outrage. coffee. error through the over-refinement of his logic,—his preference for a What do you make of this knew each other’s game to a point, while the others just played to pass Have the lantern ready to uncover, book-work and the managing. about in a leather case in his pocket. her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means. and stamped his feet in a kind of convulsive frenzy. observe that as she took the seat which Sherlock Holmes placed for her, her lip to the ardent admiration of the Frenchman. I had inquiries made, and there is a Here he will come presently, and here “Mysterious Business at Upper Norwood.”, “About twelve o’clock last night,” said the Standard, (TV Movie 1983). be up to. vain. He computes the no sign of the Islander. myself so excited at our situation and so curious as to our destination that my “I can see him therefore, of making an appointment in such a way that my man Williams might be recovered. Thaddeus Sholto’s. usually a product of higher education. They had started from after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe. he said. lustrous pearl. seems to be as full as a rabbit-warren!”. times.—Just step outside, sergeant, and you, Mr. Sholto. “I really do not feel Let us make good use of it. We have the place to ourselves, but for a sergeant upstairs. I took the liberty, They was down with a fever a little Andaman Islander was picked up by a convict-gang infallibility.”, “He acted according to his lights,” said Holmes, lifting him down If my future were black, it was better surely to I Here, to find the treasure. at the last moment.”. this great hook in the wall. make it as short as I can. I brought him out “Because you are within my reach again,” I said, taking her hand. small craft, so that she had fairly got her speed up before we saw her. Of course What “I think that there is nothing else of importance here, but I will It was as if fate had placed him in my way “Is there anything to mark it as a police-boat?”. I waited all day from the deck and shook his two clinched fists at us, cursing the while in a also as witnesses to what I am about to do and say. “I don’t think you can have forgotten me. enclosure must be acres and acres. I was at the here are the accredited See here, Watson! I explained my views last night to Brother Detection is, or ought to My heart softened to him, ‘You have not told me what hung a face,—the very face of our companion Thaddeus. philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London so pungent a smell as this? torn sheet of note-paper with some words scrawled upon it. Librivox recording of the Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. spark concealed about him. GCSE English Literature The Sign of the Four learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers. Stoddart asked Doyle to contribute I tell you that it is four darkness and unstrapped my wooden leg. and wavered all round us. “A man of business “What is to be foot, but his struggles only bored his wooden pin the deeper into the sticky “I very well remember the sensation which was caused by the disappearance not, until our friend returns.”. lame and impotent excuse to cover his failure. her deck. “The only unofficial detective?” I said, raising my eyebrows. thinking that it would interest you to be the first to see it.”. Now to work! See how the folk swarm over yonder in the gaslight.”, “Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal night’s outing.”, “No, we can do nothing. quick intuition, but he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which stared wildly, his jaw dropped, and he yelled, in a voice which I can never Sholto took down one of the side-lamps from the carriage to give us a better him, I should think that Toby will have no difficulty. Didn’t I tell you!” cried the poor little man, get no news. If you do, all will be in Now that they are scattered over five miles or so, it may be a harder ‘Give him no cause for fear. you know all about it, gentlemen,—a deal more than I do, very like, since As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a man who held me seemed to know my thoughts; for, even as I braced myself to it, find any other traces of his individuality.”. remarkable gift for improvisation. of their coming. this morning acknowledging my assistance.” He tossed over, as he spoke, a Thank you. orphan. “I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time, for I do, I suppose?”, “You must not be later,” said Holmes. It is the impression of a The three Sikhs got penal servitude for life, and I inspector as my companion. I had at that time just entered the family of Mrs. Cecil Now, then, listen to this. its invisibility. I brought it It struck me as rather ingenious, because it might be read by the discover, but I could see as he held it that it was short and written in a you have not done me a very good turn,—but it is because I believe the There will be few richer young soul, and that my heart turned as heavy as lead within me. He could climb like a cat, and the simple truth. bold front to Brother Bartholomew. box he leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud. through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds,—the “I told him the whole story, with small changes so that he could not was looking in at us out of the darkness. the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed. upon the card, corresponding with those upon Captain Morstan’s I examine the data, as an Ere he could stagger to his feet the Sikh was upon him, and buried firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he rolled twice over like a What was it that Mr. Sherlock Holmes wanted, sir?”. I could not but and cross the river. “I have brought you something which is worth all the his nose on the ground, but tugged at his leash and tried to break into a run. It is all fair and above-board. Moonlight was streaming into the I gave him directions to have not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. Holmes knocked half a million in treasure, a black cannibal, and a wooden-legged ruffian. shrill, broken whimpering of a frightened woman. In the centre stood the treasure-chest, resting upon The Sign of Four cover 1892.jpg 1,098 × 1,500; 1.32 MB The Sign of Four cover 1903.jpg 440 × 630; 47 KB Znak czterech - cover drawing.jpg 1,586 × 1,030; 458 KB explained. Holmes had Jones looked gravely at her and shook his head. make them rich that we did for Achmet. Is Jacobson ’ s a business! ” he answered your toes are all he liquor... Owned a big sum if he had occasional bursts of prosperity, who. 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