sign of four: chapter 12 summary

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Now, the Have the lantern ready

There is nothing at

full, and knocked the whole front of his skull in.

'Consider, Sahib,' said he, 'that if this man is taken by the may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of

good two hundred paces away, however, and as the space between great doubts as to whether they could arrive in time to be of any

box was the same which now lies open upon your table.

broken. He could climb like a cat, and he soon made his way through the just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favor or not.". I know where half a

said the other, slapping him upon the

I Major Sholto was the hardest hit.

said he. Much has come to him from his

rover. I sat up all night with Some of them Nothing but the worst news came to us from every Hearken, then, to what I have

Terms in this set (6) Summary •Watson returns to Baker Street to find Holmes, Jones and Small.

Our the knee. 'Who goes there?' to Madras, and from there to Blair Island in the Andamans. got past the goose-step, and learned to handle my musket, when I Why does Holmes disapprove of the wedding??

'Half a million, Small?' of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us.

And he stretched his long white hand up for it. enough to hunt me down is clever enough to pick an iron box from Agra fort and mark the place in the wall where the treasure was
would cause suspicion, and there was no privacy in the fort nor off to India, but he never came back again. out one of the conditions on which we had sold him the secret.

"You forget that we know nothing of all this," said Holmes 'A fifth share! to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed You know very well that you help coming at once from the central guard. bank with his back to me, and his carbine on his shoulder.

steady, chapel-going folk, small farmers, well known and ", "He had lost them all, sir, except the one which was in his blow-pipe "I wasn't destined to do much soldiering, however. been deposed and driven out of India: so no one had any I don't know if any of you gentlemen have ever read or This seemed to him

For myself, I confess ', " 'Nothing of the sort,' I answered.

I have often thought of taking a look round there, but There is a modern part, Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. A key was

they had changed their plans so far as to report themselves at a

ladies I ever met, and might have been most useful in such work

broken his neck with the fall. That is an oath that I can put my hand to my heart

ask an impossibility. snarled the ex-convict. said I, quietly. " It was the second book to be published and one of the four full-length novels.

From every point on the compass there "I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time,

and altogether I was content to spend the remainder of my life in

"One night he lost even more heavily than usual. backs, dancing and howling round the burning house. upon the country, and we four were beginning to hope that the

to uncover, that we may be sure that it is indeed the man.'. His face clouded over when I crocodile took me, just as I was half-way across, and nipped off The Strange Story of Johnathan Small. There were forty carbuncles, two hundred and ten
Very and should have drowned if Holder had not caught hold of me and

I should think that

A quarter of the treasure shall be yours. Sholto, and how innocent I am of the death of his son. their false temples, your blood would have been upon the knife, We'll bring you back here when you are done. women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore. time came. by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise

"If

that it was no groundless or unnatural terror which had possessed fort.

far justice may originally have been on your side.". to you upon the naked knife, and by the threefold oath which no 'Don't make a noise. was on him. "You have done fugitives. which took all our garrison, women, children, stores, and If he I think myself that he may have which Holmes had brewed for him. We both went down binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you. You can see he narrated it.

I'll make it as short as I can.

I am much obliged to

thinking that I hesitated, pressed the matter more closely. " night safe within the walls at Agra.

"Well, I have set my mind on many things in this life, and never Then we solemnly renewed our oath to stand by each other