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I
picked
up
my
hat
and
my
heaviest
stick
,
but
I
observed
that
Holmes
took
his
revolver
from
his
drawer
and
slipped
it
into
his
pocket
.
It
was
clear
that
he
thought
that
our
night
’
s
work
might
be
a
serious
one
.
Miss
Morstan
was
muffled
in
a
dark
cloak
,
and
her
sensitive
face
was
composed
,
but
pale
.
She
must
have
been
more
than
woman
if
she
did
not
feel
some
uneasiness
at
the
strange
enterprise
upon
which
we
were
embarking
,
yet
her
self
-
control
was
perfect
,
and
she
readily
answered
the
few
additional
questions
which
Sherlock
Holmes
put
to
her
.
“
Major
Sholto
was
a
very
particular
friend
of
papa
’
s
,
”
she
said
.
“
His
letters
were
full
of
allusions
to
the
major
.
He
and
papa
were
in
command
of
the
troops
at
the
Andaman
Islands
,
so
they
were
thrown
a
great
deal
together
.
By
the
way
,
a
curious
paper
was
found
in
papa
’
s
desk
which
no
one
could
understand
.
I
don
’
t
suppose
that
it
is
of
the
slightest
importance
,
but
I
thought
you
might
care
to
see
it
,
so
I
brought
it
with
me
.
It
is
here
.
”
Holmes
unfolded
the
paper
carefully
and
smoothed
it
out
upon
his
knee
.
He
then
very
methodically
examined
it
all
over
with
his
double
lens
.
“
It
is
paper
of
native
Indian
manufacture
,
”
he
remarked
.
“
It
has
at
some
time
been
pinned
to
a
board
.
The
diagram
upon
it
appears
to
be
a
plan
of
part
of
a
large
building
with
numerous
halls
,
corridors
,
and
passages
.
At
one
point
is
a
small
cross
done
in
red
ink
,
and
above
it
is
‘
3
.
37
from
left
,
’
in
faded
pencil
-
writing
.
In
the
left
-
hand
corner
is
a
curious
hieroglyphic
like
four
crosses
in
a
line
with
their
arms
touching
.
Beside
it
is
written
,
in
very
rough
and
coarse
characters
,
‘
The
sign
of
the
four
,
—
Jonathan
Small
,
Mahomet
Singh
,
Abdullah
Khan
,
Dost
Akbar
.
’
No
,
I
confess
that
I
do
not
see
how
this
bears
upon
the
matter
.
Yet
it
is
evidently
a
document
of
importance
.
It
has
been
kept
carefully
in
a
pocket
-
book
;
for
the
one
side
is
as
clean
as
the
other
.
”
“
It
was
in
his
pocket
-
book
that
we
found
it
.
”
“
Preserve
it
carefully
,
then
,
Miss
Morstan
,
for
it
may
prove
to
be
of
use
to
us
.
I
begin
to
suspect
that
this
matter
may
turn
out
to
be
much
deeper
and
more
subtle
than
I
at
first
supposed
.
I
must
reconsider
my
ideas
.
”
He
leaned
back
in
the
cab
,
and
I
could
see
by
his
drawn
brow
and
his
vacant
eye
that
he
was
thinking
intently
.
Miss
Morstan
and
I
chatted
in
an
undertone
about
our
present
expedition
and
its
possible
outcome
,
but
our
companion
maintained
his
impenetrable
reserve
until
the
end
of
our
journey
.
It
was
a
September
evening
,
and
not
yet
seven
o
’
clock
,
but
the
day
had
been
a
dreary
one
,
and
a
dense
drizzly
fog
lay
low
upon
the
great
city
.
Mud
-
coloured
clouds
drooped
sadly
over
the
muddy
streets
.
Down
the
Strand
the
lamps
were
but
misty
splotches
of
diffused
light
which
threw
a
feeble
circular
glimmer
upon
the
slimy
pavement
.
The
yellow
glare
from
the
shop
-
windows
streamed
out
into
the
steamy
,
vaporous
air
,
and
threw
a
murky
,
shifting
radiance
across
the
crowded
thoroughfare
.
There
was
,
to
my
mind
,
something
eerie
and
ghost
-
like
in
the
endless
procession
of
faces
which
flitted
across
these
narrow
bars
of
light
,
—
sad
faces
and
glad
,
haggard
and
merry
.
Like
all
human
kind
,
they
flitted
from
the
gloom
into
the
light
,
and
so
back
into
the
gloom
once
more
.
I
am
not
subject
to
impressions
,
but
the
dull
,
heavy
evening
,
with
the
strange
business
upon
which
we
were
engaged
,
combined
to
make
me
nervous
and
depressed
.
I
could
see
from
Miss
Morstan
’
s
manner
that
she
was
suffering
from
the
same
feeling
.
Holmes
alone
could
rise
superior
to
petty
influences
.
He
held
his
open
note
-
book
upon
his
knee
,
and
from
time
to
time
he
jotted
down
figures
and
memoranda
in
the
light
of
his
pocket
-
lantern
.
