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The Sign of the Four

CHAPTER X
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He is to stand at water's edge and wave his handkerchief to us when they start.

We shall be lying off in the stream, and it will be a strange thing if we do not take men, treasure, and all." "You have planned it all very neatly, whether they are the right men or not," said Jones; "but if the affair were in my hands I should have had a body of police in Jacobson's Yard, and arrested them when they came down." "Which would have been never.

This man Small is a pretty shrewd fellow.

He would send a scout on ahead, and if anything made him suspicious lie snug for another week." "But you might have stuck to Mordecai Smith, and so been led to their hiding-place," said I.
"In that case I should have wasted my day.

I think that it is a hundred to one against Smith knowing where they live.


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