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The Sign of the Four

CHAPTER VII
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The men whom we pursued seemed to have taken a curiously zigzag road, with the idea probably of escaping observation.

They had never kept to the main road if a parallel side-street would serve their turn.

At the foot of Kennington Lane they had edged away to the left through Bond Street and Miles Street.

Where the latter street turns into Knight's Place, Toby ceased to advance, but began to run backwards and forwards with one ear cocked and the other drooping, the very picture of canine indecision.

Then he waddled round in circles, looking up to us from time to time, as if to ask for sympathy in his embarrassment.
"What the deuce is the matter with the dog ?" growled Holmes.


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