Of the treasure, but just before he could tellĪffixed to the body: it read “Sign of Four”. Sholto revealed to his sons the existence Struck out at perfect strangers who were so Shows some connection with the east, especially India.Įxplain that his father always lived in fear
“Are you the parties who come with Miss Morstan?”Ī coachman/ messenger sent by the letter-writer.įirm but respectful cautious and asking for affirmation shows that the person who had invited Miss Morstan was being very cautious, and checking them out. Polite tone, acknowledging the story told by Miss Morstan, and trying to get further information.Ĥ. Polite and courteous Watson wants to make a good impression on Miss Morstan, and doesn’t want to poke his nose if he is not wanted.ģ.
Mary proves her identity, and how she came to know about Sherlock Holmes. She was much impressed by your kindness and skill.” Cecil Forrester, to unravel a little domestic omplication. “… you have once enabled my employer, Mrs.
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Question - Explain by citting references from the extract the ways the series of actions moves from London to India.ġ. This was the time, ten years earlier, when Captain Morstan disappeared. In the year 1878 my father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months’ leave and came home. Watson, who is attracted to Mary, calculates that Mary must be twenty -seven years old in 1888 when she meets him and Holmes.Ĩ. If she were seventeen at the time of her father’s disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now.
#SHERLOCK CHAPTER ONE HIDDEN TREASURE DRIVER#
This happens when Holmes, Watson and Mary are taken by the driver to meet the writer of the anonymous letter, on the evening when Mary receives it.ħ. We had hardly done so before the driver whipped up his horse, and we plunged away at a furious pace through the foggy streets. Holmes, Watson and Mary reach the Lyceum Theatre on the evening of the day Mary receives the anonymous letter, as instructed by the writer of the letter. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four- wheelers were rattling up. At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. Mary begins to receive the pearls immediately after Major Sholto’s death.ĥ. Within a week of his death Captain Morstan’s daughter receives a valuable present, which is repeated from year to year. Major Sholto, of Upper Norword, late of the 34th Bombay Infantry, died upon the 28th of April, 1882. Mary receives an anonymous letter on the morning of the day on which she consults Holmes.Ĥ. This morning I received this letter, which you will perhaps read for yourself. Mary first received an expensive and rare pearl six years before she received an anonymous letter/before she came to meet Holmes.ģ. The same day there arrived through the post a small card-board box addressed to me, which I found to contain a very large and lustrous pearl. About six years ago – to be exact, upon the 4th of May, 1882 – an advertisement appeared in the Times asking for the address of Miss Mary Morstan. Mary’s father had disappeared about ten years before she met Holmes and Watson on a particular day.Ģ. He disappeared upon the 3rd of December, 1878.
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