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‘岂有此理!’他插言道,‘我们的协议和三个黑家伙有什么关系?'

                      Black or blue,' said I, 'they are in with me, and we all go

                together.'"

                      ‘黑的也罢,蓝的也罢,’我说,‘我和他们有约在先,我们同进同

                退。’”

                      "Well, the matter ended by a second meeting, at which
                Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Klan, and Dost Akbar were all
                present. We talked the matter over again, and at last we

                came to an arrangement. We were to provide both the
                officers with charts of the part of the Agra fort, and mark the
                place in the wall where the treasure was hid. Major Sholto

                was to go to India to test our story. If he found the box he
                was to leave it there, to send out a small yacht provisioned
                for a voyage, which was to lie off Rutland Island, and to
                which we were to make our way, and finally to return to his
                duties. Captain Morstan was then to apply for leave of

                absence, to meet us at Agra, and there we were to have a
                final division of the treasure, he taking the major's share as
                well as his own. All this we sealed by the most solemn oaths

                that the mind could think or the lips utter. I sat up all night
                with paper and ink, and by the morning I had the two charts
                all ready, signed with the sign of four—that is, of Abdullah,
                Akbar, Mahomet, and myself."

                      “我们最终决定就此事进行第二次会面,让穆罕默德·辛格,阿卜

                杜拉·克汗和多斯特·阿克巴全都到场。我们再度协商,最终把事情决
                定下来了。结果我们把阿格拉碉堡的部分平面图交给两位军官,每人

                一份,在图上把那面墙上藏宝的地方标示出来。肖尔托少校将到印度

                去证实我们的故事。如果他找到了那个宝箱,他先不能动,必须先派
                出一只小快艇,备好航行的食粮,停到拉特兰岛,我们将去到那里坐

                船,而肖尔托少校应返回军营。然后,摩斯坦上尉请假去阿格拉和我
                们相会,我们在那里对宝物作最终分配,摩斯坦上尉将取得他自己的

                部分,并帮少校取得他那部分。所有这些条件,我们都用脑子能想
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