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The sign of the four by Sir 
Arthur Conan Doyle. 

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chapter 1, the science of 
deduction. 

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Sherlock Holmes, took his bottle
from the corner of the 

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mantelpiece and his hypodermic 
syringe from. 

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It's neat, Morocco case with his
long, white nervous fingers. 

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He adjusted the delicate needle 
and rolled back, his left shirt 

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cuff for some little time. 
His eyes rested thoughtfully 

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upon the sinewy, forearm and 
wrist all dotted and scarred 

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with innumerable puncture marks.
Finally, he thrust the sharp 

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Point home, press down the tiny 
piston and sank back into the 

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velvet-lined armchair with a 
long sigh of satisfaction three 

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times a day for many months. 
I had witnessed his performance,

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but custom had not reconciled my
mind to it on the contrary from 

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day to day. 
I had become more irritable at 

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the site and my conscience 
swelled nightly within me at the

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thought that I had lacked the 
courage to protest. 

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East again. 
And again, I had registered a 

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vowel that I should deliver my 
soul upon the subject but there 

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was that in the cool nonchalant 
are of my companion, which made 

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him the last man with whom one 
would care to take anything 

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approaching to a liberty. 
His great Powers, his masterly 

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Manner and the experience, which
I had had of his many 

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extraordinary qualities, all 
made me diffident and backward 

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in Crossing him yet. 
Upon that afternoon, whether it 

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was the bone, which I had taken 
with my lunch or the additional 

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exasperation produced by the 
extreme deliberation of his 

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manner. 
I suddenly felt that I could 

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hold out no longer. 
Which is it today? 

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I asked morphine or cocaine. 
He raised his eyes languidly 

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from the old black letter 
volume, which had opened. 

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It is cocaine. 
He said, a seven percent 

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solution. 
Would you care to try it? 

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No, indeed. 
I answered brusquely. 

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My Constitution has not got over
the Afghan campaign yet. 

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I cannot afford to throw any 
extra strain upon it. 

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He smiled at my VM ants. 
Perhaps, you are right Watson. 

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He said, I suppose that its 
influence is physically a bad 

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one. 
I find it. 

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However, so transcendentally 
stimulating and clarifying, to 

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the mind that it's second, 
reaction is a matter of small 

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moment, but consider, I said 
earnestly count the cost. 

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Your brain may as you say, be 
roused and excited, but it is a 

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pathological. 
Jaclyn morbid process which 

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involves increased tissue change
and May at last leave a 

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permanent weakness, you know, to
what a black reaction comes upon

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you. 
Surely the game is hardly worth 

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the candle. 
Why should you for a mere 

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passing pleasure risk? 
The loss of those great Powers 

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with which you have been 
endowed. 

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Remember that I speak. 
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another, but as a medical man, 
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some extent answerable. 
He did not seem offended. 

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On the contrary, he put his 
fingertips together and leaned 

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his elbows. 
On the arms of his chair like 

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one who has a relish for 
conversation. 

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My mind. 
He says Rebels at stagnation. 

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Give me the problems. 
Give me work. 

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Give me the most abstruse 
cryptogram or the most intricate

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analysis and I am in my own 
proper atmosphere. 

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I can dispense then with 
artificial stimulants. 

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But I uphold the dull routine of
existence I crave for mental 

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exultation. 
That is why I have chosen. 

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My own particular profession or 
rather created it for. 

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I am the only one in the world. 
The only an official detective. 

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I said raising my eyebrows. 
The only unofficial Consulting 

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detective. 
He answered. 

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I am. 
The last and highest court of 

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appeal in detection, when 
Gregson, or lestrade, or 

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athelney Jones are out of their 
debts, which by the way, is 

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their normal State. 
The matter is laid, before me, I

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examine the data as an expert 
and pronounce a Specialists 

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opinion. 
I claim no credit in such cases.

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My name figures in no newspaper,
the work itself, the pleasure of

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finding a field for my peculiar 
Powers is my highest reward, but

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you have yourself had some 
experience of my methods of work

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in the Jefferson. 
Hope case. 

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Yes, indeed said, I called you 
lie. 

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I was never so struck by 
anything in my life. 

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I even embodied it in a small 
brush or with the somewhat 

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fantastic title of A study in 
Scarlet. 

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He shook his head. 
Sadly. 

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I glanced over. 
It said he honestly I cannot 

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congratulate you upon it 
detection is or ought to be an 

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exact science and should be 
treated in the same cold and 

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unemotional manner. 
You have attempted to tinge it 

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with Romanticism, which produces
much the same effect. 

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As if you worked a love story or
an elopement into the fifth 

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proposition of Euclid, but there
are It was there. 

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I remonstrated I could not 
tamper with the facts. 

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Some facts should be suppressed 
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proportion should be observed in
treating them. 

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The only point in the case, 
which deserved mention was the 

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Curious analytical reasoning 
from effects to causes by which 

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I succeeded and unraveling it. 
I was annoyed at his criticism 

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of a work which had been 
especially designed to please 

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him. 
I confess to that. 

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I was irritated by the egotism, 
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every line of my pamphlet should
be devoted to his own special 

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doings more than once during the
years that I had lived with him 

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in Baker Street. 
I had observed that a small 

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vanity and the lay my 
companions, quiet and didactic 

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manner. 
I make no remark. 

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However, but sat nursing my 
wounded leg. 

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I had a jezail bullet through it
some time before and though it 

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did not prevent me from walking.
It 8, we really at every change 

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of the weather. 
My practice has extended 

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recently to the continent. 
So the homes after a while, 

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filling up his old Briar route 
pipe. 

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I was consulted last week by 
France, while of er, who as you 

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probably know. 
Has come rather to the front 

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lately in the French detective 
service. 

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He has all the Celtic power of 
quick intuition, but he is 

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deficient in the wide range of 
exact knowledge, which is 

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essential to the higher 
developments of his art. 

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The case was concerned with a 
will and possess some features 

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of Interest. 
I was able to refer him to two 

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parallel cases the one at Riga 
in 1857 and the other at st. 

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Louis in In 71, which has 
suggested to him. 

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The true solution here is the 
letter which I had this morning 

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acknowledging. 
My assistance. 

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He tossed over as he spoke a 
crumpled sheet of foreign 

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notepaper. 
I glanced my eyes down, it 

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catching a profusion of notes of
admiration, with stray, 

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Magnifique coup de mettre, and 
tour-de-force all testifying to 

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the Ardent. 
Admiration of the Frenchman. 

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He speaks as a pupil to his 
master said, I oh, he rates my 

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assistants to highly said, 
Sherlock Holmes, likely. 

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He has considerable gifts 
himself. 

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He possesses two of the three 
qualities. 

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Necessary. 
For the ideal detective. 

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He has the power of observation 
and that of deduction. 

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He is only wanting in knowledge 
and that may come in time. 

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He is now translating my small 
Works into French. 

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Your works. 
Oh, didn't you know he cried 

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laughing? 
Ha? 

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Yes. 
I have been guilty of several 

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monographs. 
They are all upon technical 

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subjects. 
Here. 

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For example, is one upon the 
distinction between the ashes of

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the various tobacco's in it. 
I enumerate 140 forms of cigar 

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cigarette and pipe tobacco, with
colored plates, illustrating the

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difference, in the ash. 
It is a point which is 

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continually turning up in 
criminal trials and which is 

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sometimes of supreme importance 
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If you can say definitely. 
For example that some murder has

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been done by a man who was 
smoking an Indian Lanka, it 

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obviously Narrows your field of 
search to the trained eye. 

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There is as much difference 
between the black ash of a 

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chicken, ah, Polly and the white
fluff of birds eye as there is 

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between a cabbage and a potato. 
You have an extraordinary genius

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for my new shy. 
I remarked. 

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I appreciate their importance. 
Here is my monograph upon the 

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tracing of footsteps with some 
remarks upon the users of 

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plaster of Paris. 
As a preserver of impresses 

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here, to is a curious, little 
work upon the influence of a 

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trade, upon the form of the 
hand, with litho types of the 

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hands of Slater's Sailors, Court
Cutters, compositors, Weaver's 

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and diamond. 
Polishes. 

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That is a matter of great 
practical interest to the 

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scientific detective especially 
in cases of unclaimed bodies or 

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in discovering the antecedents 
of criminals, but I weary you 

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with my hobby. 
Not at all. 

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I answered. 
Honestly. 

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It is of the greatest interest 
to me, especially since I've had

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the opportunity of observing 
your practical application of 

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it. 
But you spoke just now of 

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observation and deduction, 
surely the one to some extent, 

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implies the other. 
Why hardly, he answered leaning 

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back luxuriously in his armchair
and sending up thick blue 

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wreaths from his pipe. 
For example, observation shows 

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me that you have been to the 
Wigmore Street post office this 

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morning, but deduction, lets me 
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dispatched a telegram. 
Right? 

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Said I write on both points, but
I confess that I don't see how 

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you arrived at it. 
It was a sudden impulse on my 

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part and I have mentioned it to 
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It is Simplicity itself. 
He remarked chuckling at my 

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surprise. 
So absurdly simple that an 

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explanation is Superfluous and 
yet it may serve to define the 

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limits of observation and of 
deduction. 

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Observation tells me that you A 
little reddish mold adhering to 

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your instep. 
Just opposite. 

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The Seymour Street office. 
They have taken up the pavement 

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and thrown up some Earth, which 
lies in such a way that it is 

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difficult to avoid. 
Trading it in entering the Earth

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is of this peculiar reddish 
tint, which is found. 

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As far as I know nowhere else in
the neighborhood so much is 

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observation. 
The rest is deduction. 

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How then did you deduce the 
telegram? 

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Why. 
Of course, I knew that you had 

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not written a letter. 
Since I sat opposite to you all 

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morning. 
I see also in your open desk 

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there that you have a sheet of 
stamps and a thick bundle of 

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postcards. 
What could you go into the post 

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office for then? 
But to send a wire eliminate all

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other factors and the one which 
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In this case, it certainly is so
I replied after a little 

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thought. 
The thing, however, is, as you 

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say of the simplest, would you 
think me impertinent if I were 

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to put your theories to a more 
severe test on the contrary? 

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He answered it would prevent me 
from taking a second dose of 

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cocaine. 
I should be delighted to look 

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into any problem, which you 
might submit to me. 

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I've heard you say that it's 
difficult for a man to have any 

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object in daily, use without 
leaving the impress of his 

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individuality upon it in such. 
Way, there's a trained. 

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Observer might read it. 
Now. 

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I have here a watch, which has 
recently come into my 

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possession. 
Would you have the kindness to? 

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Let me have an opinion upon the 
character or habits of the late 

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owner? 
I handed him over the watch, 

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with some slight feeling of 
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In my heart for the test was, as
I thought an impossible one and 

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I intended it as a lesson 
against a somewhat dogmatic 

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tone, which he occasionally 
assumed he balanced the watch in

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his hand, gazed hard at the dial
opened the back and examined, 

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the works first with his naked 
eyes, and then with a powerful 

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convex lens. 
I could hardly keep from smiling

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at his crestfallen face when he 
finally snapped the case to and 

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handed it back. 
There are hardly any data. 

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He remarked the watch has been 
recently cleaned which Rob's me 

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of my most suggestive facts. 
You're right. 

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I answered it was clean before 
being sent to me in my heart. 

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I accused my companion of 
putting forward a most lame and 

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impotent excuse to cover his 
failure. 

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What data could you expect from 
an uncleaned watch? 

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Though. 
Unsatisfactory. 

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My research has not been 
entirely Baron. 

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He observed staring up at the 
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eyes subject to your correction.
I should judge that the watch 

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belonged to your elder brother, 
who inherited it from your 

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father. 
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the HW on the back quite. 
So the W suggest your own name, 

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the date of the watch is nearly 
50 years back and the initials 

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are as old as the watch. 
So it was made for the last 

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generation jewelry. 
Usually descends to the eldest 

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son, and he is most likely to 
have the same name as the 

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father. 
Your father has, if I remember 

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right. 
Been dead many years. 

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It has therefore been in the 
hands. 

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I love you. 
I eldest brother. 

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Right? 
So far said, I anything else. 

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He was a man of untidy habits 
very untidy and careless. 

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He was left with good prospects,
but he threw away. 

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His chance has lived for some 
time in poverty with occasional 

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short intervals of prosperity, 
and finally, taking to drink, he

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died. 
That is all I can gather. 

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I sprang from my chair and 
limped impatiently about the 

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room with considerable 
bitterness in my heart. 

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This is Unworthy of you Holmes. 
I said, I could not have 

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believed that you would have 
descended to this. 

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You have made inquiries into the
history of my unhappy brother 

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and you now pretend to deduce 
this knowledge in some fanciful 

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way. 
You cannot expect me to believe 

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that you've read all this from 
his old watch. 

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It is unkind and to speak. 
Plainly has a touch of charlatan

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is a minute. 
My dear doctor said he kindly 

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pray, accept my apologies 
viewing, the matter as an 

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abstract problem. 
I had forgotten how personal and

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painful thing. 
It might be to you. 

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I assure you. 
However, as I never even knew 

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that you had a brother until you
handed me the watch. 

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Then how in the name of all, 
this is wonderful. 

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Did you get these facts are 
absolutely correct in every 

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particular. 
Our, that is good luck. 

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I could only say what was the 
balance of probability? 

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I did not at all expect to be so
accurate, but it was not me a 

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guesswork. 
No. 

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No, I never guess. 
It is a shocking habit 

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destructive to The Logical 
faculty. 

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What seems strange to you? 
Is only so because you do not 

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follow my train of thought or 
observe. 

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The small facts upon which large
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For example, I began by stating 
that your brother was careless. 

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When You observe the lower part 
of that watch case you notice 

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that it is not only dented in 
two places, but it is cut and 

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marked all over from the habit 
of keeping other hard objects, 

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such as keys or coins in the 
same pocket. 

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Surely it is no great feat to 
assume that a man who treats a 

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fifty-guinea watch. 
So cavalierly must be a 

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careless, man. 
Neither. 

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Is it a very far-fetched 
inference that a man who 

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inherits one article of such 
value is pretty well. 

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Provided for, in other respects.
I nodded to show that I followed

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his reasoning. 
It is very customary for 

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Pawnbrokers in England. 
When they take a watch to 

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scratch the number of the ticket
with a pinpoint upon the inside 

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of the case. 
It is more handy than a label as

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there is no risk of the number 
being lost or transposed. 

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There are no less than four such
numbers visible to my lens on 

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the inside of this case 
inference that your brother was 

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often at low water. 
Secondary inference that he had 

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occasional bursts of prosperity 
or he could not have redeemed a 

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pledge. 
Finally. 

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I ask you to look at the inner 
plate, which contains the 

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keyhole. 
Look at the thousands of 

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scratches all round. 
The whole marks were the key has

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slipped. 
What sober? 

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Man's key could have scored 
those grooves, but you will 

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never see a drunkards watch 
without them. 

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He wins it at night and he 
leaves these traces of his 

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unsteady. 
Where is the mystery in all 

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this? 
It is clear as daylight. 

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I answered. 
I regret the Injustice, which I 

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did you. 
I should have had more faith in 

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your marvelous. 
Faculty. 

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May. 
I ask whether you have any 

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professional inquiry on foot at 
present? 

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None, hence, the cocaine. 
I cannot live without brain 

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work. 
What else is there to live for 

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stand at the window? 
Here was ever such a dreary 

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dismal unprofitable world. 
See how the yellow fog swirls 

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down the street and drifts, 
across the dun-coloured houses. 

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What could be more hopelessly? 
Prosaic and material. 

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What is the use of having powers
doctor? 

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When one has no field upon which
to exert them crime is Common 

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Place? 
His existence is commonplace and

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no qualities. 
Say those which are commonplace 

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have any function upon Earth. 
I had opened my mouth to reply 

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to this charade when with a 
crisp, knock our landlady, 

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entered bearing a card upon the 
breast Salva. 

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A young lady for you, sir. 
She said addressing my 

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companion. 
Miss Mary. 

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Morstan, he read. 
Hmm. 

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I have no recollection of the 
name. 

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Ask the young lady to step up. 
Mrs. Hudson. 

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Don't go doctor. 
I should prefer that you remain.

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End of chapter 1.