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0 * A STUDY IN SCARLET fly Air A. Comb Doyta. OHAPTWR IT. The Science of Ded notion. Wo met next day, aa he had ar ranged, and Inspected the rooms at No. SO Baker Street, o/ which he had apoten at our meeting. They con sisted of a couple of comfortable bed rooms sod a single, targe, airy sit ting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows. Be desirable In every way were the apartments and so moderate did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession. That very evening I mov ed my things round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sher lock Holmes followed me with several boxes and portmanetaus. For e day or two we were busily employed in snpacking and laying out our prop erty to the best advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings. « Uolmes was certainly not a difficult naan to live with He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regu lar. It was ran- for him to bo up after ten at night, and be had in- vgriably breakfasted and gone out be Op re I rose In the morning Some times he spent ins day at the chemi cal laboratory, sometimes In the dls- soctlsg-rooms, and occasionally in losg walks, which appeared to take h!<a Into the lowest portions of the Stty. Nothing could exceed his ener gy when the working (It was upon kins, but aow and again a reaction weald setae him aad for days on <*4 he would lie upon the sofa in the anting room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morn »■« to might < >n these oceaaloss I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant eggrasatoa Is his eyes, that I might hays sags set ad him of being addicted la the uaa of some narcotic had not (ha temperance and rteaallaeea of bis shot# life forbltides eucS a notion As Ike weeks west by my Interest in him aad my •.uriasity as In hU alms is life gradually dcep»n«»d and lara-waaed HU very person and ap pear as re were such as (a strlh* the alUaUloo of lb# moet resasl obe*rv»r la height be wne rather ovwr ait ffwt aad ae naoesaiveiy lean tbal be seem ei te be considerably taller His ty*e were sharp aad plerrtag. save dwrtag those intervale at torpor to whl^ I have shaded. aad hU thin h Ilka soee gava bU whole « as air ef almtaasa aad dwei His ah is. toe.h 4 ah the proml aad agsareasea which mark the at datarmJeatloe HU basis la variably hie tied with lak and tth Aemlegla y« be w delicacy aa I fregaamUy bad whm I watched hi hie fragile phfloecpbi f%e reader may ant me dawn ae a hagsiam banybody wham aeefasa ham maeh this mas aUmalsted my oaHhalty. aad kow oflom 1 aadnavor #4 be break thread^ the retioaore e^lch he showed ea all that concern ed himself fWore pronouncing fudgmaat. however, be it remember ed haw ebjecUeas was my Ufa and hew IlUie there was te aagege my aUewtloe My health forbade rue Mwm r eater fag out ualeas the weath- «r was aaoafUoaally geaisl aad I bad ns frifeeds who would call upon me aad break the moaoteay of my dally euiateace Voder theee droamstancee I eagerly hailed the IfUle mystery which huag around my companion, aad apnat much of my time la en deavoring to unravel It. Ha was not atudyiag medidae. He had himself, in reply to a question, coalrmed Stamford's op in lea upon that peiet. Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in scdeace or any other recognited por tal which would give him an entrance late the learned world Yet his seal far certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowl edge was so extraordinary ample aud rulauta that his observations have fairly astounded me. Purely no man would work so bard to attain such praclsa information unless he had same definite end In view. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the-exactness of theif learning. No mao burdejns his mind with email matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy, and politioe he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprthe reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Go pern I can the ory a^id of the composition of the solar system. That any civilised hu man being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that 1 could hardly realise it. "Ton appear to be astonished.“ be maML lillng at my expransieu of sur- prlpn. "Hour that ( de know U. I 4* my hast to forget it" fchpl Mt? • "You •ov*,” h*» rtcl»lm«*d. ”1 ron ■ idvr that a man • brain originally ta like a little empty attic, and you have to stock It with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes In all the lum ber of every aort that be conics across, so that the knowledge which might bo useful to him t,ets crowded out, or st best Is Jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that be has a difficulty in laying his hands upon It. Now, the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes Into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these lie has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mis take to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” “Hut the solar system!” I protest ed. “What the deuce Is it to me?’’ he Interrupter impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.” I was on the point of asking him r*what that work might he, hut some thing in his manner showed me that the question would to* an unwelcome one. I pondered over our short con versation, however, and endeavored to draw my deductions from it. He said that he would acquire no knowl edge which did not hear upon his sub ject. Therefore all the knowledge which he possessed was such as would be useful to him. I enumerated In my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well informed “If I cannot find what the fellow is driving st by reconciling all these accomplishments, and discovering s calling which need* them alV I said to myself, “I may as well give up the attsmpt at once ” 1 see that 1 have allude,! above to hit power* upon the violin The**- were very remarkable, but a* eccen trie aa all his other accomplishment* That he could play plerea and dtffl cult pieces I knew well. twcau*e at my request he has played me notne of Mendelssohn ■ I.Ieder, snd other fav orlles \S hen left to himself, how ever he would seldom produce wn> mu»!r or s’lempt any rec rnlred *!r I ewnlujc b*- k !n t » urn., hs.r - ' »n evehinr l.e » o.: ! 1 !.'»e hi* r\r» snd ewe ape . »r. r«*!y »t the fiddle which w»» thrown *< r--** M* knee Sometime* the rhor!* we-e sonor >.i* snd melanchol* occasionally they • erw fantastic and cheerful Clearly they reflected the thought* wt h posswassd him '-ut whether t'e music sided those thought* or wheihsr the playing was simply the result of a whim or fancy, waa mors than I could determine 1 m ght have rebel led against thews ex as per atlng solos had It not b*rn that he usually terminat'd them by play ng In quick succession * whole serlew of my favorite airs s* a slight compen aatlon for the trial upon mv patience During the first week or so *e h* 1 no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was** friendless a man as ! was myself Presently, however. I found that he had many acqualntanacea. and those In the most different claase* of society There was one little sallow, rst far •d. dark-eyed fellow who was Intro duced to me as Mr Dostrad--. and who came throe or four times In a single week One morning a young girl called, fashionably dressed, and stayed for half an hour or more The same afternoon brought a gray head ed, seedy visitor, looking Jew ped dler. who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a allpshod elderly woman On another occasion an old white-haired gentleman had an Interview with my companion, and on another a railway porter In hla velveteen uniform When any of these nondescript Indi viduals put In an appearance Sher lock Holmes used to beg for the use of the sitting-room, and I would re tire to my bedroom. He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience. “I have to use this room as a place of business.” he said, “and these peo ple are my clients.” Again I had an opportunity of ask ing him a point-blink question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me. I Imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the Idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord. It was upon the 4th of March, as I have good reason to remember, that I rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished his breakfast. The landlady had become so accustomed to my late habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee prepared. With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I waa ready. Then I picked up a magazine from the table and attempted to- while away the time with It, while my com panion munched silently at his toast. One of the articles had a pencil-mark at the heading, and I naturally be gan to run my throngh It. Its somewhat afetltious title was “The Book of Lite’*, and It stsmpted to show how much an observant man might Mura by aa aoearaU and sya- tsmatJc sxamlnatlon of all that earns In his way It struck mo as b«>lng s remark abl* mixture of shrew Jn<-s* ami absurdity The reasoning was close and Intense, but the deduction* appeared to me to t>e far fetched snd exaggerated The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle, or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man’s inmost thoughts. Deceit, according to him, was an Im possibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis. His con clusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid. Bo startling would his results appear to the unl- tiated that, until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them, they might well consider him as a necromancer. "From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Nia gara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a sin gle link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analy sis is one whioh can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficul ties, let the Inquirer begin by mas tering more elementary problems Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation and teaches one where to look and what to look for. liy a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his bsot, by his trouser-kne«-s. by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by h;s expression, by his shirt-cuffs by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed That all united should fail to en lighten the competent inquirer in any ca*** is 1 almost intone* '1 vabb* "What 1 n*> fTabl** t wad ill** r*v * I rr W-d slapping th** mag a iln** do * n on t h** t*bl*v I n*-i ier rva nl * u0 h rubblitb in my Mfv ' \\ hat :* It' ’ n*k<'d Sh.-rl <>< k Holm *•* \S hat th « aril. I * aid po 1 *■ * trig at it » r h ti.v 1 1 *;a is - " in at I hr! down to my hr,-u k f 4 41 I t. At you haw r< r .v 1 1 * • ln<-* v 0 u h .1' r mark»-l 1 f 1 ! .n ’ '!••!.* t h a’ .1 ' 1 • • mAf' 11 A t ’ **1) It Irr 1 4 1 ' n.«- II.. .4 ' !• « •- v ! • ■ ; v ' h• • t h. r ■. * a r ■ ’ 1 4! r rr * . • V . 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I have a 'rail,- of my own I suppose I am the only one in the worll I'm a consulting detective, if you an understand what that I* Her,- In Ixitidon we have lot* of gov ernmont detective# and lots of pri vate one* When these fellows are at fault the> come to me, and I man age to put them on the right scent They lay a!! the evidence before me, snd 1 am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history ot crime, to set them straight There Is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and If you have all the de tails of a thousand at your finger- ends. it Is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first. I^-strade is a well known detective. He got him self Into a fog recently over a for gery case, and that was what brought him here ” “And these other people?” “They are mostly sent out by pri vate inquiry agencies. They are all people who are In trouble about something, and want a little enlight ening. I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.” “Hut do you mean to say.” I said, “that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for them selves?” “Quite so. I have a kind of intui tion that way. Now and again a case turns up which is a little more com plex. Then I have to bustle about and see things with my own eyes. You see, I have a lot of special knowledge w hich I apply to the prob lem, and ^vhich facilitates matters wonderful!^. Those rules of deduc tion laid down in that article which aroused your scorn are invaluable to me In practical work. Observation with me is‘second nature. You ap peared to be surprised when I told you, our first meeting, that you had come from Agfhanistan.” “Your were told, no doubt.” “Nothing of the sort. I knew you came from Afghanistan. From long habit the train of thought ran so ■wtftly through my mind that I ar rived at the conclusion without being conacioua of Intermediate atspa. Thera were such step*, however. The train of reasoning ran: 'Here Is a geatieman of a medical type, bet » tth the air of a rn'M *n mm t’>*r ly au armv doctor. lh*-n He h<»* Just come fmm th«> tropics, for hi* fa<e I* dark, and that Is not the nat ural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair He has undergone h.trd-| ■hip and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. Hia left arm has been injured. He holds It in a stiff , and unnatural manner. Where In the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got hla arm wounded? Clearly In Afghanistan.’ The whole train of thought did not occupy a second. I then remarked that you came from Afghanistan, and you were astonish ed.” “It Is simple enough as you explain it,“ I said, smiling. “You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.” Sherlock Holmes rose and lighted his pipe. “No doubt you think you are com plimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, ?n my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analy tical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Hoe appeared to imagine.” “Have you read (laboriou’s work?” l I asked. “Does Leeop come up to j }our idea of aWlective’’” Sherlock Ho Plies sniffed sardoni cally. “I.ecoq was a miserable bungler,” ho said, in an angr> voice; "he had onl> one tiling to recommend him, and that was his energ> That book made rue positively ill The question was how to Idt-nti'y an unknown prisoner I could have done it in twenlv-four hours l^coq took six months or no It might oe made a text book for d'-te, lives to teach them w hnt to avoid.’’ I felt rather indignant at having two character* whom I had admired treated in this cavalier »t>ie 1 said to rr.>*e]f but he Is certainly ver> clever I s*!d to lli'self ' hut lie '.* • ••rtalr, I v ve rv . , n. el'e.J ' Th* -e .v r e no - r -res and no critn rai# ,ir '-i**..- d»v # he sa I ju-ru • :■ v ' 4! « 'he u»r having '•ra;r:s m . ,r pr '<■,*.or. ’ 1 km * Weil that I have - In me to n.ate tn* | name '■»'! oja - a:. , <■» ,r t. 4« e • e r i v e • who ‘ 4« • r. it t t *..• same amour • ' . a : '•«■*•* ’4 er.’ t • the det. 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M • U n •• t >,0 I to rn v »•- If 'Mr a (1 • >» a th*' 1 a r, rvot t e - ' V h : s *!••«* I he thought had hardly pasvvwl through m> min! when the man •horn we were Watch ng aught • ght of ’tie [.uni er on our door an 1 ran rapid,y across th*» roadway We heard a lou I kno, k, a deep voice t»#v- low , and heavy stei« a.-e ending the sf a. r ' For Mr Shcrkx k Holme*. he said, stepping into the room and handing my friend the letter Here w a* an opportunity of lasing tiie conceit out of him He lutie thought of tills when he made that random shot ’May 1 ask, my lad.’’ I .■oaid, bland ly. "what vour trade may be'” "Commissionaire, sir,” he said, gruffly. ’Tnlform away for repairs.” “And you were’’” 1 asked, with a slightly malicious glance at my com panion. “A sergeant, sir; Royal Marine Light Infantry, sir. No answer? Right, sir.” He clicked his heels together, rais ed his hand in a salute, and was gone. (To be continued.) ♦ Fined for Wearing Slit Skirt. 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