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The Sign of Four The Sign of Four CHAPTER! you are right, ,Watson," he said. " I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION find it, however, so transcendingly ~timulat~ ing and clarifying to the mind that its second Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the action is a matter of small moment." corner of the mantelpiece, and his " But consider! " I said, earnestly. hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco " CoUnt the cost ! Your brain may" as you case. With his long, white nervous fingers say, be roused and excited, but it is a he adj~ted the delicate needle, and rolled pathological and morbid process, which in­ back his left sbi.rt-cuff. For some little time volves increased tissue-change, and may ~t his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy last leave a permarient we$ness. You . forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred know, too, what a black .reaction comes upon with innumerable puncture-marks. Final­ you. Surely the game is hardly worth the ly, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed candle. Why should you, for a mere passing . down the tiny piston and sank back intQ· the pleasure, risk the ioss of those great powers velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of with which you have been endowed?· satisfaction. Remember that I speak not only as one . Three times a day for many months I had comrade to another, but as a medical ~an to witnessed this performance, but the custom· one for whose constitution he is to some had not reconciled my mind to it. On the extent answerable." contrary, from day to day I had become more He did not seem offended. On the con~ n~itable at the sight, and my conscience trary, he put his finger-tips together, ~d sweJled nightly within me at the thought leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, that I had lacked the courage to protest. A­ like one who has a relish for conversation. gain and again I had registered a vow that I " My mind," he said, " rebels at stagnation. should deliver my soul upon the subject; but Give me problems, give me work, m,ve me the there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intri­ my companion which made him the last man cate analysis, and I am in my own proper with whom one would care to take anything atmosphere. I can dispense then with artifi.~ approaching to a liberty. His great powers, cial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine his masterly manner, and the experience . of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. which I had had of his many extraordinary That is why I have chosen my own particular qualities, all made me diffident and back­ profession, or rather created it for I am the ward in crossing him. only one in the world." Yet upOn that afternoon, whether it was "The only unofficial detective?" I said, the Beaune which I had taken with my raising my eyebrows. lunch, or the additional exasperation pro­ "The only unofficial c~nsulting detective," duced by the extreme deliberation of his· he answered. "I am the last and higp.est court manner, I suddenly felt that I could ·hold out of appeal in detection. When Gregson, or no longer. Lestrade, or Athelney Jones are out of their ~ Which is it today," I asked " morphine or depths-which, by the way, is .their normal cocaine? " state-the matter is laid before me. I ex- He raised his eyes languidly from the old . amine the data, as an expert, and pronounce black-letter volum~ which he had opened. a specialist's opinion. I claim ~o credit in "It is cocaine," he said, " a seven-per-cent such cases. My name figures in no news­ solution. Would you care to try it?" paper. The work itself, the pleasure of «No, indeed," I answered, brus­ finding a field for my peculiar powers, is my quely. "My constitution has not got over the highest reward. But you have yo~elf had Afghan· campaign yet. I cannot afford to some experience of my methods of work in throw any extra strain upon it." the Jefferson Hope case." He smiled at my vehemence. " Perhaps " Yes indeed," said I, cordially. "I was 64. THE SIGN OF FOUR 65 never so struck by· anything in my life. 1 admiration, with stray , magnifiques ',' coup-. even embodied it in a small brochure, with de-maitres', and 'tours de fo.rce " all testify­ the somewhat fantastic title of 'A Study in ing to the ardent admiration of the french­ Scarlet.' " man. He shook his head sadly. ce He speaks as a pupil to his master," ~d "I glanced over it," said he. "Honestly, 1 I. cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection . "Oh, he rates my assistance too highly,"· is, or ought to be, an exact science, and said Sherlock Holmes lightly. "He has con~ should be treated in the same cold and siderable gifts himself. He po~sses two unemotional manner. You have attempted out of the three qualities necessary for the to tinge it wit.lt romanticism, which produces ideal detective. H~_ h~_ the_P.C1wer _~! .) much the same effect as if you worked a observation and that of deduction. He is ./ love-story or an elopement into the fifth ~n~y'_ wanting -in~Q!i~4ge, aIufnihai may proposition of Euclid." come in time. He is now' translating my "But the romance was there," I remon­ small works into French." strated. "I could not tamper with' the " Your works?" facts." " Oh, didn't you know?" he' cried, "Some_ facts._._ .should __ .. _.. __ . ______ be suppressed, . _. ___. _______ or 1 __at laughing. " Yes, I have been guilty of sever­ !~~tL~_j~t_~~nse._ of propo~on .!h~uld be al monographs. They ar~ all upon technical observed in treating them. The only point subjects. Here, for example, is one' Upon in the case wmch deserved mention was the the Distinction between the Ashes of the curious analytical reasoning from effects to Various Tobaccos.' In it 1 enumerate a causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, it." and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illus­ 1 was ~nnoyed at this criticism of a work trating' the difference in the ash. It is a which had been specially designed to please point which is continually turning up in .him. 1 confess, too, that 1 was irritated by crintinal trials, and which is sometimes of the egotism which seemed to demand that supreine importance as a clue. If you can every line of my pamphlet should be devoted say definitely, for example, that some murder to his own special doings. More than once had been done by a man who was smoking during th~ years that I had lived with him in an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrows your Baker Street 1 had observed that a small field of search. To the trained eye there is vanity underlay my comp~on's quiet and as much difference between the black ash of didactic manner. I made no remark, how­ a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird's-eye ever, but sat nursing my wounded leg.. 1 as there is between a cabbage and a potato." had had a Jezai1 bullet through it some time "You, have ~_~!Ctrao~ genius for before, and, though it did not prevent me minutiae," 1 remarked. from walking, it ached wearily at every "I appreciate their importance. Here is change of the weather. my monograph upon the tracing of footstep~, " My practice has extended recently to the with 'some remarks upon the uses of plaster Continent," said Holmes, after a while, filling of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, up his old ~riar-root pipe. "I was consulted too, is a curious little work upon the influence last week by Fran~ois Ie Villard, who, as you of a trade upon the fo~ of the hand, with probably know, has come rather to the front lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, lately in the French detective service. He cork-cutters, compositors, weavers, ~d di~ has all the Celtic power of quick intuition, but amond-polishers. That is a matter of great he is deficient in the wide range of exact practical interest to the scientific detective­ knowledge which is essential to the higher especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or . developments of his art. The case was discovering the antecedents of criminals. concerned with a will, and possessed some But I weary you with my hobby." features of interest. I was able to refer him " Not at all," 1 answered, earnestly. " It is to twoparellel cases, the one at Riga in 1857, of the greatest interest to ine especially since and the.other at St Louis in 1871, which have I have had the opportunity of observing your suggested to him the true soluijon. Here-is practical application of it. But you spoke the letter which I had"this moming acknow­ just now of observation and deduction. ledging my assistance." Surely .the one to some extent impijes the He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled other." \ .sheet of foreign notepaper. 1 glanced my . ce Why hardly," he answered, leaning back eyes down it, catching a .profusion of notes of . luxuriously in his annchair, and sending up 66 SHERLOCK HOLMES thick blue wreaths from his pipe. " For back, and examined the works, first with his example, observation shows me that you naked eyes and then with a powerful convex have been to the Wigmore Street Post Office lens.
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