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+          CHAPTER I
+          Mr. Sherlock Holmes
+
+
+     In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the
+     University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the
+     course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my
+     studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland
+     Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India
+     at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had
+     broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had
+     advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's
+     country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in
+     the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in
+     safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new
+     duties.
+
+     The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had
+     nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade
+     and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal
+     battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail
+     bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I
+     should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not
+     been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who
+     threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to
+     the British lines.
+
+     Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had
+     undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to
+     the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied, and had already
+     improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to
+     bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric
+     fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. For months my life was
+     despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became
+     convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board
+     determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to
+     England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship Orontes, and
+     landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health
+     irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government
+     to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
+
+     I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as
+     air--or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day
+     will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally
+     gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers
+     and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for
+     some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless,
+     meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably
+     more freely than I ought. So alarming did the state of my finances
+     become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis
+     and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a
+     complete alteration in my style of living. Choosing the latter
+     alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to
+     take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive
+     domicile.
+
+     On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at
+     the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and
+     turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser
+     under me at Bart's. The sight of a friendly face in the great
+     wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In
+     old days Stamford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now
+     I hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, appeared to be
+     delighted to see me. In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to
+     lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a
+     hansom.
+
+     "Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?" he asked in
+     undisguised wonder, as we rattled through the crowded London streets.
+     "You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
+
+     I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded
+     it by the time that we reached our destination.
+
+     "Poor devil!" he said, commiseratingly, after he had listened to my
+     misfortunes. "What are you up to now?"
+
+     "Looking for lodgings," I answered. "Trying to solve the problem as
+     to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a reasonable
+     price."
+
+     "That's a strange thing," remarked my companion; "you are the second
+     man to-day that has used that expression to me."
+
+     "And who was the first?" I asked.
+
+     "A fellow who is working at the chemical laboratory up at the
+     hospital. He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not
+     get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had
+     found, and which were too much for his purse."
+
+     "By Jove!" I cried, "if he really wants someone to share the rooms
+     and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a
+     partner to being alone."
+
+     Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine-glass.
+     "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not
+     care for him as a constant companion."
+
+     "Why, what is there against him?"
+
+     "Oh, I didn't say there was anything against him. He is a little
+     queer in his ideas--an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far
+     as I know he is a decent fellow enough."
+
+     "A medical student, I suppose?" said I.
+
+     "No--I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is
+     well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I
+     know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His
+     studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of
+     out-of-the way knowledge which would astonish his professors."
+
+     "Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked.
+
+     "No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be
+     communicative enough when the fancy seizes him."
+
+     "I should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with anyone, I
+     should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong
+     enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in
+     Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How
+     could I meet this friend of yours?"
+
+     "He is sure to be at the laboratory," returned my companion. "He
+     either avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from
+     morning to night. If you like, we shall drive round together after
+     luncheon."
+
+     "Certainly," I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other
+     channels.
+
+     As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn,
+     Stamford gave me a few more particulars about the gentleman whom I
+     proposed to take as a fellow-lodger.
+
+     "You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know
+     nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally
+     in the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not
+     hold me responsible."
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+In the morning Holmes discovered that we had come without our
+     spoon-bait for jack, which absolved us from fishing for the day.
+     About eleven o'clock we started for a walk, and he obtained leave to
+     take the black spaniel with us.
+
+     "This is the place," said he as we came to two high park gates with
+     heraldic griffins towering above them. "About midday, Mr. Barnes
+     informs me, the old lady takes a drive, and the carriage must slow
+     down while the gates are opened. When it comes through, and before it
+     gathers speed, I want you, Watson, to stop the coachman with some
+     question. Never mind me. I shall stand behind this holly-bush and see
+     what I can see."
+
+     It was not a long vigil. Within a quarter of an hour we saw the big
+     open yellow barouche coming down the long avenue, with two splendid,
+     high-stepping gray carriage horses in the shafts. Holmes crouched
+     behind his bush with the dog. I stood unconcernedly swinging a cane
+     in the roadway. A keeper ran out and the gates swung open.
+
+     The carriage had slowed to a walk, and I was able to get a good look
+     at the occupants. A highly coloured young woman with flaxen hair and
+     impudent eyes sat on the left. At her right was an elderly person
+     with rounded back and a huddle of shawls about her face and shoulders
+     which proclaimed the invalid. When the horses reached the highroad I
+     held up my hand with an authoritative gesture, and as the coachman
+     pulled up I inquired if Sir Robert was at Shoscombe Old Place.
+
+     At the same moment Holmes stepped out and released the spaniel. With
+     a joyous cry it dashed forward to the carriage and sprang upon the
+     step. Then in a moment its eager greeting changed to furious rage,
+     and it snapped at the black skirt above it.
+
+     "Drive on! Drive on!" shrieked a harsh voice. The coachman lashed the
+     horses, and we were left standing in the roadway.
+
+     "Well, Watson, that's done it," said Holmes as he fastened the lead
+     to the neck of the excited spaniel. "He thought it was his mistress,
+     and he found it was a stranger. Dogs don't make mistakes."
+
+     "But it was the voice of a man!" I cried.
+
+     "Exactly! We have added one card to our hand, Watson, but it needs
+     careful playing, all the same."
+
+     My companion seemed to have no further plans for the day, and we did
+     actually use our fishing tackle in the mill-stream, with the result
+     that we had a dish of trout for our supper. It was only after that
+     meal that Holmes showed signs of renewed activity. Once more we found
+     ourselves upon the same road as in the morning, which led us to the
+     park gates. A tall, dark figure was awaiting us there, who proved to
+     be our London acquaintance, Mr. John Mason, the trainer.
+
+     "Good-evening, gentlemen," said he. "I got your note, Mr. Holmes. Sir
+     Robert has not returned yet, but I hear that he is expected
+     to-night."
+
+     "How far is this crypt from the house?" asked Holmes.
+
+     "A good quarter of a mile."
+
+     "Then I think we can disregard him altogether."