The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of the Four / Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе и Знак четырех

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Артур Конан Дойл. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of the Four / Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе и Знак четырех

The Sign of the four

Chapter I. The Science of Deduction

Chapter II. The Statement of the Case

Chapter III. In Quest of a Solution

Chapter IV. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man

Chapter V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge

Chapter VI. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration

Chapter VII. The Episode of the Barrel

Chapter VIII. The Baker Street Irregulars

Chapter IX. A Break in the Chain

Chapter X. The End of the Islander

Chapter XI. The Great Agra Treasure

Chapter XII. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

I. Silver Blaze

II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

III. The Yellow Face

IV. The Stockbroker's Clerk

V. The “Gloria Scott”

VI. The Musgrave Ritual

VII. The Reigate Squires

VIII. The Crooked Man

IX. The Resident Patient

X. The Greek Interpreter

XI. The Naval Treaty

XII. The Final Problem

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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.

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“Your toes are all cramped together. The other print has each toe distinctly divided.”

“Quite so. That is the point. Bear that in mind. Now, would you kindly step over to that flap-window and smell the edge of the wood-work? I shall stay here, as I have this handkerchief in my hand.”

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