The Sign of Four Page #2
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- 1987
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not to allow your
judgment to be biased
by personal qualities.
A client to me
is a mere unit,
a factor in of
the problem.
Holmes, you are
a automaton
and a calculating
machine.
There's something positively
inhuman in you at times.
I assure you
the most winning
woman I ever knew
was hanged for poisoning
3 little children
for their
insurance money,
and the most repellent
man of my acquaintance
is a philanthropist
who has spent nearly
a quarter of a million
upon the London poor.
However, in this case,
I never make exceptions.
An exception
disproves the rule.
I'm going out. I'll
see you in an hour.
Had he any
friends in town?
Only one that
we know of,
Major Sholto of
his own regiment.
There is no great
mystery in this matter
of only one explanation.
Oh so you've
solved it already?
I have found,
on consulting the back
files of the Times,
that Major Sholto,
of Upper Norwood,
late of the 34th
Bombay Infantry,
died just 6 years ago.
Mrs. Hudson you're
dreadfully under foot.
I may be very
obtuse, Holmes,
but I fail to see
what this suggests.
Really?
You surprise me.
Now look at it
this way, then.
Captain Morstan
disappears.
The only person in London
whom he could have
visited is Major Sholto.
Major Sholto denies
having heard
that he was
even in London.
Within a week of his death
Captain Morstan's daughter
receives a
valuable present,
which is repeated
from year to year
and now culminates
in a letter,
which describes her
as a wronged woman.
Now what wrong can
except this deprivation
of her father?
Tape measure,
gun.
And why should
these presents
begin immediately
after Sholto's death
unless it is that
Sholto's heir
knows something
of the mystery
and desires to
make compensation?
Are you ready Watson?
And waiting.
Have you any
alternative theory
that will meet the facts?
But what a strange
compensation!
And how strangely made!
What time is it?
It's a quarter
past the hour.
Evening Ellis.
Evening sir.
Why should somebody
write her a letter now,
rather than 6 years ago?
Again, the letter speaks
of giving her justice.
What justice can she have?
It is too much to suppose
that her father
is still alive
and there's no
other injustice
in her case that
you know of.
There are difficulties
but there are
always difficulties.
Good evening Mr Holmes.
I do hope I'm not...
Good evening.
By the way,
found in Papa's desk,
which nobody
could understand.
I don't suppose it is of
the slightest importance,
but I thought you
might like to see it,
so I brought it with me.
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