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"Then how in the naet these facts? They are absolutely correct in every particular"

"Ah, that is good luck I could only say as the balance of probability I did not at all expect to be so accurate"

"But it was nothabit,--destructive to the logical faculty What seee to you is only so because you do not follow e inferencesthat your brother was careless When you observe the lower part of that watch-case you notice that it is not only dinted in two places, but it is cut andother hard objects, such as coins or keys, in the sareat feat to assuuinea watch so cavalierly must be a careless man Neither is it a very far-fetched inference that a man who inherits one article of such value is pretty well provided for in other respects"

I nodded, to show that I followed his reasoning

"It is very custoland, when they take a watch, to scratch the number of the ticket with a pin-point upon the inside of the case It is more handy than a label, as there is no risk of the nu lost or transposed There are no less than four such numbers visible to my lens on the inside of this case Inference,--that your brother was often at loater Secondary inference,--that he had occasional bursts of prosperity, or he could not have redeee Finally, I ask you to look at the inner plate, which contains the key-hole Look at the thousands of scratches all round the hole,--marks where the key has slipped What sober rooves? But you will never see a drunkard's watch without theht, and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand Where is the ht," I answered "I regret the injustice which I did you I should have had more faith in your marvellous faculty May I ask whether you have any professional inquiry on foot at present?"

"None Hence the cocaine I cannot live without brain-work What else is there to live for? Stand at thehere Was ever such a dreary, dis swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses What could be more hopelessly prosaic andpowers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth"