"My friend here," said Stamford, "wants to take diggings, and I thought that I had better bring you together." Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains. "Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself. Illustrations by George Hutchinson for the 1891 Edition "How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment.
"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." "How are you?" he said, gripping my hand. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us. "a re-agent which is precipitated by hoemoglobin, and by nothing else." At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure. There was only one student in the room, absorbed in his work. He is a little queer in his ideas."Īfter luncheon we drove round to the chemical laboratory, a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine-glass.
"By Jove!" I cried, "I am the very man for him." A fellow up at the hospital was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms."
"Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?" Thus it was that I found myself standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts. I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. At the fatal battle of Maiwand I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, and sent back to England. The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon, just as the second Afghan war had broken out. As of today there are some four thousand different books, films and plays featuring him, by far the most popular character in all fiction. This is the book which invented the modern crime novel by introducing the world to Sherlock Holmes. The original, squashed down to read in about 35 minutes
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