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目录
A STUDY IN SCARLET
THE SIGN OF FOUR
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
THE VALLEY OF FEAR
HIS LAST BOW
THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
书摘插图
PART I BEING A REPRINT FROM THEREMINISCENCES OF JOHN H. WATSON. M. D. , LATE OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 1 MR, SHERLOCK HOLMES
In the year 1878 1 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. Havingcompleted 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 hadadvanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, how-ever, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded inreaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my newduties.
The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing butmisfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, withwhom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezailbullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen intothe hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown byMurray, my orderly, who threw me across a packhorse, and succeeded in bringing me safelyto the British lines.
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I wasremoved, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here Irallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even tobask a little upon the veranda,when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our In-dian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself andbecame convalescent, 1 was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not aday should be lost in sending me back to England. 1 was despatched, accordingly, in thetroopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievablyruined, but with permission from a paternal governmcnt to spend the next nine months in at-tempting to improve it.
1 had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as ai~or as free as anincome of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circum-stances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and i-dlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel inthe 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 alternaive, 1 began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and take up my quarters in some lesspretentious and less expensive domicile.
On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I Was standing at the Criterion Bar,when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford,who had been a dresser under me at Barr's. The sight of a friendly face in the great wildernessof London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days Stamford had never been aparticular 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, 1 asked him to lunch with meat the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom.
"Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?" he asked in undisguised wonder, aswe 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 thatwe reached our destination.
"Poor devil!" he said, commiseratingly, after he had listened to my misfortunes. "Whatare 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 today thathas 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 nicerooms 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 amthe very man for him. I should prefer having a parmer to being alone. "
Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wineglass. "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 ideaan enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know he is a decent fellow enough. "
"A medical student, I suppose?" said I.
"N~I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is well up in anatomy, andhe 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-theway 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 enoughwhen the fancy seizes him. "
"I should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a manof studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or eyeitement. Ihad enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. Howcould 1 meet this friend of yours?"
"He is sure to be at the laboratory," returned my companion. "He either avoids the placefor weeks, or else he works there from morning till night. If you like, we will 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 fewmore 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 ofhim than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory. You proposed thisarrangement, so you must not hold me responsible. "
"If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered. "It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing yourhands of the matter. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealymouthed about it. "
"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. "Holmes is a littletoo scientific for my tasteit approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving afriend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand,……
