Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.