[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ADVENTUREV.THE 31/50
Save, perhaps, that.
And yet this John Openshaw seems to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Sholtos." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to what these perils are ?" "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Then what are they? Who is this K.K.
K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family ?" Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together.
"The ideal reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
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