The Red Cloud chief., 1893-12-01

people are my clients" Again I had
an opportunity OF asking him 4 point
blank question, and again my delicacy
prevented me from forcing another
man to conide in me. I imagined at
the time that he had some strong rea.
son for not abiding to it, but he soon
dispelled the idea by coming round to
the subject of his own accord.
1t was upon the 4th of March, as I
have good reason to remember, that l
rose somewhat earlier than usual, and
found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet
finished his breakfast. The landlady
had become so accustomed to my late
habits that my place had not been laid
nor my coffee prepared. With the un-
reasonable %petulance of mankind I
rang the bell and gave a curt intima.
ton that I was ready. Then l picked
up . magazine from the table and at.
tempted to while away the time with
1t, while my companion munched ST.
lently at his toast. One of the articles
had q pencil mark at the heading,
and l naturally began to run my eye
through IL.
Its somewhat ambitious title was
1.-THE Book Of Life" and it attempted
to show how much an observant man
might learn by an accurate and sys-
tematic examination Of all that cay
in his way. 1t struck me as beingnoV
markable mixture of shrewdnese re,
absurdity. The reasoning wasfaho
and intense, but the deductions app
peared to be far-fetched and exgger-
ated. The writer claimed by mo-
mentary expression, a twitch # =
muscle or a glance of an eye, to fithom
n mans inmost thoughts. Deceit, ac-
cordSng to him, was an im~posibility
In the case of IN trained to observa-
ton and analysis. His conclusions
were as infallible as so msny propo-
sitions Of Euclid. So starting would
his results appear to the uninitiated
that, until they learned toe processes
by which he had arrived 81 them, they
might well consider him anccromancer.
"From n drop of wstcr," said the
writer, "a logician couN infer the pos
sibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara
without having seen o. heard of one or
the other. So all life is a great chain,
the nature of which Is known whenever
we are shown a single link of it. Like
all other arts, the science of deduction
and analysis is one which can only be
acquired by long and patient study,
nor Is life long enough to allow any
mortal to attain the highest possible
perfection in IL. Before turning to
those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest diff
fculties, let the inquirer begin by mas.
tcring more elementary problems. Let
him, on meeting n fellow-mortal, learn
at q glance to distinguish the history
Of the man, and the trade or profession
to which he belongs. Puerile as such
an exercise may seem, 1t sharpens the
faculties of observation and teaches
N where to look and what to look
for. BY n mans flngcr-nails, by his
coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his rouser-
knees, by the callosities of his fore
finger and thumb, by his expression,
by his shirt-cutfs--by each of these
things a mans calling Is plainly re-
vealed. That all united should fail to
enlightcn the competent inquirer in
any case is almost inconceivablc."
what inetfable twaddle." | cried,
%slapping the magazine down on the
table, Il never read such rubbish in
my life"
WHATS ?" aslied Sherlock Holmes.
Go bo Continucd.)