The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-21

Five minutes later we were in the
street, walking towards Regents Cir
Gus.
you wonder" said my compaion,
why it is that Mycroft does not use
his powers for detective work. He is
incapable of it
But | thought you said
Il said that he was my superior in
observation and deduction. If the art
of the detective began and ended IN
reasoning from an armchair, my
brother would be the greatest crimi-
nal agent that ever lived. But he has
no ambition and no energy. He will
not even go out of his way to verify his
own solutions, and would rather be
considered wrong than take the trou-
BILE TO prove himself right. Again and
again / have taken a problem to him,
and have received an explanation
which has AFTERWARDS proved to be the
correct one. And yet he was absolute
ly incapable of working out the practi-
cal points which must be gone into be-
fore a case could be laid before a Judge
or jury"
ut is not his profession, them"
by no means. What is to me a
means of livelihood is to him the
merest hobby of dilettante. He has
! an extraordinary faculty for figues,
| and audits the books in some of the
lodges in Pail Mall, and he walks
, round the conner into Whitehall every
morning and back every evening.
| From years end to years end he takes
no other exercise, and is seen no
| where else, except only at the Dioge-
| mes Club, which is just opposite his
! rooms"
Il cannot recall the name"
Very likely not. There are many
men in London, you know, who, some
from shyness, some from misanthropy
! have no wish for the company of their
| fellows. Yet they are not adverse to
| comfortable chairs and the latest peri
| odicals. 1t is for the convenience OF
! these that the Diogenes Club was
| started, and it now contains the most
/ unsociable and unclubable men il
town. No member is permitted to take
/ the least notice of any other one. Save
in the Strangers Room, no talking is
=! under any circumstances, allowed, anG
i three offences, if brought to the notice
! or the committee, render the talkel
liable to expulsion. My brother wa!
one of the founders and | have mysel
found it a very soothing atmosphere.
We had reached Pail Mall as We
i talked, and wore walking down it from
the st. James end. Sherlock Holme:
stopped at door some little distance
from the Carlton, and, cautioning ms
not to speak he led the way into the
|, hall. Through the glass panelling
caught glimpse of large and luxuri
, Gus room, in which a considerable
| number of men were sitting about anC
!, reading papers, each in his own littl'
nook. Holmes showed me into a small
chamber which looked out into Pal
Mall, he came back with a companion
> who | knew could only be his brother
, Mycroft Holmes was a much large
and shouted man than Sherlock. Hi
body was absolutely corpulent. but hi
= face, though massive, had preserved
something of the sharpness of expires
sion which was so remarkable in tina
; of his brother. His eyes which wer
of a peculiarly light, wateTy gray
seemed to always retain that faraway
retrospective look which | had only OF
; served in Sherlock's when he was e1
l erting his full powers.
Il am glad to meet, sir said he
5 putting out broad, fat hand like III
= flipper of a seal. Il hear of Sherloc
- everywhere since you became hi