Watson walks into Holmes' s breakfast-room where Sherlock, Holmes is having breakfast. Watson examines a walking stick which. A, Mortimer visitor James, left had behind the, night before after finding nobody there to receive him. Mortimer s name. ' Is engraved into the stick.
Though his back is turned to Watson Holmes sees, his friend through the reflection in his coffee-pot.He surprises Watson by, addressing him and then asks him to deduce the character of James Mortimer from his stick.
Based. On the stick Watson believes, that Dr. Mortimer is, an elderly well-respected doctor who lives in the country. He further. Deduces that Mortimer has received this stick as a gift from a hunting club.
Holmes initially compliments Watson s detective. ' Skills.But then clarifies that he is only complimenting the way that Watson has stimulated his own thought process. Holmes examines. The stick himself and concludes, that Mortimer received the stick as a gift from, a hospital rather than from a hunting. Club. He deduces that Mortimer was a student at this hospital not a, physician and that, he must therefore, be young not. Further old,.He believes that Mortimer has withdrawn from a town hospital to begin his own practice in the country. He adds that Mortimer. Must, be absent-minded amiable unambitious and, a dog owner.
Astonished Watson looks, in his Medical Dictionary for public. Information about Mortimer. The book confirms that Mortimer is a young man who studied as Charing Cross Hospital.Holmes begins to explain how he deduced that Mortimer owned a dog but sees, a dog from his window and realizes that, Dr. Mortimer has now returned to pay them a visit.
Dr. Mortimer enters and Watson, describes him as, a tall thin man with bad. Posture and dressed, in a messy manner. Relieved that he left the stick there and did not, lose it Dr.Mortimer reveals that he received it not on the occasion of leaving Charing Cross but for, his wedding.
First Dr. Mortimer,, Notes that he had heard of Holmes through his reputation for solving difficult, problems. Strangely Dr. Mortimer then compliments. The shape of Holmes' s skull and tells, him that it would be an "ornament to any anthropological Museum" (143).He explains that he studies skull shapes.
Holmes asks why Dr. Mortimer has called, on him and Mortimer tells him that. He has a most serious and extraordinary problem.
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