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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AAA999" data-source="post: 5060516" data-attributes="member: 117301">Part III"My practice has extended recently to the Continent," saidHolmes after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe. "I wasconsulted last week by Francois le Villard, who, as youprobably know, has come rather to the front lately in the Frenchdetective service. He has all the Celtic power of quick intuitionbut he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which isessential to the higher developments of his art. The case wasconcerned with a will and possessed some features of interest. Iwas able to refer him to two parallel cases, the one at Riga in1857, and the other at St. Louis in 1871, which have suggestedto him the true solution. Here is the letter which I had thismorning acknowledging my assistance."  He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled sheet of foreignnotepaper. I glanced my eyes down it, catching a profusion ofnotes of admiration, with stray magnifiques, coup-de-maitres andtours-de-force, all testifying to the ardent admiration of theFrenchman.  "He speaks as a pupil to his master," said I.  "Oh, he rates my assistance too highly," said Sherlock Holmeslightly. "He has coosiderable gifts himself. He possesses twoout of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He hasthe power of observation and that of deduction. He is onlywanting in knowledge, and that may come in time. He is nowtranslating my small works into French."  "Your works?"  "Oh, didn't you know?" he cried, laughing. "Yes, I havebeen guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technicalsubjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction be-tween the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos.' In it I enumerate ahundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco,with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is apoint which is continually turning up in criminal trials, andwhich is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue. If you cansay definitely, for example, that some murder had been done bya man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrowsyour field of search. To the trained eye there is as much differ-ence between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluffof bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato."  "You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae," I remarked.  "I appreciate their importance. Here is my monograph uponthe tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses ofplaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, too, is acurious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form ofthe hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, cork-cutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is amatter of great practical interest to the scientific detective -- especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering theantecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my hobby."</blockquote>

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