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Your marriage, you say?"

"Yes, sir. I married, and so left the hospital, and with it
all hopes of a consulting practice. It was necessary to
make a home of my own."

"Come, come, we are not so far wrong after all," said Holmes.
"And now, Dr. James Mortimer ----"

"Mister, sir, Mister -- a humble M.R.C.S."

"And a man of precise mind, evidently."

"A dabbler in science, Mr. Holmes, a picker up of shells on
the shores of the great unknown ocean. I presume that it is
Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not ----"

"No, this is my friend Dr. Watson."

"Glad to meet you, sir. I have heard your name mentioned in
connection with that of your friend. You interest me very
much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic
a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
Would you have any objection to my running my finger along
your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until
the original is available, would be an ornament to any
anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be
fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

Sherlock Holmes waved our strange visitor into a chair.
"You are an enthusiast in your line of thought, I perceive,
sir, as I am in mine," said he. "I observe from your
forefinger that you make your own cigarettes. Have no
hesitation in lighting one."

The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in
the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering
fingers as agile and restless as the antennae {1} of an insect.

Holmes was silent, but his little darting glances showed me
the interest which he took in our curious companion.

"I presume, sir," said he at last, "that it was not merely
for the purpose of examining my skull that you have done me
the honour to call here last night and again to-day?"

"No, sir, no; though I am happy to have had the opportunity
of doing that as well. I came to you, Mr. Holmes, because I
recognise that I am myself an unpractical man, and because I
am suddenly confronted with a most serious and extraordinary