Questions: The Sign of Four
i have a few questions. these are:
1) in "The Sign of Four", watson said, "I made no remark, however, but sat nursing my wounded leg. I had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and, though it did not prevent me from walking, it ached wearily at every change of the weather."
however, in "A Study in Scarlet", watson is said to be wounded by the bullet in the shoulder. where was the wound? shoulder? or leg?
2) Mary showed Holmes the letter she received from someone she didnt know. according to the postmark, the date was july 7. that very evening, Watson said, "It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city."
July or september?
3) in chapter 9 (a break in the chain), holmes said, "I have set other agencies at work and used every means at my disposal. The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband."
what other agency did he set at work?
4)the 3 Sikh men are Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar. but all Sikh people have Singh as their last name. besides, Khan and Akbar are Muslim names, not Sikh names.
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