Sign of The Four key quotations

1. "my mind" he said "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, Give me work, Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. i can dispense then with artificial stimulants (8)
5. "This is all an insoluble mystery to me" said I "it grows darker instead of clearer" (6)
6. "it does seem a queer thing to me, that I who have a fair claim to half a million of money should spend the first half of my life building a breakwater in the Andamans, and am like to spend the other half digging drains at Dartmoor" (8)

2. "the window of my fathers room was found open in the morning, his cupboards and boxes had been rifled, and upon his chest was fixed a torn piece of paper, with the words 'The Sign of The Four scrawled across it" (8)
3. "On the contary," he answered "it clears every instant" (8)
4. "His name, I have every reason to believe is Jonathon Small, He is a poorly educated man, small, active, with his right leg off, and wearing a wooden stump which is worn awayon the inner side..." (8)

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