He was a good son, obeying his father's wishes. Chemical research was a respectable, practical, and fairly lucrative career.
Yet there were times when he felt he had missed his calling. On those days he couldn't bear to even look at a newspaper for fear the urge to find patterns, draw conclusions, would overtake him.
Somehow, he always pulled through in silence. What were the opinions of a chemical researcher in matters of crime? But Sherlock Holmes never ceased shaking his head over certain accounts of police activity, even after his own experiments brought him fame in his own field.