With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. "Sherlock Holmes took his bottle form the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. The imagery surrounding Tonga, namely his peculiar build, dwarfish appearance, and hideous appearance, are necessary to substantiate Holmes' deductions at the scene of the crime.
The trio waits patiently for the man to begin his story and explain who this man is, but Thaddeus continues to simply allude to Brother Bartholomew until the middle of page 102 where he reveals that Bartholomew is his twin brother. On page 101, Thaddeus makes several allusions to Brother Bartholomew without explaining who he is. So far, Mary has suspected it and our detectives have assumed it, but Thaddeus's allusion to it makes it seem much more likely–though we still don't have concrete proof. This is said by Thaddeus to Mary when they first meet, implying that her father is dead. "Had your father, Miss Morstan, refrained from throwing a strain upon his hear, he might have been alive now" (101). "'Which is it to-day,' I asked, 'morphine or cocaine?'" (89.) This statement at the very beginning of the story alludes to the fact that Sherlock takes a variety of drugs, and perhaps is a drug addict, since it can feature so prominently in his process. "The Sign of Four" is an allusion to Small and his three Arab compatriots.
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