Sherlock Holmes

The Gentleman Who Turned Beggar

Testimony 4, Her Account and His Silence Point One Way

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In a doorway at the top of some steps, a woman in a hat is blocked and pushed back by a man in white.
Illustration by Sidney Paget, The Strand Magazine, December 1891Original

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On a night in June 1889 the bell rings at Watson’s house.

Kate Whitney, an old school friend of his wife, comes in crying. Her husband has not been home for two days, and she knows where he is. It is an opium den at the far east of the City.

Watson promises to have him in a cab within two hours and goes out.

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