“Well, they don’t seem to have got much. Mrs. Maberley was chloroformed and the house was⁠—Ah! here is the lady herself.”

Our friend of yesterday, looking very pale and ill, had entered the room, leaning upon a little maidservant.

“You gave me good advice, Mr. Holmes,” said she, smiling ruefully. “Alas, I did not take it! I did not wish to trouble Mr. Sutro, and so I was unprotected.”

“I only heard of it this morning,” the lawyer explained.

“ Mr. Holmes advised me to have some friend in the house. I neglected his advice, and I have paid for it.”