Mary's Nineteenth Century

The sun always rises as usual.

Sherlock went to Whitehall first and got a list from Mycroft.It is a list of people involved in the signal light accident five years ago, and there may be traces of "square K" hidden in it.

"Wish us good luck."

Mycroft also held a list, and today the three went to check separately, and he gave the other list to Mary.

Mary also hopes to determine the whereabouts of "Cube K" as soon as possible, and there may be clues from him to allow Dr. Jekyll to recover. "Then see you tonight, and I hope there will be good news to add to the fun."

Add to the fun?What are you doing tonight?

Sherlock tried to persuade himself not to use the power of association easily.

It was just one night, and his once pure detective thinking no longer existed.Since crashing Mycroft's love affair, Mr. Minton's prim appearance can no longer be trusted.

Mycroft watched Mary leave, and turned around to see his brother who was thinking seriously. Could he not know what Sherlock was thinking?

"Sherlock, you may dine in Pall Mall tonight. Of course, it is best to bring good news to dinner."

That should be straightforward enough.

Mycroft was sure that what Mary just said to add to the fun was very simple, just expressing the hope that she would have a good appetite tonight, and don't let her thoughts wander.

"Okay, I will come, thank you for the invitation."

Sherlock thanked verbally without admitting to overthinking.Looking back at the past, he didn't just think too little.

The busy day of the three of them started after breakfast.

At dusk, Mary checked the list in her hand.

It's a pity that she didn't find any suspicious persons related to "Box K" on her side.While it was still dark, detour to Fett Lane, which was an important landmark in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

The catastrophe that turned London into a sea of ​​red flames ended in Fett Lane.

The fire was extinguished here, making this alley a boundary of London history.And it has an ancient past, where coin jars from ancient Roman times were dug up.

Time came to the 19th century, and with the changes in London's urban construction roads, Fett Lane became narrower and darker.

Most of the shops opened here are printers, bookstores, stationery dealers, etc., as well as oil paint and pigment businesses.Private tenants, on the other hand, are fast-moving and mostly passing, but there are exceptions—like members of the Moravian Brotherhood. ①

Mary found information about the Great Fire of 1666 in Dr. Jekyll's laboratory cabinet.

After careful screening, the pages recording "Fett Lane" have the most traces of paper use, and it is very likely that they have been read over and over again.

A rough guess can now be made regarding the attack on Dr. Jekyll.

Someone focused on a certain document in the laboratory, and found someone who was good at stealing and sneaked into it to find it.

Coincidentally, Dr. Jekyll took the transformation potion and became a man with a vicious face.The man had a strong body and looked ferocious. He had a fight with the infiltrator and was shot in the back of the head, unconscious.

You might as well assume boldly that the vicious man might be in a weak period after taking medicine at that time, but I don't know if the infiltrator saw the whole transformation process?

Afterwards, the infiltrator did not leave immediately, he quickly searched dozens of cabinets in the laboratory.After finding what he needed, he left quietly, leaving a mess behind.

Although there is no black and white information on the transformation potion in the laboratory, the vicious man fell in the villa, which shows that the last experimental operation before Dr. Jekyll disappeared should be related to the transformation potion.

It is a pity that due to the physical conflict with the infiltrator, the bottles and jars of various reagents and powders on the test bench were broken to the ground.These containers were all labeled, but most of them were not abbreviated medicines, but numerical codes known only to Dr. Jekyll.

When Attorney Erson first arrived at the scene of the crime, he collected all the drug residues.

I didn't expect it to be of great use at first, but when I was shocked to learn about the relationship between the transformation potion and Jekyll, I still couldn't do it.Who can analyze which are the raw materials of the transformation potion from the mixed residue of the experimental objects?

This candidate must not only have professional skills no less than that of Dr. Jekyll, but also have excellent character that will never betray them.

After all, the existence of the Transformation Potion is no small matter, it is likely to become a criminal weapon, and it must not be shown in front of people casually.

Mary had the same considerations.Regarding the candidates for experimental analysis, Watson is sufficiently tight-lipped, but he doesn't have much research in the field of weird medicine.

At present, it is still necessary to find the "square K" and determine what the thieves who sneaked into the laboratory stole.

From previous inferences, the treasures hidden in the Great London Fire may be mystical things such as the "Book of Sawyer".

The transformation potion is out of the scope of today's science. To make it, it may be that Dr. Jekyll has discovered the treasure of fire and applied what he has learned.

As the setting sun fell, the mottled masonry walls of Fett Lane were rendered scarlet.

Mary came to the place where the great fire was extinguished.Perhaps, there is some connection between this place and the hidden treasure, which made Dr. Jekyll read the information on this street repeatedly.

Now, she went door to door with a picture of Dr. Jekyll asking if anyone had ever seen Jekyll here.Finally got effective information in a coffee shop.

"Yes, I met him, that was four years ago."

The owner of the coffee shop said that there was a reason for it, "At that time, believers of the Moravian Brotherhood would meet regularly in my shop, and the man in the photo came several times. I don't remember his name, but I remember that he is a doctor. "

Mary took the opportunity to ask the owner of the coffee shop to say more, "Your memory is really good. There is a doctor in the photo. Do you remember who he walked with the closest? The Moravian Brotherhood is a branch of Protestant Christianity. Are you talking about spiritual cultivation or something?"

"Maybe, I didn't pay attention to the chat content specifically."

The coffee shop owner recalled, "As for who this man got close to, I remember clearly that he was close to the old Bryan brothers."

The boss said that the Bryan brothers were from Germany, they were a pair of elderly brothers, they were both surgeons.

"Since I started running the coffee shop seven years ago, the Bryan brothers moved to 199 Fett Lane and they bought the house when they were in their 60s."

A surgeon, in his 60s, came to the UK from Germany and bought a house in a less than ideal living environment.

Such an operation is obviously not in line with the way of life of most ordinary people, and the Brian brothers expressed their belief in the Moravian Brotherhood, and they came to Fett Lane to understand life.

It's hard for Mary not to become suspicious of the old Brian brothers, linking them with the eerie Scarab Society. "What happened later? Do you know where Brother Bryan is now?"

"Don't look for them, they died one after another as early as 1871."

The owner of the coffee shop remembered the general cause of death, "I heard that he died of liver disease, a long-standing illness. One of the two brothers died in spring and the other died in September. Since the death of Brother Bryan, I have not seen any photos. That doctor up there."

died?

In fact, the Brian brothers are over seventy years old, which can be called a long life according to today's standards. It cannot be said that they died too early.

However, Mary couldn't help feeling sorry, and she became more and more suspicious that the purpose of Brother Bryan's coming to London was not pure, and it was not simply to understand life.

At the moment, failing to get more information from the coffee shop owner, she went straight to No. 199 Fett Lane, trying to get some clues from the current owner of the house.

It was met with a closed door.

Neighbors said the building had been vacant since the death of the Bryan brothers.For two or three years, there has been no new owner to move in, nor has the house been lent out.

However, a strange thing happened half a month ago.At midnight, a fire flashed through the windows of number 199, and the next day neighbors noticed a large hole had been smashed into a window in the vacant house next door.

Neighbors reasonably suspected a burglary had occurred in the empty house, but since the surrounding residents did not know who the new owner was, there was no way to warn them of the possible disaster.

Who is the owner of this new house?

Mary went to the law firm and asked Attorney Erson to find out the inside story of the real estate transfer at that time. She suspected that it might have something to do with Dr. Jekyll.

As for the midnight fire in the empty house last month, it was most likely the thieves who infiltrated Jekyll's laboratory.

The thieves got some information about the treasure in Fett Lane, sneaked in to find it had been taken, and tracked it down to Dr. Jekyll.

Which vine did you follow?

It was no secret that the Bryan brothers had a past with Dr. Jekyll.

**

The words are divided into two parts.

After lunch, Mycroft found a suspect who was highly suspected of "King of Squares".

Beachy Kimberly, 25 years old this year, had a brow bone scratched by shards of glass in the signal light explosion in early 1869.

Before the accident, he was working in a hardware grocery store in London.After the accident, he did not speak out in the newspapers, but accepted a compensation of one thousand pounds.

I went to the hardware store and learned that Kimberly's shoe size was exactly 7.5 inches.In the first two years, he worked as a handyman. Later, he learned door lock repair from an old guy in the store and worked as a lock repairer for more than two years.

Until July last year, Kimberly resigned from the grocery store, and the reason given to the owner was that he was going back to his hometown of Newcastle in northeast England to get married.

Whether marriage is an excuse is still unknown, but recently the owner has heard that Kimberly is haunting London again.

Regular customers brought news that Kimberly was seen near St. Mary's Hospital in early February.Kimberly has a knife scar on his left brow bone, which is a more obvious feature.Regular customers appreciate his lock repairing skills and are deeply impressed by him.

St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.

It takes some luck to find someone near the hospital because of the large floating population here.

This time, Mycroft's luck was mixed.

At afternoon tea, I found Kimberly in the cheap "Dahlia Hostel".He and three other men with German accents checked into the hostel at the end of January and stayed there for about a month.

According to the memory of the hotel attendant, he did not see Kimberly during the whole day on February 25 and the morning of February 26, and only saw him at the afternoon tea on the 26th.At this point in time, it was the time when the red box was stolen.

Mycroft further confirmed in person that Kimberly was the "K of Diamonds", but he came a step too late.

Yesterday, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon on February 2, Kimberly and his gang checked out. It is not known where they went.

"So you sent me here?"

Sherlock returned to the rental house 10 minutes ago and received a text message from the newsboy.It was Mycroft who sent a message to help out near the Thames.

In front of you is a garbage transfer station.

The air was filled with a stench, and the flies that couldn't be driven away were flying wildly.

Sherlock had just heard from Mycroft.

The four Kimberleys had already checked out yesterday. To trace their whereabouts now, they had to check the traces of their lives some time ago, that is, to check the rubbish made by the four in the hotel room.

Hotel staff cleaned the rooms of the four Kimberleys yesterday, while hotel rubbish was transported to a rubbish transfer station near the River Thames early this morning.

"Our luck is not bad. If we come a few hours later, the garbage will be transported out of the city of London after nightfall, and we will have to look for clues in the garbage mountain by then."

Mycroft pointed to the garbage bin full of warehouses, "Now we just need to find the garbage parcels from "Dahlia Hotel" in this small warehouse. The hotel attendant still has a general impression of what garbage she cleaned up in Kimberly's room yesterday, mostly newspapers. . "

Sherlock: I understand the truth, but I have a small question.It was obviously a search by three people, why was there one more person who didn't show up?

Sherlock didn't seem to complain, "Just the two of us?"

Mycroft smiled, "It's said that 'brothers are of one heart, and their profits cut through gold'. Shouldn't it be more than enough for the two Holmes brothers to search this garbage dump? "

Sherlock: Very good!You are such a Mycroft.

Call your brother for dirty work and Mr. Minton for romance.As an older brother, do you dare to be more biased?

But Mycroft looked like he was thinking about his younger brother, "Sherlock, I believe you will become the best detective in the world in the future. I will never forget to provide you with practical opportunities, don't you like it?"