Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street by David Marcum

Author:David Marcum [Marcum, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belanger Books
Published: 2020-01-08T22:00:00+00:00

“Calling Clive over, I asked him what he thought. He leaned closer, and then stepped back, scanning the entire painting. ‘No, it only appears in that corner. I wonder what it could mean . . . .’

“A sudden thought occurred to me. ‘Top to bottom. Side to side. I wonder – ” Stepping over to one of the residents sitting in a deep chair underneath the window, an unhealthy looking student obviously from Aberdeen with three sisters and a secret shame that he wasn’t hiding very well, I asked to borrow a few sheets of paper. He nodded wordlessly and handed me these very sheets you see before you, upon which I sketched the lines and copied the little verse.

“Clive and Edward looked puzzled, but I reached and took the canvas painting, stepping to a side table. They quickly caught my intent, and joined me, each looking for matching gold-leaf lines on that picture as well. As it was much smaller, only about two feet square, it quickly became obvious that there was no golden glint whatsoever. But I did see another set of lines, the lines copied on this other sheet of paper here. Not in gold, but in blacks and browns. And not vertical, like in the mantel painting, but rather horizontal.”

“Side to side,” I said.

“Yes. On one of the rocks that were lining the stream.” He rearranged the sheets on the table, turning the second that I’d also placed in the vertical position on its side. “So now they looked like this from the parlour painting . . . .”

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