'My dear fellow,' said Sherlock Holmes...'

Miss Mary Sutherland enters...

Miss Sutherland tells her story

Sherlock Holmes considers the matter

I return to Baker Street..

'Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face...'

'One summer night, a few months after my marriage...'

'The facts are only two days old. Briefly they are these.'

'Having gathered these facts, Watson...'

Miss Morrison's statement...

At the scene of the tragedy

My way ran down a dried-up watercourse..'

'The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable...'

'Holmes was seated at his side-table clad in his dressing-gown...'

'I won't waste your time,' said he, raising himself upon the sofa.'

'the commissionaire, seeing by my pale face that something was to be feared...'

'Then for the first time the horror of my situation came into its full force...'

'Mr. Joseph Harrison drove us down to the station...'

'It was twenty past three when we reached our terminus...'

'I met him accordingly next morning

'It was arranged as he suggested...'

'It was seven o'clock when I awoke...'

'The night was fine, but still it was a very weary vigil.'

'During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes...'

'Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock.'

'A few minutes later we were joined by a short, stout man...'

'As he spoke, he opened a door...'

'I was hurried through the hall and into the vehicle...'

'We had reached our house in Baker Street while we had been talking.'

'Our hope was that, by taking the train...'

'It was a simple story which he had to tell...'