? ? ? ? "You say that she quarrelled with your Liverpool relations."
? ? ? ? "Yes, and they were the best of friends at one time. Why, she went up there to live in order to be near them. And now she has no word hard enough for Jim Browner. The last six months that she was here she would speak of nothing but his drinking and his ways. He had caught her meddling, I suspect, and given her a bit of his mind, and that was the start of it."
? ? ? ? "Thank you, Miss Cushing," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Your sister Sarah lives, I think you said, at New Street Wallington? Good-bye, and I am very sorry that you should have been troubled over a case with which, as you say, you have nothing whatever to do."
? ? ? ? There was a cab passing as we came out, and Holmes hailed it.
? ? ? ? "How far to Wallington?" he asked.
? ? ? ? "Only about a mile, sir."
? ? ? ? "Very good. Jump in, Watson. We must strike while the iron is hot. Simple as the case is, there have been one or two very instructive details in connection with it.
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