? ? ? ? "Good-evening, Doctor," said Holmes cheerily. "I am glad to see that you have only been waiting a very few minutes."
? ? ? ? "You spoke to my coachman, then?"
? ? ? ? "No, it was the candle on the side-table that told me. Pray resume your seat and let me know how I can serve you."
? ? ? ? "My name is Dr. Percy Trevelyan," said our visitor, "and I live at 403 Brook Street."
? ? ? ? "Are you not the author of a monograph upon obscure nervous lesions?" I asked.
? ? ? ? His pale cheeks flushed with pleasure at hearing that his work was known to me.
? ? ? ? "I so seldom hear of the work that I thought it was quite dead," said he. "My publishers gave me a most discouraging account of its sale. You are yourself, I presume, a medical man."
? ? ? ? "A retired army surgeon."
? ? ? ? "My own hobby has always been nervous disease.
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