In this memorable year '95 a curious and incongruous succession
of cases had engaged his attention, ranging from his famous
investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca -- an
inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of
His Holiness the Pope -- down to his arrest of Wilson, the
notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the
East-End of London. Close on the heels of these two famous
cases came the tragedy of Woodman's Lee, and the very obscure
circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey.
No record of the doings of Mr. Sherlock Holmes would be complete
which did not include some account of this very unusual affair.
During the first week of July my friend had been absent so often
and so long from our lodgings that I knew he had something on
hand. The fact that several rough-looking men called during
that time and inquired for Captain Basil made me understand that
Holmes was working somewhere under one of the numerous disguises
and names with which he concealed his own formidable identity.
He had at least five small refuges in different parts of London in
which he was able to change his personality.
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