Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

PART I. 5. CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR. (continued)

I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction. I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.