He would have returned earlier, but just before he left his hotel room for the last time he was once again racked by the symptoms of opiate withdrawal. This time the attack left him drained, and yet he sensed a curious finality to the experience that he had not felt on previous occasions. It also...
‘Was ist—?’ No one seemed to know what it was. The cry had frozen them all.Wolf, recovering first, said, ‘I’ll go and find out.’Holmes, though thoroughly absorbed by what he had been witnessing, had straightened up at the scream and was already retracing his steps along the narrow passage to the ...