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Holmes has been sitting in silence for hours. He bent down and stared at a chemical test tube in front of him, where a particularly smelly compound was being boiled. The way his head hangs over his chest looks like a slender strange bird to me, with dark gray feathers, but his crest is black.

He suddenly said, "Watson, you're not going to invest in South Africa, are you?"

I was taken aback. Although I am used to all kinds of strange skills of Holmes, I still can't explain why he suddenly leaked my mind.

"How do you know?" I asked him.

He turned on the round stool, holding a steaming test tube in his hand. From his sunken eyes, he showed a slight desire to laugh.

"Now, Watson, you admit that you are surprised," he said.

"I'm surprised."

"I should ask you to write this sentence down and sign your name."

"Why?"

"Because in five minutes, you'll say it's too easy."

"I can't say."

"You know, my dear Watson," he put the test tube back on the shelf and began to speak with the tone of the professor giving lectures to the students in his class. "It is not difficult to make a series of inferences, and each inference depends on the one in front of it, and it is simple and clear. Then, as long as you get rid of all intermediate reasoning and only announce the starting point and conclusion to your audience, you can get amazing and possibly grandiose results. Therefore, when I look at the chin of your left hand, I feel confident that you have no intention of investing your small amount of capital in the gold mine, which is really not difficult to infer. "

"I don't see the relationship."

"It seems not, but I can tell you this close relationship right away. The missing links in this very simple chain are: first, when you came back from the club last night, there was white powder on your left hand; Second, only when playing billiards, in order to stabilize the cue, you put white powder on the tiger's mouth; Third, you never play billiards without thurston's company; Fourthly, you told me four weeks ago that thurston has the privilege to buy a South African industry, which will expire in another month. He really wants you to share it with him. Fifth, your checkbook is locked in my drawer, and you never asked me for the key; Sixth, you will not invest your money in South Africa. "

"This is too simple!" I cried.

"That's right!" He said unhappily, "every question, once explained to you, becomes very simple." There is a problem here that I don't understand yet. See how you explain it, my friend. " He threw a piece of paper on the table and began to do his analysis again.

I was very surprised to see some absurd symbols painted on the note.

"Hey, Holmes, this is a picture of a child."

"Oh, that was your idea."

"Could it be something else?"

"This is what Mr Hilton Cupid is eager to know. He lives in Ma Chang Manor in Norfolk. This little riddle was sent by the early mail today, and he is going to come here by the second train himself. The doorbell is ringing, Watson. I wouldn't be surprised if it was him. "

There was heavy footsteps on the stairs, and soon a tall, well-built gentleman came in. Bright eyes and rosy cheeks indicate that he lives in Baker Street far from the fog. When he came in, he seemed to get a little rich, fresh and cool air from the east coast. He shook hands with us and was about to sit down when his eyes fell on the note with strange symbols, which I had just read carefully and put on the table.

"Mr. Holmes, how do you explain this?" He said loudly, "They told me that you like strange things. I don't think I can find anything more bizarre. I sent this note first so that you can have time to study it before I come. "

"It's really hard to understand," Holmes said. "At first glance, it looks like a kid's joke. Some grotesque figures are dancing sideways on the paper. How can you pay attention to such a strange painting? "

"I will never, Mr. Holmes. But my wife takes it very seriously. This painting scared her to death. She didn't say anything, but I could see from her eyes that she was afraid. That's why I want to get to the bottom of this matter. "

Holmes held up the note and let the sun shine on it. This is a page torn from the notebook, and the dancers on it are drawn in pencil, arranged as follows:

Holmes looked at it carefully for a while, then carefully folded the note and put it in his wallet.

"This is probably the most interesting and unusual case," he said. "You told me some details in your letter, Mr. Hilton Cupid. But I hope you will tell my friend Dr. Watson again. "

"I'm not very good at telling stories," said the guest. His powerful big hand clenched and loosened nervously. "If there is anything unclear, just ask me. I want to start with my marriage last year, but I want to say first that although I am not a rich man, my family has lived in Ma Chang Village for about 500 years, and no one in Norfolk is more famous than me. Last year, I went to London to attend the 60th anniversary celebration of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, and lived in an apartment in Russell Square, because this is the apartment where Pastor Parker of our parish lives. There is also a young American lady living in this apartment. Her last name is Patrick, and her full name is Elsee Patrick. So we became friends. I haven't lived in London for a month, and I already love her to the extreme. We got married quietly at the registry, and then returned to Norfolk as a couple. You would think it crazy for a noble son to marry a wife of unknown origin in this way, Mr. Holmes. But if you have met her and know her, it will help you understand this.

"At that time, she was very straightforward at this point. Elsee is really straightforward. I can't say that she didn't give me a chance to change my mind, but I never thought about changing my mind. She said to me,' I have been with some hateful people all my life, and now I just want to forget them all. I don't want to mention the past again, because it will make me very painful. If you marry me, Hilton, you will marry a woman who has never done anything you are ashamed of. However, you must meet my promise and allow me to remain silent about all my experiences before marrying you. If these conditions are too harsh, then go back to Norfolk and let me live a lonely life as usual. She said these words to me the day before we got married. I told her that I was willing to marry her on her terms, and I always kept my promise.

"We have been married for a year and have been very happy. However, about a month ago, at the end of June, I first saw the omen of trouble. That day, my wife received a letter from America. I see an American stamp on it. Her face turned white, so she read the letter and threw it into the fire. Later, she didn't mention it, and neither did I, because I had to keep my promise. From then on, she never had a moment of peace, and her face always looked scared, as if waiting for something. But I won't say anything unless she talks. Please note, Mr. Holmes, that she is an honest person. Whatever misfortune she had in her past life was not her own fault. I'm just an ordinary squire in Norfolk, but no one in England has a higher family reputation than me. She knew this very well, before she married me. She never wanted to bring any stain on our family's reputation, which I fully believe.

"Well, now I talk about this suspicious place. About a week ago, last Tuesday, I found some dancing funny people painted on the windowsill, which was exactly the same as that piece of paper painted with chalk. I thought it was painted by the groom, but he swore he didn't know. Anyway, those clowns were painted at night. I ignored them until I mentioned it to my wife. To my surprise, she was very serious and begged me to show her such a painting if it appeared again. Nothing has appeared for a week. Yesterday morning, I found this note on the garden sundial. I showed it to Elsee and she fainted at once. After that, she looked as if she were dreaming, and her eyes were full of fear. At that time, Mr. Holmes, I wrote a letter and sent it to you together with that note. I can't give this note to the police because they will laugh at me, but you will tell me what to do. I am not rich, but if anything happens to my wife, I am willing to spend all my money to protect her. "

He is a handsome man who grew up in England-simple, upright and elegant, with honest blue eyes and a Zhang Xiuqing face. From his face, we can see his love and trust for his wife. After listening to his story, Holmes sat down and thought for a while.

"Don't you think, Mr. Cupid," he finally said, "the best way is to let your wife tell you her secret directly?"

Hilton Cupid shook his head.

"A promise is always a promise, Mr Holmes. If Elsie wants to tell me, she will. If she doesn't want to, I won't make her say it. However, I can always find my own way. I must find a way. "

"Then I am willing to help you. First of all, have you ever heard of strangers coming to your house? "

"No."

"I guess your area is a very quiet place, and any strange face will attract attention, right?"

"In a very close place is like this. However, not far from us, there are several places to drink livestock, and farmers often live outside. "

"These difficult symbols obviously have their meanings. If it was painted casually, we probably couldn't explain it. On the other hand, if it is systematic, I believe we will make it very thorough. However, the only one is too short for me to start. The information you provided is too vague to be used as a basis for investigation. I suggest you go back to Norfolk, pay close attention to it and copy any new dancers as they are. Unfortunately, we don't have a copy of the dancer who was painted on the windowsill with chalk earlier. You should also ask strangers around you carefully. Come back here when you collect new evidence. All I can give you now is these suggestions. If there is any urgent new development, I can always go to your home in Norfolk. "

This interview made Holmes very silent. For several days in a row, I saw him take the note out of his notebook several times and carefully study the strange symbols written on it for a long time. However, he never mentioned it. It was not until one afternoon almost two weeks later that I was about to go out when he stopped me.

Watson, you'd better not go.

"What's the matter?"

"Because I received a telegram from Hilton Cupid this morning. Do you remember him and the dancers? He should arrive at Liverpool Street at 1 20, and will be here at any moment. From his telegram, I infer that something very important has happened. "

We didn't wait long before Mr Norfolk came straight from the station in a carriage. He looks anxious and depressed, with tired eyes and wrinkled forehead.

"I can't stand it, Mr. Holmes," he said, like a exhausted man slumped in a chair. "It's bad enough when you feel surrounded by people and don't know who is calculating you. Plus, you see that this matter is torturing your wife bit by bit, which is beyond the endurance of flesh and blood. She was tortured and emaciated, and I saw her lose weight. "

"Did she say anything?"

"No, Mr Holmes. She hasn't said yet. However, several times the poor man tried to speak out, but he couldn't muster up the courage to speak. I tried to help her, too Maybe I was stupid, but she was too scared to say anything. She talked about my ancient family, our business cards in the whole county and our proud reputation of innocence. At this time, I always thought that she would get to the point, but somehow, before getting to the point, the topic changed. "

"But did you find anything yourself?"

"But a lot, Mr Holmes. I brought you some new paintings, and more importantly, I saw that guy. "

"Why? Is it the person who painted these symbols? "

"That's him, I saw him draw. Let me tell you everything in sequence. After visiting you last time, the first thing I saw when I came home the next morning was a row of new dancers, chalked on the tool door. This tool room is next to the lawn, facing the front window. I copied an identical one, right here. " He opened a folded piece of paper and put it on the table. Here are the symbols he copied:

"That's great!" Holmes said. "That's great! Please continue. "

"After copying, I erased these marks on the door, but after two mornings, only new ones appeared. I also have one here. "

Holmes rubbed his hands and smiled softly with pleasure.

"Our data is accumulating quickly!" He said.

"Three days later, I found a piece of paper on the sundial with a pebble on it. A line of little people was scrawled on the note, just like the last one. After that, I decided to stay at night, so I took out my revolver and sat in the study, because I could see the lawn and garden from there. At about two in the morning, I heard footsteps behind me. It turned out that my wife came in her pajamas. She begged me to go to bed, so I made it clear to her that I wanted to see who played such a trick on us. She said it was a meaningless prank and told me to ignore it.

"'If it really makes you angry, Hilton, we can travel and avoid such annoying people.'

"'what? Let a prankster kick us out?

"'Go to sleep,' she said. We will discuss it during the day.

"At this moment, I saw her face suddenly turn paler in the moonlight, and she grabbed my shoulder with one hand. In the shadow of the tool room, something is moving. I saw a black shadow, sneaking around the corner and crouching down in front of the tool door. I grabbed my pistol and was about to rush out when my wife hugged me hard. I tried desperately to get rid of her, and she clung to me desperately. Finally, I broke free. When I opened the door and ran to the tool room, the guy was gone. But he left a mark, and a line of dancers was painted on the door, exactly like the first two. I have copied them on that paper. I looked everywhere in the yard, but I didn't see the man. But strangely, he didn't go away, because when I checked the door again this morning, I found several new paintings besides the little people I had already seen. "

"Do you have those new paintings?"

"Yes, it's short, so I copied it. This is it. "

He took out another piece of paper. The new dance he wrote is like this:

"Please tell me," Holmes said. He could see from his eyes that he was very excited. "Is this drawn under the previous line or is it completely separated?"

"It was painted on another door panel."

"That's great! This is the most important point we studied. I feel very hopeful. Mr. Hilton Cupid, please continue your most interesting story. "

"Mr. Holmes, there is nothing to say, except that I was very angry with my wife that night, because just when I might catch the rogue who slipped in, she held me back. She said she was afraid that something bad would happen to me. Suddenly, an idea flashed through my mind: maybe she was worried that someone would have bad luck, because I already suspected that she knew who that person was and what those strange symbols meant. But, Mr. Holmes, her voice and eyes are beyond doubt. I believe her real concern is my own safety. That's all. Now I need your advice. I'm going to ask five or six peasant children to ambush in the bushes. When that guy comes again, I'll give him a good beating, so that he won't dare to bother us in the future. "

"This man is too cunning to deal with in such a simple way," said Holmes. "How long can you stay in London?"

"I have to go back today I will never trust my wife to stay at home all night. She is very nervous and let me go back. "

"Maybe you are right to go back. If you can stay, maybe I can go back with you in a day or two. Please give me these notes first, maybe I will visit you soon and help you solve your problem. "

Holmes kept his professional composure until our guest left. But I know him well, and I can easily see that he is very excited. As soon as Hilton Cupid's broad back disappeared at the door, my partner hurried to the table, put all the notes in front of him and began to make a detailed and complicated analysis. I watched him switch back and forth one by one for two hours. He was so absorbed in his work that he completely forgot that I was around. When he behaves well, he will whistle for a while and sing for a while; Sometimes I am stumped, so I frown and stare blankly for a while. Finally, he let out a cry of satisfaction, jumped up from his chair and walked around the room rubbing his hands. Later, he wrote a long telegram on telegraph paper. "Watson, if you have the answer I hope to get in my call back, you can add a very interesting case to your record," he said, explaining why it bothered him. "

To tell the truth, I really wanted to find out at that time, but I know that Holmes likes to talk about his findings in his own way when choosing. So I waited until he felt fit to explain everything to me.

However, I have never heard back. We waited patiently for two days. These two days, whenever the doorbell rang, Holmes listened sideways. The next night, Hilton Cupid sent a letter saying that his home was calm, but early that morning he saw a long line of dancers painted on the sundial. He made a copy and sent it in the letter:

Holmes squatted on the table and looked at this strange pattern for a few minutes. Suddenly he stood up and let out a cry of surprise and frustration. Anxiety emaciated his face.

"We can't let it go," he said. "Is there a train to North Virsa tonight?"

I found the train schedule. The last bus just left.

"Then let's have breakfast early tomorrow, and then take the first bus," said Holmes.

"Now we must stand up. Ah, here comes the telegram we were expecting. Wait a minute, Mrs Hudson. Maybe we should call back. No, as I expected. After reading this telegram, we should let Hilton Cupid know the current situation as soon as possible, instead of delaying for an hour, because this confused gentleman in Norfolk has fallen into a strange and dangerous trap. "

It turns out that this is the case. Now it's almost time for me to end this childish and ridiculous story at that time, and my heart is full of consternation and horror I felt at that time. Although I am willing to give my readers a somewhat hopeful ending, as a record of facts, I must truthfully tell this series of strange events until their unfortunate ending. These events made "Ma Chang Manor" once a household name in Britain.

We got off at North Walsham, and as soon as we mentioned the destination, the stationmaster hurried towards us. "Are you two detectives from London?" He said.

Holmes' face looks a little bored.

"How did you think of this?"

"Because the police chief Martin of Norwich just played here. Maybe you two are surgeons. She's not dead, at least that's what the last news said. Maybe you can save her in time, but it's just to keep her alive. "

Holmes' face was gloomy and anxious.

"We're going to Ma Chang City Hall," he said, "but we haven't heard what happened there."

"It's terrible," said the stationmaster. Hilton Cupid and his wife were both shot. She shot her husband first, and then shot herself, which is what their servant said. The man died, and the woman had little hope. Well, they used to be the oldest and most respectable family in Norfolk! "

Holmes got into a carriage without saying anything. During this seven-mile journey, he never spoke. Seldom have I seen him so disappointed. Holmes was uneasy all the way from London. I noticed how worried he was when he read the morning paper page by page. Now, the worst he feared suddenly came true, which made him feel a kind of blank melancholy. He leaned back in his seat, thinking silently about this depressing change. However, there are many things that interest us here, because we are passing through a unique village in Britain, and a few scattered farmhouses show that not many people live in this area today. Square churches can be seen everywhere, standing in a flat and lush landscape, telling the prosperity of the former kingdom of East Anglia. A blue-purple Germanic Sea finally appeared on the lush shore of Norfolk. The coachman pointed his whip at the gables of the old brick-wood structure exposed in the Woods and said, "That's Ma Chang Village Manor."

As soon as the carriage drove to the front door with a cylindrical porch, I saw the black tool room and the sundial next to the tennis court in front that caused us all kinds of strange associations. A short, agile and bearded man has just stepped down from the carriage. He introduced himself as Sheriff Martin of Norfolk Police Department. He looked surprised when he heard my companion's name.

"Ah, Mr Holmes, this case happened at three o'clock this morning. How did you hear it in London, and how could you get to the scene as soon as I did? "

"I have expected. I am here to stop it from happening. "

"Then you must have mastered important evidence, and we know nothing about it, because it is said that they are the most harmonious couple."

"I only have some dancers as physical evidence," Holmes said. "I'll explain to you later. At present, because I haven't had time to avoid this tragedy, I very much hope to get justice with the materials I have now. Do you want me to participate in your investigation, or would you rather let me move freely? "

"I would be honored if I could really act with you," the sheriff said sincerely.

"In that case, I hope to hear the testimony immediately and check it without delay."

Sheriff Martin is a clever man. He let my friend go his own way, and he wrote down the results with great satisfaction. The local surgeon, an old man with white hair, just came downstairs from Mrs. Cupid's bedroom and reported that her injury was serious, but not necessarily fatal. The bullet entered her forehead, and it may take her some time to regain consciousness. As for whether she was injured or self-mutilated, he dared not venture to express a clear opinion. The bullet must have been fired from a place close to her. Only a pistol was found in the room, and only two bullets were fired inside. Mr. Hilton Cupid was shot through the heart. You can imagine that Hilton shot and killed his wife first, or you can imagine that his wife was the murderer, because the revolver fell right on the floor between them.

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