At Kate Whitney's request, Dr. Watson goes to the opium den to bring home her husband, Isa Whitney. Suddenly, he meets Sherlock Holmes, who pretends to be a drug addict to find out the circumstances of the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair.
At the hotel where St. Clair was last seen, police detained the only resident, Hugh Boone, a colorful professional beggar with an impressively severed lip.
After a night of thinking, Holmes goes to prison and exposes Hugh Boone, washing off his makeup. The beggar recognizes the missing Saint Clair. . .
Translated by Mykola Dmytrenko.
