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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Capítulo 6, Página 1
Isa
Whitney,
brother
of
the
late
Elias
Whitney,
D.D.,
Principal
of
St.
George's
Theological
College,
was
very
addicted
to
opium.
His
habit
started
in
college
after
he
read
De
Quincey's
descriptions
of
dreams
and
sensations.
He
tried
to
recreate
them
by
soaking
his
tobacco
in
laudanum.
Like
many
others,
he
found
it
was
easy
to
start
but
hard
to
quit.
For
many
years,
he
was
a
slave
to
the
drug,
which
horrified
and
saddened
his
friends
and
family.
I
can
still
see
him,
with
his
yellow
face,
drooping
eyelids,
and
small
pupils,
slumped
in
a
chair,
the
ruin
of
a
once
noble
man.
One
night
in
June
'89,
my
doorbell
rang.
It
was
the
time
of
night
when
a
man
yawns
and
checks
the
clock.
I
sat
up
in
my
chair,
and
my
wife
put
down
her
needlework,
looking
a
bit
disappointed.
"A
patient!"
she
said.
"You’ll
have
to
go
out."
I
groaned
because
I
had
just
returned
from
a
tiring
day.
We
heard
the
door
open,
some
hurried
words,
and
then
quick
footsteps
on
the
linoleum.
Our
door
flew
open,
and
a
lady
in
dark
clothes
with
a
black
veil
entered
the
room.
"Excuse
my
late
visit,"
she
started,
then
suddenly
lost
her
composure.
She
ran
forward,
hugged
my
wife,
and
cried
on
her
shoulder.
"Oh,
I'm
in
such
trouble!"
she
cried.
"I
need
some
help."
"Why,
it's
Kate
Whitney,"
said
my
wife,
lifting
the
veil.
"You
startled
me,
Kate!
I
didn't
know
who
you
were
when
you
came
in."
"I
didn’t
know
what
to
do,
so
I
came
straight
to
you."
People
in
trouble
often
came
to
my
wife
like
birds
to
a
lighthouse.
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