【正文】 Shall we drink? Cigars are in the old place. Please sit down in your former armchair. I hope you don?t mind my pipe and tobacco? They have replaced my food these days.” “But why not eat?” “Because people can do things better when they are hungry. Surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit when digestion system works,it gains blood. So it will be a lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider. “It?s all here, Count. Such as, the death of old Mrs. Harold, who left you the Blymer House but you rapidly gambled away.” “You are dreaming!” “And the plete life history of Miss Warrender.” “Tut! You will make nothing of that!” “Plenty more here, Count. Here is the robbery in the train