- The Death of a Wife

sherlock holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper crawled over with notes and figures. The total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little short of 11 hundred pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an income of 250 pounds. It is evident therefore that if both girls had married this beauty, would have had a mere pittance, while every one of them would cripple him to various serious xtent.