
Holmes spots Moriarty waiting for a cab. |

I'm afraid you have a bad opinion of me. |

"So you fiddle while Rome burns!"
"I'm observing the reaction on the common housefly of the
chromatic scale. ...If I can find the note that annoys the
housefly. Then one need only play that one note and fffft - all
the houseflies disappear." |

I received this note last night. |

Look at that, Watson |

Your father was murdered on May 11? |

Oh, bother the Star of Delhi! A man's life may be involved! |

"...and instead of a cross, the albatross about my neck was
hung." |

"You've always found my advice pretty sound, haven't you,
Inspector?" |

Holmes questions Mr. Hunter. "You're the obvious
suspect." |

"Do you observe anything singular about these
footprints?" |

They hear Miss Brandon scream. |

The housekeeper knocks on Miss Brandon's door. |

"I heard the sound of music from the street -- strange
music." |

"Do you think you could bear to repeat the tune for me?"
"There's death in every note of it." |

"It's an ancient Inca funeral dirge still used by the Indians
in the remote Chilean Andes." |

"I'm going to delegate the most dependable man I know to
guard the Star of Delhi in my place." |

"Away you go, to a spot you know..." |

Moriarty concocted that Brandon case with all its fantastic
convolutions expressly to divert my attention at the time the Star
of Delhi was delivered.
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He caused a man to be murdered solely in order to distract me....
Somewhere in London at this very moment something tremendous is
happening. |

Holmes hears Moriarty on the stairs. |
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