The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow

the acid-charred bench

upon the wall

Grasp the nettle

He soon put them at their ease

Billy sank his voice

surrounded the saturnine figure

Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case

"It all seems very unchanged, Billy. You don't change, either. I hope the same can be said of him?"

the violin-case leaning in the corner

the acid-charred bench of chemicals