The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Page #2

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Only one thing, Mary...

Thank you, Jenny.

Holmes, must be weaned

of his cocaine addiction.

There is only one man in Europe

who is in a position to help us.

A doctor in Vienna,

he wrote this article in The Lancet.

I've cabled him regarding Holmes.

He's replied to my cable,

and he agrees to help,

provided we can get him to Vienna.

Vienna?

He will never go there.

You know he does not like

to leave London.

He says it generates an unhealthy

excitement in the criminal classes

- when they learn he's abroad.

- True.

But, we shall provide him

with an incentive he can't resist.

A false trail convincing him that

Moriarty has fled to the continent.

I know how Holmes thinks, you see.

I've sorted it all out.

Of course you have.

Would you please tell Mr. Holmes

to be silent?

I did not know Mycroft Holmes well.

I remember being astonished

when, after seven years,

Holmes informed me of his existence.

Beyond the fact that both brothers

were brilliant, however,

the similarity ended.

Mycroft Holmes preferred to live out

an eccentric bachelorhood

circumscribed by the walls

of his club,

beyond whose confines

he was rarely known to venture.

Dr. Watson, is it?

Indeed I am, sir.

I have not seen you

since that unhappy affair

of the Greek interpreter.

Mr. Holmes.

Tell me, what urgent business

have you that concerns my brother?

What's happened to him?

How do you know

anything has happened to him?

I've not seen you these three years,

and then it was in the company

of Sherlock,

whose doings I know you chronicle.

Suddenly you pay me a visit at a time

when most married men

are at home with their wives...

and you arrive without your alter ego,

and your medical bag,

although I know

from your own statements in print

that you've resumed your practice.

Your face is drawn and haggard,

proclaiming a problem of some sort.

And it is not too long a shot to infer

that my brother is

the cause of your distress.

Tell me.

In as few words as possible,

I told him of his brother's condition,

and the promising article

in The Lancet.

When I mentioned the visitor

to my consulting room,

he flushed uncomfortably.

Professor Moriarty?

He appears to know both of you

from the time...

Quite!

And you believe this Viennese doctor

can help him?

The medical profession, you see,

is willfully ignorant

of the problems of addiction.

He appears to have made

a study of it,

in addition to his other work,

hysteria in children.

Peculiar range of interest, isn't it?

He sounds Jewish.

Mr. Holmes...

time is of the essence!

At the rate your brother

is using cocaine

he'll be dead within the year.

And I have no idea how on earth

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