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Updated: May 22, 2025
A grinning skull, mounted on a black pedestal, stood on a small table in the center of the room, and on shelves against the wall were ranged a number of curiously-shaped bottles. It was, in fact, the divining-room of a professional fortune-teller. The room was vacant when Moriarity opened the door, but as he threw it back, a small bell was sounded.
With childlike obedience the detective swallowed the draught, which soon took possession of his senses, and he fell asleep. The widow quietly sat beside him until the opiate had taken full effect. Then muttering "You are safe for four and twenty hours," she descended to her divining-room, leaving the detective deep in slumber, and in complete ignorance of his surroundings.
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