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Lazarus (as Sherlock Holmes): A person looks through a sack. See 2 men taunting and beating up the person behind the sack. Watson arrives and shoots the 2 bullies. See the reunion of old friends. I am so very glad to see you. The children in the attic are ecstatic. The older girl's grandpa is Holmes and the blond boy's grandpa is Watson.
Miss Rucastle and Mr. Fowler go so far as to immigrate to the island of Mauritius. What we're getting at here is that this is a well-traveled bunch of people. The image of London that emerges in Sherlock Holmes's stories is of bustling economic prosperity at the center of a giant colonial empire. As for Holmes's sooty, crowded London, we get a glimpse of it in illustrations of The Resident Patient and in The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (very atmospheric).