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Watson watches Adler and Holmes through an open window from the street. Watson lights a firecracker, throws it through the open window, and yells, "Fire!" Smoke billows from the window, causing people in the street to also yell, "Fire!" Holmes yells that it's a false alarm and then meets Watson as planned. They quickly flee the scene.
Holmes asks Watson if he will help, even if it means breaking the law and running the risk of arrest. Watson agrees enthusiastically and Holmes explains the plan. Holmes and Watson will be at Irene Adler ’s house when she returns home at 7:00 p.m. Sherlock will be involved in “some small unpleasantness,” and Watson must not interfere in any way.
Part 1. Our narrator (Dr. John Watson) describes Holmes: (1) He's a coldly rational guy. (2) Because of this, he's not super popular with the ladies. (3) He really, really admires this one woman, Irene Adler. Since Watson got married (to Mary Morstan, in Conan Doyle's second Holmes novel, The Sign of Four), he hasn't been seeing as much of ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Watson then launches into his recollections of the events surrounding Irene Adler. He called upon Holmes to see his friend, and found Holmes working on a new case. Holmes deduces that Watson has put on some weight and that he is practising medicine (and also, using his trademark analytical deductions – though technically we mustn’t call them ‘deductions’ – that Watson’s servant ...
Watson is to accompany Holmes to Adler’s residence, stand by the living room’s open window, throw a decoy projectile into the house through the window and yell “Fire!,” and then run to the corner of the street and wait for Holmes. The next day, both men arrive at Adler’s residence.
Summary. Soon after his first marriage, Dr. John Watson leaves the Baker Street flat that he has shared with Sherlock Holmes and returns to private medical practice. In the course of his calls, he ...
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Pretending to have been injured in a fight in front of Adler, he gains entrance to her house; then, at his signal, Watson throws in a smoke-rocket and yells that there is a fire. In the confusion, Adler rushes to secure the photograph, as Holmes had surmised she would, inadvertently revealing its location to the detective.
