CHISLEHURST MURDERS PART 26

HOLMES SHERLOCK MURDERS She is so unlike her family it baffles me? I addressed Watson when we were alone. Maria had retired for the night after locking the door of her room securely. She looks nothing like them and She's tall and intelligent. Watson nodded a look of sympathy on his well rounded face. He puffed on his pipe before speaking. Indeed Holmes there is not one of that tribe that looks remotely akin. Apparently Her mother was kidnapped for a ransom that never appeared so they kept her, not wanting to kill a pretty girl one of the little chaps took her for a wife and a rather useful slave poor creature she died young. She had promised Maria that they would escape one day or someone would come looking for them but nobody ever did. Anyway. He sighed. She did escape and went to London finding a cousin who her mother had spoke of often. Such a sad thing Holmes, but she's as innocent as a child and no bitterness in her at all.