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"I suggest that you allow Dr. Watson and I to escort you to a hotel where you can stay the night. It won't be safe for you to go home." Olivia offered. "In the morning we shall contact Inspector Lestrade at Scotland Yard and get you police protection."

After we left the room both Adrian and Olivia chatted with several others in the room. The three of us left together and secured Adrian lodging in a downtown hotel. We returned at 8 o'clock the next morning only to find that Adrian did not answer her door. Olivia sought out the chief bellman who let us in. There we found what we had hoped we would not. Adrian, dressed in the same gown she had been wearing the night before, lay in a pool of blood, face down on the floor. The bellman left to summon a constable while I examined the body. Olivia began to scour the room for clues. The wound appeared to be a fracture of the posterior third of the left parietal and the left half of the occipital bone as a result of a heavy blow from a blunt object. Olivia in a very precise pattern searched the room stopping occasionally to give special attention to one thing or another. She scratched what appeared to be some dust up and placed it on a piece of paper, folded it and placed it in her purse. She examined a few insignificant marks of blood on the carpet for some time, and paid particular interest to a small smudge on the wall. Again she scraped at the smuge, placing a sample of the scrapings into her purse. After the constable arrived and we answered his questions we departed for Baker Street.

After leaving Olivia there, I departed for home as I had several patients to see that day. That evening there was a letter awaiting me from Olivia. She asked that I come round Thursday at 6 o'clock, that there was going to be a special meeting of the club at which she would produce the murderer. She asked that I bring my old army revolver as there might prove to be some trouble.

I arrived at Baker Street precisely at 6 o'clock. I found Olivia dressed and ready to start our journey. While traveling to the club, Olivia told me to hold my revolver ready for we would surely need it before this evening was spent.

"I have asked Inspector Lestrade and a few of his men to meet us at the club's entrance," she explained. "They shall be most helpful for placing the murderer under arrest."

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