THE MAP

        the summary

       the characters

       time and places

            opinion

THE SUMMARY

Dr. Watson and his friend Holmes are talking  when

Holmes spies a new client standing on the curb opposite

his house, who dashes across to pull the bell at 221B Baker Street. Miss Mary Sutherland, the new client, tells a story about a missing fiancé. She attended a ball against her stepfather's wishes and met a man named Hosmer Angel who began to call because her disapproving stepfather was in France. Their courtship continued until he asked her to marry him and made her vow to always be faithful no matter what unusual event transpired. Miss Sutherland's meetings with Mr. Angel were always clandestine to a degree and always when the stepfather, Mr. Windibank, was away. On the wedding day Miss Sutherland and her

mother watched Hosmer Angel going to the church for the wedding ceremony but  when they arrived Mr. Angel was no where . Holmes makes sure deductions, he asks Mary for the letters from Mr. Angel, which had been typewritten and also asks for a copy of her Missing Person bulletin, which she had typewritten. From the evidence, confirmed by Mr. Windibank's typewritten note agreeing to meet Holmes, Holmes identifies the culprit who intended to gain Miss Sutherland's small fortune by lefting the girl hurt and unmarried. The troublemakers were none other than the greedy pair of Miss Sutherland's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Windibank. Otherwise Sherlock doesn't tell the girl the truth because he understands that it would be to much hurting,but he just advises her to fotget Mr. Angel,even if Miss Mary says she'll wait him forever.