Mycroft invites his brother Sherlok and Watson at Diogenes Club to ask him help. Mycroft also invites his neighbour Mr. Melas, a Greek interpreter, that needs Sherlock help. Melas states that two nights ago, a man named Mr. Harold Latimer came to his room and asked him to come to his home to interpret a conversation for a business deal. After the 2-hour trip, Melas entered in a room with a third man. During the translation, Melas began asking questions of his own mixed into the ordered line of questioning. He discovered that the captive man was named Paul Kratides, a Greek man who Latimer and Kemp

were trying to make sign some papers but he refused.

The conversation is stopped by a woman named Sophy coming through the door telling Harold she couldn't wait any longer.

SUMMARY

Sherlock, Watson

and Mycroft

the translation

Kratides jumped up, and ran to embrace her. Sophy was pushed out of the room, Kratides was taken away and Melas paid and dropped at a train station. After having heard the story they place an advertisement on the newspaper and Mr. Davenport knows the woman in question, and she is currently residing in a house in Beckenham. Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft decide that they must go to Beckenham to see about this. After the necessary legal procedures  they arrives at the house but they find Melas and Kratides gassed with charcoal fumes. They discover that Sophy with the two men take a train to Greece so the detectives reach them in the train. Sherlock solved the case because he saved Sophy but Kratides unfortunately dead.

Watson and Sherlock in the train

Paul and Shophy

ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS

-Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist of the story. He's a private detective with a superhuman ability to solve difficult cases with facility, in fact he uses a methodology that can confuse other people. He's sometimes quiet and contemplative and other times bursting with energy.

-Dr. Watson is the story's narrator. He's Sherlock's assistant so he helps his boss to solve the case, he's reliable so Holmes trusts him.

He's intelligent and a good observer but his detecting

capabilities are not at thelevel of Sherlock, that he

admires greatly.