The Dancing Men

SUMMARY

THE DANCING MEN

The story of the dancing men starts when Holmes probing in a glass bottle. Suddenly Holmes asked  his friend that he is not going to buy any land in Africa. Watson surprised to listen this question. Holmes put his glass back on the table and said that it is very simple to get there at one ideas and then other you are surprised because you look at the first and then the last. He told him that he noticed the chalk on his left thumb so he was sure that he is not going to buy any land in Africa .Holmes said that every problem becomes very trouble-free when you understand it. Holmes give him a piece of paper and asked him to explain.

Watson experiential this drawing to be a childish work but later he was told that it was sent by Mr. Cubitt through post and he want to know  too. Holmes said its important. Holmes gave him a piece of paper and it contained strange drawings. It looks like the work of a child. Holmes held up the paper with the light behind it. it was a page of writing. He told that he is not rich. He married a women named "Elsie Patrick".Mr Cubitt had promised with her wife that he will  never ask about her past. Mrs. cubit received a letter from America and her face turned white and she threw the letter.Mr Cubitt after a week found those strange dancing men drawn on window when he told about this to her wife she got frightened. Holmes asked Mr.Cubbit why don't you ask from your wife what does these dancing latter means Mr.Cubitt said i promised her i wont ask anything from her relating to her past but i really i want to help her to get rid of this. Holmes said these letter have a meaning. Holmes has to go to cubit house as Cubitt received a telegram which her wife is scared of it and he told that he has some pictures of dancing men and has seen the person who draws them.

These messages were killing  slowly Mrs. Cubit. I sat in my office so I can easily see the garden. At 2 o'clock I heard the voice my wife said come to bed and stop worrying. In the morning again he saw some dancing  letters which he had seen twice before and next morning again he saw.Mr cubit told that he is going with his wife for some days. Holmes studies the letters carefully. Mr. Holmes was informed by the policemen that Mr. cubit was killed by her wife and then she tries to kill herself and is still alive. Sherlock Holmes went to Cubit’s where he met Inspector Martin and came to know that Mrs. Cubit is still alive. The Gun is shot in front of the head of Mrs. Cubitt but was shot in the heart of Mr. Cubitt but the same gun is fired twice. When Mr. and Mrs. Cubitt were found, the gun lay on floor halfway between them both.