Interlude: Always Read the Footnotes
Doc Watson's Epilogue
Miss Solei and Mr. Alexander disappeared completely after the performance of the Opera. Despite the hue and cry which followed their disappearance, along with many thinly-veiled suggestions in some of the more lurid papers, the lady pianist and her stagehand were never seen again. Even Holmes confessed himself to be baffled at their disappearance.
"I would not have believed it possible," he told me. "But they appear to have vanished off the face of the earth."
The kidnapping case against Jenkins collapsed for lack of a victim to testify, but he confessed to sabotage and offered to give up his employer, the Baron LaValle. However, everything that Jenkins could tell us served only to damn himself further in the eyes of the law, until his solicitor advised him to hold his peace in the interest of his own defence.
Unfortunately for the Baron, Holmes was a much more creditable witness, and had the foresight to acquire some incriminating documents. The Baron's connections protected him long enough for him to flee England, but by this point Holmes had lost interest, declaring that he could not be bothered to settle petty feuds of impresarios.
So, as Holmes predicted, this case serves only as a footnote to an illustrious career, unremarkable but for the presence of two singularly mysterious characters.
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