Edmund Lovelace
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So you can see why we have no great love for him.
Why we're afraid of him.
You mentioned there were five cousins in the house.
Three of you are here.
Mr. Gerald Lovelace is upstairs.
Who and where is the fifth cousin?
The fifth cousin is my brother, Gilly.
He's something of a tragedy, I'm afraid.
You see, Gilly's 20.
But he never developed mentally beyond the age of eight.
He had a bad fall in the hunting field when he was a kid.
He's been like this ever since.
I'm sorry to hear that, sir.
And, incidentally, the one person in this house who doesn't hate Gerald.
A dog may be the key to this whole matter.
What makes you say that, Holmes?
When a man brings a quick and painless poison home to a household containing an old and feeble dog, it's more than possible that he has obtained that poison quite legitimately to give the dog a merciful death.