and that the man who had owned it - the name was different - had 
disappeared with his wife. The description agreed. When I learned that the
missing man was devoted to entomology, the identification was complete.
Dr. Watson's interview with Mrs. Laura Lyons also shed light on her own 
situation. I did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her 
husband. In that case, regarding Stapleton as an unmarried man, she counted 
no doubt upon becoming his wife. When she became undeceived, we learned a 
great deal about the machinations of the man.

Mrs. Laura Lyons: 

Mr. Holmes came to see me on the morning of the 19th October, and it was
then that I learned that the so-called Mr. Stapleton was married to the 
