Holmes nodded. "I know the name," said he. Miss Stoner went on. "However, because of a long line of terrible men, the family fortune is all gone.There is only the little land and the two-hundred-year-old house left. My stepfather knew that there was no money for him to live on. So he studied to become a doctor and then went to India. When my mother met Dr. Royott there, my father had only been dead for one year. Julia, my twin-sister, and I were only two years old at that time.