Holmes asks if there were any other living relatives besides Sir Henry. Mortimer tells him that the late Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers. Sir Henry is the sole child of the second brother, who had died young, after which Sir Henry emigrated to the United States, and later settled in Canada. The youngest brother, Rodger, was the black sheep of the family, and was noted for having resembled a family portrait of Hugo. A wastrel and inveterate gambler, he fled to South America to avoid creditors and died there of yellow fever in 1876, presumably unmarried and without heirs. Mortimer also mentions that Sir Charles' fortune, including the estate, was worth close to a million pounds.