THE GREEK INTERPRETERS

On Wednesday, October 15th, seventeen members of the Greek interpreters met at Coral Gables restaurant in East Lansing for our fall meeting. The story selected for study was "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange". The meeting opened with the customary Canonical Toasts to Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft Holmes, the Second Mrs. Watson and The Woman.
In Etta Abrahams' absence, a quiz on the selected story was provided by Bill Reusch (The Chemist). This quiz and several earlier quizzes may be viewed here.

Following the quiz, discussion of the "Abbey Grange" ranged over many topics, including the possibility that Mary Frasier was a calculating fortune seeker, who used a naive Jack Crocker to eliminate her wealthy husband. Holmes' role in allowing inspector Hopkins to pursue a deadend invesigation, resulting in the absence of charges against Jack Crocker in Sir Eustace's death was also debated. The meeting concluded, as usual, by reading Vincent Starrett's "221B" poem, and the singing of The Anthem.

221B

Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game's afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears--
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

-- Vincent Starrett