Watson spoke of his various misadventures and his current need for a new residence. Both men were happy to see a familiar face and began chatting amiably. One day at the Criterion Bar he ran into an old acquaintance named Stamford Stamford had been a dresser (a man who dressed wounds on the battlefield) at Barts. His money soon came close to running out and as such he sought a new living situation. He knew no one in London, but the money he had from the government allowed him to live a "comfortless, meaningless existence" in an expensive hotel. He then suffered from typhoid fever.Īfter he was somewhat healed, his country dispatched him to England to spend some months nourishing his health. The campaign was quite unfortunate for him as he was struck by a bullet in the shoulder and had to be dragged back to British lines by his orderly.
He explains that he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1878 from the University of London but was immediately assigned to wartime duties as Assistant Surgeon and sent to Bombay. The novel opens with Watson giving a first-person narrative about the contemporary events in his life.
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