When it was a late night Watson answered the door and it was Holmes and he went to his house because he wanted to talk about a case that Holmes is doing. Holmes ends up telling him the his wife maybe a suspect in the case. This case is a murder case that Holmes things Watson wife did. The wife was fighting with Colonel and the maids were listening and than they heard a thud so the cook went to the window and there was Colonel lying in him own pool of blood. Holmes first thinks that it is Henry that goes and talks to Watson every week because it fits the description perfect. The person that ended up killing the king was the old man.