With cohost Mary Alcaro
Holmes and Watson are visited by Miss Mary Sutherland, whose fiancé, Hosmer Angel, has disappeared. They met at the gasfitters ball and after a whirlwind romance, his carriage arrived empty at the church for the wedding. Sherlock smokes his pipe, then picks up his whip. Seriously, an actual whip.
You can find a pdf of the story as it originally appeared in The Strand Magazinehere.