Today's case is about a woman who had been lodging in South Brixton for several years, but who never showed her face, going out only at night and always heavily veiled. According to her landlady at the lodging house, she had once accidentally seen the lady's face, and it was so horribly mutilated that she has been traumatized ever since. The case began when Holmes and Watson were interrupted on a fishing trip, and asked to visit the nearby Ronder circus...