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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Part I, Chapter 9 Summary

Vanishing Point

  • Icilius "Ned" Conner, his wife Julia, and their daughter Pearl move into Holmes' apartment.
  • Ned works at the jewelry counter in Holmes' drugstore and he admires his employer for his "Chicago spirit" (1.9.2). But things soon change.
  • Holmes offers to employ Julia and Ned's eighteen-year-old sister Gertrude.
  • Yeah, Ned doesn't really like how Holmes is so into Julia and Gertrude.
  • Women drawn to the drugstore come to flirt with Holmes, and they seem to ignore Ned. Poor Ned.