"What did you say?"
In the deep of the night on Ross Avenue, Holmes stopped in his tracks, looking at Marvin in astonishment, "A tattoo of a rose on Gina's shoulder? That acrobat?"
"Yes."
Marvin recounted the clue he had found in the dressing room, "But I suspect it was intentional."
"Any evidence?"
"First, when I met her for the first time, she was wearing a men's coat and didn't reveal her shoulders, and second, during her performance, her leotard also covered the tattoo well. Yet, when we went backstage, she had changed into a blouse that bared her shoulders...."
With narrowed eyes, Marvin spoke deliberately, "If she were the Rose Phantom, would she be so careless?"
In the cold wind, Holmes lit his tobacco, took a deep drag, and fell into deep thought.
After a while...
He uttered a name:
"Tiffany."
"It seems we thought of the same person."
