git-scribe 0.0.3 → 0.0.4

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  1. data/docbook-xsl/COPYING +47 -0
  2. data/docbook-xsl/VERSION +115 -0
  3. data/docbook-xsl/catalog.xml +8 -0
  4. data/docbook-xsl/common.xsl +87 -0
  5. data/docbook-xsl/common/af.xml +1229 -0
  6. data/docbook-xsl/common/am.xml +1229 -0
  7. data/docbook-xsl/common/ar.xml +1229 -0
  8. data/docbook-xsl/common/autoidx-kimber.xsl +43 -0
  9. data/docbook-xsl/common/autoidx-kosek.xsl +150 -0
  10. data/docbook-xsl/common/az.xml +672 -0
  11. data/docbook-xsl/common/bg.xml +724 -0
  12. data/docbook-xsl/common/bn.xml +1229 -0
  13. data/docbook-xsl/common/bs.xml +662 -0
  14. data/docbook-xsl/common/ca.xml +1229 -0
  15. data/docbook-xsl/common/charmap.xml +185 -0
  16. data/docbook-xsl/common/charmap.xsl +221 -0
  17. data/docbook-xsl/common/common.xml +622 -0
  18. data/docbook-xsl/common/common.xsl +2019 -0
  19. data/docbook-xsl/common/cs.xml +700 -0
  20. data/docbook-xsl/common/cy.xml +1245 -0
  21. data/docbook-xsl/common/da.xml +664 -0
  22. data/docbook-xsl/common/de.xml +666 -0
  23. data/docbook-xsl/common/el.xml +1229 -0
  24. data/docbook-xsl/common/en.xml +1229 -0
  25. data/docbook-xsl/common/entities.ent +60 -0
  26. data/docbook-xsl/common/eo.xml +1229 -0
  27. data/docbook-xsl/common/es.xml +676 -0
  28. data/docbook-xsl/common/et.xml +1229 -0
  29. data/docbook-xsl/common/eu.xml +1229 -0
  30. data/docbook-xsl/common/fa.xml +1229 -0
  31. data/docbook-xsl/common/fi.xml +670 -0
  32. data/docbook-xsl/common/fr.xml +690 -0
  33. data/docbook-xsl/common/ga.xml +1229 -0
  34. data/docbook-xsl/common/gentext.xsl +836 -0
  35. data/docbook-xsl/common/gl.xml +1229 -0
  36. data/docbook-xsl/common/gu.xml +1229 -0
  37. data/docbook-xsl/common/he.xml +1229 -0
  38. data/docbook-xsl/common/hi.xml +1229 -0
  39. data/docbook-xsl/common/hr.xml +1229 -0
  40. data/docbook-xsl/common/hu.xml +1229 -0
  41. data/docbook-xsl/common/id.xml +1229 -0
  42. data/docbook-xsl/common/insertfile.xsl +111 -0
  43. data/docbook-xsl/common/it.xml +1229 -0
  44. data/docbook-xsl/common/ja.xml +1229 -0
  45. data/docbook-xsl/common/kn.xml +1229 -0
  46. data/docbook-xsl/common/ko.xml +1229 -0
  47. data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.dtd +63 -0
  48. data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.xml +129 -0
  49. data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.xsl +497 -0
  50. data/docbook-xsl/common/la.xml +1229 -0
  51. data/docbook-xsl/common/labels.xsl +869 -0
  52. data/docbook-xsl/common/lt.xml +678 -0
  53. data/docbook-xsl/common/lv.xml +1229 -0
  54. data/docbook-xsl/common/mn.xml +730 -0
  55. data/docbook-xsl/common/nb.xml +1229 -0
  56. data/docbook-xsl/common/nl.xml +1229 -0
  57. data/docbook-xsl/common/nn.xml +1229 -0
  58. data/docbook-xsl/common/olink.xsl +1149 -0
  59. data/docbook-xsl/common/or.xml +1229 -0
  60. data/docbook-xsl/common/pa.xml +1229 -0
  61. data/docbook-xsl/common/pi.xml +165 -0
  62. data/docbook-xsl/common/pi.xsl +346 -0
  63. data/docbook-xsl/common/pl.xml +1229 -0
  64. data/docbook-xsl/common/pt.xml +1229 -0
  65. data/docbook-xsl/common/pt_br.xml +1229 -0
  66. data/docbook-xsl/common/refentry.xml +781 -0
  67. data/docbook-xsl/common/refentry.xsl +1352 -0
  68. data/docbook-xsl/common/ro.xml +1229 -0
  69. data/docbook-xsl/common/ru.xml +726 -0
  70. data/docbook-xsl/common/sk.xml +1229 -0
  71. data/docbook-xsl/common/sl.xml +1229 -0
  72. data/docbook-xsl/common/sq.xml +1229 -0
  73. data/docbook-xsl/common/sr.xml +720 -0
  74. data/docbook-xsl/common/sr_Latn.xml +679 -0
  75. data/docbook-xsl/common/stripns.xsl +289 -0
  76. data/docbook-xsl/common/subtitles.xsl +155 -0
  77. data/docbook-xsl/common/sv.xml +664 -0
  78. data/docbook-xsl/common/ta.xml +1229 -0
  79. data/docbook-xsl/common/table.xsl +514 -0
  80. data/docbook-xsl/common/targetdatabase.dtd +49 -0
  81. data/docbook-xsl/common/targets.xsl +272 -0
  82. data/docbook-xsl/common/th.xml +1229 -0
  83. data/docbook-xsl/common/titles.xsl +752 -0
  84. data/docbook-xsl/common/tl.xml +1229 -0
  85. data/docbook-xsl/common/tr.xml +666 -0
  86. data/docbook-xsl/common/uk.xml +1229 -0
  87. data/docbook-xsl/common/utility.xml +259 -0
  88. data/docbook-xsl/common/utility.xsl +290 -0
  89. data/docbook-xsl/common/vi.xml +1229 -0
  90. data/docbook-xsl/common/xh.xml +1229 -0
  91. data/docbook-xsl/common/zh_cn.xml +660 -0
  92. data/docbook-xsl/common/zh_tw.xml +1229 -0
  93. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/authors.xml +10 -0
  94. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/copyright.xml +18 -0
  95. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/license.xml +23 -0
  96. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/page.png +0 -0
  97. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.css +60 -0
  98. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.xml +229 -0
  99. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.xml.included +32701 -0
  100. data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/warranty.xml +11 -0
  101. data/docbook-xsl/epub/README +88 -0
  102. data/docbook-xsl/epub/bin/dbtoepub +65 -0
  103. data/docbook-xsl/epub/bin/lib/docbook.rb +206 -0
  104. data/docbook-xsl/epub/docbook.xsl +1638 -0
  105. data/docbook-xsl/extensions/README.LIBXSLT +52 -0
  106. data/docbook-xsl/extensions/docbook.py +240 -0
  107. data/docbook-xsl/extensions/saxon65.jar +0 -0
  108. data/docbook-xsl/extensions/xalan27.jar +0 -0
  109. data/docbook-xsl/extensions/xslt.py +83 -0
  110. data/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl +152 -0
  111. data/docbook-xsl/fo/admon.xsl +130 -0
  112. data/docbook-xsl/fo/annotations.xsl +18 -0
  113. data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-kimber.xsl +178 -0
  114. data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-kosek.xsl +150 -0
  115. data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-ng.xsl +20 -0
  116. data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx.xsl +1310 -0
  117. data/docbook-xsl/fo/autotoc.xsl +892 -0
  118. data/docbook-xsl/fo/axf.xsl +110 -0
  119. data/docbook-xsl/fo/biblio-iso690.xsl +1300 -0
  120. data/docbook-xsl/fo/biblio.xsl +1169 -0
  121. data/docbook-xsl/fo/block.xsl +600 -0
  122. data/docbook-xsl/fo/callout.xsl +231 -0
  123. data/docbook-xsl/fo/component.xsl +811 -0
  124. data/docbook-xsl/fo/division.xsl +611 -0
  125. data/docbook-xsl/fo/docbook.xsl +336 -0
  126. data/docbook-xsl/fo/ebnf.xsl +325 -0
  127. data/docbook-xsl/fo/fo-rtf.xsl +154 -0
  128. data/docbook-xsl/fo/fo.xsl +71 -0
  129. data/docbook-xsl/fo/footnote.xsl +220 -0
  130. data/docbook-xsl/fo/fop.xsl +93 -0
  131. data/docbook-xsl/fo/fop1.xsl +174 -0
  132. data/docbook-xsl/fo/formal.xsl +615 -0
  133. data/docbook-xsl/fo/glossary.xsl +1112 -0
  134. data/docbook-xsl/fo/graphics.xsl +642 -0
  135. data/docbook-xsl/fo/highlight.xsl +75 -0
  136. data/docbook-xsl/fo/htmltbl.xsl +217 -0
  137. data/docbook-xsl/fo/index.xsl +481 -0
  138. data/docbook-xsl/fo/info.xsl +34 -0
  139. data/docbook-xsl/fo/inline.xsl +1275 -0
  140. data/docbook-xsl/fo/keywords.xsl +21 -0
  141. data/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl +1260 -0
  142. data/docbook-xsl/fo/math.xsl +140 -0
  143. data/docbook-xsl/fo/pagesetup.xsl +2314 -0
  144. data/docbook-xsl/fo/param.xml +11823 -0
  145. data/docbook-xsl/fo/param.xsl +899 -0
  146. data/docbook-xsl/fo/passivetex.xsl +36 -0
  147. data/docbook-xsl/fo/pdf2index +140 -0
  148. data/docbook-xsl/fo/pi.xml +969 -0
  149. data/docbook-xsl/fo/pi.xsl +1052 -0
  150. data/docbook-xsl/fo/profile-docbook.xsl +289 -0
  151. data/docbook-xsl/fo/ptc.xsl +77 -0
  152. data/docbook-xsl/fo/qandaset.xsl +393 -0
  153. data/docbook-xsl/fo/refentry.xsl +637 -0
  154. data/docbook-xsl/fo/sections.xsl +764 -0
  155. data/docbook-xsl/fo/spaces.xsl +274 -0
  156. data/docbook-xsl/fo/synop.xsl +1002 -0
  157. data/docbook-xsl/fo/table.xml +135 -0
  158. data/docbook-xsl/fo/table.xsl +1552 -0
  159. data/docbook-xsl/fo/task.xsl +91 -0
  160. data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xml +1311 -0
  161. data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xsl +5094 -0
  162. data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.xsl +750 -0
  163. data/docbook-xsl/fo/toc.xsl +274 -0
  164. data/docbook-xsl/fo/verbatim.xsl +417 -0
  165. data/docbook-xsl/fo/xep.xsl +180 -0
  166. data/docbook-xsl/fo/xref.xsl +1486 -0
  167. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/c-hl.xml +101 -0
  168. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/common.xsl +120 -0
  169. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/cpp-hl.xml +150 -0
  170. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/csharp-hl.xml +187 -0
  171. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/delphi-hl.xml +200 -0
  172. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/ini-hl.xml +45 -0
  173. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/java-hl.xml +117 -0
  174. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/javascript-hl.xml +147 -0
  175. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/m2-hl.xml +90 -0
  176. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/myxml-hl.xml +116 -0
  177. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/perl-hl.xml +120 -0
  178. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/php-hl.xml +149 -0
  179. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/python-hl.xml +100 -0
  180. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/ruby-hl.xml +109 -0
  181. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/tcl-hl.xml +180 -0
  182. data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/xslthl-config.xml +46 -0
  183. data/docbook-xsl/html/admon.xsl +132 -0
  184. data/docbook-xsl/html/annotations.xsl +169 -0
  185. data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-kimber.xsl +168 -0
  186. data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-kosek.xsl +125 -0
  187. data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-ng.xsl +20 -0
  188. data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx.xsl +645 -0
  189. data/docbook-xsl/html/autotoc.xsl +675 -0
  190. data/docbook-xsl/html/biblio-iso690.xsl +1300 -0
  191. data/docbook-xsl/html/biblio.xsl +1247 -0
  192. data/docbook-xsl/html/block.xsl +434 -0
  193. data/docbook-xsl/html/callout.xsl +201 -0
  194. data/docbook-xsl/html/changebars.xsl +121 -0
  195. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-changebars.xsl +99 -0
  196. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-code.xsl +670 -0
  197. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-common.xsl +1911 -0
  198. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk.xsl +52 -0
  199. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunker.xsl +439 -0
  200. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunkfast.xsl +72 -0
  201. data/docbook-xsl/html/chunktoc.xsl +468 -0
  202. data/docbook-xsl/html/component.xsl +403 -0
  203. data/docbook-xsl/html/division.xsl +228 -0
  204. data/docbook-xsl/html/docbook.xsl +483 -0
  205. data/docbook-xsl/html/ebnf.xsl +329 -0
  206. data/docbook-xsl/html/footnote.xsl +308 -0
  207. data/docbook-xsl/html/formal.xsl +401 -0
  208. data/docbook-xsl/html/glossary.xsl +474 -0
  209. data/docbook-xsl/html/graphics.xsl +1515 -0
  210. data/docbook-xsl/html/highlight.xsl +71 -0
  211. data/docbook-xsl/html/html-rtf.xsl +336 -0
  212. data/docbook-xsl/html/html.xsl +268 -0
  213. data/docbook-xsl/html/htmltbl.xsl +56 -0
  214. data/docbook-xsl/html/index.xsl +229 -0
  215. data/docbook-xsl/html/info.xsl +43 -0
  216. data/docbook-xsl/html/inline.xsl +1497 -0
  217. data/docbook-xsl/html/keywords.xsl +35 -0
  218. data/docbook-xsl/html/lists.xsl +1143 -0
  219. data/docbook-xsl/html/maketoc.xsl +86 -0
  220. data/docbook-xsl/html/manifest.xsl +22 -0
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  226. data/docbook-xsl/html/pi.xml +1113 -0
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  228. data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-chunk-code.xsl +609 -0
  229. data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-chunk.xsl +52 -0
  230. data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-docbook.xsl +414 -0
  231. data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-onechunk.xsl +37 -0
  232. data/docbook-xsl/html/qandaset.xsl +389 -0
  233. data/docbook-xsl/html/refentry.xsl +309 -0
  234. data/docbook-xsl/html/sections.xsl +628 -0
  235. data/docbook-xsl/html/synop.xsl +1549 -0
  236. data/docbook-xsl/html/table.xsl +1130 -0
  237. data/docbook-xsl/html/task.xsl +76 -0
  238. data/docbook-xsl/html/titlepage.templates.xml +662 -0
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  240. data/docbook-xsl/html/titlepage.xsl +1031 -0
  241. data/docbook-xsl/html/toc.xsl +169 -0
  242. data/docbook-xsl/html/verbatim.xsl +376 -0
  243. data/docbook-xsl/html/xref.xsl +1348 -0
  244. data/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp/htmlhelp-common.xsl +1113 -0
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  246. data/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp/profile-htmlhelp-common.xsl +1076 -0
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  350. data/docbook-xsl/manpages/ChangeLog.20020917 +195 -0
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  352. data/docbook-xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl +6013 -0
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+ <p>On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I
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+ Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number
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+ The events in question occurred in the early days of my
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+ <p>It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to
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+ bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the
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+ <p>"Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it’s the
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+ <p>"What is it, then—a fire?"</p>
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+ <p>"No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a
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+ <p>I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his
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+ <p>"It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as
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+ Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick,
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+ all-comprehensive glances.</p>
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+ <p>"You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and
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+ patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no
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+ doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see."</p>
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+ <p>"You know me, then?"</p>
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+ <p>"No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm
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+ of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had
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+ a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached
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+ the station."</p>
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+ <p>The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my
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+ companion.</p>
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+ <p>"There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left
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+ arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven
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+ places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a
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+ dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you
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+ sit on the left-hand side of the driver."</p>
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+ <p>"Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said
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+ she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at
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+ twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I
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+ can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues.
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+ I have no one to turn to—none, save only one, who cares for me,
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+ and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you,
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+ Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you
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+ helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had
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+ your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me,
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+ too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness
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+ which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward
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+ you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be
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+ married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you
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+ shall not find me ungrateful."</p>
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+ <p>Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small
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+ case-book, which he consulted.</p>
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+ <p>"Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was
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+ concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time,
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+ Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote
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+ the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to
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+ reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty
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+ to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which
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+ suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us
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+ everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the
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+ matter."</p>
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+ <p>"Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation
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+ lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions
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+ depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to
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+ another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to
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+ look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it
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+ as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can
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+ read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have
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+ heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold
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+ wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid
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+ the dangers which encompass me."</p>
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+ <p>"I am all attention, madam."</p>
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+ <p>"My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who
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+ is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in
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+ England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of
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+ Surrey."</p>
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+ <p>Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he.</p>
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+ <p>"The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the
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+ estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north,
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+ and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four
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+ successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition,
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+ and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the
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+ days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground,
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+ and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under
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+ a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence
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+ there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but
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+ his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to
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+ the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which
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+ enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta,
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+ where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he
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+ established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused
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+ by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he
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+ beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital
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+ sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and
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+ afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man.</p>
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+ <p>"When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner,
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+ the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery.
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+ My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old
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+ at the time of my mother’s re-marriage. She had a considerable
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+ sum of money—not less than 1000 pounds a year—and this she
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+ bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him,
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+ with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to
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+ each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return
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+ to England my mother died—she was killed eight years ago in a
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+ railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his
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+ attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us
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+ to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The
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+ money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and
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+ there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness.</p>
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+ <p>"But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time.
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+ Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our
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+ neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of
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+ Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in
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+ his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious
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+ quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper
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+ approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the
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+ family, and in my stepfather’s case it had, I believe, been
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+ intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of
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+ disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the
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+ police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village,
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+ and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of
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+ immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger.</p>
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+ <p>"Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a
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+ stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I
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+ could gather together that I was able to avert another public
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+ exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies,
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+ and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few
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+ acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate,
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+ and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents,
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+ wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a
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+ passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a
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+ correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon,
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+ which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the
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+ villagers almost as much as their master.</p>
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+ <p>"You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I
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+ had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with
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+ us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was
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+ but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already
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+ begun to whiten, even as mine has."</p>
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+ <p>"Your sister is dead, then?"</p>
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+ <p>"She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish
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+ to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I
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+ have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own
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+ age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother’s maiden
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+ sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we
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+ were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady’s
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+ house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there
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+ a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My
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+ stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and
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+ offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of
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+ the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event
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+ occurred which has deprived me of my only companion."</p>
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+ <p>Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes
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+ closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his
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+ lids now and glanced across at his visitor.</p>
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+ <p>"Pray be precise as to details," said he.</p>
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+ <p>"It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful
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+ time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have
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+ already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The
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+ bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms
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+ being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms
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+ the first is Dr. Roylott’s, the second my sister’s, and the third
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+ my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open
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+ out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?"</p>
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+ <p>"Perfectly so."</p>
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+ <p>"The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That
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+ fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we
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+ knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled
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+ by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom
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+ to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where
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+ she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At
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+ eleven o’clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door
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+ and looked back.</p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Tell me, Helen,</em></span> said she, <span class="emphasis"><em>have you ever heard anyone whistle
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+ in the dead of the night?</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Never,</em></span> said I.</p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in
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+ your sleep?</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Certainly not. But why?</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Because during the last few nights I have always, about three
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+ in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper,
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+ and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from—perhaps
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+ from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would
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+ just ask you whether you had heard it.</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the
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+ plantation.</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you
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+ did not hear it also.</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.</em></span></p>
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+ <p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.</em></span> She smiled
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+ back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her
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+ key turn in the lock."</p>
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+ <p>"Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock
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+ yourselves in at night?"</p>
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+ <p>"Always."</p>
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+ <p>"And why?"</p>
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+ <p>"I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah
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+ and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were
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+ locked."</p>
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+ <p>"Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement."</p>
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+ <p>"I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending
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+ misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect,
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+ were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two
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+ souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind
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+ was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing
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+ against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale,
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+ there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew
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+ that it was my sister’s voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a
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+ shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door
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+ I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and
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+ a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had
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+ fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister’s door was unlocked,
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+ and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it
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+ horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By
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+ the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the
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+ opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for
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+ help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a
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+ drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that
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+ moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground.
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+ She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were
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+ dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not
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+ recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out
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+ in a voice which I shall never forget, <span class="emphasis"><em>Oh, my God! Helen! It was
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+ the band! The speckled band!</em></span> There was something else which she
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+ would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the
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+ air in the direction of the doctor’s room, but a fresh convulsion
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+ seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for
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+ my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his
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+ dressing-gown. When he reached my sister’s side she was
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+ unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent
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+ for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for
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+ she slowly sank and died without having recovered her
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+ consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister."</p>
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+ <p>"One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and
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+ metallic sound? Could you swear to it?"</p>
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+ <p>"That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is
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+ my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of
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+ the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have
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+ been deceived."</p>
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+ <p>"Was your sister dressed?"</p>
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+ <p>"No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the
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+ charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box."</p>
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+ <p>"Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when
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+ the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did
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+ the coroner come to?"</p>
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+ <p>"He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott’s
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+ conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable
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+ to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that
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+ the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows
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+ were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars,
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+ which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded,
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+ and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was
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+ also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is
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+ wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain,
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+ therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end.
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+ Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her."</p>
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+ <p>"How about poison?"</p>
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+ <p>"The doctors examined her for it, but without success."</p>
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+ <p>"What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?"</p>
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+ <p>"It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock,
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+ though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine."</p>
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+ <p>"Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?"</p>
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+ <p>"Yes, there are nearly always some there."</p>
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+ <p>"Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band—a
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+ speckled band?"</p>
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+ <p>"Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of
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+ delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of
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+ people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not
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+ know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear
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+ over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which
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+ she used."</p>
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+ <p>Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied.</p>
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+ <p>"These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your
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+ narrative."</p>
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+ <p>"Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until
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+ lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend,
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+ whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask
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+ my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage—Percy Armitage—the
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+ second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My
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+ stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to
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+ be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs
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+ were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom
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+ wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the
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+ chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in
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+ which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last
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+ night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I
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+ suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which
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+ had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the
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+ lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to
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+ go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was
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+ daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which
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+ is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on
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+ this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your
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+ advice."</p>
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+ <p>"You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me
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+ all?"</p>
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+ <p>"Yes, all."</p>
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+ <p>"Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather."</p>
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+ <p>"Why, what do you mean?"</p>
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+ <p>For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which
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+ fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor’s knee. Five little
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+ livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed
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+ upon the white wrist.</p>
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+ <p>"You have been cruelly used," said Holmes.</p>
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+ <p>The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He
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+ is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own
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+ strength."</p>
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+ <p>There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin
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+ upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire.</p>
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+ <p>"This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a
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+ thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide
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+ upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If
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+ we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for
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+ us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your
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+ stepfather?"</p>
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+ <p>"As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some
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+ most important business. It is probable that he will be away all
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+ day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a
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+ housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily
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+ get her out of the way."</p>
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+ <p>"Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?"</p>
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+ <p>"By no means."</p>
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+ <p>"Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?"</p>
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+ <p>"I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am
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+ in town. But I shall return by the twelve o’clock train, so as to
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+ be there in time for your coming."</p>
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+ <p>"And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some
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+ small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and
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+ breakfast?"</p>
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+ <p>"No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have
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+ confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you
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+ again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her
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+ face and glided from the room.</p>
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+ <p>"And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes,
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+ leaning back in his chair.</p>
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+ <p>"It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business."</p>
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+ <p>"Dark enough and sinister enough."</p>
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+ <p>"Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls
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+ are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable,
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+ then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her
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+ mysterious end."</p>
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+ <p>"What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the
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+ very peculiar words of the dying woman?"</p>
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+ <p>"I cannot think."</p>
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+ <p>"When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of
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+ a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor,
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+ the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has
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+ an interest in preventing his stepdaughter’s marriage, the dying
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+ allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner
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+ heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of
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+ those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its
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+ place, I think that there is good ground to think that the
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+ mystery may be cleared along those lines."</p>
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+ <p>"But what, then, did the gipsies do?"</p>
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+ <p>"I cannot imagine."</p>
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+ <p>"I see many objections to any such theory."</p>
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+ <p>"And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going
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+ to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are
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+ fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of
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+ the devil!"</p>
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+ <p>The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that
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+ our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had
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+ framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar
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+ mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a
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+ black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters,
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+ with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his
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+ hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his
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+ breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face,
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+ seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and
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+ marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other
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+ of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin,
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+ fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old
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+ bird of prey.</p>
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+ <p>"Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition.</p>
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+ <p>"My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my
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+ companion quietly.</p>
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+ <p>"I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran."</p>
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+ <p>"Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat."</p>
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+ <p>"I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I
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+ have traced her. What has she been saying to you?"</p>
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+ <p>"It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes.</p>
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+ <p>"What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man
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+ furiously.</p>
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+ <p>"But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my
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+ companion imperturbably.</p>
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+ <p>"Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step
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+ forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel!
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+ I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler."</p>
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+ <p>My friend smiled.</p>
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+ <p>"Holmes, the busybody!"</p>
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+ <p>His smile broadened.</p>
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+ <p>"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"</p>
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+ <p>Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most
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+ entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for
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+ there is a decided draught."</p>
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+ <p>"I will go when I have said my say. Don’t you dare to meddle with
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+ my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her!
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+ I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped
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+ swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with
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+ his huge brown hands.</p>
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+ <p>"See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and
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+ hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the
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+ room.</p>
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+ <p>"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am
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+ not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him
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+ that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke
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+ he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort,
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+ straightened it out again.</p>
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+ <p>"Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official
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+ detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation,
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+ however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer
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+ from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now,
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+ Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk
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+ down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may
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+ help us in this matter."</p>
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+ <p>It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his
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+ excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled
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+ over with notes and figures.</p>
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+ <p>"I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To
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+ determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the
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+ present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The
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+ total income, which at the time of the wife’s death was little
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+ short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural
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+ prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an
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+ income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident,
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+ therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have
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+ had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to
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+ a very serious extent. My morning’s work has not been wasted,
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+ since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for
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+ standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson,
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+ this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is
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+ aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you
513
+ are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be
514
+ very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your
515
+ pocket. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen
516
+ who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush
517
+ are, I think, all that we need."</p>
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+ <p>At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for
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+ Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove
520
+ for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a
521
+ perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the
522
+ heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out
523
+ their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant
524
+ smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange
525
+ contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this
526
+ sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in
527
+ the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over
528
+ his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the
529
+ deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the
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+ shoulder, and pointed over the meadows.</p>
531
+ <p>"Look there!" said he.</p>
532
+ <p>A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope,
533
+ thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the
534
+ branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a
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+ very old mansion.</p>
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+ <p>"Stoke Moran?" said he.</p>
537
+ <p>"Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked
538
+ the driver.</p>
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+ <p>"There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is
540
+ where we are going."</p>
541
+ <p>"There’s the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of
542
+ roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the
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+ house, you’ll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by
544
+ the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is
545
+ walking."</p>
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+ <p>"And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading
547
+ his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest."</p>
548
+ <p>We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way
549
+ to Leatherhead.</p>
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+ <p>"I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile,
551
+ "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or
552
+ on some definite business. It may stop his gossip.
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+ Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as
554
+ our word."</p>
555
+ <p>Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a
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+ face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for
557
+ you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned
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+ out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely
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+ that he will be back before evening."</p>
560
+ <p>"We have had the pleasure of making the doctor’s acquaintance,"
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+ said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had
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+ occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened.</p>
563
+ <p>"Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then."</p>
564
+ <p>"So it appears."</p>
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+ <p>"He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What
566
+ will he say when he returns?"</p>
567
+ <p>"He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone
568
+ more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself
569
+ up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to
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+ your aunt’s at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our
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+ time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to
572
+ examine."</p>
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+ <p>The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high
574
+ central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab,
575
+ thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were
576
+ broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly
577
+ caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little
578
+ better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern,
579
+ and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up
580
+ from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
581
+ Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the
582
+ stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any
583
+ workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and
584
+ down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the
585
+ outsides of the windows.</p>
586
+ <p>"This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep,
587
+ the centre one to your sister’s, and the one next to the main
588
+ building to Dr. Roylott’s chamber?"</p>
589
+ <p>"Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one."</p>
590
+ <p>"Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does
591
+ not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end
592
+ wall."</p>
593
+ <p>"There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from
594
+ my room."</p>
595
+ <p>"Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow
596
+ wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There
597
+ are windows in it, of course?"</p>
598
+ <p>"Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass
599
+ through."</p>
600
+ <p>"As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were
601
+ unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness
602
+ to go into your room and bar your shutters?"</p>
603
+ <p>Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination
604
+ through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the
605
+ shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through
606
+ which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his
607
+ lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built
608
+ firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his
609
+ chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some
610
+ difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were
611
+ bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon
612
+ the matter."</p>
613
+ <p>A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which
614
+ the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third
615
+ chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss
616
+ Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her
617
+ fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a
618
+ gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A
619
+ brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow
620
+ white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the
621
+ left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small
622
+ wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save
623
+ for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and
624
+ the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old
625
+ and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building
626
+ of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat
627
+ silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down,
628
+ taking in every detail of the apartment.</p>
629
+ <p>"Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last
630
+ pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the
631
+ tassel actually lying upon the pillow.</p>
632
+ <p>"It goes to the housekeeper’s room."</p>
633
+ <p>"It looks newer than the other things?"</p>
634
+ <p>"Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago."</p>
635
+ <p>"Your sister asked for it, I suppose?"</p>
636
+ <p>"No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we
637
+ wanted for ourselves."</p>
638
+ <p>"Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there.
639
+ You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to
640
+ this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in
641
+ his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining
642
+ minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with
643
+ the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he
644
+ walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and
645
+ in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the
646
+ bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug.</p>
647
+ <p>"Why, it’s a dummy," said he.</p>
648
+ <p>"Won’t it ring?"</p>
649
+ <p>"No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting.
650
+ You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where
651
+ the little opening for the ventilator is."</p>
652
+ <p>"How very absurd! I never noticed that before."</p>
653
+ <p>"Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are
654
+ one or two very singular points about this room. For example,
655
+ what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another
656
+ room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated
657
+ with the outside air!"</p>
658
+ <p>"That is also quite modern," said the lady.</p>
659
+ <p>"Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes.</p>
660
+ <p>"Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that
661
+ time."</p>
662
+ <p>"They seem to have been of a most interesting character—dummy
663
+ bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your
664
+ permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into
665
+ the inner apartment."</p>
666
+ <p>Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s chamber was larger than that of his
667
+ step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small
668
+ wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an
669
+ armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a
670
+ round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things
671
+ which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each
672
+ and all of them with the keenest interest.</p>
673
+ <p>"What’s in here?" he asked, tapping the safe.</p>
674
+ <p>"My stepfather’s business papers."</p>
675
+ <p>"Oh! you have seen inside, then?"</p>
676
+ <p>"Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of
677
+ papers."</p>
678
+ <p>"There isn’t a cat in it, for example?"</p>
679
+ <p>"No. What a strange idea!"</p>
680
+ <p>"Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which
681
+ stood on the top of it.</p>
682
+ <p>"No; we don’t keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon."</p>
683
+ <p>"Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a
684
+ saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I
685
+ daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He
686
+ squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat
687
+ of it with the greatest attention.</p>
688
+ <p>"Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting
689
+ his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!"</p>
690
+ <p>The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on
691
+ one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself
692
+ and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.</p>
693
+ <p>"What do you make of that, Watson?"</p>
694
+ <p>"It’s a common enough lash. But I don’t know why it should be
695
+ tied."</p>
696
+ <p>"That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it’s a wicked world,
697
+ and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst
698
+ of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and
699
+ with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn."</p>
700
+ <p>I had never seen my friend’s face so grim or his brow so dark as
701
+ it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We
702
+ had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss
703
+ Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he
704
+ roused himself from his reverie.</p>
705
+ <p>"It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should
706
+ absolutely follow my advice in every respect."</p>
707
+ <p>"I shall most certainly do so."</p>
708
+ <p>"The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may
709
+ depend upon your compliance."</p>
710
+ <p>"I assure you that I am in your hands."</p>
711
+ <p>"In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in
712
+ your room."</p>
713
+ <p>Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment.</p>
714
+ <p>"Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the
715
+ village inn over there?"</p>
716
+ <p>"Yes, that is the Crown."</p>
717
+ <p>"Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?"</p>
718
+ <p>"Certainly."</p>
719
+ <p>"You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a
720
+ headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him
721
+ retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window,
722
+ undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then
723
+ withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want
724
+ into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in
725
+ spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night."</p>
726
+ <p>"Oh, yes, easily."</p>
727
+ <p>"The rest you will leave in our hands."</p>
728
+ <p>"But what will you do?"</p>
729
+ <p>"We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate
730
+ the cause of this noise which has disturbed you."</p>
731
+ <p>"I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind,"
732
+ said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion’s sleeve.</p>
733
+ <p>"Perhaps I have."</p>
734
+ <p>"Then, for pity’s sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister’s
735
+ death."</p>
736
+ <p>"I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak."</p>
737
+ <p>"You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and
738
+ if she died from some sudden fright."</p>
739
+ <p>"No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more
740
+ tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if
741
+ Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain.
742
+ Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you,
743
+ you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers
744
+ that threaten you."</p>
745
+ <p>Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and
746
+ sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and
747
+ from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and
748
+ of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw
749
+ Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside
750
+ the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some
751
+ slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard
752
+ the hoarse roar of the doctor’s voice and saw the fury with which
753
+ he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few
754
+ minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as
755
+ the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms.</p>
756
+ <p>"Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the
757
+ gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you
758
+ to-night. There is a distinct element of danger."</p>
759
+ <p>"Can I be of assistance?"</p>
760
+ <p>"Your presence might be invaluable."</p>
761
+ <p>"Then I shall certainly come."</p>
762
+ <p>"It is very kind of you."</p>
763
+ <p>"You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms
764
+ than was visible to me."</p>
765
+ <p>"No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine
766
+ that you saw all that I did."</p>
767
+ <p>"I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose
768
+ that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine."</p>
769
+ <p>"You saw the ventilator, too?"</p>
770
+ <p>"Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to
771
+ have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a
772
+ rat could hardly pass through."</p>
773
+ <p>"I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to
774
+ Stoke Moran."</p>
775
+ <p>"My dear Holmes!"</p>
776
+ <p>"Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her
777
+ sister could smell Dr. Roylott’s cigar. Now, of course that
778
+ suggested at once that there must be a communication between the
779
+ two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been
780
+ remarked upon at the coroner’s inquiry. I deduced a ventilator."</p>
781
+ <p>"But what harm can there be in that?"</p>
782
+ <p>"Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A
783
+ ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the
784
+ bed dies. Does not that strike you?"</p>
785
+ <p>"I cannot as yet see any connection."</p>
786
+ <p>"Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?"</p>
787
+ <p>"No."</p>
788
+ <p>"It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened
789
+ like that before?"</p>
790
+ <p>"I cannot say that I have."</p>
791
+ <p>"The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same
792
+ relative position to the ventilator and to the rope—or so we may
793
+ call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull."</p>
794
+ <p>"Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at.
795
+ We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible
796
+ crime."</p>
797
+ <p>"Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong
798
+ he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
799
+ Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession.
800
+ This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall
801
+ be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough
802
+ before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet
803
+ pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more
804
+ cheerful."</p>
805
+ <p>About nine o’clock the light among the trees was extinguished,
806
+ and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours
807
+ passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of
808
+ eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us.</p>
809
+ <p>"That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it
810
+ comes from the middle window."</p>
811
+ <p>As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord,
812
+ explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance,
813
+ and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A
814
+ moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing
815
+ in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us
816
+ through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand.</p>
817
+ <p>There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for
818
+ unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way
819
+ among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about
820
+ to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel
821
+ bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted
822
+ child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and
823
+ then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness.</p>
824
+ <p>"My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?"</p>
825
+ <p>Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like
826
+ a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low
827
+ laugh and put his lips to my ear.</p>
828
+ <p>"It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon."</p>
829
+ <p>I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There
830
+ was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders
831
+ at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when,
832
+ after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I
833
+ found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed
834
+ the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes
835
+ round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then
836
+ creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered
837
+ into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to
838
+ distinguish the words:</p>
839
+ <p>"The least sound would be fatal to our plans."</p>
840
+ <p>I nodded to show that I had heard.</p>
841
+ <p>"We must sit without light. He would see it through the
842
+ ventilator."</p>
843
+ <p>I nodded again.</p>
844
+ <p>"Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your
845
+ pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of
846
+ the bed, and you in that chair."</p>
847
+ <p>I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table.</p>
848
+ <p>Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon
849
+ the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the
850
+ stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left
851
+ in darkness.</p>
852
+ <p>How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a
853
+ sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my
854
+ companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same
855
+ state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut
856
+ off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness.</p>
857
+ <p>From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at
858
+ our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that
859
+ the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the
860
+ deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of
861
+ an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and
862
+ one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for
863
+ whatever might befall.</p>
864
+ <p>Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the
865
+ direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was
866
+ succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal.
867
+ Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle
868
+ sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the
869
+ smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears.
870
+ Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle,
871
+ soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping
872
+ continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes
873
+ sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with
874
+ his cane at the bell-pull.</p>
875
+ <p>"You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?"</p>
876
+ <p>But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I
877
+ heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my
878
+ weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which
879
+ my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face
880
+ was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had
881
+ ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when
882
+ suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most
883
+ horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder
884
+ and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled
885
+ in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the
886
+ village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the
887
+ sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I
888
+ stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it
889
+ had died away into the silence from which it rose.</p>
890
+ <p>"What can it mean?" I gasped.</p>
891
+ <p>"It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps,
892
+ after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will
893
+ enter Dr. Roylott’s room."</p>
894
+ <p>With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the
895
+ corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply
896
+ from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his
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+ heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand.</p>
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+ <p>It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a
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+ dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant
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+ beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar.
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+ Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott
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+ clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding
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+ beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.
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+ Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we
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+ had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his
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+ eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the
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+ ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with
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+ brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his
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+ head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion.</p>
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+ <p>"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.</p>
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+ <p>I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began
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+ to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat
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+ diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent.</p>
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+ <p>"It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in
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+ India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence
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+ does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls
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+ into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this
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+ creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to
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+ some place of shelter and let the county police know what has
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+ happened."</p>
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+ <p>As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man’s lap,
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+ and throwing the noose round the reptile’s neck he drew it from
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+ its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm’s length, threw it into
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+ the iron safe, which he closed upon it.</p>
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+ <p>Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of
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+ Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a
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+ narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling
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+ how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed
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+ her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow,
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+ of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the
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+ conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly
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+ playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn
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+ of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back
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+ next day.</p>
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+ <p>"I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which
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+ shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from
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+ insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of
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+ the word <span class="emphasis"><em>band,</em></span> which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to
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+ explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of
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+ by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an
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+ entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly
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+ reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me
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+ that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not
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+ come either from the window or the door. My attention was
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+ speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this
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+ ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The
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+ discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to
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+ the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was
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+ there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and
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+ coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me,
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+ and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was
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+ furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I
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+ was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of
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+ poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical
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+ test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless
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+ man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such
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+ a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be
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+ an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could
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+ distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where
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+ the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the
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+ whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning
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+ light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by
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+ the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned.
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+ He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he
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+ thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the
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+ rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the
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+ occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but
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+ sooner or later she must fall a victim.</p>
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+ <p>"I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his
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+ room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in
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+ the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary
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+ in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the
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+ safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to
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+ finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic
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+ clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather
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+ hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.
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+ Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in
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+ order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss
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+ as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the
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+ light and attacked it."</p>
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+ <p>"With the result of driving it through the ventilator."</p>
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+ <p>"And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master
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+ at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and
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+ roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person
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+ it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr.
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+ Grimesby Roylott’s death, and I cannot say that it is likely to
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+ weigh very heavily upon my conscience."</p>
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