abbey_grange.txt

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<s> IT WAS ON A BITTERLY COLD NIGHT AND FROSTY MORNING TOWARDS THE END OF THE WINTER OF NINETY SEVEN THAT I WAS AWAKENED BY A TUGGING AT MY SHOULDER </s>
<s> IT WAS HOLMES </s>
<s> THE CANDLE IN HIS HAND SHONE UPON HIS EAGER STOOPING FACE AND TOLD ME AT A GLANCE THAT SOMETHING WAS AMISS </s>
<s> QUOTE COME WATSON COME QUOTE HE CRIED </s>
<s> THE GAME IS AFOOT </s>
<s> NOT A WORD </s>
<s> INTO YOUR CLOTHES AND COME </s>
<s> TEN MINUTES LATER WE WERE BOTH IN A CAB AND RATTLING THROUGH THE SILENT STREETS ON OUR WAY TO CHARING CROSS STATION </s>
<s> THE FIRST FAINT WINTER'S DAWN WAS BEGINNING TO APPEAR AND WE COULD DIMLY SEE THE OCCASIONAL FIGURE OF AN EARLY WORKMAN AS HE PASSED US BLURRED AND INDISTINCT IN THE OPALESCENT LONDON REEK </s>
<s> HOLMES NESTLED IN SILENCE INTO HIS HEAVY COAT AND I WAS GLAD TO DO THE SAME FOR THE AIR WAS MOST BITTER AND NEITHER OF US HAD BROKEN OUR FAST </s>
<s> IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE HAD CONSUMED SOME HOT TEA AT THE STATION AND TAKEN OUR PLACES IN THE KENTISH TRAIN THAT WE WERE SUFFICIENTLY THAWED HE TO SPEAK AND I TO LISTEN </s>
<s> HOLMES DREW A NOTE FROM HIS POCKET AND READ ALOUD ABBEY GRANGE MARSHAM KENT THREE THIRTY A. M. </s>
<s> MY DEAR MR. HOLMES I SHOULD BE VERY GLAD OF YOUR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE A MOST REMARKABLE CASE </s>
<s> IT IS SOMETHING QUITE IN YOUR LINE </s>
<s> EXCEPT FOR RELEASING THE LADY I WILL SEE THAT EVERYTHING IS KEPT EXACTLY AS I HAVE FOUND IT BUT I BEG YOU NOT TO LOSE AN INSTANT AS IT IS DIFFICULT TO LEAVE SIR EUSTACE THERE </s>
<s> YOURS FAITHFULLY STANLEY HOPKINS </s>
<s> QUOTE HOPKINS HAS CALLED ME IN SEVEN TIMES AND ON EACH OCCASION HIS SUMMONS HAS BEEN ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED QUOTE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> ' I FANCY THAT EVERY ONE OF HIS CASES HAS FOUND ITS WAY INTO YOUR COLLECTION AND I MUST ADMIT WATSON THAT YOU HAVE SOME POWER OF SELECTION WHICH ATONES FOR MUCH WHICH I DEPLORE IN YOUR NARRATIVES </s>
<s> YOUR FATAL HABIT OF LOOKING AT EVERYTHING FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A STORY INSTEAD OF AS A SCIENTIFIC EXERCISE HAS RUINED WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN INSTRUCTIVE AND EVEN CLASSICAL SERIES OF DEMONSTRATIONS </s>
<s> YOU SLUR OVER WORK OF THE UTMOST FINESSE AND DELICACY IN ORDER TO DWELL UPON SENSATIONAL DETAILS WHICH MAY EXCITE BUT CANNOT POSSIBLY INSTRUCT THE READER </s>
<s> WHY DO YOU NOT WRITE THEM YOURSELF </s>
<s> I SAID WITH SOME BITTERNESS </s>
<s> I WILL MY DEAR WATSON I WILL </s>
<s> AT PRESENT I AM AS YOU KNOW FAIRLY BUSY BUT I PROPOSE TO DEVOTE MY DECLINING YEARS TO THE COMPOSITION OF A TEXTBOOK WHICH SHALL FOCUS THE WHOLE ART OF DETECTION INTO ONE VOLUME </s>
<s> OUR PRESENT RESEARCH APPEARS TO BE A CASE OF MURDER </s>
<s> YOU THINK THIS SIR EUSTACE IS DEAD THEN </s>
<s> QUOTE I SHOULD SAY SO </s>
<s> HOPKINS'S WRITING SHOWS CONSIDERABLE AGITATION AND HE IS NOT AN EMOTIONAL MAN </s>
<s> YES I GATHER THERE HAS BEEN VIOLENCE AND THAT THE BODY IS LEFT FOR OUR INSPECTION </s>
<s> A MERE SUICIDE WOULD NOT HAVE CAUSED HIM TO SEND FOR ME </s>
<s> AS TO THE RELEASE OF THE LADY IT WOULD APPEAR THAT SHE HAS BEEN LOCKED IN HER ROOM DURING THE TRAGEDY </s>
<s> WE ARE MOVING IN HIGH LIFE WATSON CRACKLING PAPER E. B. MONOGRAM COAT OF ARMS PICTURESQUE ADDRESS </s>
<s> I THINK THAT FRIEND HOPKINS WILL LIVE UP TO HIS REPUTATION AND THAT WE SHALL HAVE AN INTERESTING MORNING </s>
<s> THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED BEFORE TWELVE LAST NIGHT </s>
<s> HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY TELL </s>
<s> BY AN INSPECTION OF THE TRAINS AND BY RECKONING THE TIME </s>
<s> THE LOCAL POLICE HAD TO BE CALLED IN THEY HAD TO COMMUNICATE WITH SCOTLAND YARD HOPKINS HAD TO GO OUT AND HE IN TURN HAD TO SEND FOR ME </s>
<s> ALL THAT MAKES A FAIR NIGHT'S WORK </s>
<s> WELL HERE WE ARE AT CHISELHURST STATION AND WE SHALL SOON SET OUR DOUBTS AT REST </s>
<s> A DRIVE OF A COUPLE OF MILES THROUGH NARROW COUNTRY LANES BROUGHT US TO A PARK GATE WHICH WAS OPENED FOR US BY AN OLD LODGE KEEPER WHOSE HAGGARD FACE BORE THE REFLECTION OF SOME GREAT DISASTER </s>
<s> THE AVENUE RAN THROUGH A NOBLE PARK BETWEEN LINES OF ANCIENT ELMS AND ENDED IN A LOW WIDESPREAD HOUSE PILLARED IN FRONT AFTER THE FASHION OF PALLADIO </s>
<s> THE CENTRAL PART WAS EVIDENTLY OF A GREAT AGE AND SHROUDED IN IVY BUT THE LARGE WINDOWS SHOWED THAT MODERN CHANGES HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT AND ONE WING OF THE HOUSE APPEARED TO BE ENTIRELY NEW </s>
<s> THE YOUTHFUL FIGURE AND ALERT EAGER FACE OF INSPECTOR STANLEY HOPKINS CONFRONTED US IN THE OPEN DOORWAY </s>
<s> I'M VERY GLAD YOU HAVE COME MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> AND YOU TOO DOCTOR WATSON </s>
<s> BUT INDEED IF I HAD MY TIME OVER AGAIN I SHOULD NOT HAVE TROUBLED YOU FOR SINCE THE LADY HAS COME TO HERSELF SHE HAS GIVEN SO CLEAR AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR THAT THERE IS NOT MUCH LEFT FOR US TO DO </s>
<s> YOU REMEMBER THAT LEWISHAM GANG OF BURGLARS QUOTE </s>
<s> WHAT THE THREE RANDALLS </s>
<s> EXACTLY THE FATHER AND TWO SONS </s>
<s> IT'S THEIR WORK </s>
<s> I HAVE NOT A DOUBT OF IT </s>
<s> THEY DID A JOB AT SYDENHAM A FORTNIGHT AGO AND WERE SEEN AND DESCRIBED </s>
<s> RATHER COOL TO DO ANOTHER SO SOON AND SO NEAR BUT IT IS THEY BEYOND ALL DOUBT </s>
<s> IT'S A HANGING MATTER THIS TIME </s>
<s> SIR EUSTACE IS DEAD THEN </s>
<s> YES HIS HEAD WAS KNOCKED IN WITH HIS OWN POKER </s>
<s> QUOTE SIR EUSTACE BRACKENSTALL THE DRIVER TELLS ME QUOTE </s>
<s> EXACTLY ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN IN KENT LADY BRACKENSTALL IS IN THE MORNING ROOM </s>
<s> POOR LADY SHE HAS HAD A MOST DREADFUL EXPERIENCE </s>
<s> SHE SEEMED HALF DEAD WHEN I SAW HER FIRST </s>
<s> I THINK YOU HAD BEST SEE HER AND HEAR HER ACCOUNT OF THE FACTS </s>
<s> THEN WE WILL EXAMINE THE DINING ROOM TOGETHER </s>
<s> LADY BRACKENSTALL WAS NO ORDINARY PERSON </s>
<s> SELDOM HAVE I SEEN SO GRACEFUL A FIGURE SO WOMANLY A PRESENCE AND SO BEAUTIFUL A FACE </s>
<s> SHE WAS A BLONDE GOLDEN HAIRED BLUE EYED AND WOULD NO DOUBT HAVE HAD THE PERFECT COMPLEXION WHICH GOES WITH SUCH COLOURING HAD NOT HER RECENT EXPERIENCE LEFT HER DRAWN AND HAGGARD </s>
<s> HER SUFFERINGS WERE PHYSICAL AS WELL AS MENTAL FOR OVER ONE EYE ROSE A HIDEOUS PLUM COLOURED SWELLING WHICH HER MAID A TALL AUSTERE WOMAN WAS BATHING ASSIDUOUSLY WITH VINEGAR AND WATER </s>
<s> THE LADY LAY BACK EXHAUSTED UPON A COUCH BUT HER QUICK OBSERVANT GAZE AS WE ENTERED THE ROOM AND THE ALERT EXPRESSION OF HER BEAUTIFUL FEATURES SHOWED THAT NEITHER HER WITS NOR HER COURAGE HAD BEEN SHAKEN BY HER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE </s>
<s> SHE WAS ENVELOPED IN A LOOSE DRESSING GOWN OF BLUE AND SILVER BUT A BLACK SEQUIN COVERED DINNER DRESS LAY UPON THE COUCH BESIDE HER </s>
<s> I HAVE TOLD YOU ALL THAT HAPPENED MR. HOPKINS SHE SAID WEARILY </s>
<s> COULD YOU NOT REPEAT IT FOR ME </s>
<s> WELL IF YOU THINK IT NECESSARY I WILL TELL THESE GENTLEMEN WHAT OCCURTED </s>
<s> HAVE THEY BEEN IN THE DINING ROOM YET </s>
<s> QUOTE I THOUGHT THEY HAD BETTER HEAR YOUR LADYSHIP'S STORY FIRST QUOTE </s>
<s> I SHALL BE GLAD WHEN YOU CAN ARRANGE MATTERS </s>
<s> IT IS HORRIBLE TO ME TO THINK OF HIM STILL LYING THERE </s>
<s> SHE SHUDDERED AND BURIED HER FACE IN HER HANDS </s>
<s> AS SHE DID SO THE LOOSE GOWN FELL BACK FROM HER FOREARMS </s>
<s> HOLMES UTTERED AN EXCLAMATION </s>
<s> YOU HAVE OTHER INJURIES MADAM </s>
<s> WHAT IS THIS </s>
<s> TWO VIVID RED SPOTS STOOD OUT ON ONE OF THE WHITE ROUND LIMBS </s>
<s> SHE HASTILY COVERED IT </s>
<s> IT IS NOTHING </s>
<s> IT HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THIS HIDEOUS BUSINESS TO NIGHT </s>
<s> IF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND WILL SIT DOWN I WILL TELL YOU ALL I CAN </s>
<s> QUOTE I AM THE WIFE OF SIR EUSTACE BRACKENSTALL </s>
<s> I HAVE BEEN MARRIED ABOUT A YEAR </s>
<s> I SUPPOSE THAT IT IS NO USE MY ATTEMPTING TO CONCEAL THAT OUR MARRIAGE HAS NOT BEEN A HAPPY ONE </s>
<s> I FEAR THAT ALL OUR NEIGHBOURS WOULD TELL YOU THAT EVEN IF I WERE TO ATTEMPT TO DENY IT </s>
<s> PERHAPS THE FAULT MAY BE PARTLY MINE </s>
<s> I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE FREER LESS CONVENTIONAL ATMOSPHERE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND THIS ENGLISH LIFE WITH ITS PROPRIETIES AND ITS PRIMNESS IS NOT CONGENIAL TO ME </s>
<s> BUT THE MAIN REASON LIES IN THE ONE FACT WHICH IS NOTORIOUS TO EVERYONE AND THAT IS THAT SIR EUSTACE WAS A CONFIRMED DRUNKARD </s>
<s> TO BE WITH SUCH A MAN FOR AN HOUR IS UNPLEASANT </s>
<s> CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT MEANS FOR A SENSITIVE AND HIGH SPIRITED WOMAN TO BE TIED TO HIM FOR DAY AND NIGHT </s>
<s> IT IS A SACRILEGE A CRIME A VILLAINY TO HOLD THAT SUCH A MARRIAGE IS BINDING </s>
<s> I SAY THAT THESE MONSTROUS LAWS OF YOURS WILL BRING A CURSE UPON THE LAND GOD WILL NOT LET SUCH WICKEDNESS ENDURE </s>
<s> FOR AN INSTANT SHE SAT UP HER CHEEKS FLUSHED AND HER EYES BLAZING FROM UNDER THE TERRIBLE MARK UPON HER BROW </s>
<s> THEN THE STRONG SOOTHING HAND OF THE AUSTERE MAID DREW HER HEAD DOWN ON TO THE CUSHION AND THE WILD ANGER DIED AWAY INTO PASSIONATE SOBBING </s>
<s> AT LAST SHE CONTINUED </s>
<s> I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT LAST NIGHT </s>
<s> YOU ARE AWARE PERHAPS THAT IN THIS HOUSE ALL THE SERVANTS SLEEP IN THE MODERN WING </s>
<s> THIS CENTRAL BLOCK IS MADE UP OF THE DWELLING ROOMS WITH THE KITCHEN BEHIND AND OUR BEDROOM ABOVE </s>
<s> MY MAID THERESA SLEEPS ABOVE MY ROOM </s>
<s> THERE IS NO ONE ELSE AND NO SOUND COULD ALARM THOSE WHO ARE IN THE FARTHER WING </s>
<s> THIS MUST HAVE BEEN WELL KNOWN TO THE ROBBERS OR THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ACTED AS THEY DID </s>
<s> SIR EUSTACE RETIRED ABOUT HALF PAST TEN </s>
<s> THE SERVANTS HAD ALREADY GONE TO THEIR QUARTERS </s>
<s> ONLY MY MAID WAS UP AND SHE HAD REMAINED IN HER ROOM AT THE TOP OF THE HOUSE UNTIL I NEEDED HER SERVICES </s>
<s> I SAT UNTIL AFTER ELEVEN IN THIS ROOM ABSORBED IN A BOOK </s>
<s> THEN I WALKED ROUND TO SEE THAT ALL WAS RIGHT BEFORE I WENT UPSTAIRS </s>
<s> IT WAS MY CUSTOM TO DO THIS MYSELF FOR AS I HAVE EXPLAINED SIR EUSTACE WAS NOT ALWAYS TO BE TRUSTED </s>
<s> I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN THE BUTLER'S PANTRY THE GUN ROOM THE BILLIARD ROOM THE DRAWING ROOM AND FINALLY THE DINING ROOM </s>
<s> AS I APPROACHED THE WINDOW WHICH IS COVERED WITH THICK CURTAINS I SUDDENLY FELT THE WIND BLOW UPON MY FACE AND REALIZED THAT IT WAS OPEN </s>
<s> I FLUNG THE CURTAIN ASIDE AND FOUND MYSELF FACE TO FACE WITH A BROAD SHOULDERED ELDERLY MAN WHO HAD JUST STEPPED INTO THE ROOM </s>
<s> THE WINDOW IS A LONG FRENCH ONE WHICH REALLY FORMS A DOOR LEADING TO THE LAWN </s>
<s> I HELD MY BEDROOM CANDLE LIT IN MY HAND AND BY ITS LIGHT BEHIND THE FIRST MAN I SAW TWO OTHERS WHO WERE IN THE ACT OF ENTERING </s>
<s> I STEPPED BACK BUT THE FELLOW WAS ON ME IN AN INSTANT </s>
<s> HE CAUGHT ME FIRST BY THE WRIST AND THEN BY THE THROAT </s>
<s> I OPENED MY MOUTH TO SCREAM BUT HE STRUCK ME A SAVAGE BLOW WITH HIS FIST OVER THE EYE AND FELLED ME TO THE GROUND </s>
<s> I MUST HAVE BEEN UNCONSCIOUS FOR A FEW MINUTES FOR WHEN I CAME TO MYSELF I FOUND THAT THEY HAD TORN DOWN THE BELL ROPE AND HAD SECURED ME TIGHTLY TO THE OAKEN CHAIR WHICH STANDS AT THE HEAD OF THE DINING TABLE </s>
<s> I WAS SO FIRMLY BOUND THAT I COULD NOT MOVE AND A HANDKERCHIEF ROUND MY MOUTH PREVENTED ME FROM UTTERING A SOUND </s>
<s> IT WAS AT THIS INSTANT THAT MY UNFORTUNATE HUSBAND ENTERED THE ROOM </s>
<s> HE HAD EVIDENTLY HEARD SOME SUSPICIOUS SOUNDS AND HE CAME PREPARED FOR SUCH A SCENE AS HE FOUND </s>
<s> HE WAS DRESSED IN NIGHTSHIRT AND TROUSERS WITH HIS FAVOURITE BLACKTHORN CUDGEL IN HIS HAND </s>
<s> HE RUSHED AT THE BURGLARS BUT ANOTHER IT WAS AN ELDERLY MAN STOOPED PICKED THE POKER OUT OF THE GRATE AND STRUCK HIM A HORRIBLE BLOW AS HE PASSED </s>
<s> HE FELL WITH A GROAN AND NEVER MOVED AGAIN </s>
<s> I FAINTED ONCE MORE BUT AGAIN IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN FOR A VERY FEW MINUTES DURING WHICH I WAS INSENSIBLE </s>
<s> WHEN I OPENED MY EYES ONE FOUND THAT THEY HAD COLLECTED THE SILVER FROM THE SIDEBOARD AND THEY HAD DRAWN A BOTTLE OF WINE WHICH STOOD THERE </s>
<s> EACH OF THEM HAD A GLASS IN HIS HAND </s>
<s> I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU HAVE I NOT THAT ONE WAS ELDERLY WITH A BEARD AND THE OTHERS YOUNG HAIRLESS LADS </s>
<s> THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN A FATHER WITH HIS TWO SONS </s>
<s> THEY TALKED TOGETHER IN WHISPERS </s>
<s> THEN THEY CAME OVER AND MADE SURE THAT I WAS SECURELY BOUND </s>
<s> FINALLY THEY WITHDREW CLOSING THE WINDOW AFTER THEM </s>
<s> IT WAS QUITE A QUARTER OF AN HOUR BEFORE I GOT MY MOUTH FREE </s>
<s> WHEN I DID SO MY SCEAMS BROUGHT THE MAID TO MY ASSISTANCE </s>
<s> THE OTHER SERVANTS WERE SOON ALARMED AND WE SENT FOR THE LOCAL POLICE WHO INSTANTLY COMMUNICATED WITH LONDON </s>
<s> THAT IS REALLY ALL THAT I CAN TELL YOU GENTLEMEN AND I TRUST THAT IT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY FOR ME TO GO OVER SO PAINFUL A STORY AGAIN </s>
<s> ANY QUESTIONS MR. HOLMES ASKED HOPKINS </s>
<s> QUOTE I WILL NOT IMPOSE ANY FURTHER TAX UPON LADY BRACKENSTALL'S PATIENCE AND TIME QUOTE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> BEFORE I GO INTO THE DININGROOM I SHOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR EXPERIENCE </s>
<s> HE LOOKED AT THE MAID </s>
<s> I SAW THE MEN BEFORE EVER THEY CAME INTO THE HOUSE SAID SHE </s>
<s> AS I SAT BY MY BEDROOM WINDOW I SAW THREE MEN IN THE MOONLIGHT DOWN BY THE LODGE GATE YONDER BUT I THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT AT THE TIME </s>
<s> IT WAS MORE THAN AN HOUR AFTER THAT I HEARD MY MISTRESS SCREAM AND DOWN I RAN TO FIND HER POOR LAMB JUST AS SHE SAYS AND HIM ON THE FLOOR WITH HIS BLOOD AND BRAINS OVER THE ROOM </s>
<s> IT WAS ENOUGH TO DRIVE A WOMAN OUT OF HER WITS TIED THERE AND HER VERY DRESS SPOTTED WITH HIM BUT SHE NEVER WANTED COURAGE DID MISS MARY FRASER OF ADELAIDE AND LADY BRACKENSTALL OF ABBEY GRANGE HASN'T LEARNED NEW WAYS </s>
<s> YOU'VE QUESTIONED HER LONG ENOUGH YOU GENTLEMEN AND NOW SHE IS COMING TO HER OWN ROOM JUST WITH HER OLD THERESA TO GET THE REST THAT SHE BADLY NEEDS </s>
<s> WITH A MOTHERLY TENDERNESS THE GAUNT WOMAN PUT HER ARM ROUND HER MISTRESS AND LED HER FROM THE ROOM </s>
<s> SHE HAS BEEN WITH HER ALL HER LIFE SAID HOPKINS </s>
<s> QUOTE NURSED HER AS A BABY AND CAME WITH HER TO ENGLAND WHEN THEY FIRST LEFT AUSTRALIA EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO </s>
<s> THERESA WRIGHT IS HER NAME AND THE KIND OF MAID YOU DON'T PICK UP NOWADAYS </s>
<s> THIS WAY MR. HOLMES IF YOU PLEASE </s>
<s> THE KEEN INTEREST HAD PASSED OUT OF HOLMES'S EXPRESSIVE FACE AND I KNEW THAT WITH THE MYSTERY ALL THE CHARM OF THE CASE HAD DEPARTED </s>
<s> THERE STILL REMAINED AN ARREST TO BE EFFECTED BUT WHAT WERE THESE COMMONPLACE ROGUES THAT HE SHOULD SOIL HIS HANDS WITH THEM </s>