abbey_grange.txt

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<s> AN ABSTRUSE AND LEARNED SPECIALIST WHO FINDS THAT HE HAS BEEN CALLED IN FOR A CASE OF MEASLES WOULD EXPERIENCE SOMETHING OF THE ANNOYANCE WHICH I READ IN MY FRIEND'S EYES </s>
<s> YET THE SCENE IN THE DINING ROOM OF THE ABBEY GRANGE WAS SUFFICIENTLY STRANGE TO ARREST HIS ATTENTION AND TO RECALL HIS WANING INTEREST </s>
<s> IT WAS A VERY LARGE AND HIGH CHAMBER WITH CARVED OAK CEILING OAKEN PANELLING AND A FINE ARRAY OF DEER'S HEADS AND ANCIENT WEAPONS AROUND THE WALLS </s>
<s> AT THE FURTHER END FROM THE DOOR WAS THE HIGH FRENCH WINDOW OF WHICH WE HAD HEARD </s>
<s> THREE SMALLER WINDOWS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE FILLED THE APARTMENT WITH COLD WINTER SUNSHINE </s>
<s> ON THE LEFT WAS A LARGE DEEP FIREPLACE WITH A MASSIVE OVERHANGING OAK MANTELPIECE </s>
<s> BESIDE THE FIREPLACE WAS A HEAVY OAKEN CHAIR WITH ARMS AND CROSSBARS AT THE BOTTOM </s>
<s> IN AND OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WOODWORK WAS WOVEN A CRIMSON CORD WHICH WAS SECURED AT EACH SIDE TO THE CROSSPIECE BELOW </s>
<s> IN RELEASING THE LADY THE CORD HAD BEEN SLIPPED OFF HER BUT THE KNOTS WITH WHICH IT HAD BEEN SECURED STILL REMAINED </s>
<s> THESE DETAILS ONLY STRUCK OUR ATTENTION AFTERWARDS FOR OUR THOUGHTS WERE ENTIRELY ABSORBED BY THE TERRIBLE OBJECT WHICH LAY UPON THE TIGERSKIN HEARTHRUG IN FRONT OF THE FIRE </s>
<s> IT WAS THE BODY OF A TALL WELL MADE MAN ABOUT FORTY YEARS OF AGE </s>
<s> HE LAY UPON HIS BACK HIS FACE UPTURNED WITH HIS WHITE TEETH GRINNING THROUGH HIS SHORT BLACK BEARD </s>
<s> HIS TWO CLENCHED HANDS WERE RAISED ABOVE HIS HEAD AND A HEAVY BLACKTHORN STICK LAY ACROSS THEM </s>
<s> HIS DARK HANDSOME AQUILINE FEATURES WERE CONVULSED INTO A SPASM OF VINDICTIVE HATRED WHICH HAD SET HIS DEAD FACE IN A TERRIBLY FIENDISH EXPRESSION </s>
<s> HE HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN IN HIS BED WHEN THE ALARM HAD BROKEN OUT FOR HE WORE A FOPPISH EMBROIDERED NIGHTSHIRT AND HIS BARE FEET PROJECTED FROM HIS TROUSERS </s>
<s> HIS HEAD WAS HORRIBLY INJURED AND THE WHOLE ROOM BORE WITNESS TO THE SAVAGE FEROCITY OF THE BLOW WHICH HAD STRUCK HIM DOWN </s>
<s> BESIDE HIM LAY THE HEAVY POKER BENT INTO A CURVE BY THE CONCUSSION </s>
<s> HOLMES EXAMINED BOTH IT AND THE INDESCRIBABLE WRECK WHICH IT HAD WROUGHT </s>
<s> HE MUST BE A POWERFUL MAN THIS ELDER RANDALL HE REMARKED </s>
<s> YES SAID HOPKINS </s>
<s> I HAVE SOME RECORD OF THE FELLOW AND HE IS A ROUGH CUSTOMER </s>
<s> YOU SHOULD HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN GETTING HIM </s>
<s> QUOTE NOT THE SLIGHTEST </s>
<s> WE HAVE BEEN ON THE LOOK OUT FOR HIM AND THERE WAS SOME IDEA THAT HE HAD GOT AWAY TO AMERICA </s>
<s> NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT THE GANG ARE HERE I DON'T SEE HOW THEY CAN ESCAPE </s>
<s> WE HAVE THE NEWS AT EVERY SEAPORT ALREADY AND A REWARD WILL BE OFFERED BEFORE EVENING </s>
<s> WHAT BEATS ME IS HOW THEY COULD HAVE DONE SO MAD A THING KNOWING THAT THE LADY COULD DESCRIBE THEM AND THAT WE COULD NOT FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE DESCRIPTION </s>
<s> EXACTLY </s>
<s> ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT THEY WOULD SILENCE LADY BRACKENSTALL AS WELL </s>
<s> THEY MAY NOT HAVE REALIZED I SUGGESTED THAT SHE HAD RECOVERED FROM HER FAINT </s>
<s> THAT IS LIKELY ENOUGH </s>
<s> IF SHE SEEMED TO BE SENSELESS THEY WOULD NOT TAKE HER LIFE </s>
<s> WHAT ABOUT THIS POOR FELLOW HOPKINS </s>
<s> I SEEM TO HAVE HEARD SOME QUEER STORIES ABOUT HIM QUOTE </s>
<s> HE WAS A GOOD HEARTED MAN WHEN HE WAS SOBER BUT A PERFECT FIEND WHEN HE WAS DRUNK OR RATHER WHEN HE WAS HALF DRUNK FOR HE SELDOM REALLY WENT THE WHOLE WAY </s>
<s> THE DEVIL SEEMED TO BE IN HIM AT SUCH TIMES AND HE WAS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING </s>
<s> FROM WHAT I HEAR IN SPITE OF ALL HIS WEALTH AND HIS TITLE HE VERY NEARLY CAME OUR WAY ONCE OR TWICE </s>
<s> THERE WAS A SCANDAL ABOUT HIS DRENCHING A DOG WITH PETROLEUM AND SETTING IT ON FIRE HER LADYSHIP'S DOG TO MAKE THE MATTER WORSE AND THAT WAS ONLY HUSHED UP WITH DIFFICULTY </s>
<s> THEN HE THREW A DECANTER AT THAT MAID THERESA WRIGHT THERE WAS TROUBLE ABOUT THAT </s>
<s> ON THE WHOLE AND BETWEEN OURSELVES IT WILL BE A BRIGHTER HOUSE WITHOUT HIM </s>
<s> WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT NOW </s>
<s> HOLMES WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES EXAMINING WITH GREAT ATTENTION THE KNOTS UPON THE RED CORD WITH WHICH THE LADY HAD BEEN SECURED </s>
<s> THEN HE CAREFULLY SCRUTINIZED THE BROKEN AND FRAYED END WHERE IT HAD SNAPPED OFF WHEN THE BURGLAR HAD DRAGGED IT DOWN </s>
<s> WHEN THIS WAS PULLED DOWN THE BELL IN THE KITCHEN MUST HAVE RUNG LOUDLY HE REMARKED </s>
<s> NO ONE COULD HEAR IT </s>
<s> THE KITCHEN STANDS RIGHT AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE </s>
<s> QUOTE HOW DID THE BURGLAR KNOW NO ONE WOULD HEAR IT </s>
<s> HOW DARED HE PULL AT A BELLROPE IN THAT RECKLESS FASHION </s>
<s> EXACTLY MR. HOLMES EXACTLY </s>
<s> YOU PUT THE VERY QUESTION WHICH I HAVE ASKED MYSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN </s>
<s> THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THIS FELLOW MUST HAVE KNOWN THE HOUSE AND ITS HABITS </s>
<s> HE MUST HAVE PERFECTLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE SERVANTS WOULD ALL BE IN BED AT THAT COMPARATIVELY EARLY HOUR AND THAT NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY HEAR A BELL RING IN THE KITCHEN </s>
<s> THEREFORE HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN CLOSE LEAGUE WITH ONE OF THE SERVANTS </s>
<s> SURELY THAT IS EVIDENT </s>
<s> BUT THERE ARE EIGHT SERVANTS AND ALL OF GOOD CHARACTER </s>
<s> OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL SAID HOLMES ONE WOULD SUSPECT THE ONE AT WHOSE HEAD THE MASTER THREW A DECANTER </s>
<s> AND YET THAT WOULD INVOLVE TREACHERY TOWARDS THE MISTRESS TO WHOM THIS WOMAN SEEMS DEVOTED </s>
<s> WELL WELL THE POINT IS A MINOR ONE AND WHEN YOU HAVE RANDALL YOU WILL PROBABLY FIND NO DIFFICULTY IN SECURING HIS ACCOMPLICE </s>
<s> THE LADY'S STORY CERTAINLY SEEMS TO BE CORROBORATED IF IT NEEDED CORROBORATION BY EVERY DETAIL WHICH WE SEE BEFORE US </s>
<s> HE WALKED TO THE FRENCH WINDOW AND THREW IT OPEN </s>
<s> QUOTE THERE ARE NO SIGNS HERE BUT THE GROUND IS IRON HARD AND ONE WOULD NOT EXPECT THEM </s>
<s> I SEE THAT THESE CANDLES IN THE MANTELPIECE HAVE BEEN LIGHTED </s>
<s> YES IT WAS BY THEIR LIGHT AND THAT OF THE LADY'S BEDROOM CANDLE THAT THE BURGLARS SAW THEIR WAY ABOUT </s>
<s> AND WHAT DID THEY TAKE </s>
<s> WELL THEY DID NOT TAKE MUCH ONLY HALF A DOZEN ARTICLES OF PLATE OFF THE SIDEBOARD </s>
<s> LADY BRACKENSTALL THINKS THAT THEY WERE THEMSELVES SO DISTURBED BY THE DEATH OF SIR EUSTACE THAT THEY DID NOT RANSACK THE HOUSE AS THEY WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE DONE </s>
<s> QUOTE NO DOUBT THAT IS TRUE AND YET THEY DRANK SOME WINE I UNDERSTAND QUOTE </s>
<s> TO STEADY THEIR NERVES </s>
<s> EXACTLY </s>
<s> THESE THREE GLASSES UPON THE SIDEBOARD HAVE BEEN UNTOUCHED I SUPPOSE </s>
<s> YES AND THE BOTTLE STANDS AS THEY LEFT IT </s>
<s> LET US LOOK AT IT </s>
<s> HALLOA HALLOA </s>
<s> WHAT IS THIS QUOTE </s>
<s> THE THREE GLASSES WERE GROUPED TOGETHER ALL OF THEM TINGED WITH WINE AND ONE OF THEM CONTAINING SOME DREGS OF BEESWING </s>
<s> THE BOTTLE STOOD NEAR THEM TWO THIRDS FULL AND BESIDE IT LAY A LONG DEEPLY STAINED CORK </s>
<s> ITS APPEARANCE AND THE DUST UPON THE BOTTLE SHOWED THAT IT WAS NO COMMON VINTAGE WHICH THE MURDERERS HAD ENJOYED </s>
<s> A CHANGE HAD COME OVER HOLMES'S MANNER </s>
<s> HE HAD LOST HIS LISTLESS EXPRESSION AND AGAIN I SAW AN ALERT LIGHT OF INTEREST IN HIS KEEN DEEP SET EYES </s>
<s> HE RAISED THE CORK AND EXAMINED IT MINUTELY </s>
<s> HOW DID THEY DRAW IT HE ASKED </s>
<s> HOPKINS POINTED TO A HALF OPENED DRAWER </s>
<s> IN IT LAY SOME TABLE LINEN AND A LARGE CORKSCREW </s>
<s> DID LADY BRACKENSTALL SAY THAT SCREW WAS USED </s>
<s> NO YOU REMEMBER THAT SHE WAS SENSELESS AT THE MOMENT WHEN THE BOTTLE WAS OPENED </s>
<s> QUITE SO </s>
<s> AS A MATTER OF FACT THAT SCREW WAS NOT USED </s>
<s> THIS BOTTLE WAS OPENED BY A POCKET SCREW PROBABLY CONTAINED IN A KNIFE AND NOT MORE THAN AN INCH AND A HALF LONG </s>
<s> IF YOU WILL EXAMINE THE TOP OF THE CORK YOU WILL OBSERVE THAT THE SCREW WAS DRIVEN IN THREE TIMES BEFORE THE CORK WAS EXTRACTED </s>
<s> IT HAS NEVER BEEN TRANSFIXED </s>
<s> THIS LONG SCREW WOULD HAVE TRANSFIXED IT AND DRAWN IT UP WITH A SINGLE PULL </s>
<s> WHEN YOU CATCH THIS FELLOW YOU WILL FIND THAT HE HAS ONE OF THESE MULTIPLEX KNIVES IN HIS POSSESSION </s>
<s> QUOTE EXCELLENT QUOTE SAID HOPKINS </s>
<s> BUT THESE GLASSES DO PUZZLE ME I CONFESS </s>
<s> LADY BRACKENSTALL ACTUALLY SAW THE THREE MEN DRINKING DID SHE NOT </s>
<s> YES SHE WAS CLEAR ABOUT THAT </s>
<s> THEN THERE IS AN END OF IT </s>
<s> WHAT MORE IS TO BE SAID </s>
<s> AND YET YOU MUST ADMLT THAT THE THREE GLASSES ARE VERY REMARKABLE HOPKINS </s>
<s> WHAT </s>
<s> YOU SEE NOTHING REMARKABLE </s>
<s> WELL WELL LET IT PASS </s>
<s> PERHAPS WHEN A MAN HAS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SPECIAL POWERS LIKE MY OWN IT RATHER ENCOURAGES HIM TO SEEK A COMPLEX EXPLANATION WHEN A SIMPLER ONE IS AT HAND </s>
<s> OF COURSE IT MUST BE A MERE CHANCE ABOUT THE GLASSES </s>
<s> WELL GOOD MORNING HOPKINS </s>
<s> I DON'T SEE THAT I CAN BE OF ANY USE TO YOU AND YOU APPEAR TO HAVE YOUR CASE VERY CLEAR </s>
<s> YOU WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN RANDALL IS ARRESTED AND ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS WHICH MAY OCCUR </s>
<s> I TRUST THAT I SHALL SOON HAVE TO CONGRATULATE YOU UPON A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION </s>
<s> COME WATSON I FANCY THAT WE MAY EMPLOY OURSELVES MORE PROFITABLY AT HOME </s>
<s> DURING OUR RETURN JOURNEY I COULD SEE BY HOLMES'S FACE THAT HE WAS MUCH PUZZLED BY SOMETHING WHICH HE HAD OBSERVED </s>
<s> EVERY NOW AND THEN BY AN EFFORT HE WOULD THROW OFF THE IMPRESSION AND TALK AS IF THE MATTER WERE CLEAR BUT THEN HIS DOUBTS WOULD SETTLE DOWN UPON HIM AGAIN AND HIS KNITTED BROWS AND ABSTRACTED EYES WOULD SHOW THAT HIS THOUGHTS HAD GONE BACK ONCE MORE TO THE GREAT DINING ROOM OF THE ABBEY GRANGE IN WHICH THIS MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY HAD BEEN ENACTED </s>
<s> AT LAST BY A SUDDEN IMPULSE JUST AS OUR TRAIN WAS CRAWLING OUT OF A SUBURBAN STATION HE SPRANG ON TO THE PLATFORM AND PULLED ME OUT AFTER HIM </s>
<s> QUOTE EXCUSE ME MY DEAR FELLOW QUOTE SAID HE AS WE WATCHED THE REAR CARRIAGES OF OUR TRAIN DISAPPEARING ROUND A CURVE QUOTE I AM SORRY TO MAKE YOU THE VICTIM OF WHAT MAY SEEM A MERE WHIM BUT ON MY LIFE WATSON I SIMPLY CAN'T LEAVE THAT CASE IN THIS CONDITION </s>
<s> EVERY INSTINCT THAT I POSSESS CRIES OUT AGAINST IT </s>
<s> IT'S WRONG IT'S ALL WRONG I'LL SWEAR THAT IT'S WRONG </s>
<s> AND YET THE LADY'S STORY WAS COMPLETE THE MAID'S CORROBORATION WAS SUFFICIENT THE DETAIL WAS FAIRLY EXACT </s>
<s> WHAT HAVE I TO PUT UP AGAINST THAT </s>
<s> THREE WINE GLASSES THAT IS ALL </s>
<s> BUT IF I HAD NOT TAKEN THINGS FOR GRANTED IF I HAD EXAMINED EVERYTHING WITH CARE WHICH I SHOULD HAVE SHOWN HAD WE APPROACHED THE CASE DE NOVO AND HAD NO CUT AND DRIED STORY TO WARP MY MIND SHOULD I NOT THEN HAVE FOUND SOMETHING MORE DEFINITE TO GO UPON </s>
<s> OF COURSE I SHOULD </s>
<s> SIT DOWN ON THIS BENCH WATSON UNTIL A TRAIN FOR CHISELHURST ARRIVES AND ALLOW ME TO LAY THE EVIDENCE BEFORE YOU IMPLORING YOU IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO DISMISS FROM YOUR MIND THE IDEA THAT ANYTHING WHICH THE MAID OR HER MISTRESS MAY HAVE SAID MUST NECESSARILY BE TRUE </s>
<s> THE LADY'S CHARMING PERSONALITY MUST NOT BE PERMITTED TO WARP OUR JUDGMENT </s>
<s> SURELY THERE ARE DETAILS IN HER STORY WHICH IF WE LOOKED AT IN COLD BLOOD WOULD EXCITE OUR SUSPICION </s>
<s> THESE BURGLARS MADE A CONSIDERABLE HAUL AT SYDENHAM A FORTNIGHT AGO </s>
<s> SOME ACCOUNT OF THEM AND OF THEIR APPEARANCE WAS IN THE PAPERS AND WOULD NATURALLY OCCUR TO ANYONE WHO WISHED TO INVENT A STORY IN WHICH IMAGINARY ROBBERS SHOULD PLAY A PART </s>
<s> AS A MATTER OF FACT BURGLARS WHO HAVE DONE A GOOD STROKE OF BUSINESS ARE AS A RULE ONLY TOO GLAD TO ENJOY THE PROCEEDS IN PEACE AND QUIET WITHOUT EMBARKING ON ANOTHER PERILOUS UNDERTAKING </s>
<s> AGAIN IT IS UNUSUAL FOR BURGLARS TO OPERATE AT SO EARLY AN HOUR IT IS UNUSUAL FOR BURGLARS TO STRIKE A LADY TO PREVENT HER SCREAMING SINCE ONE WOULD IMAGINE THAT WAS THE SURE WAY TO MAKE HER SCREAM IT IS UNUSUAL FOR THEM TO COMMIT MURDER WHEN THEIR NUMBERS ARE SUFFICIENT TO OVERPOWER ONE MAN IT IS UNUSUAL FOR THEM TO BE CONTENT WITH A LIMITED PLUNDER WHEN THERE WAS MUCH MORE WITHIN THEIR REACH AND FINALLY I SHOULD SAY THAT IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL FOR SUCH MEN TO LEAVE A BOTTLE HALF EMPTY </s>
<s> HOW DO ALL THESE UNUSUALS STRIKE YOU WATSON </s>
<s> THEIR CUMULATIVE EFFECT IS CERTAINLY CONSIDERABLE AND YET EACH OF THEM IS QUITE POSSIBLE IN ITSELF </s>
<s> THE MOST UNUSUAL THING OF ALL AS IT SEEMS TO ME IS THAT THE LADY SHOULD BE TIED TO THE CHAIR </s>
<s> WELL I AM NOT SO CLEAR ABOUT THAT WATSON FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT THEY MUST EITHER KILL HER OR ELSE SECURE HER IN SUCH A WAY THAT SHE COULD NOT GIVE IMMEDIATE NOTICE OF THEIR ESCAPE </s>
<s> BUT AT ANY RATE I HAVE SHOWN HAVE I NOT THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN ELEMENT OF IMPROBABILITY ABOUT THE LADY'S STORY </s>
<s> AND NOW ON THE TOP OF THIS COMES THE INCIDENT OF THE WINEGLASSES QUOTE </s>
<s> WHAT ABOUT THE WINEGLASSES </s>
<s> CAN YOU SEE THEM IN YOUR MIND'S EYE </s>
<s> I SEE THEM CLEARLY </s>
<s> WE ARE TOLD THAT THREE MEN DRANK FROM THEM </s>
<s> DOES THAT STRIKE YOU AS LIKELY </s>
<s> QUOTE WHY NOT </s>
<s> THERE WAS WINE IN EACH GLASS </s>
<s> EXACTLY BUT THERE WAS BEESWING ONLY IN ONE GLASS </s>
<s> YOU MUST HAVE NOTICED THAT FACT </s>
<s> WHAT DOES THAT SUGGEST TO YOUR MIND </s>
<s> THE LAST GLASS FILLED WOULD BE MOST LIKELY TO CONTAIN BEESWING </s>
<s> NOT AT ALL </s>
<s> THE BOTTLE WAS FULL OF IT AND IT IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT THE FIRST TWO GLASSES WERE CLEAR AND THE THIRD HEAVILY CHARGED WITH IT </s>
<s> THERE ARE TWO POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS AND ONLY TWO </s>
<s> ONE IS THAT AFTER THE SECOND GLASS WAS FILLED THE BOTTLE WAS VIOLENTLY AGITATED AND SO THE THIRD GLASS RECEIVED THE BEESWING </s>
<s> THAT DOES NOT APPEAR PROBABLE </s>
<s> NO NO I AM SURE THAT I AM RIGHT QUOTE </s>
<s> WHAT THEN DO YOU SUPPOSE </s>
<s> THAT ONLY TWO GLASSES WERE USED AND THAT THE DREGS OF BOTH WERE POURED INTO A THIRD GLASS SO AS TO GIVE THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THREE PEOPLE HAD BEEN HERE </s>
<s> IN THAT WAY ALL THE BEESWING WOULD BE IN THE LAST GLASS WOULD IT NOT </s>
<s> YES I AM CONVINCED THAT THIS IS SO </s>