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<s> INSIDE THE HOUSE WE WERE MET BY THE E. ONE D. E. R. L. Y. CORNISH HOUSEKEEPER MRS. PORTER WHO WITH THE AID OF A YOUNG GIRL LOOKED AFTER THE WANTS OF THE FAMILY </s>
<s> SHE READILY ANSWERED ALL HOLMES'S QUESTIONS </s>
<s> SHE HAD HEARD NOTHING IN THE NIGHT </s>
<s> HER EMPLOYERS HAD ALL BEEN IN EXCELLENT SPIRITS LATELY AND SHE HAD NEVER KNOWN THEM MORE CHEERFUL AND PROSPEROUS </s>
<s> SHE HAD FAINTED WITH HORROR UPON ENTERING THE ROOM IN THE MORNING AND SEEING THAT DREADFUL COMPANY ROUND THE TABLE </s>
<s> SHE HAD WHEN SHE RECOVERED THROWN OPEN THE WINDOW TO LET THE MORNING AIR IN AND HAD RUN DOWN TO THE LANE WHENCE SHE SENT A FARM LAD FOR THE DOCTOR </s>
<s> THE LADY WAS ON HER BED UPSTAIRS IF WE CARED TO SEE HER </s>
<s> IT TOOK FOUR STRONG MEN TO GET THE BROTHERS INTO THE ASYLUM CARRIAGE </s>
<s> SHE WOULD NOT HERSELF STAY IN THE HOUSE ANOTHER DAY AND WAS STARTING THAT VERY AFTERNOON TO REJOIN HER FAMILY AT SAINT IVES </s>
<s> WE ASCENDED THE STAIRS AND VIEWED THE BODY </s>
<s> MISS BRENDA TREGENNIS HAD BEEN A VERY BEAUTIFUL GIRL THOUGH NOW VERGING UPON MIDDLE AGE </s>
<s> HER DARK CLEAR CUT FACE WAS HANDSOME EVEN IN DEATH BUT THERE STILL LINGERED UPON IT SOMETHING OF THAT CONVULSION OF HORROR WHICH HAD BEEN HER LAST HUMAN EMOTION </s>
<s> FROM HER BEDROOM WE DESCENDED TO THE SITTING ROOM WHERE THIS STRANGE TRAGEDY HAD ACTUALLY OCCURRED </s>
<s> THE CHARRED ASHES OF THE OVERNIGHT FIRE LAY IN THE GRATE </s>
<s> ON THE TABLE WERE THE FOUR GUTTERED AND BURNED OUT CANDLES WITH THE CARDS SCATTERED OVER ITS SURFACE </s>
<s> THE CHAIRS HAD BEEN MOVED BACK AGAINST THE WALLS BUT ALL ELSE WAS AS IT HAD BEEN THE NIGHT BEFORE </s>
<s> HOLMES PACED WITH LIGHT SWIFT STEPS ABOUT THE ROOM HE SAT IN THE VARIOUS CHAIRS DRAWING THEM UP AND RECONSTRUCTING THEIR POSITIONS </s>
<s> HE TESTED HOW MUCH OF THE GARDEN WAS VISIBLE HE EXAMINED THE FLOOR THE CEILING AND THE FIREPLACE BUT NEVER ONCE DID I SEE THAT SUDDEN BRIGHTENING OF HIS EYES AND TIGHTENING OF HIS LIPS WHICH WOULD HAVE TOLD ME THAT HE SAW SOME GLEAM OF LIGHT IN THIS UTTER DARKNESS </s>
<s> WHY A FIRE HE ASKED ONCE </s>
<s> HAD THEY ALWAYS A FIRE IN THIS SMALL ROOM ON A SPRING EVENING </s>
<s> MORTIMER TREGENNIS EXPLAINED THAT THE NIGHT WAS COLD AND DAMP </s>
<s> FOR THAT REASON AFTER HIS ARRIVAL THE FIRE WAS LIT </s>
<s> WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW MR. HOLMES HE ASKED </s>
<s> MY FRIEND SMILED AND LAID HIS HAND UPON MY ARM </s>
<s> QUOTE I THINK WATSON THAT I SHALL RESUME THAT COURSE OF TOBACCO POISONING WHICH YOU HAVE SO OFTEN AND SO JUSTLY CONDEMNED QUOTE SAID HE </s>
<s> WITH YOUR PERMISSION GENTLEMEN WE WILL NOW RETURN TO OUR COTTAGE FOR I AM NOT AWARE THAT ANY NEW FACTOR IS LIKELY TO COME TO OUR NOTICE HERE </s>
<s> I WILL TURN THE FACTS OVER IN MY MIND MR. TREGENNIS AND SHOULD ANYTHING OCCUR TO ME I WILL CERTAINLY COMMUNICATE WITH YOU AND THE VICAR </s>
<s> IN THE MEANTIME I WISH YOU BOTH GOOD MORNING </s>
<s> IT WAS NOT UNTIL LONG AFTER WE WERE BACK IN POLDHU COTTAGE THAT HOLMES BROKE HIS COMPLETE AND ABSORBED SILENCE </s>
<s> HE SAT COILED IN HIS ARMCHAIR HIS HAGGARD AND ASCETIC FACE HARDLY VISIBLE AMID THE BLUE SWIRL OF HIS TOBACCO SMOKE HIS BLACK BROWS DRAWN DOWN HIS FOREHEAD CONTRACTED HIS EYES VACANT AND FAR AWAY </s>
<s> FINALLY HE LAID DOWN HIS PIPE AND SPRANG TO HIS FEET </s>
<s> IT WON'T DO WATSON SAID HE WITH A LAUGH </s>
<s> LET US WALK ALONG THE CLIFFS TOGETHER AND SEARCH FOR FLINT ARROWS </s>
<s> WE ARE MORE LIKELY TO FIND THEM THAN CLUES TO THIS PROBLEM </s>
<s> TO LET THE BRAIN WORK WITHOUT SUFFICIENT MATERIAL IS LIKE RACING AN ENGINE </s>
<s> IT RACKS ITSELF TO PIECES </s>
<s> THE SEA AIR SUNSHINE AND PATIENCE WATSON ALL ELSE WILL COME </s>
<s> NOW LET US CALMLY DEFINE OUR POSITION WATSON HE CONTINUED AS WE SKIRTED THE CLIFFS TOGETHER </s>
<s> QUOTE LET US GET A FIRM GRIP OF THE VERY LITTLE WHICH WE DO KNOW SO THAT WHEN FRESH FACTS ARISE WE MAY BE READY TO FIT THEM INTO THEIR PLACES </s>
<s> I TAKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT NEITHER OF US IS PREPARED TO ADMIT DIABOLICAL INTRUSIONS INTO THE AFFAIRS OF MEN </s>
<s> LET US BEGIN BY RULING THAT ENTIRELY OUT OF OUR MINDS </s>
<s> VERY GOOD </s>
<s> THERE REMAIN THREE PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN GRIEVOUSLY STRICKEN BY SOME CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS HUMAN AGENCY </s>
<s> THAT IS FIRM GROUND </s>
<s> NOW WHEN DID THIS OCCUR </s>
<s> EVIDENTLY ASSUMING HIS NARRATIVE TO BE TRUE IT WAS IMMEDIATELY AFTER MR. MORTIMER TREGENNIS HAD LEFT THE ROOM </s>
<s> THAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT </s>
<s> THE PRESUMPTION IS THAT IT WAS WITHIN A FEW MINUTES AFTERWARDS </s>
<s> THE CARDS STILL LAY UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> IT WAS ALREADY PAST THEIR USUAL HOUR FOR BED </s>
<s> YET THEY HAD NOT CHANGED THEIR POSITION OR PUSHED BACK THEIR CHAIRS </s>
<s> I REPEAT THEN THAT THE OCCURRENCE WAS IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS DEPARTURE AND NOT LATER THAN ELEVEN O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT </s>
<s> OUR NEXT OBVIOUS STEP IS TO CHECK SO FAR AS WE CAN THE MOVEMENTS OF MORTIMER TREGENNIS AFTER HE LEFT THE ROOM </s>
<s> IN THIS THERE IS NO DIFFICULTY AND THEY SEEM TO BE ABOVE SUSPICION </s>
<s> KNOWING MY METHODS AS YOU DO YOU WERE OF COURSE CONSCIOUS OF THE SOMEWHAT CLUMSY WATER POT EXPEDIENT BY WHICH I OBTAINED A CLEARER IMPRESS OF HIS FOOT THAN MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE </s>
<s> THE WET SANDY PATH TOOK IT ADMIRABLY </s>
<s> LAST NIGHT WAS ALSO WET YOU WILL REMEMBER AND IT WAS NOT DIFFICULT HAVING OBTAINED A SAMPLE PRINT TO PICK OUT HIS TRACK AMONG OTHERS AND TO FOLLOW HIS MOVEMENTS </s>
<s> HE APPEARS TO HAVE WALKED AWAY SWIFTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF THE VICARAGE </s>
<s> IF THEN MORTIMER TREGENNIS DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCENE AND YET SOME OUTSIDE PERSON AFFECTED THE CARDPLAYERS HOW CAN WE RECONSTRUCT THAT PERSON AND HOW WAS SUCH AN IMPRESSION OF HORROR CONVEYED </s>
<s> MRS. PORTER MAY BE ELIMINATED </s>
<s> SHE IS EVIDENTLY HARMLESS </s>
<s> IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT SOMEONE CREPT UP TO THE GARDEN WINDOW AND IN SOME MANNER PRODUCED SO TERRIFIC AN EFFECT THAT HE DROVE THOSE WHO SAW IT OUT OF THEIR SENSES </s>
<s> THE ONLY SUGGESTION IN THIS DIRECTION COMES FROM MORTIMER TREGENNIS HIMSELF WHO SAYS THAT HIS BROTHER SPOKE ABOUT SOME MOVEMENT IN THE GARDEN </s>
<s> THAT IS CERTAINLY REMARKABLE AS THE NIGHT WAS RAINY CLOUDY AND DARK </s>
<s> ANYONE WHO HAD THE DESIGN TO ALARM THESE PEOPLE WOULD BE COMPELLED TO PLACE HIS VERY FACE AGAINST THE GLASS BEFORE HE COULD BE SEEN </s>
<s> THERE IS A THREE FOOT FLOWERBORDER OUTSIDE THIS WINDOW BUT NO INDICATION OF A FOOTMARK </s>
<s> IT IS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE THEN HOW AN OUTSIDER COULD HAVE MADE SO TERRIBLE AN IMPRESSION UPON THE COMPANY NOR HAVE WE FOUND ANY POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR SO STRANGE AND ELABORATE AN ATTEMPT </s>
<s> YOU PERCEIVE OUR DIFFICULTIES WATSON </s>
<s> THEY ARE ONLY TOO CLEAR I ANSWERED WITH CONVICTION </s>
<s> AND YET WITH A LITTLE MORE MATERIAL WE MAY PROVE THAT THEY ARE NOT INSURMOUNTABLE SAID HOLRNES </s>
<s> QUOTE I FANCY THAT AMONG YOUR EXTENSIVE ARCHIVES WATSON YOU MAY FIND SOME WHICH WERE NEARLY AS OBSCURE </s>
<s> MEANWHILE WE SHALL PUT THE CASE ASIDE UNTIL MORE ACCURATE DATA ARE AVAILABLE AND DEVOTE THE REST OF OUR MORNING TO THE PURSUIT OF NEOLITHIC MAN </s>
<s> I MAY HAVE COMMENTED UPON MY FRIEND'S POWER OF MENTAL DETACHMENT BUT NEVER HAVE I WONDERED AT IT MORE THAN UPON THAT SPRING MORNING IN CORNWALL WHEN FOR TWO HOURS HE DISCOURSED UPON CELTS ARROWHEADS AND SHARDS AS LIGHTLY AS IF NO SINISTER MYSTERY WERE WAITING FOR HIS SOLUTION </s>
<s> IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE HAD RETURNED IN THE AFTERNOON TO OUR COTTLGE THAT WE FOUND A VISITOR AWAITING US WHO SOON BROUGHT OUR MINDS BACK TO THE MATTER IN HAND </s>
<s> NEITHER OF US NEEDED TO BE TOLD WHO THAT VISITOR WAS </s>
<s> THE HUGE BODY THE CRAGGY AND DEEPLY SEAMED FACE WITH THE FIERCE EYES AND HAWK LIKE NOSE THE GRIZZLED HAIR WHICH NEARLY BRUSHED OUR COTTAGE CEILING THE BEARD GOLDEN AT THE FRINGES AND WHITE NEAR THE LIPS SAVE FOR THE NICOTIN STAIN FROM HIS PERPETUAL CIGAR ALL THESE WERE AS WELL KNOWN IN LONDON AS IN AFRICA AND COULD ONLY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TREMENDOUS PERSONALITY OF DOCTOR LEON STERNDALE THE GREAT LION HUNTER AND EXPLORER </s>
<s> WE HAD HEARD OF HIS PRESENCE IN THE DISTRICT AND HAD ONCE OR TWICE CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIS TALL FIGURE UPON THE MOORLAND PATHS </s>
<s> HE MADE NO ADVANCES TO US HOWEVER NOR WOULD WE HAVE DREAMED OF DOING SO TO HIM AS IT WAS WELL KNOWN THAT IT WAS HIS LOVE OF SECLUSION WHICH CAUSED HIM TO SPEND THE GREATER PART OF THE INTERVALS BETWEEN HIS JOURNEYS IN A SMALL BUNGALOW BURIED IN THE LONELY WOOD OF BEAUCHAMP ARRIANCE </s>
<s> HERE AMID HIS BOOKS AND HIS MAPS HE LIVED AN ABSOLUTELY LONELY LIFE ATTENDING TO HIS OWN SIMPLE WANTS AND PAYING LITTLE APPARENT HEED TO THE AFFAIRS OF HIS NEIGHBOURS </s>
<s> IT WAS A SURPRISE TO ME THEREFORE TO HEAR HIM ASKING HOLMES IN AN EAGER VOICE WHETHER HE HAD MADE ANY ADVANCE IN HIS RECONSTRUCTION OF THIS MYSTERIOUS EPISODE </s>
<s> THE COUNTY POLICE ARE UTTERLY AT FAULT SAID HE BUT PERHAPS YOUR WIDER EXPERIENCE HAS SUGGESTED SOME CONCEIVABLE EXPLANATION </s>
<s> MY ONLY CLAIM TO BEING TAKEN INTO YOUR CONFIDENCE IS THAT DURING MY MANY RESIDENCES HERE I HAVE COME TO KNOW THIS FAMILY OF TREGENNIS VERY WELL INDEED UPON MY CORNISH MOTHER'S SIDE I COULD CALL THEM COUSINS AND THEIR STRANGE FATE HAS NATURALLY BEEN A GREAT SHOCK TO ME </s>
<s> I MAY TELL YOU THAT I HAD GOT AS FAR AS PLYMOUTH UPON MY WAY TO AFRICA BUT THE NEWS REACHED ME THIS MORNING AND I CAME STRAIGHT BACK AGAIN TO HELP IN THE INQUIRY </s>
<s> HOLMES RAISED HIS EYEBROWS </s>
<s> DID YOU LOSE YOUR BOAT THROUGH IT </s>
<s> I WILL TAKE THE NEXT </s>
<s> QUOTE DEAR ME THAT IS FRIENDSHIP INDEED QUOTE </s>
<s> I TELL YOU THEY WERE RELATIVES </s>
<s> QUITE SO COUSINS OF YOUR MOTHER </s>
<s> WAS YOUR BAGGAGE ABOARD THE SHIP </s>
<s> SOME OF IT BUT THE MAIN PART AT THE HOTEL </s>
<s> I SEE </s>
<s> BUT SURELY THIS EVENT COULD NOT HAVE FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE PLYMOUTH MORNING PAPERS QUOTE </s>
<s> NO SIR I HAD A TELEGRAM </s>
<s> MIGHT I ASK FROM WHOM </s>
<s> A SHADOW PASSED OVER THE GAUNT FACE OF THE EXPLORER </s>
<s> YOU ARE VERY INQUISITIVE MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> IT IS MY BUSINESS </s>
<s> WITH AN EFFORT DOCTOR STERNDALE RECOVERED HIS RUFFLED COMPOSURE </s>
<s> I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO TELLING YOU HE SAID </s>
<s> QUOTE IT WAS MR. ROUNDHAY THE VICAR WHO SENT ME THE TELEGRAM WHICH RECALLED ME QUOTE </s>
<s> THANK YOU SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> I MAY SAY IN ANSWER TO YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION THAT I HAVE NOT CLEARED MY MIND ENTIRELY ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS CASE BUT THAT I HAVE EVERY HOPE OF REACHING SOME CONCLUSION </s>
<s> IT WOULD BE PREMATURE TO SAY MORE </s>
<s> PERHAPS YOU WOULD NOT MIND TELLING ME IF YOUR SUSPICIONS POINT IN ANY PARTICULAR DIRECTION </s>
<s> NO I CAN HARDLY ANSWER THAT </s>
<s> QUOTE THEN I HAVE WASTED MY TIME AND NEED NOT PROLONG MY VISIT QUOTE </s>
<s> THE FAMOUS DOCTOR STRODE OUT OF OUR COTTAGE IN CONSIDERABLE ILL HUMOUR AND WITHIN FIVE MINUTES HOLMES HAD FOLLOWED HIM </s>
<s> I SAW HIM NO MORE UNTIL THE EVENING WHEN HE RETURNED WITH A SLOW STEP AND HAGGARD FACE WHICH ASSURED ME THAT HE HAD MADE NO GREAT PROGRESS WITH HIS INVESTIGATION </s>
<s> HE GLANCED AT A TELEGRAM WHICH AWAITED HIM AND THREW IT INTO THE GRATE </s>
<s> FROM THE PLYMOUTH HOTEL WATSON HE SAID </s>
<s> I LEARNED THE NAME OF IT FROM THE VICAR AND I WIRED TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT DOCTOR LEON STEMDALE'S ACCOUNT WAS TRUE </s>
<s> IT APPEARS THAT HE DID INDEED SPEND LAST NIGHT THERE AND THAT HE HAS ACTUALLY ALLOWED SOME OF HIS BAGGAGE TO GO ON TO AFRICA WHILE HE RETURNED TO BE PRESENT AT THIS INVESTIGATION </s>
<s> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT WATSON </s>
<s> HE IS DEEPLY INTERESTED </s>
<s> DEEPLY INTERESTED YES </s>
<s> THERE IS A THREAD HERE WHICH WE HAVE NOT YET GRASPED AND WHICH MIGHT LEAD US THROUGH THE TANGLE </s>
<s> CHEER UP WATSON FOR I AM VERY SURE THAT OUR MATERIAL HAS NOT YET ALL COME TO HAND </s>
<s> WHEN IT DOES WE MAY SOON LEAVE OUR DIFFICULTIES BEHIND US QUOTE </s>
<s> LITTLE DID I THINK HOW SOON THE WORDS OF HOLMES WOULD BE REALIZED OR HOW STRANGE AND SINISTER WOULD BE THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT WHICH OPENED UP AN ENTIRELY FRESH LINE OF INVESTIGATION </s>
<s> I WAS SHAVING AT MY WINDOW IN THE MORNING WHEN I HEARD THE RATTLE OF HOOFS AND LOOKING UP SAW A DOG CART COMING AT A GALLOP DOWN THE ROAD </s>
<s> IT PULLED UP AT OUR DOOR AND OUR FRIEND THE VICAR SPRANG FROM IT AND RUSHED UP OUR GARDEN PATH </s>
<s> HOLMES WAS ALREADY DRESSED AND WE HASTENED DOWN TO MEET HIM </s>
<s> OUR VISITOR WAS SO EXCITED THAT HE COULD HARDLY ARTICULATE BUT AT LAST IN GASPS AND BURSTS HIS TRAGIC STORY CAME OUT OF HIM </s>
<s> WE ARE DEVIL RIDDEN MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> MY POOR PARISH IS DEVILRIDDEN HE CRIED </s>
<s> SATAN HIMSELF IS LOOSE IN IT </s>
<s> WE ARE GIVEN OVER INTO HIS HANDS </s>
<s> HE DANCED ABOUT IN HIS AGITATION A LUDICROUS OBJECT IF IT WERE NOT FOR HIS ASHY FACE AND STARTLED EYES </s>
<s> FINALLY HE SHOT OUT HIS TERRIBLE NEWS </s>
<s> MR. MORTIMER TREGENNIS DIED DURING THE NIGHT AND WITH EXACTLY THE SAME SYMPTOMS AS THE REST OF HIS FAMILY </s>
<s> HOLMES SPRANG TO HIS FEET ALL ENERGY IN AN INSTANT </s>
<s> QUOTE CAN YOU FIT US BOTH INTO YOUR DOG CART QUOTE </s>
<s> YES I CAN </s>
<s> THEN WATSON WE WILL POSTPONE OUR BREAKFAST </s>
<s> MR. ROUNDHAY WE ARE ENTIRELY AT YOUR DISPOSAL </s>
<s> HURRY HURRY BEFORE THINGS GET DISARRANGED </s>
<s> THE LODGER OCCUPIED TWO ROOMS AT THE VICARAGE WHICH WERE IN AN ANGLE BY THEMSELVES THE ONE ABOVE THE OTHER </s>
<s> BELOW WAS A LARGE SITTING ROOM ABOVE HIS BEDROOM </s>
<s> THEY LOOKED OUT UPON A CROQUET LAWN WHICH CAME UP TO THE WINDOWS </s>
<s> WE HAD ARRIVED BEFORE THE DOCTOR OR THE POLICE SO THAT EVERYTHING WAS ABSOLUTELY UNDISTURBED </s>
<s> LET ME DESCRIBE EXACTLY THE SCENE AS WE SAW IT UPON THAT MISTY MARCH MORNING </s>
<s> IT HAS LEFT AN IMPRESSION WHICH CAN NEVER BE EFFACED FROM MY MIND </s>
<s> THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE ROOM WAS OF A HORRIBLE AND DEPRESSING STUFFINESS </s>
<s> THE SERVANT WHO HAD FIRST ENTERED HAD THROWN UP THE WINDOW OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE INTOLERABLE </s>