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<s> THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE WHICH SHE WOULD FAIN HAVE SAID AND SHE STABBED WITH HER FINGER INTO THE AIR IN THE DIRECTION OF THE DOCTOR'S ROOM BUT A FRESH CONVULSION SEIZED HER AND CHOKED HER WORDS </s>
<s> I RUSHED OUT CALLING LOUDLY FOR MY STEPFATHER AND I MET HIM HASTENING FROM HIS ROOM IN HIS DRESSING GOWN </s>
<s> WHEN HE REACHED MY SISTER'S SIDE SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND THOUGH HE POURED BRANDY DOWN HER THROAT AND SENT FOR MEDICAL AID FROM THE VILLAGE ALL EFFORTS WERE IN VAIN FOR SHE SLOWLY SANK AND DIED WITHOUT HAVING RECOVERED HER CONSCIOUSNESS </s>
<s> SUCH WAS THE DREADFUL END OF MY BELOVED SISTER QUOTE </s>
<s> ONE MOMENT SAID HOLMES ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS WHISTLE AND METALLIC SOUND </s>
<s> COULD YOU SWEAR TO IT </s>
<s> THAT WAS WHAT THE COUNTY CORONER ASKED ME AT THE INQUIRY </s>
<s> IT IS MY STRONG IMPRESSION THAT I HEARD IT AND YET AMONG THE CRASH OF THE GALE AND THE CREAKING OF AN OLD HOUSE I MAY POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN DECEIVED </s>
<s> WAS YOUR SISTER DRESSED </s>
<s> QUOTE NO SHE WAS IN HER NIGHT DRESS </s>
<s> IN HER RIGHT HAND WAS FOUND THE CHARRED STUMP OF A MATCH AND IN HER LEFT A MATCH BOX </s>
<s> SHOWING THAT SHE HAD STRUCK A LIGHT AND LOOKED ABOUT HER WHEN THE ALARM TOOK PLACE </s>
<s> THAT IS IMPORTANT </s>
<s> AND WHAT CONCLUSIONS DID THE CORONER COME TO </s>
<s> HE INVESTIGATED THE CASE WITH GREAT CARE FOR DOCTOR ROYLOTT'S CONDUCT HAD LONG BEEN NOTORIOUS IN THE COUNTY BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANY SATISFACTORY CAUSE OF DEATH </s>
<s> MY EVIDENCE SHOWED THAT THE DOOR HAD BEEN FASTENED UPON THE INNER SIDE AND THE WINDOWS WERE BLOCKED BY OLD FASHIONED SHUTTERS WITH BROAD IRON BARS WHICH WERE SECURED EVERY NIGHT </s>
<s> THE WALLS WERE CAREFULLY SOUNDED AND WERE SHOWN TO BE QUITE SOLID ALL ROUND AND THE FLOORING WAS ALSO THOROUGHLY EXAMINED WITH THE SAME RESULT </s>
<s> THE CHIMNEY IS WIDE BUT IS BARRED UP BY FOUR LARGE STAPLES </s>
<s> IT IS CERTAIN THEREFORE THAT MY SISTER WAS QUITE ALONE WHEN SHE MET HER END </s>
<s> BESIDES THERE WERE NO MARKS OF ANY VIOLENCE UPON HER </s>
<s> QUOTE HOW ABOUT POISON QUOTE </s>
<s> THE DOCTORS EXAMINED HER FOR IT BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS </s>
<s> WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT THIS UNFORTUNATE LADY DIED OF THEN </s>
<s> IT IS MY BELIEF THAT SHE DIED OF PURE FEAR AND NERVOUS SHOCK THOUGH WHAT IT WAS THAT FRIGHTENED HER I CANNOT IMAGINE </s>
<s> WERE THERE GYPSIES IN THE PLANTATION AT THE TIME </s>
<s> YES THERE ARE NEARLY ALWAYS SOME THERE </s>
<s> QUOTE AH AND WHAT DID YOU GATHER FROM THIS ALLUSION TO A BAND A SPECKLED BAND QUOTE </s>
<s> SOMETIMES I HAVE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS MERELY THE WILD TALK OF DELIRIUM SOMETIMES THAT IT MAY HAVE REFERRED TO SOME BAND OF PEOPLE PERHAPS TO THESE VERY GYPSIES IN THE PLANTATION </s>
<s> I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THE SPOTTED HANDKERCHIEFS WHICH SO MANY OF THEM WEAR OVER THEIR HEADS MIGHT HAVE SUGGESTED THE STRANGE ADJECTIVE WHICH SHE USED </s>
<s> HOLMES SHOOK HIS HEAD LIKE A MAN WHO IS FAR FROM BEING SATISFIED </s>
<s> THESE ARE VERY DEEP WATERS SAID HE PRAY GO ON WITH YOUR NARRATIVE </s>
<s> TWO YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THEN AND MY LIFE HAS BEEN UNTIL LATELY LONELIER THAN EVER </s>
<s> A MONTH AGO HOWEVER A DEAR FRIEND WHOM I HAVE KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS HAS DONE ME THE HONOUR TO ASK MY HAND IN MARRIAGE </s>
<s> HIS NAME IS ARMITAGE PERCY ARMITAGE THE SECOND SON OF MR. ARMITAGE OF CRANE WATER NEAR READING </s>
<s> MY STEPFATHER HAS OFFERED NO OPPOSITION TO THE MATCH AND WE ARE TO BE MARRIED IN THE COURSE OF THE SPRING </s>
<s> TWO DAYS AGO SOME REPAIRS WERE STARTED IN THE WEST WING OF THE BUILDING AND MY BEDROOM WALL HAS BEEN PIERCED SO THAT I HAVE HAD TO MOVE INTO THE CHAMBER IN WHICH MY SISTER DIED AND TO SLEEP IN THE VERY BED IN WHICH SHE SLEPT </s>
<s> IMAGINE THEN MY THRILL OF TERROR WHEN LAST NIGHT AS I LAY AWAKE THINKING OVER HER TERRIBLE FATE I SUDDENLY HEARD IN THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT THE LOW WHISTLE WHICH HAD BEEN THE HERALD OF HER OWN DEATH </s>
<s> I SPRANG UP AND LIT THE LAMP BUT NOTHING WAS TO BE SEEN IN THE ROOM </s>
<s> I WAS TOO SHAKEN TO GO TO BED AGAIN HOWEVER SO I DRESSED AND AS SOON AS IT WAS DAYLIGHT I SLIPPED DOWN GOT A DOG CART AT THE CROWN INN WHICH IS OPPOSITE AND DROVE TO LEATHERHEAD FROM WHENCE I HAVE COME ON THIS MORNING WITH THE ONE OBJECT OF SEEING YOU AND ASKING YOUR ADVICE </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU HAVE DONE WISELY QUOTE SAID MY FRIEND </s>
<s> BUT HAVE YOU TOLD ME ALL </s>
<s> YES ALL </s>
<s> MISS ROYLOTT YOU HAVE NOT </s>
<s> YOU ARE SCREENING YOUR STEPFATHER </s>
<s> WHY WHAT DO YOU MEAN </s>
<s> FOR ANSWER HOLMES PUSHED BACK THE FRILL OF BLACK LACE WHICH FRINGED THE HAND THAT LAY UPON OUR VISITOR'S KNEE </s>
<s> FIVE LITTLE LIVID SPOTS THE MARKS OF FOUR FINGERS AND A THUMB WERE PRINTED UPON THE WHITE WRIST </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU HAVE BEEN CRUELLY USED QUOTE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> THE LADY COLOURED DEEPLY AND COVERED OVER HER INJURED WRIST </s>
<s> HE IS A HARD MAN SHE SAID AND PERHAPS HE HARDLY KNOWS HIS OWN STRENGTH </s>
<s> THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE DURING WHICH HOLMES LEANED HIS CHIN UPON HIS HANDS AND STARED INTO THE CRACKLING FIRE </s>
<s> THIS IS A VERY DEEP BUSINESS HE SAID AT LAST </s>
<s> THERE ARE A THOUSAND DETAILS WHICH I SHOULD DESIRE TO KNOW BEFORE I DECIDE UPON OUR COURSE OF ACTION </s>
<s> YET WE HAVE NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE </s>
<s> IF WE WERE TO COME TO STOKE MORAN TO DAY WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO SEE OVER THESE ROOMS WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR STEPFATHER </s>
<s> AS IT HAPPENS HE SPOKE OF COMING INTO TOWN TO DAY UPON SOME MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS </s>
<s> IT IS PROBABLE THAT HE WILL BE AWAY ALL DAY AND THAT THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO DISTURB YOU </s>
<s> WE HAVE A HOUSEKEEPER NOW BUT SHE IS OLD AND FOOLISH AND I COULD EASILY GET HER OUT OF THE WAY QUOTE </s>
<s> EXCELLENT </s>
<s> YOU ARE NOT AVERSE TO THIS TRIP WATSON </s>
<s> BY NO MEANS </s>
<s> THEN WE SHALL BOTH COME </s>
<s> WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO YOURSELF </s>
<s> QUOTE I HAVE ONE OR TWO THINGS WHICH I WOULD WISH TO DO NOW THAT I AM IN TOWN </s>
<s> BUT I SHALL RETURN BY THE TWELVE O'CLOCK TRAIN SO AS TO BE THERE IN TIME FOR YOUR COMING </s>
<s> AND YOU MAY EXPECT US EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON </s>
<s> I HAVE MYSELF SOME SMALL BUSINESS MATTERS TO ATTEND TO </s>
<s> WILL YOU NOT WAIT AND BREAKFAST </s>
<s> NO I MUST GO </s>
<s> MY HEART IS LIGHTENED ALREADY SINCE I HAVE CONFIDED MY TROUBLE TO YOU </s>
<s> I SHALL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON </s>
<s> SHE DROPPED HER THICK BLACK VEIL OVER HER FACE AND GLIDED FROM THE ROOM </s>
<s> QUOTE AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT ALL WATSON QUOTE ASKED SHERLOCK HOLMES LEANING BACK IN HIS CHAIR </s>
<s> IT SEEMS TO ME TO BE A MOST DARK AND SINISTER BUSINESS </s>
<s> DARK ENOUGH AND SINISTER ENOUGH </s>
<s> YET IF THE LADY IS CORRECT IN SAYING THAT THE FLOORING AND WALLS ARE SOUND AND THAT THE DOOR WINDOW AND CHIMNEY ARE IMPASSABLE THEN HER SISTER MUST HAVE BEEN UNDOUBTEDLY ALONE WHEN SHE MET HER MYSTERIOUS END </s>
<s> WHAT BECOMES THEN OF THESE NOCTURNAL WHISTLES AND WHAT OF THE VERY PECULIAR WORDS OF THE DYING WOMAN </s>
<s> I CANNOT THINK </s>
<s> QUOTE WHEN YOU COMBINE THE IDEAS OF WHISTLES AT NIGHT THE PRESENCE OF A BAND OF GYPSIES WHO ARE ON INTIMATE TERMS WITH THIS OLD DOCTOR THE FACT THAT WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE DOCTOR HAS AN INTEREST IN PREVENTING HIS STEPDAUGHTER'S MARRIAGE THE DYING ALLUSION TO A BAND AND FINALLY THE FACT THAT MISS HELEN STONER HEARD A METALLIC CLANG WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY ONE OF THOSE METAL BARS THAT SECURED THE SHUTTERS FALLING BACK INTO ITS PLACE I THINK THAT THERE IS GOOD GROUND TO THINK THAT THE MYSTERY MAY BE CLEARED ALONG THOSE LINES QUOTE </s>
<s> BUT WHAT THEN DID THE GYPSIES DO </s>
<s> I CANNOT IMAGINE </s>
<s> I SEE MANY OBJECTIONS TO ANY SUCH THEORY </s>
<s> AND SO DO I. IT IS PRECISELY FOR THAT REASON THAT WE ARE GOING TO STOKE MORAN THIS DAY </s>
<s> I WANT TO SEE WHETHER THE OBJECTIONS ARE FATAL OR IF THEY MAY BE EXPLAINED AWAY </s>
<s> BUT WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL </s>
<s> THE EJACULATION HAD BEEN DRAWN FROM MY COMPANION BY THE FACT THAT OUR DOOR HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DASHED OPEN AND THAT A HUGE MAN HAD FRAMED HIMSELF IN THE APERTURE </s>
<s> HIS COSTUME WAS A PECULIAR MIXTURE OF THE PROFESSIONAL AND OF THE AGRICULTURAL HAVING A BLACK TOP HAT A LONG FROCK COAT AND A PAIR OF HIGH GAITERS WITH A HUNTING CROP SWINGING IN HIS HAND </s>
<s> SO TALL WAS HE THAT HIS HAT ACTUALLY BRUSHED THE CROSS BAR OF THE DOORWAY AND HIS BREADTH SEEMED TO SPAN IT ACROSS FROM SIDE TO SIDE </s>
<s> A LARGE FACE SEARED WITH A THOUSAND WRINKLES BURNED YELLOW WITH THE SUN AND MARKED WITH EVERY EVIL PASSION WAS TURNED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER OF US WHILE HIS DEEP SET BILE SHOT EYES AND HIS HIGH THIN FLESHLESS NOSE GAVE HIM SOMEWHAT THE RESEMBLANCE TO A FIERCE OLD BIRD OF PREY </s>
<s> QUOTE WHICH OF YOU IS HOLMES QUOTE ASKED THIS APPARITION </s>
<s> MY NAME SIR BUT YOU HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF ME SAID MY COMPANION QUIETLY </s>
<s> I AM DOCTOR GRIMESBY ROYLOTT OF STOKE MORAN </s>
<s> INDEED DOCTOR SAID HOLMES BLANDLY </s>
<s> PRAY TAKE A SEAT </s>
<s> I WILL DO NOTHING OF THE KIND </s>
<s> MY STEPDAUGHTER HAS BEEN HERE </s>
<s> I HAVE TRACED HER </s>
<s> WHAT HAS SHE BEEN SAYING TO YOU QUOTE </s>
<s> IT IS A LITTLE COLD FOR THE TIME OF THE YEAR SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> WHAT HAS SHE BEEN SAYING TO YOU SCREAMED THE OLD MAN FURIOUSLY </s>
<s> BUT I HAVE HEARD THAT THE CROCUSES PROMISE WELL CONTINUED MY COMPANION IMPERTURBABLY </s>
<s> HA </s>
<s> YOU PUT ME OFF DO YOU SAID OUR NEW VISITOR TAKING A STEP FORWARD AND SHAKING HIS HUNTING CROP </s>
<s> QUOTE I KNOW YOU YOU SCOUNDREL </s>
<s> I HAVE HEARD OF YOU BEFORE </s>
<s> YOU ARE HOLMES THE MEDDLER </s>
<s> MY FRIEND SMILED </s>
<s> HOLMES THE BUSYBODY </s>
<s> HIS SMILE BROADENED </s>
<s> HOLMES THE SCOTLAND YARD JACK IN OFFICE </s>
<s> HOLMES CHUCKLED HEARTILY </s>
<s> YOUR CONVERSATION IS MOST ENTERTAINING SAID HE </s>
<s> WHEN YOU GO OUT CLOSE THE DOOR FOR THERE IS A DECIDED DRAUGHT </s>
<s> QUOTE I WILL GO WHEN I HAVE SAID MY SAY </s>
<s> DON'T YOU DARE TO MEDDLE WITH MY AFFAIRS </s>
<s> I KNOW THAT MISS STONER HAS BEEN HERE </s>
<s> I TRACED HER </s>
<s> I AM A DANGEROUS MAN TO FALL FOUL OF </s>
<s> SEE HERE </s>
<s> HE STEPPED SWIFTLY FORWARD SEIZED THE POKER AND BENT IT INTO A CURVE WITH HIS HUGE BROWN HANDS </s>
<s> SEE THAT YOU KEEP YOURSELF OUT OF MY GRIP HE SNARLED AND HURLING THE TWISTED POKER INTO THE FIREPLACE HE STRODE OUT OF THE ROOM </s>
<s> HE SEEMS A VERY AMIABLE PERSON SAID HOLMES LAUGHING </s>
<s> I AM NOT QUITE SO BULKY BUT IF HE HAD REMAINED I MIGHT HAVE SHOWN HIM THAT MY GRIP WAS NOT MUCH MORE FEEBLE THAN HIS OWN </s>
<s> AS HE SPOKE HE PICKED UP THE STEEL POKER AND WITH A SUDDEN EFFORT STRAIGHTENED IT OUT AGAIN </s>
<s> FANCY HIS HAVING THE INSOLENCE TO CONFOUND ME WITH THE OFFICIAL DETECTIVE FORCE </s>
<s> THIS INCIDENT GIVES ZEST TO OUR INVESTIGATION HOWEVER AND I ONLY TRUST THAT OUR LITTLE FRIEND WILL NOT SUFFER FROM HER IMPRUDENCE IN ALLOWING THIS BRUTE TO TRACE HER </s>
<s> AND NOW WATSON WE SHALL ORDER BREAKFAST AND AFTERWARDS I SHALL WALK DOWN TO DOCTORS' COMMONS WHERE I HOPE TO GET SOME DATA WHICH MAY HELP US IN THIS MATTER QUOTE </s>
<s> IT WAS NEARLY ONE O'CLOCK WHEN SHERLOCK HOLMES RETURNED FROM HIS EXCURSION </s>
<s> HE HELD IN HIS HAND A SHEET OF BLUE PAPER SCRAWLED OVER WITH NOTES AND FIGURES </s>
<s> I HAVE SEEN THE WILL OF THE DECEASED WIFE SAID HE </s>
<s> TO DETERMINE ITS EXACT MEANING I HAVE BEEN OBLIGED TO WORK OUT THE PRESENT PRICES OF THE INVESTMENTS WITH WHICH IT IS CONCERNED </s>
<s> THE TOTAL INCOME WHICH AT THE TIME OF THE WIFE'S DEATH WAS LITTLE SHORT OF ELEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS IS NOW THROUGH THE FALL IN AGRICULTURAL PRICES NOT MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS </s>
<s> EACH DAUGHTER CAN CLAIM AN INCOME OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS IN CASE OF MARRIAGE </s>
<s> IT IS EVIDENT THEREFORE THAT IF BOTH GIRLS HAD MARRIED THIS BEAUTY WOULD HAVE HAD A MERE PITTANCE WHILE EVEN ONE OF THEM WOULD CRIPPLE HIM TO A VERY SERIOUS EXTENT </s>
<s> MY MORNING'S WORK HAS NOT BEEN WASTED SINCE IT HAS PROVED THAT HE HAS THE VERY STRONGEST MOTIVES FOR STANDING IN THE WAY OF ANYTHING OF THE SORT </s>
<s> AND NOW WATSON THIS IS TOO SERIOUS FOR DAWDLING ESPECIALLY AS THE OLD MAN IS AWARE THAT WE ARE INTERESTING OURSELVES IN HIS AFFAIRS SO IF YOU ARE READY WE SHALL CALL A CAB AND DRIVE TO WATERLOO </s>
<s> I SHOULD BE VERY MUCH OBLIGED IF YOU WOULD SLIP YOUR REVOLVER INTO YOUR POCKET </s>
<s> AN ELEY'S NUMBER TWO IS AN EXCELLENT ARGUMENT WITH GENTLEMEN WHO CAN TWIST STEEL POKERS INTO KNOTS </s>
<s> THAT AND A TOOTH BRUSH ARE I THINK ALL THAT WE NEED </s>
<s> AT WATERLOO WE WERE FORTUNATE IN CATCHING A TRAIN FOR LEATHERHEAD WHERE WE HIRED A TRAP AT THE STATION INN AND DROVE FOR FOUR OR FIVE MILES THROUGH THE LOVELY SURREY LARIES </s>
<s> IT WAS A PERFECT DAY WITH A BRIGHT SUN AND A FEW FLEECY CLOUDS IN THE HEAVENS </s>
<s> THE TREES AND WAYSIDE HEDGES WERE JUST THROWING OUT THEIR FIRST GREEN SHOOTS AND THE AIR WAS FULL OF THE PLEASANT SMELL OF THE MOIST EARTH </s>
<s> TO ME AT LEAST THERE WAS A STRANGE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE SWEET PROMISE OF THE SPRING AND THIS SINISTER QUEST UPON WHICH WE WERE ENGAGED </s>
<s> MY COMPANION SAT IN THE FRONT OF THE TRAP HIS ARMS FOLDED HIS HAT PULLED DOWN OVER HIS EYES AND HIS CHIN SUNK UPON HIS BREAST BURIED IN THE DEEPEST THOUGHT </s>
<s> SUDDENLY HOWEVER HE STARTED TAPPED ME ON THE SHOULDER AND POINTED OVER THE MEADOWS </s>
<s> LOOK THERE SAID HE </s>
<s> A HEAVILY TIMBERED PARK STRETCHED UP IN A GENTLE SLOPE THICKENING MTO A GROVE AT THE HIGHEST POINT </s>
<s> FROM AMID THE BRANCHES THERE JUTTED OUT THE GRAY GABLES AND HIGH ROOF TREE OF A VERY OLD MANSION </s>
<s> STOKE MORAN SAID HE </s>
<s> QUOTE YES SIR THAT BE THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR GRIMESBY ROYLOTT QUOTE REMARKED THE DRIVER </s>