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The Sussex vampire. Holmes had read
carefully a note which the last post had

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brought him. Then, with the
dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to

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a laugh, he tossed it over
to me. For a mixture of the

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modern and medieval, of the practical, and of the wildly fanciful. I

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think this is surely the limit,
said he. What do you make of

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it? Watson? I read as
follows forty six old jewelry November nineteenth regarding

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vampires. Sir, our client,
mister Robert Ferguson of Ferguson and mirrhead Tea

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Brokers of mincing Lane, has made
some inquiry from us in a communication of

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even date concerning vampires. As our
firm specializes entirely upon the assessment of machinery,

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the matter hardly comes within our purview, and we have therefore recommended mister

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Ferguson to call upon you and lay
the matter before you. We have not

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forgotten your successful action in the case
of Matilda Briggs. We are, sir,

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faithfully yours Morrison, Morrison and DoD
per E JC. Matilda Briggs was

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not the name of a young woman, Watson, said Holmes in a reminiscent

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voice. It was a ship which
is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra,

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a story for which the world is
not yet prepared. But what do

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we know about vampires? Does it
come within our purview? Either anything is

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better advanced degnation. But really we
seem to have been switched onto a grim's

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fairy tale. Make a long arm, Watson, and see what thee has

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to say. I leaned down and
took down the great index volume to which

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he referred Holmes, balanced it on
his knee, and his eyes moved slowly

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and lovingly over the record of old
cases mixed with the accumulated information of a

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lifetime voyage of the Gloria Scott.
He read, that was a bad business.

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I have some recollection that you made
a record of it, Watson,

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though I was unable to congratulate you
upon the result. Victor Lynch, the

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forger, venomous lizard, Orgelia,
remarkable case of that, the Torah,

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the circus bell Vanderbilt, and the
Yeggman vipers figure the Hammersmith wonder. Hello,

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Hello, good old Index. You
can't beat it. Listen to this,

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Watson. Vampirism and hungry and again
vampires in Transylvania. He turned over

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the pages with eagerness, but after
a short intent perusal, he threw down

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the great book with a snarl of
disappointment. Rubbish, Watson, and rubbish.

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What have we to do with walking
corpses who can only be held in

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their grave by stakes driven through their
hearts? It's pure lunacy. But surely,

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said I, the vampire was not
necessarily a dead man. A living

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person might have the habit I have
read, for example, of the old

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sucking the blood of the young in
order to retain their youth. You are

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right, Watson, it mentions a
legend in one of these references. But

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are we to give serious attention to
such things? This agency stands flat footed

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upon the ground, and there it
must remain. This world is big enough

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for us. No ghosts need apply. I fear that we cannot take mister

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Robert Ferguson very seriously. Possibly this
note may be from him, and may

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throw some light upon what is worrying
him. He took up a second letter,

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which had lain unnoticed upon the table
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first. This he began to read, with a smile of amusement upon his

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face. Which gradually faded away into
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When he had finished, he sat
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with the letter dangling from his fingers. Finally, with a start,

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he aroused himself from his reverie.
Cheeseman's Lamberley. Where is Lamberley, Watson?

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It is in Sussex, south of
Horsham, not very far, eh

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and achievements. I know that country, Holmes. It is full of old

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houses which are named after the men
who built them centuries ago. You get

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Oddley's and Harvey's and Carraton's. The
folks are forgotten, but their names live

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in their houses, precisely, said
Holmes. Cold It was one of the

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peculiarities of his proud, self contained
nature, that, though he docketed any

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fresh information very quickly and accurately in
his brain, he seldom made any acknowledgment

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to the giver. I rather fancy
we shall know a good deal more about

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Cheeseman's Lamberley before we are through.
The letter is as I had hoped from

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Robert Ferguson. By the way he
claims acquaintance with you with me, you

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had better read it. He handed
the letter across. It was headed with

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the address quoted, Dear mister Holmes. It said, I have been recommended

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to you by my lawyers, But
indeed the matter is so extraordinarily delicate that

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it is most difficult to discuss.
It concerns a friend for whom I am

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acting. This gentleman married some five
years ago a Peruvian lady, the daughter

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of a Peruvian merchant, whom he
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nitrates. The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth

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and of her alien religion always caused
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husband and wife, so that after
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her, and he may have come
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He felt that there were sides of
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understand. This was the more painful, as she was as loving a wife

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as a man could have, to
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point which I will make more plain
when we meet. Indeed, this note

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is merely to give you a general
idea of the situation, and to ascertain

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whether you would care to interest yourself
in the matter. The lady began to

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show carevarious traits quite alien to her
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had been married twice, and he
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This boy was now fifteen, a
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injured through an accident in childhood.
Twice the wife was caught in the act

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of assaulting this poor lad in the
most unprovoked way. Once she struck him

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with a stick and left a great
wheel on his arm. This was a

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small matter, however, compared with
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dear boy just under one year of
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month ago, this child had been
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A loud cry from the baby as
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As she ran into the room,
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leaning over the baby and apparently sucking
his neck. There was a small wound

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in the neck from which a stream
of blood had escaped. The nurse was

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so horrified that she wished to call
the husband, but the lady implored her

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not to do so, and actually
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her silence. No explanation was ever
given, and for the moment the matter

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was passed over. It left,
however, a terrible impression upon the nurse's

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mind, and from that time she
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to keep a closer guard upon the
baby, whom she tenderly loved. It

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seemed to her that even as she
watched the mother, still the mother watched

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her, and that every time she
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the mother was waiting to get at
it. Day and night the nurse covered

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the child, and day and night
the silent, watchful mother seemed to be

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lying in wait as a wolf waits
for a lamb. It must read most

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incredible to you, And yet I
beg you to take it seriously, for

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a child life and a man sandy
may depend upon it. At last,

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there came one dreadful day when the
facts could no longer be concealed from the

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husband. The nurse's nerve had given
way. She could stand the strain no

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longer, and she made a clean
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To him, it seemed as wild
a tale as it may now seem to

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you, he knew his wife to
be a loving wife, and save for

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an assault upon her stepson, a
loving mother, Why then should she wound

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her own dear little baby. He
told the nurse that she was dreaming,

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that her suspicions were those of a
lunatic, and that such libels upon her

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mistress were not to be tolerated.
Whilst they were talking, a sudden cry

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of pain was heard. Nurse and
master rushed together to the nursery. Imagine

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his feelings, mister Holmes, as
he saw his wife rise from a kneeling

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position beside the cot, and saw
blood upon the child's exposed neck and upon

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the sheet. With a cry of
horror, he turned his wife's face to

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the light and saw blood all round
her lips. It was she, beyond

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all question, who had drunk the
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She is now confined in her room. There has been no explanation.

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The husband is half demented. He
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Beyond the name. We had thought
it was some wild tale of foreign

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parts. And yet here in the
very heart of the English Sussex. Well,

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all this can be discussed with you
in the morning. Will you see

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me, Will you use your great
powers in aiding a distracted man. If

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so kindly wired to Ferguson Cheeseman's Lamberley, and I will be at your rooms

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by ten o'clock. Yours faithfully,
Robert Ferguson. PS. I believe your

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friend Watson played rugby for Blackheath when
I was free quartered for Richmond. It

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is the only personal introduction which I
can give. Of course, I remember

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him, said I as I laid
down the letter. Big Bob Ferguson the

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finest free quarter Richmond ever had.
He was always a good natured chap.

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It is like him to be so
concerned over a friend's case. Holmes looked

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at me thoughtfully and shook his head. I never get your limits, Watson

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said he. There are unexplored possibilities
about you. Take a wire down,

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like a good fellow. We'll examine
your case with pleasure. Your case.

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We must not let him think that
this agency is a home for the weak

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minded. Of course it is his
case. Send him that wire and let

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the matter rest till morning. Promptly, at ten o'clock the next morning,

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sins strode into our room. I
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With loose limbs and a fine turn
of speed, which had carried him

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round many and opposing back. There
is surely nothing in life more painful than

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to meet the reck of a fine
athlete whom one has known in his prime.

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His great frame had fallen in,
his flaxen hair was scanty, and

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his shoulders were a bowed. I
fear that I roused corresponding emotions in him,

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Hello, Watson, said he,
and his voice was still deep and

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hearty. You don't look quite the
man you did when I fee you over

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the ropes into the crowd at the
Old Deer Park. I expect I have

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changed a bit also, but it's
this last day or two that has aged

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me. I see by your telegram, mister Holmes, that it is no

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use my pretending to be anyone's deputy. It is simpler to deal direct,

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said Holmes. Of course, but
you can imagine how difficult it is when

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you are speaking of the one woman
whom you are bound to protect and help.

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What can I do? How am
I to go to the police with

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such a story, and yet the
kitties have got to be protected? Is

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it madness, mister Holmes? Is
it something in the blood have you any

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similar case in your experience? For
God's sake, give me some advice,

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for I am at my wits end
very naturally, mister Ferguson. Now sit

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here and pull yourself together and give
me a few clear answers. I can

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assure you that I am very far
from being at my wits end, and

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that I'm confident we shall find some
solution. First of all, tell me

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what steps you have taken. Is
your wife still near the children? We

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had a dreadful scene. She is
a most loving woman, mister Holmes.

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If ever a woman loved a man
with all her heart and soul, she

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loves me. She was cut to
the heart that I should have discovered this

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horrible, this incredible secret. She
would not even speak. She gave no

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answer to my reproaches, save to
gaze at me with a sort of wild,

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despairing look in her eyes. Then
she rushed to her room and locked

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herself in. Since then she has
refused to see me. She has a

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maid who was with her before her
marriage, Dolores by name, a friend

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rather than a servant. She takes
her food to her. Then the child

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is in no immediate danger. Missus
Mason, the nurse has sworn that she

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will not leave it night or day. I can absolutely trust her. I

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am more uneasy about poor little Jack, for, as I told you in

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my note, he has twice been
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No, she struck him savagely.
It is the more terrible as he is

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a poor, little, inoffensive cripple. Ferguson's gaunt features softened as he spoke

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of his boy. You would think
that the dear lad's condition would soften anyone's

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heart. A fall in childhood and
a twisted spine, mister Holmes, but

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the dearest, most loving heart within
Holmes had picked up the letter of yesterday

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and was reading it over. Whatever
inmates are there in your house, mister

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Ferguson. Two servants who have not
been long with us, One stable hand

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Michael, who sleeps in the house, my wife, myself, my boy

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Jack, baby Dolores, and missus
Mason. That is all I gather.

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That you did not know your wife
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I had only known her a few
weeks. How long had this made Dolores

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been with her some years? Then
your wife's character would really be better known

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by thes than by you. Yes, you may say so. Holmes made

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a note I fancy said, he
that I may be of more use at

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Lamberley than here. It is evidently
a case for personal investigation. If the

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lady remains in a room, our
presence could not annoy or inconvenience her.

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Of course we would stay at the
inn. Ferguson gave a gesture of relief.

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It is what I hoped, mister
Holmes. There is an excellent train

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at two from Victoria if you could
come. Of course we could come.

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There is a law at present.
I can give you my undivided energies.

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Watson of course comes with us.
But there are one or two points upon

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which I wish to be very sure
before I start. This unhappy lady,

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as I understand, it has appeared
to assault both the children, her own

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baby and your little son. That
is so, But the assaults take different

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forms, do they not. She
has beaten your son once with a stick

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and once very savagely with her hands. Did she give no explanation why she

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struck him, none, save that
she hated him again and again? She

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said, so well, that is
not unknown among stepmothers. A posthumous jealousy.

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We will say, is the lady
jealous by nature? Yes, she

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is very jealous, jealous with all
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But the boy, he is fifteen, I understand, and probably very

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developed in mind, since his body
has been circumscribed in action. Did he

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give you no explanation of these assaults? No, he declared there was no

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reason. Were they good friends of
her times? No, there was never

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any love between them. Yet you
say he is affectionate. Never in the

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world could there be so devoted a
son. My life is his life.

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He is absorbed in what I say
or do. Once again, Holmes made

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a note. For some time he
sat lost in thought. No doubt you

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and the boy were great comrades before
this second marriage. You were from very

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close together, where you're not very
much so. And the boy, having

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so affectionate a nature, was devoted, no doubt to the memory of his

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mother most devoted. He would certainly
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There is one other point about these
assaults. Were the strange attacks upon the

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baby and the assaults upon your son
at the same period. In the first

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case, it was so it was
as if some frenzy had seized her and

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she invented her rage upon both.
In the second case, it was only

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Jack who suffered. Missus Mason had
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That certainly complicates matters. I don't
quite follow you, mister Holmes. Possibly

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not one forms provisional theories and waits
for time or fuller knowledge to explode of

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them. A bad habit, mister
Ferguson. But human nature is weak.

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I fear that your old friend here
has given an exaggerated view of my scientific

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methods. However, I will only
say at the present stage that your problem

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does not appear to me to be
insoluble, and that you may expect to

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find us at Victoria at two o'clock. It was evening of a dull,

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foggy November day, when having left
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drove through the Sussex clay of a
long winding lane and finally reached the isolated

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and ancient farmhouse in which Ferguson dwelt. It was a large, straggling building,

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very old in the center, very
new at the wings, with towering

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Tudor chimneys and a lichen spotted,
high pitched roof of Horsham slabs. The

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doorsteps were worn into curves, and
the ancient titles which lined the porch were

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marked with the rebus of a cheese
and a man after the original builder.

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Within, the ceilings were corrugated with
heavy oaken beams, and the uneaten floors

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sagged into sharp curves. An odor
of age and decay pervaded the whole crumbling

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building. There was one very large
central room into which Ferguson led us.

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Here in a huge old fashioned fireplace
with an iron screen behind it, dated

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sixteen seventy, There blazed and spluttered
a splendid log fire. The room,

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as I gazed around, was the
most singular mixture of dates and of places.

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The half paneled walls may well have
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the seventeenth century. They were ornamented, however, on the lower part by

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a line of well chosen modern watercolors, while above, where yellow plaster took

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the place of oak, there was
hung a fine collection of South American utensils

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and weapons, which had been brought
no doubt by the Peruvian lady upstairs.

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Holmes rose with that quick curiosity which
sprang from his eager mind, and examined

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them with some care. He returned
with his eyes full of thought. Hello,

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he cried. Hello. A spaniel
had lain in a basket in the

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corner. It came slowly forward toward
its master, walking with difficulty. Its

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hind legs moved irregularly, and its
tail was on the ground. It licked

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Ferguson's hand. What is wrong,
mister Holmes? The dog? What's the

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matter with it? That's what puzzled
the vet. A sort of paralysis,

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spinal meningitis, he thought. But
it is passing. He'll be all right

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soon, won't you, Carlo.
A shiver of a scent passed through the

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drooping tail. The dog's mournful eyes
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He knew that we were discussing his
case. Did it come on suddenly

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in a single night? How long
ago? It may have been four months

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ago? Very remarkable, very suggestive. What do you see in it,

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mister Holmes? A comfort information of
what I had already thought? For God's

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sake? What do you think,
mister Holmes? It may be a mere

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intellectual puzzle to you, but it
is life and death to me. My

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wife, A would be murderer,
my child, in constant danger. Don't

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play with me, mister Holmes,
it is too terribly serious. The big

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rugby three quarters was trembling all over. Holmes put his hand soothingly upon his

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arm. I fear that there is
pain for you, mister Ferguson. Whatever

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the solution may be, said he. I would spare you all I can.

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I cannot say more for the instant, But before I leave this house,

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I hope I may have something definite. Please God, you may.

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If you will excuse me, gentlemen, I will go up to my wife's

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room and see if there has been
any change. He was away some minutes,

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during which Holmes resume his examination of
the curiosities upon the wall. When

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our host returned, it was clear
from his downcast face that he had made

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no progress. He brought with him
a tall, slim, brown faced girl.

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The tea's ready, Dolores, said
Ferguson. See that your mistress has

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everything she can wish. She vera
ill, cried the girl, looking with

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indignant eyes at her master. She
no ask for food, She vera ill.

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She need doctor. I fightened to
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Ferguson looked at me with a question
in his eyes. I should be so

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glad if I could be of use. Would your mistress see doctor Watson?

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I take him, I ask no
leave, she needs doctor, then I'll

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come with you. At once.
I followed the girl, who was quivering

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with strong emotion, up the staircase
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end was an iron clamped and massive
door. It struck me as I looked

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at it that if Ferguson tried to
force his way to his wife, he

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would find it no easy matter.
The girl drew a key from her pocket,

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and the heavy oaken planks creaked upon
their old hinges. I passed in,

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and she swiftly followed, fastening the
door behind her. On the bed,

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a woman was lying who was clearly
in a high fever. She was

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only half conscious, but as I
entered, she raised a pair of frightened

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but beautiful eyes and glared at me
in apprehension. Seeing a stranger, she

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appeared to be relieved and sank back
with a sigh upon the pillow. I

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stepped up to her with a few
reassuring words, and she lay still while

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I took her. Pulse and temperature
both were high, and yet my impression

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was that the condition was rather that
of mental and nervous excitement than of any

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actual seizure. She lie like that
one day to day. I fraid she

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die, said the girl. The
woman turned her flushed and handsome face toward

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me. Where is my husband?
He is below and would wish to see

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you. I will not see him. I will not see him. Then

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she seemed to wander off into delirium. A fiend, A fiend. Oh

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well, what shall I do with
this devil? Can I help in any

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way? No, no one can
help. It is finished, all is

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destroyed. Do what I will.
All is destroyed. The woman must have

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some strange delusion. I could not
see honest Bob Ferguson in the character of

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fiend or devil. Madam, I
said, your husband loves you dearly.

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He is deeply grieving at this happening. Again, she turned on me those

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glorious eyes. He loves me,
yes, But do I not love him?

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Do I not love him? Even
to sacrifice myself rather than break his

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dear heart? That is how I
love him. And yet he could think

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of me, he could speak of
me. So he is full of grief.

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But he cannot understand. No,
he cannot understand, but he should

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trust. Will you not see him? I suggested, No, No,

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I cannot forget those terrible words,
nor of the look upon his face.

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I will not see him. Go
now, you can do nothing for me.

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Tell him only one thing. I
want my child. I have a

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right to my child. That is
the only message I can send for him.

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She turned her face to the wall
and would say no more. I

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returned to the room downstairs, where
Ferguson and Holmes still sat by the fire.

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Ferguson listened moodily to my account of
the interview. How can I send

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her the child? He said?
How do I know what strange impulse might

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come upon her? How can I
ever forget how she rose from beside it

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with its blood upon her lips.
He shuddered at the recollection. The child

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is safe with missus Mason, and
there he must remain a smart maid.

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The only modern thing which we had
seen in the house had brought in some

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tea. As she was serving it, the door opened and a youth entered

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the room. He was a remarkable
lad, pale faced and fair haired,

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with excitable, light blue eyes which
blazed into a sudden flame of emotion and

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joy as they rested upon his father. He rushed forward and threw his arms

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around his neck with the abandon of
a loving girl. Oh, Daddy,

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he cried, I did not know
that you were due yet. I should

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have been here to meet you.
Oh, I am so glad to see

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you. Ferguson gently disengaged himself from
the embrace with some little show of embarrassment.

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Dear old Chap said, he patting
the flaxen head with a very tender

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hand. I came here early because
my friends mister Holmes and doctor Watson have

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been persuaded to come down here and
spend an evening with us. Is that

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mister Holmes, the detective. Yes. The youth looked at us with a

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very penetrating and as it seemed to
me, unfriendly gaze. What about your

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other child, mister Ferguson asked Holmes. Might we make the acquaintance of the

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baby? Ask missus Mason to bring
the baby down, said Ferguson. The

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boy went off with a curious shambling
guit, which told my sturgical eyes that

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he was suffering from a weak spine. Presently he returned, and behind him

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came a tall, gaunt woman bearing
in her arms a very beautiful child,

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dark eyed, golden haired, a
wonderful mixture of the Saxon and the Latin

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Ferguson. Was evidently devoted to it, for he took it into his arms

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and fondled it most tenderly. Fancy
anyone having the heart to hurt him,

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he muttered, as he glanced down
at the small, angry red pucker upon

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the cherub throat. It was at
this moment that I chanced to glance at

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Holmes and saw a most singular intentness
in his expression. His face was as

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set as if it had been carved
out of old ivory, and his eyes,

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which had glanced for a moment at
father and child, were now fixed

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with eager curiosity upon something at the
other side of the room. Following his

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gaze, I could only guess that
he was looking out through the window at

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the melancholy, dripping garden. It
is true that a shutter had half closed

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outside and obstructed the view, but
nonetheless it was certainly at the window that

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Holmes was fixing his concentrated attention.
Then he smiled, and his eyes came

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back to the baby. On its
chubby neck. There was this small puckard

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mark without speaking, Holmes examined it
with care. Finally, he shook one

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of the dimpled fists, which waved
in front of him. Goodbye, little

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man, you have made a strange
start in life. Nurse, I should

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wish to have a word with you
in private. He took her aside and

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spoke earnestly for a few minutes.
I only heard the last few words,

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which were your anxiety will soon,
I hope be set at rest. The

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woman, who seemed to be a
sour, silent kind of creature, withdrew

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with the child. What is missus
Mason like, asked Holmes. Not very

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prepossessing externally as you can see,
but a heart of gold and devoted to

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the child. Do you like her? Jack Holmes turned suddenly upon the boy.

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His expressive mobile face shadowed over,
and he shook his head. Jackie

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has very strong likes and dislikes,
said Ferguson, patting his arm round the

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boy. Luckily, I am one
of his likes. The boy cooed and

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nestled his head upon his father's breast. Ferguson gently disengaged him went away,

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Little Jackie, said he and he
watched his son with loving eyes until he

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disappeared. Now, mister Holmes,
he continued, when the boy was gone.

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I really feel that I have brought
you on a fool's errand for what

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can you possibly do save give me
your sympathy. It must be an exceedingly

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delicate and complex affair. From your
point of view. It is certainly delicate,

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said my friend, with an amused
smile. But I have not been

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struck up to now with its complexity. It has been a case for intellectual

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deduction. But when this original intellectual
deduction is confirmed point by point, by

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quite a number of independent incidents,
then the subjective becomes objective, and we

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can say confidently that we have reached
our goal. I had, in fact

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reached it before we left Baker Street, and the rest has merely been observation

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and confirmation. Ferguson put his big
hand on his furrowed forehead. For heaven's

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sake, Holmes, he said,
hoarsely, if you can see the truth

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in this matter, do not keep
me in suspense. How do I stand?

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What shall I do? I care
nothing as to how you have found

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your facts, so long as you
have really got them, Certainly I owe

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you an explanation, and you shall
have it, but you will permit me

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to handle the matter in my own
way. Is the lady capable of seeing

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us, Watson? She is ill? Oh, but she is quite rational,

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very good. It is only in
her presence that we can clear the

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matter up. Let us go up
to her. She will not see me,

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cried Ferguson. Oh yes she will, said Holmes. He scribbled a

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few lines upon a sheet of paper. You at least have the entray,

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Watson, Will you have the goodness
to give the lady this note? I

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ascended again and handed the note to
Dolores, who cautiously opened the door.

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A minute later I heard a cry
from within, a cry in which joy

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and surprise seemed to be blended.
Dolores looked out. She will see them,

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she will, Leston said she at
my summons. Ferguson and Holmes came

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up. As we entered the room. Ferguson took a step or two toward

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his wife, who had raised herself
in the bed, but she held out

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her hand to a pulse him.
He sank into an armchair, while Holmes

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seated himself beside him. After bowing
to the lady, who looked at him

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with wide eyed amazement, I think
we can dispense with Dolores, said Holmes.

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Oh very well, madam, if
you would rather she stayed, I

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can see no objection now, mister
Ferguson. I am a busy man with

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many calls, and my methods have
to be short and direct. The swiftest

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surgery is the least painful. Let
me first say what will ease your mind.

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Your wife is a very good,
very loving, and very ill used

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woman. Ferguson sat up with a
cry of joy. Prove that, mister

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Holmes, and I am your debtor
forever. I will do so, but

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in doing so I must wound you
deeply in another direction. I care nothing

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so long as you clear my wife. Everything on earth is insignificant compared to

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that. Let me tell you then, the train of reasoning which passed through

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my mind in Baker Street. The
idea of a vampire was to me absurd.

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Such things do not happen in criminal
practice in England. And yet your

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observation was precise. You had seen
the lady rise from beside the child's caught,

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with the blood upon her lips.
I did did it not occur to

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you that a bleeding wound may be
sucked for some other purpose than to draw

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the blood from it? Was there
not a queen in English history who sucked

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such a wound to draw poison from
it? Poison a South American household.

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My instinct felt the presence of those
weapons upon the wall before my eyes ever

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saw them. It might have been
over poisoned, but that was what occurred

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to me when I saw that little
empty quiver beside the small bird bough.

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It was just what I expected to
see. If the child were pricked with

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one of those arrows dipped in or
some other devilous drug, it would mean

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death if the venom were not sucked
out, and the dog. If one

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were to use such a poison,
would one not try first in order to

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see that it had not lost its
power? I did not foresee the dog,

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but I at least understood him,
and he fitted into my reconstruction.

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Now do you understand your wife feared
such an attack. She saw it and

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saved the child's life, And yet
she shrank from telling you all the truth,

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for she knew how you loved the
boy, and feared lest it break

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your heart. Jackie. I watched
him as he fondled the child. Just

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now. His face was clearly reflected
in the glass of the window, where

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the shutter formed a background. I
saw such jealousy, such cruel hatred,

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as I have seldom seen in a
human face. My Jackie. You have

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to face it, mister Ferguson.
It is the more painful because it is

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a distorted love. A maniac will
exaggerated love for you and possibly for his

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dead mother, which has prompted his
action. His very soul is consumed with

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hatred for this splendid child, whose
health and beauty are a contrast to his

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own weakness. Good God, it
is incredible. Have I spoken the truth?

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Madam? The lady was sobbing,
with her face buried in the pillows.

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Now she turned to her husband.
How could I tell you, Bob,

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I felt the blow it would be
to you. It was better that

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I should wait, and that it
should come from some other lips than mine.

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When this gentleman, who seems to
have powers of magic wrote that he

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knew all, I was glad.
I think a year at sea would be

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my prescription for Master Jackie, said
Holmes, rising from his chair. Only

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one thing is still clouded, madam. We can quite understand your attacks upon

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Master Jackie. There is a limit
to a mother's patience. But how to

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be dare to leave the child these
last two days? I had told missus

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Mason. She knew exactly so I
imagined Ferguson was standing by the bed,

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choking, his hands outstretched and quivering
this. I fancy is the time for

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our exit, Watson, said Holmes
in a whisper. If you will take

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one elbow of the two faithful dolores, I will take the other. There

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now, he added, as he
closed the door behind him, I think

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we may leave them to settle the
rest among themselves. I have only one

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further note of this case. It
is the letter which Holmes wrote in final

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answer to that with which the narrative
began. It ran Thus Guarding Vampires,

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Baker Street, November twenty first,
Sir, referring to your letter of the

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nineteenth, I beg to state that
I have looked into the inquiry of your

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client, mister Robert Ferguson of Ferguson
and Muirhead Tee Brokers of Mincing Lane,

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and that the matter has been brought
to a satisfactory conclusion. With thanks for

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your recommendation, I am, sir, faithfully yours Sherlock Holmes, and of

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the Sussex Vampire by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle