Sherlock Holmes Investigates

 

This is the true story of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran. Now I must finish the story, or it will be too long. We told Miss Stonor what had happened. Then and we took her by the morning train to her good aunt in the town of Harrow. Later the police decided that the doctor had died because he had been accidentally bitten by his dangerous pet. There was only a little part of the story that I did not know, and Holmes told me that when we went home the next day.

He said "I started with the wrong idea. So you can see, my dear Watson, that you cannot solve a crime if you do not know all the facts. The gypsies confused me. So did the word 'band,' which was used by the first girl who died. I am sure that she was describing the snake. But she only saw it very quickly when she lit a match. I quickly changed my mind about the gypsies when I saw that nobody could get into the room through the door and the window. Anything dangerous in the room had to come in by another way.

So then I looked carefully at the ventilator, and at the bell-rope which next to the bed. I found that this was not a real bell rope, and that the bed could not be moved. So I thought that the rope was there so that something could come from the ventilator down to the bed. Then I thought of a snake, and when I found out that the doctor had other animals from India, I knew that I was right.