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" 'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in your sleep?'
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" 'Certainly not. But why?'
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" 'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from perhaps from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would just ask you whether you had heard it.'
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" 'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gypsies in the plantation.'
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" 'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you did not hear it also.'
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" 'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.'
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" 'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her key turn in the lock."
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"Indeed," said Holmes.
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