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"My dear Holmes!"
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"Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that suggested at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator."
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"But what harm can there be in that?"
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"Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies. Does not that strike you?"
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"I cannot as yet see any connection."
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"Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?"
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"No."
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"It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened like that before?"
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"I cannot say that I have.
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