gipsies, the whistle, the band - they are more difficult to understand, but I think I have an answer.' When we arrived, Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms. We saw her room first. 'Why are they mending your bedroom wall?' asked
Holmes. 'There's nothing wrong with it.' 'You're right,' she said. 'I think it was a plan to move me into my sister's room.'
'Yes,' said Holmes. We went into Julia's room, and Holmes looked at the windows carefully. 'Nobody could come in from outside,' he said. Then he looked round the room. 'Why is that bell-rope there, just over the bed?' 'My stepfather put it there two years ago. It's for calling a servant, but Julia and I never used it because