Did you always lock your rooms at night?" Holmes asked
“Yes, every night. We were worried about the cheetah and the baboon," she replied.
"Yes, of course you would have been. Please go on with your story."
"That night, I tossed and turned all night. I did not sleep a wink. We were twins and people say that twins can sense things about each other. I had a terrible feeling of disaster. It was a very windy night and the rain pounded against the windows. Then I heard a blood-curdling scream. I knew it was my sister's voice.
I sprang from my bed. As I ran to my sister's room, I heard a whistling sound and then a clanging sound as if a mass of metal had fallen. She opened her door slowly.
By the light of the corridor lamp, her face was white with terror. I threw my arms around her, but at the moment she fell to the floor.
Her last words were, "It was the band The speckled band!" She died instantly