I was surprised. "No," I said.
It's strange," she said "sometimes i hear a whistle,but I don't know where it comes from. Why don't you hear it?"
'I laughed and said, "I sleep better than you do." So Julia went to her room, and locked the door after het.'
'Why did you lock your doors?' Asked sherlock Holmes.
'We were afraid of the wild animals, and the gipsies,'
She answered.
'Please go on,' said Holmes.
'I couldn't sleep that night. It was a very stormy night, with a lot of wind and rain. Suddenly i heard a woman's scream. It was my sister's voice. I ran into the corridor, and just then I heard a whistle, and a minute later the sound of falling metal. I didn't know what it was. I ran to my sister's door, she opened it and fell to the ground. Her face was white and afraid, and she was crying," Help me, help me, Helen, I'm ill, I'm dying!" I put my arms around her, and she cried out in a terrible voice: "Helen! Oh my god, Helen! It was the band! " she wanted to say more, but she couldn't. I called my stepfather, Who tried to help her, but we could do nothing. And so my dear,dear sister died.'
'Are you sure about the whistle and the sound of falling metal?' asked Holmes.
'I think so,' answered Helen . 'But it was avery wild, stormy night. Perhaps I made a mistake. The police couldn't understand why my sister died. Her door was locked and nobody could get into her room. They didn't find any poison in body. And what was "the speckled band"? Gipsies wear something like that round their necks. I think she died because she was so afraid, but I don't know what she was afraid of.
Perhaps it was the gipsies. What do you think,Mr Holmes?'