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1The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a
2heavy stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes
3sprang forward and confronted him. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" The fat man cast his eyes round, and
4then up at the open skylight. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies and thieves! I have
5caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he could
6go. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "I have my revolver," said I. "Better close the front door," cried
7Holmes, and we all rushed down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we heard the baying of a hound,
8and then a scream of agony, with a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An elderly man with a red
9face and shaking limbs came staggering out at a side door. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not
10been fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house,
11with Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while
12he writhed and screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and it fell over with its keen white teeth
13still meeting in the great creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly
14mangled, into the house. We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the
15news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a
16tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came
17back before he went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know what you were planning, for I would have
18told you that your pains were wasted." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Toller knows
19more about this matter than anyone else." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "Then, pray, sit
20down, and let us hear it for there are several points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I will soon
21make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's
22police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's
23friend too. "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time that her father married again. She was
24slighted like and had no say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until after she met Mr. Fowler at a
25friend's house. As well as I could learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so quiet and patient,
26she was, that she never said a word about them but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was safe
27with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him,
28then her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to sign a paper, so that whether she married or not,
29he could use her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until she got brain-fever, and for six weeks
30was at death's door. Then she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her beautiful hair cut off; but that
31didn't make no change in her young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that
32what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains. Mr.
33Rucastle then, I presume, took to this system of imprisonment?" "Yes, sir." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in
34order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "That was it, sir." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering
35man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or
36otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed
37gentleman," said Mrs. Toller serenely. "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no want of drink, and
38that a ladder should be ready at the moment when your master had gone out." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "I
39am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled
40us. And here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back
41to Winchester, as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a questionable one." And thus was solved the
42mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but was always a
43broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who
44probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle
45were married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their flight, and he is now the holder of a government
46appointment in the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment,
47manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now
48the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.
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