A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies.

Does not that strike you ?" "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed ?" "No." "It was clamped to the floor.

Did you ever see a bed fastened like that before ?" "I cannot say that I have." "The lady could not move her bed.

It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at.
We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime." "Subtle enough and horrible enough.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.