More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. "The door was open, " he said incongruously. "I was passing by, and the door was open."" Holmes, " I whispered in horror." The door was open, " he said once more, and then buried his face in his hands. Lyndsay Faye
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