The Most Horrible Cry

Doctor grimsby roylott had a peculiar yellow band with brownish speckles, which seemed to be tightly round his head. His chin was cocked upward, and his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare. At the corner of the ceiling there was a short stalk with a long lash that he used to lash out at people. The last echoes of it died away into the silence from which it rose. What can it mean? I gasped. It means that it is all over, holmes answered,. And perhaps, after all, it's for the best.