[{"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "First published in the Strand Magazine, with illustrations by Sidney Paget.\nFunds for the publication of Y Cylch Brith were raised by The Deerstalkers of Welshpool, and has been beautifully translated by Eurwyn Pierce Jones. I am very grateful to them for releasing the translation for all to read and enjoy, and thanks to David Sutton for proof reading."}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "O fwrw golwg dros fy nodiadau o\u2019r deg a thrigain o achosion y bu i mi eu hastudio dros yr wyth mlynedd ddiwethaf, sy\u2019n cofnodi dulliau gweithredu fy nghyfaill Sherlock Holmes, canfyddaf fod sawl achos yn eu plith yn sefyllfaoedd trasig, rhai eraill yn ddoniol, a nifer sylweddol ohonynt yn eithriadol o ryfeddol. A\u2019r hyn sy\u2019n nodweddiadol o\u2019r cyfan yw nad ydyw\u2019r un ohonynt yn perthyn i fyd y cyffredin; oherwydd, o weithio fel ag y gwna\u0302i ef, sef yn fwy allan o gariad tuag at ei grefft yn hytrach nag er mwyn ymgasglu a chronni cyfoeth, gwrthodai Sherlock Holmes ei gysylltu ei hun ag unrhyw archwiliad na thueddai at yr anghyffredin, a hyd yn oed yr anhygoel a\u2019r ffantastig. O\u2019r holl achosion amrywiol hynny, fodd bynnag, fedra i ddim meddwl am unrhyw un ag iddo fwy o nodweddion cwbl unigryw na hwnnw oedd yn gysylltiedig a\u0302 theulu adnabyddus y Roylotts o Stoke Moran yn Swydd Surrey. Mae\u2019r digwyddiadau dan sylw yn perthyn i ddyddiau cynnar fy ymwneud i a\u0302 Holmes, pan oeddem ni\u2019n rhannu ystafelloedd fel llanciau di-briod yn Heol y Pobydd, sef Baker Street wrth gwrs, yn Llundain. Mae\u2019n bosib fy mod i eisoes wedi cofnodi manylion amdanynt; ond fe wnaed addewid o gyfrinachedd y pryd hwnnw, na\u2019m rhyddhawyd i ohoni hyd at y mis diwethaf, o ganlyniad i farwolaeth gynamserol y fonesig y rhoddwyd iddi\u2019r cyfryw addewid. O hir feddwl yn ofalus, ystyriaf mai llawn cystal erbyn hyn fyddai caniata\u0301u i\u2019r ffeithiau hynny weld golau dydd, gan fod gennyf resymau i gredu bod sibrydion ar led parthed marwolaeth y Dr. Grimesby Roylott, sy\u2019n tueddu i wneud y mater hyd yn oed yn fwy dychrynllyd na\u2019r gwirionedd ei hun."}, {"text_idx": "#000029", "text": "On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even more terrible than the truth."}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "Yn gynnar ym mis Ebrill oedd hi, yn y flwyddyn \u201983, pan ddeffrois i un bore i ganfod Sherlock Holmes, wedi ei wisgo ei hun yn llawn yn ei ddillad bob dydd, yn sefyll ger erchwyn fy ngwely. Codwr hwyr oedd ef fel arfer, a chan y dangosai\u2019r cloc ar y silff ben ta\u0302n nad oedd hi eto ond yn chwarter wedi saith, amrantais arno a\u0302\u2019m llygaid hanner effro mewn peth syndod a dryswch; yn gymysg efallai ag ychydig bach o wrthwynebiad, o ystyried fy mod i fy hun fel arfer yn greadur rheolaidd fy anianawd a phrydlon fy arferion."}, {"text_idx": "#000031", "text": "It was early in April in the year \u201983 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits."}, {"text_idx": "#000032", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019n ddrwg gen i\u2019ch dihuno fel hyn, Watson,\u201d meddai, \u201cond mae un o\u2019r gorchwylion annisgwyl hynny ar ein gwarthaf ni\u2019r bore \u2019ma. Mae Mrs Hudson wedi cael ei chodi o\u2019i chwsg, ac mae hi wedi ymbilio arna i am gymorth, fel yr wyf innau\u2019n awr yn erfyn arnoch chithau, pe byddech chi gystal.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000034", "text": "\u201cBeth sy\u2019n bod, felly? Oes yna da\u0302n? \u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "\u201cNa, na; cleient. Mae\u2019n ymddangos fod bonesig ifanc wedi cyrraedd yma mewn cyflwr o gryn gyffro, ac mae hi\u2019n mynnu fy ngweld i. Mae hi\u2019n aros y funud yma yn y dderbynfa. Nawr, pan fydd merched ifainc yn crwydro o amgylch y metropolis ar awr mor gynnar a\u0302 hyn yn y bore, gan guro pobl gysglyd allan o\u2019u gwelyau, rwy\u2019n rhagdybio fod rhyw gw\u0302yn neu gyfrinach o bwys sylweddol y maen nhw\u2019n awyddus i adrodd amdano. A phe byddai\u2019r mater hwnnw\u2019n troi allan i fod yn achos diddorol yna fe fyddech chi, rwy\u2019n eithaf sicr, yn dymuno ei ddilyn o\u2019i ddechreuad. Ro\u2019wn i\u2019n teimlo, felly, mai\u2019r lleiaf y gallwn i ei wneud oedd eich galw chithau hefyd o fyd y breuddwydwyr, a rhoi\u2019r cyfle i chi fod yn rhan o beth bynnag a allai ddeillio o\u2019r arfaeth sydd ger ein bron ni heddiw.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "\u201cNo; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should call you and give you the chance.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000038", "text": "\u201cFy annwyl gyfaill,\u201d ymatebais innau, \u201cfyddwn i ddim am golli allan ar gyfle felly, am unrhyw beth yn y byd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000039", "text": "\u201cMy dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000040", "text": "Doedd dim yn rhoi mwy o bleser i mi na dilyn Holmes yn ei archwiliadau proffesiynol, ac edmygu ei ddiddwythiadau a\u2019i gasgliadau synhwyrol. Mor chwimwth fyddai ei sythwelediadau greddfol bob amser, ac eto gallech warantu y byddent wastad wedi eu seilio ar resymeg gadarn, allan o\u2019r hyn y byddai\u2019n ymddatod a datrys y problemau a gyflwynid iddo. Prysurais felly i daflu amdanaf fy nillad, ac ymhen ychydig funudau yn unig roeddwn i\u2019n barod i gerdded y grisiau gyda\u2019m cyfaill i lawr i'r parlwr-dderbynfa. Fel yr agorem ni\u2019r drws i fynd i mewn i\u2019r ystafell, cododd merch fonheddig o\u2019i heistedd yng nghilgant y ffenestr fae; roedd hi wedi ei gwisgo o\u2019i chorun i\u2019w sawdl mewn du, gyda\u2019i hwyneb dan orchudd rhwyden o fe\u0302l drwchus."}, {"text_idx": "#000041", "text": "I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered."}, {"text_idx": "#000042", "text": "\u201cBore da, madam,\u201d cyfarchodd Holmes yn siriol. \u201cSherlock Holmes yw fy enw i; a dyma fy nghyfaill mynwesol a\u2019m cydweithiwr ffyddlon, Dr. Watson, y gallwch chi siarad yr un mor rhydd ger ei fron ef a\u0302 gyda fi fy hun. Ha; rwy\u2019n falch o weld fod Mrs Hudson wedi bod yn ddigon call i gynnau\u2019r ta\u0302n. Dewch, tynnwch at ei wres, ac fe archeba i gwpanaid o goffi poeth i chi, oherwydd rwy\u2019n sylwi eich bod chi\u2019n crynu o oerfel.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000043", "text": "\u201cGood-morning, madam,\u201d said Holmes cheerily. \u201cMy name is Sherlock Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot coffee, for I observe that you are shivering.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000044", "text": "\u201cNid yr oerni sy\u2019n gwneud i mi grynu,\u201d atebodd y wraig yn lled swil a thawel"}, {"text_idx": "#000045", "text": "\u201cNid yr oerni sy\u2019n gwneud i mi grynu,\u201d atebodd y wraig yn lled swil a thawel, gan gyfnewid ei chadair am un a oedd yn agosach at y lle ta\u0302n, yn unol a\u0302\u2019r gwahoddiad a estynnwyd iddi hi."}, {"text_idx": "#000046", "text": "\u201cIt is not cold which makes me shiver,\u201d said the woman in a low voice, changing her seat as requested."}, {"text_idx": "#000048", "text": "\u201cIt is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror.\u201d She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, all-comprehensive glances."}, {"text_idx": "#000049", "text": "\u201cRhaid i chi beidio a\u0302 phryderu,\u201d meddai ef wrthi hi\u2019n gysurus o esmwyth, gan blygu ymlaen a gosod cledr ei law yn ysgafn ar ei braich isaf. \u201cMewn byr o dro fe ro\u2019wn ni bethau mewn trefn, fe gewch chi weld; am hynny does gen i ddim amheuaeth. Fe wnaethoch chi deithio i mewn y bore \u2019ma gyda\u2019r tre\u0302n, mi welaf.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000050", "text": "\u201cYou must not fear,\u201d said he soothingly, bending forward and patting her forearm. \u201cWe shall soon set matters right, I have no doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000051", "text": "\u201cRydych chi\u2019n fy adnabod i, felly?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000052", "text": "\u201cNa na; ond rwy\u2019n sylwi fod gennych chi ail hanner tocyn dwyffordd yng nghledr maneg eich llaw chwith. Mae\u2019n rhaid eich bod chi wedi cychwyn yn gynnar iawn y bore yma; ac eto, ry\u2019ch chi wedi cael eich cludo am gryn bellter mewn cert ci, mi debygaf, ar hyd ffyrdd trwm a chlegyrog, cyn i chi gyrraedd yr orsaf.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000053", "text": "\u201cNo, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached the station.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000054", "text": "Ymsythodd y fonesig ar ei hunion, fel pe mewn sioc enbyd; a rhythodd mewn dryswch ar fy nghyfaill."}, {"text_idx": "#000055", "text": "The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my companion."}, {"text_idx": "#000056", "text": "\u201cDoes yna ddim dirgelwch, f\u2019annwyl fadam,\u201d brysiodd Holmes i\u2019w chalonogi, gan wenu\u2019n foesgar i\u2019w chyfeiriad. \u201cMae braich chwith eich siaced wedi ei hysgeintio gyda smotiau o laid neu fwd, mewn saith man o leiaf; ac mae\u2019r marciau hynny\u2019n dal yn ffres. Does yna ddim un cerbyd ar waha\u0302n i gert ci a allai daflu mwd i fyny yn y fath fodd, a hynny ychwaith ddim ond pe byddech chi\u2019n digwydd bod yn eistedd ar ochr chwith y gyrrwr.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000057", "text": "\u201cThere is no mystery, my dear madam,\u201d said he, smiling. \u201cThe left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit on the left-hand side of the driver.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000059", "text": "\u201cWhatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct,\u201d said she. \u201cI started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. I have no one to turn to\u2014none, save only one, who cares for me, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you shall not find me ungrateful.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000060", "text": "Trodd Holmes tuag at ei ddesg, ac wedi datgloi ei chlawr, tynnodd allan ohoni lyfryn cofnodion bychan, a gynhwysai ei fanylion ysgrifenedig ef ei hun yng nghyswllt achosion blaenorol; a gwyliem ef yn pori drwy ei dudalennau."}, {"text_idx": "#000061", "text": "Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small case-book, which he consulted."}, {"text_idx": "#000062", "text": "\u201cHm, Farintosh,\u201d meddai\u2019n fyfyriol, yn y man. \u201cAh, ie; mae gen i gof eithaf clir, nawr, o amgylchiadau\u2019r wraig y gwnaethoch chi so\u0302n amdani gynnau fach. Roedd a wnelo\u2019r achos hwnnw a\u0302 choron tiara opal. Rwy\u2019n credu fod hynny cyn eich amser chi, Watson. Wel, alla\u2019 i ond ymdynghedu, madam, y byddwn i\u2019n hapus i ymroi gyda\u2019r un gofal a manylder i\u2019ch achos chi ag y bu i mi ei ymarfer yn achos eich cyfeilles. O safbwynt derbyn ta\u0302l am y gorchwyl, i mi fy ngalwedigaeth yw\u2019r wobr; er y byddai rhyddid i chi ddigolledu pa bynnag dreuliau y gallaswn i fod yn debygol o\u2019u hwynebu, ar ba bynnag adeg fyddai fwyaf derbyniol i chi eich hun. Nawr, maddeuwch i mi ofyn i chi gyflwyno ger ein bron ni, os gwelwch yn dda, bopeth oll a allai ein cynorthwyo ni i ffurfio ein barn ar y mater sy\u2019n eich pryderu chi.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000063", "text": "\u201cFarintosh,\u201d said he. \u201cAh yes, I recall the case; it was concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the matter.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000064", "text": "\u201cOch; gwae fi!\u201d atebodd ein hymwelydd. \u201cMae holl erchyllter fy sefyllfa i\u2019n gorffwyso ar y ffaith bod fy ofnau i mor aneglur, a bod fy amheuon i\u2019n dibynnu gymaint ar bwyntiau pitw o ddisylwedd, a allai ymddangos i rywun arall mor ddibwys, fel ei fod o ... yr hwn allan o bawb arall y mae gen i hawl i edrych tuag ato am gymorth a chyngor ... yn ystyried y cyfan a ddyweda\u2019 i wrtho megis rhith ddychymyg benyw or-nerfus. Fydd o ddim yn datgan hynny\u2019n agored fel y cyfryw, ond gallaf ei ddarllen yn atebion ei dafod llithrig ac edrychiad ei lygaid gochelgar. Ond mi rydw i wedi clywed y gallwch chi, Mr Holmes, dreiddio\u2019n ddwfn a\u0302\u2019ch llygaid, i mewn i amryfal ddrygioni\u2019r galon ddynol. Hwyrach y medrwch chi gynnig i mi gyngor ar sut i droedio\u2019n ddiogel drwy\u2019r peryglon sy\u2019n fy amgylchynu i.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000065", "text": "\u201cAlas!\u201d replied our visitor, \u201cthe very horror of my situation lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000066", "text": "\u201cY chi biau fy holl sylw i, madam; does gen i glust i ddim arall ar hyn o bryd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000067", "text": "\u201cI am all attention, madam.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000068", "text": "\u201cFy enw i ydy Helen Stoner, ac rydw i\u2019n byw efo\u2019m llystad, ac efo yw goroeswr olaf un o\u2019r teuluoedd Sacsonaidd hynaf yn Lloegr, sef y Roylotts o Stoke Moran, ar ffin orllewinol Surrey.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000069", "text": "\u201cMy name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000070", "text": "Nodiodd Holmes ei ben mewn cydnabyddiaeth. \u201cY mae\u2019r enw hwnnw yn un cyfarwydd i mi,\u201d oedd ei ymateb."}, {"text_idx": "#000071", "text": "Holmes nodded his head. \u201cThe name is familiar to me,\u201d said he."}, {"text_idx": "#000073", "text": "\u201cThe family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man."}, {"text_idx": "#000074", "text": "\u201cPan oedd Dr. Roylott yn yr India mi briododd efo fy mam, Mrs Stoner; gwraig weddw ifanc Major-General Stoner, gynt o gatrawd Magnelwyr Bengal. Roeddwn i a\u2019m chwaer Julia yn efeilliaid, a dim ond dwyflwydd oed oeddem ni pan ail-briododd ein mam. Roedd hi\u2019n berchen ar faint sylweddol o eiddo, ei werth heb fod yn llai na mil o bunnau\u2019r flwyddyn; ac mi gymynroddodd hi\u2019r swm hwnnw yn ei gyfanrwydd i Dr. Roylott, gydag amod ei fod o i weinyddu\u2019r cyfalaf etifeddol tra byddem ni\u2019n parhau i gydfyw efo fo. Yn yr ewyllys honno hefyd roedd darpariaeth ar gyfer rhyddhau swm penodol o gyllid i\u2019w roi i\u2019r naill a\u2019r llall ohonom ni\u2019n dwy pe byddem ni\u2019n priodi. Mewn byr o amser wedi i ni ddychwelyd i Loegr bu farw fy mam; mi gafodd hi ei lladd wyth mlynedd yn o\u0302l mewn damwain reilffordd ger Crewe. Yn dilyn hynny mi roddodd Dr. Roylott y gorau i\u2019w ymdrechion i\u2019w sefydlu ei hun mewn busnes meddygol yn ninas Llundain, ac mi wnaeth o ein cymryd ni i fyw efo fo yng nghartref ei hynafiaid yn Stoke Moran. Roedd y pres a adawodd fy mam yn ddigon ar gyfer ein hanghenion ni i gyd, ac ymddangosai ar y pryd fel pe na allai dim yn y byd fygwth ein hapusrwydd cyflawn ni."}, {"text_idx": "#000075", "text": "\u201cWhen Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old at the time of my mother\u2019s re-marriage. She had a considerable sum of money\u2014not less than \u00a31000 a year\u2014and this she bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return to England my mother died\u2014she was killed eight years ago in a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness."}, {"text_idx": "#000076", "text": "\u201cOnd tua\u2019r un cyfnod, daeth newid difrifol dros ein llystad. Yn hytrach na meithrin cyfeillgarwch a chyfnewid ymweliadau efo\u2019n cymdogion, a oedd ar y dechrau wedi mynegi eu llawenydd anghyffredin o weld disgynnydd o dylwyth Roylott o Stoke Moran yn o\u0302l yn yr hen sedd deuluol, arferai ei gau ei hun i mewn yn ei dy\u0302; a phrin byth y deuai allan yng ngolau\u2019r dydd, ac eithrio i\u2019w foddio ei hun mewn ymrysonau o ffraeo ffyrnig efo pwy bynnag a ddigwyddai fod wedi croesi ei lwybr. Mae tymer chwyrn, a honno\u2019n ymylu ar orffwylledd, wedi bod yn nodwedd etifeddol o fewn llinach wrywaidd y teulu, ac yn achos fy llystad mi ddwysawyd y dwymyn honno, mi debygaf, o ganlyniad i\u2019w breswyliad hir yn y trofannau. Digwyddodd cyfres o ysgarmesau cywilyddus, a bu i ddau o\u2019r achlysuron hynny arwain at ymddangosiadau mewn llys barn yr heddlu; hyd nes iddo yn y diwedd gael ei adnabod gan y byd a\u2019r betws fel brawychwr gwallgof y pentref, a byddai\u2019r trigolion yn gwasgaru wrth ei weld yn agosa\u0301u, gan ei fod o\u2019n w\u0302r o gryfder aruthrol, ac yn un cwbl afreolus pan yn ei hwyliau drwg."}, {"text_idx": "#000077", "text": "\u201cBut a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather\u2019s case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger."}, {"text_idx": "#000078", "text": "He hurled the blacksmith over a parapet."}, {"text_idx": "#000080", "text": "\u201cLast week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master."}, {"text_idx": "#000081", "text": "\u201cGallwch chi ddychmygu hwyrach, o\u2019r hyn rydw i\u2019n ei ddweud wrthych chi rwan, mor brin oedd unrhyw bleser yn ein bywydau ni, fy chwaer Julia druan a minnau. Arhosai\u2019r un gwas na morwyn yn hir efo ni, a thros amser maith nyni ein hunain oedd yn gyfrifol am gyflawni holl waith domestig y ty\u0302. Dim ond deg ar hugain oed oedd hi pan fu hi farw, ond roedd ei gwallt hi eisoes wedi dechrau gwynnu, yn yr un modd ag y mae fy ngwallt i fy hun hefyd yn prysur golli ei liw.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000082", "text": "\u201cYou can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already begun to whiten, even as mine has.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000083", "text": "\u201cMae eich chwaer, felly, wedi marw?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000085", "text": "\u201cMi drengodd hi gwta ddwy flynedd yn o\u0302l, ac am ei marwolaeth hi rydw i\u2019n dymuno siarad efo chi. Mi allwch chi ddeall, o fyw'r bywyd a ddisgrifiais i chi gynnau, mai prin oeddem ni\u2019n debygol o weld na chyfarfod efo neb o\u2019n hoed ni nac o\u2019n safle cymdeithasol ni ein hunain. Fodd bynnag, roedd gennym ni un fodryb, sef chwaer ddi-briod fy mam ... Miss Honoria Westphail, sy\u2019n byw ger Harrow ... a phob hyn a hyn fe ganiateid i ni ymweld a\u0302 hi am gyfnodau byr iawn yn ei chartref. Ddwy flynedd yn o\u0302l mi aeth Julia yno i aros dros y Nadolig, ac yno y gwnaeth hi gyfarfod efo swyddog milwrol a oedd yn gwasanaethu ar hanner comisiwn cyflogedig fel Uwchgapten gyda\u2019r Morlu Milwrol, y gwnaeth hi ddyweddi\u0308o efo fo maes o law. Mi ddaeth fy llystad i wybod am y dyweddi\u0308ad pan ddychwelodd fy chwaer, a wnaeth o ddim so\u0302n am unrhyw wrthwynebiad i\u2019r uniad; ond o fewn pythefnos i\u2019r diwrnod a benodwyd ar gyfer y briodas, y digwyddodd y trychineb dychrynllyd sydd wedi fy amddifadu i o\u2019m hunig gydymaith annwyl ar wyneb y ddaear gron yma.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000086", "text": "\u201cShe died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother\u2019s maiden sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady\u2019s house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event occurred which has deprived me of my only companion.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000087", "text": "Gydol y cyfryw ymadroddi roedd Sherlock Holmes wedi bod yn eistedd gan bwyso ei gefn yn o\u0302l yn ei gadair a\u0302\u2019i lygaid ynghau a\u2019i ben wedi ei suddo mewn clustog; ond yn awr dechreuodd hanner agor ei amrannau, i giledrych yn fwriadus ar ei ymwelydd."}, {"text_idx": "#000088", "text": "Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his lids now and glanced across at his visitor."}, {"text_idx": "#000089", "text": "\u201cByddwch cystal a\u0302 bod yn wirioneddol gywir gyda\u2019ch manylion, os gwelwch chi\u2019n dda,\u201d apeliodd ef."}, {"text_idx": "#000090", "text": "\u201cPray be precise as to details,\u201d said he."}, {"text_idx": "#000091", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019n hawdd iawn i mi fod yn groyw glir efo\u2019r holl fanylion, Mr Holmes, gan fod pob digwyddiad lleiaf o\u2019r amser ofnadwy hwnnw wedi ei serio ar fy nghof. Mae\u2019r maenordy, fel y crybwyllais i wrthych chi eisoes, yn hynafol iawn, a dim ond un adain ohono sydd erbyn hyn mewn cyflwr cyfanheddol. Yn yr adain honno y mae\u2019r ystafelloedd gwely ar y llawr gwaelod; ac mae\u2019r ystafelloedd byw a\u2019r ystafelloedd hamddena wedi eu lleoli ym mloc canolog y prif adeilad. O\u2019r ystafelloedd cysgu, yr un gyntaf ydy un Dr. Roylott, yr ail un ydy un fy chwaer, a\u2019r drydedd un ydy fy ystafell i fy hun. Does yna ddim cyfrwng mynediad rhyngddyn nhw a\u2019i gilydd, ond y maen nhw i gyd yn rhannu tramwyfa\u2019r un coridor cyffredin. A ydw i yn fy ngwneud fy hun yn eglur i chi, d\u2019wedwch?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000092", "text": "\u201cIt is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms the first is Dr. Roylott\u2019s, the second my sister\u2019s, and the third my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000094", "text": "\u201cMae ffenestri\u2019r tair ystafell wely yn agor allan ar y lawnt. Ar y noson angheuol honno roedd Dr. Roylott wedi troi i\u2019w ystafell yn gynnar, er y gwyddem ni nad oedd o wedi ymneilltuo yno i noswylio fel y cyfryw, ddim hyd yn oed i hepian orffwyso heb so\u0302n am gysgu; oherwydd roedd fy chwaer yn cael ei phoeni gan arogl cryf y siga\u0302rs o India yr oedd o\u2019n arfer eu hysmygu. Felly, gadawodd hi ei hystafell ei hun, a dod draw i\u2019m hystafell i, lle yr eisteddodd hi am beth amser tra buom ni\u2019n dwy yn sgwrsio am ei phriodas oedd yn dynesu. Am un ar ddeg y nos fe gododd hi o\u2019i chadair i ddychwelyd i\u2019w hystafell ei hun, ond safodd ennyd wrth y drws gan edrych yn ei ho\u0302l."}, {"text_idx": "#000095", "text": "\u201cThe windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At eleven o\u2019clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door and looked back."}, {"text_idx": "#000096", "text": "\u201c \u2018D\u2019wed wrtha i, Helen,\u2019 meddai hi, \u2018wyt ti erioed wedi clywed rhywun yn chwibanu ym mherfedd y nos?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000097", "text": "\u201c \u2018Tell me, Helen,\u2019 said she, \u2018have you ever heard anyone whistle in the dead of the night?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000099", "text": "\u201c \u2018Go brin, mae\u2019n debyg, y gallet ti dy hun ... jest o bosib ... fod yn chwibanu yn dy gwsg?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000100", "text": "\u201c \u2018I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in your sleep?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000101", "text": "\u201c \u2018Yn sicr ddim. Ond pam rwyt ti\u2019n holi?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000102", "text": "\u201c \u2018Certainly not. But why?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000103", "text": "\u201c \u2018Oherwydd yn ystod yr ychydig nosweithiau diwethaf rydw i\u2019n gyson, tua thri o\u2019r gloch yn y bore, wedi bod yn clywed chwibanu isel a chlir. Gan mai cysgwr ysgafn ydw i, mae\u2019r sw\u0302n wedi fy neffro i. Alla\u2019 i ddim dweud o ble y mae\u2019r chwibanu\u2019n dod; hwyrach mai o\u2019r ystafell y drws nesaf, neu hwyrach o gyfeiriad y lawnt y tu allan. Mi feddyliais y byddwn i jest yn gofyn i ti, tybed a oeddet tithau hefyd wedi ei glywed.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000104", "text": "\u201c \u2018Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from\u2014perhaps from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would just ask you whether you had heard it.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000105", "text": "\u201c \u2018Naddo, ar fy llw; chlywais i ddim o\u2019r fath beth. Mae\u2019n rhaid mai\u2019r crwydrwyr melltigedig yna yn y blanhigfa sy\u2019n gyfrifol.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000106", "text": "\u201c \u2018No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000107", "text": "\u201c \u2018Mwy na thebyg; ac eto, pe bai\u2019r sw\u0302n wedi dod o gyfeiriad y lawnt, mae\u2019n syndod gen i na fyddet tithau hefyd wedi ei glywed o.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000108", "text": "\u201c \u2018Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you did not hear it also.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000109", "text": "\u201c \u2018Ie, ond mi rydw i\u2019n cysgu\u2019n drymach beth na thi, onid ydw i?\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000110", "text": "\u201c \u2018Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000111", "text": "\u201c \u2018Wel, dydy o ddim yn fater o bwys mawr, ta beth.' Gwenodd hi'n o\u0302l arna\u2019 i, cyn cau\u2019r drws yn dawel; ac ymhen ychydig eiliadau wedyn mi glywais i hi\u2019n troi ei hallwedd yng nghlo drws ei hystafell hi ei hun.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000112", "text": "\u201c \u2018Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.\u2019 She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her key turn in the lock.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000113", "text": "\u201cFelly\u2019n wir,\u201d ychwanegodd Holmes, fel pe\u2019n awyddus i roi ar ddeall iddi hi ei fod yn parhau i gadw ei big i mewn yn ei stori. \u201cA oedd hi wastad yn arferiad gennych chi eich dwy, felly, i\u2019ch cloi eich hunain i mewn gyda\u2019r nos?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000114", "text": "\u201cIndeed,\u201d said Holmes. \u201cWas it your custom always to lock yourselves in at night?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000115", "text": "\u201cO, yn wir. Pam, felly? \u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000116", "text": "\u201cRydw i\u2019n meddwl i mi nodi wrthych chi gynnau, Mr Holmes, fod y meddyg yn cadw llewpard a babw\u0302n. Doeddem ni ddim yn teimlo\u2019n ddiogel nac yn gartrefol yn y lle, heb fod ein drysau ni bob amser ar glo, yn enwedig gydol y nos.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000117", "text": "\u201cI think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were locked.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000118", "text": "\u201cSiw\u0302r iawn, Miss Stoner, ond ... byddwch gystal a\u0302 pharhau ymlaen a\u0302\u2019ch datganiad, os gwelwch yn dda.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000119", "text": "\u201cQuite so. Pray proceed with your statement.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000120", "text": "Her face blanched with terror."}, {"text_idx": "#000121", "text": "\u201cAllwn i ddim cysgu\u2019r noson honno. Roedd rhyw deimlad annelwig o anffodusrwydd affwysol yn gwasgu amdana\u2019 i. Roedd fy chwaer a minnau, mi gofiwch, yn efeilliaid, ac mi wyddoch chi pa mor anniffiniol ydy\u2019r dolennau sy\u2019n clymu dau enaid cytu\u0302n sydd mor ymrwymedig a\u0302 hynny i\u2019w gilydd. Roedd hi\u2019n noson egr o stormus. Roedd y gwynt y tu allan yn rhuo, a\u2019r glaw yn curo a thasgu\u2019n ddidostur yn erbyn gwydrau\u2019r ffenestri. Yn ddisymwth, ynghanol dwndwr y corwynt, torrodd allan ysgrech amrwd ac erchyll, yn amlwg o enau merch mewn braw dychrynllyd. Mi wyddwn i ar fy union mai llais fy chwaer oedd o. Mi lamais i mewn chwinciad o\u2019m gwely, gan daflu sio\u0302l dros fy ysgwyddau, a rhuthro i\u2019r coridor. Wrth i mi agor y drws, mi synhwyrwn gyda sicrwydd di-au i mi glywed chwibaniad isel, yn debyg iawn i\u2019r un roedd fy chwaer wedi ei ddisgrifio i mi; ac ymhen ychydig eiliadau\u2019n unig yn dilyn hynny, mi glywn i eto ryw sw\u0302n atseiniol arall, fel pe bai lwmp o fetel wedi cwympo ar y llawr. Wrth i mi frysio\u2019r ychydig gamau ar hyd tramwyfa\u2019r coridor, sylwais fod drws ystafell fy chwaer ... y drws nesaf, os cofiwch ... heb fod ar glo; ond yn hytrach ei fod yn gilagored ac yn siglo\u2019n ysgafn ar ei golfachau. Mi sefais i yno\u2019n stond fel talp o farmor, yn rhythu ar y drws mewn syfrdandod arswydus, heb grebwyll yn y byd o ba fath o ddrychiolaeth a fyddai\u2019n ymddangos yr eiliad nesaf drwy ei fwlch agored. Ymhen chwinciad, yng ngoleuni\u2019r lamp wic-olew yn y coridor, mi welwn fy chwaer yn ymddangos yn yr agoriad, ei hwyneb yn wyn fel y galchen mewn braw, ei dwylo\u2019n ymbalfalu am gynhaliaeth, a holl ffra\u0302m ei chorff yn siglo o un ochr i\u2019r llall fel meddwyn. Mi redais i ati hi gan daflu fy mreichiau amdani, ond y foment honno ildiodd ei phennau gliniau fel pe baen nhw wedi colli eu nerth i\u2019w chynnal, a syrthiodd yn swp i\u2019r llawr. Roedd hi\u2019n gwingo fel enaid mewn poen difrifol, efo\u2019i breichiau a\u2019i choesau yn dirdynnu\u2019n ofnadwy. Ar y dechrau mi feddyliais i nad oedd hi wedi fy adnabod i; ond wrth i mi blygu drosti, mi ysgrechiodd allan yn ddirybudd mewn llais nad anghofia\u2019 i byth mohono, \u2018O, Dduw mawr! Helen! Y cylch oedd o! Y cylch brith!\u2019 Roedd hi\u2019n amlwg yn ymdrechu\u2019n daer i ychwanegu rhyw wybodaeth ategol arall, o bwys tyngedfennol efallai, wrth drywanu\u2019r aer efo\u2019i bys i gyfeiriad ystafell y meddyg; ond fe\u2019i meddiannwyd hi gan gonfylsiwn arall drachefn, a dagodd y geiriau yn ei gwddf. Mi ruthrais i allan ar fy union, gan lefain yn uchel am fy llystad, ac mi ddeuthum i wyneb yn wyneb ag o yn prysuro allan o\u2019i ystafell ei hun yn ei w\u0302n nos. Erbyn iddo benlinio wrth ochr fy chwaer roedd hi\u2019n anymwybodol, ac er iddo fo arllwys brandi i lawr ei gwddf hi, ac anfon am gymorth meddygol o\u2019r pentref, di-fudd fu pob ymdrech i\u2019w hadfer; oherwydd yn araf mi suddodd ei hysbryd a bu hi farw heb ddod ati ei hun. A dyna\u2019r modd truenus y treuliodd fy chwaer annwyl ei heiliadau olaf.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000122", "text": "\u201cI could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew that it was my sister\u2019s voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister\u2019s door was unlocked, and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out in a voice which I shall never forget, \u2018Oh, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!\u2019 There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the doctor\u2019s room, but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his dressing-gown. When he reached my sister\u2019s side she was unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for she slowly sank and died without having recovered her consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000123", "text": "\u201cUn foment,\u201d prysurodd Holmes i ymateb, er yn bwyllog a chyda diddordeb didwyll: \u201cA ydych chi\u2019n berffaith sicr yngly\u0302n a\u0302\u2019r chwibaniad a\u2019r sw\u0302n metelaidd yna? Allech dyngu llw i chi glywed y synau hynny yn glir?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000124", "text": "\u201cOne moment,\u201d said Holmes, \u201care you sure about this whistle and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000125", "text": "\u201cDyna\u2019n union yr hyn a ofynnodd crwner y sir i mi, yn yr ymchwiliad. A\u2019m hargraff bendant i, syr, yw i mi eu clywed nhw ... does dim dau am hynny; ac eto, yng nghanol twrw\u2019r corwynt ynghyd a\u0302\u2019r gwahanol wichiadau o fewn adeilad mor hynafol, hwyrach fod peth posibilrwydd y gallwn i fod wedi fy nhwyllo yn hynny o beth.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000126", "text": "\u201cThat was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000127", "text": "\u201cA oedd eich chwaer wedi ei gwisgo yn ei dillad arferol?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000128", "text": "\u201cNac oedd, roedd hi\u2019n ei choban gysgu. Yn ei llaw dde mi ddarganfuwyd stwmp golosglyd o fatsien, ac yn ei llaw chwith flwch o fatsis.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000129", "text": "\u201cNo, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000130", "text": "\u201cYn dangos ei bod hi wedi cynnau fflam o oleuni, siw\u0302r iawn, i edrych o\u2019i hamgylch yn y tywyllwch, pan ddigwyddodd y tarfu ar ddistawrwydd y nos. Mae hynny\u2019n bwysig i\u2019w nodi. Ac i ba gasgliadau ddaeth y crwner?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000131", "text": "\u201cShowing that she had struck a light and looked about her when the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did the coroner come to?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000132", "text": "\u201cMi ymchwiliodd o\u2019r achos efo cryn ofal, oherwydd roedd ymddygiad drwg-enwog Dr. Roylott yn rhemp, ac wedi bod yn destun siarad ledled y sir am gyfnod sylweddol o amser; ond allai\u2019r crwner ddim dod o hyd i unrhyw achos boddhaol am ei marwolaeth. Mi ddangosodd fy nhystiolaeth i fod drws ei hystafell hi wedi ei gloi ar yr ochr fewnol, a bod y ffenestri wedi cael eu blocio gan gaeadau hen ffasiwn efo bariau haearn llydan ar eu traws, yr arferid eu cau\u2019n dynn a diogel bob nos. Pan brofwyd sefydlogrwydd y waliau trwchus yn ofalus, dangoswyd eu bod nhw\u2019n solet o gadarn yr holl ffordd o amgylch yr ystafell; ac mi archwiliwyd y llawr yn drwyadl hefyd, efo\u2019r un canlyniadau. Mae\u2019r simdde\u2019n llydan, ond mae honno wedyn wedi ei gwneud yn ddiogel efo pedair o staplau mawrion ar draws ei hagendor. Does dim dwywaith felly fod fy chwaer ar ei phen ei hun pan gyfarfu hi a\u0302\u2019i diwedd. Heblaw am hynny, doedd ychwaith ddim olion ffyrnigrwydd na marc nac arwydd o unrhyw drais yn unman ar ei chorff.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000133", "text": "\u201cHe investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott\u2019s conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000134", "text": "\u201cBeth am gael ei gwenwyno?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000135", "text": "\u201cFe wnaeth y meddygon ei harchwilio hi\u2019n fwriadol am hynny, ond heb brofi dim yn gadarnhaol.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000136", "text": "\u201cThe doctors examined her for it, but without success.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000137", "text": "\u201cO ba ganlyniad ydych chi eich hun yn tybio, felly, y bu i\u2019r fonesig anffodus yma farw?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000138", "text": "\u201cWhat do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000139", "text": "\u201cFy nghred i ydy y bu iddi hi farw o ofn pur a sioc nerfus anhygoel o drawmatig; ond beth ar y ddaear wnaeth ei dychryn hi i\u2019r fath raddau, alla\u2019 i\u2019n fy myw ddim dychmygu.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000140", "text": "\u201cIt is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000141", "text": "\u201cA oedd yna sipsiwn yn y blanhigfa ar y pryd?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000142", "text": "\u201cWere there gipsies in the plantation at the time?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000145", "text": "\u201cO, felly\u2019n wir; a beth ydych chi\u2019n ei gasglu o\u2019r cyfeiriad aneglur hwnnw at gylch - rhyw gylch brith?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000146", "text": "\u201cAh, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band - a speckled band?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000147", "text": "\u201cWeithiau, mi rydw i wedi bod yn meddwl nad oedd o efallai ond rhyw fath o siarad ffwndrus dan effaith gwewyr dirdynnol neu ddeliriwm dwys. Dro arall mi fydda\u2019 i\u2019n tybied fod cyfeiriad yn y gair i ryw grw\u0302p neu gylch o bobl; hwyrach fod bwriad ganddi hi i grybwyll yr union dylwyth o sipsiwn sy\u2019n gwersylla\u2019n rheolaidd yn y blanhigfa. Wn i ddim ai\u2019r hancesi brith y bydd cynifer ohonyn nhw\u2019n eu gwisgo weithiau o amgylch eu pennau, a barodd iddi hi awgrymu\u2019r ansoddair rhyfedd hwnnw y gwnaeth hi ei ynganu. Wn i ddim, ar fy ngwir.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000148", "text": "\u201cSometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which she used.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000149", "text": "Ysgydwodd Holmes ei ben megis dyn yn arddangos ei fod ymhell o fod yn dawel ei feddwl."}, {"text_idx": "#000150", "text": "Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied."}, {"text_idx": "#000151", "text": "\u201cDyma ddyfroedd dyfnion iawn,\u201d meddai ef ymhen y rhawg; \u201cond byddwch gystal a\u0302 pharhau yn eich blaen gyda\u2019ch adroddiad, Miss Stoner.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000152", "text": "\u201cThese are very deep waters,\u201d said he; \u201cpray go on with your narrative.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000153", "text": "\u201cMae dwy flynedd wedi mynd heibio oddi ar hynny, ac mae fy mywyd i wedi bod hyd yn ddiweddar yn fwy unig nag erioed. Fis yn o\u0302l, fodd bynnag, mae cyfaill annwyl i mi, un rydw i wedi ei adnabod ers nifer o flynyddoedd, wedi fy anrhydeddu drwy ofyn am fy llaw mewn priodas. Ei enw ydy Armitage ... Percy Armitage ... ail fab Mr Armitage o Crane Water ger Reading. Dydy fy llystad ddim wedi mynegi unrhyw wrthwynebiad i\u2019r pariad, ac y mae trefniadau ar y gweill i ni briodi yng nghwrs y gwanwyn nesaf. Ond rwan, i ddod at fy mhryder presennol i. Ddeuddydd yn o\u0302l mi ddechreuwyd ar waith atgyweirio yn adain orllewinol ein maenordy ni, ac mae twll bychan wedi ei wneud drwy un o furiau fy ystafell wely i, fel bod yn rhaid i mi symud i\u2019r siambr lle bu farw fy chwaer, a chysgu yn yr union wely\u2019r oedd hi\u2019n cysgu ynddo, hyd nes y bydd y gwaith atgyweirio wedi ei orffen ar fy siambr i fy hun. Dychmygwch felly fy ias o arswyd neithiwr, wrth i mi orwedd yn effro yng nghanol y nos yn troi a throsi yn fy meddwl ddigwyddiadau posibl ei thynged ofnadwy, pan glywais i\u2019n sydyn allan o\u2019r distawrwydd llethol yr un chwibaniad isel a\u0302\u2019r un oedd wedi rhagflaenu ei marwolaeth ddisyfyd hi. Mi neidiais o\u2019m gwely ar fy union, a goleuo\u2019r lamp, ond doedd dim i\u2019w weld yn yr ystafell. Roeddwn i wedi fy nghynhyrfu ormod i fynd yn o\u0302l i\u2019m gwely, p\u2019run bynnag, felly mi wisgais i fy nillad amdanaf; a chyn gynted ag y goleuodd y dydd, mi lithrais i lawr o\u2019r ty\u0302, ac mi gefais i gert ci ger y Crown Inn sydd gyferbyn a\u0302 ni, a gyrru i Leatherhead, ac oddi yno wedyn y deuthum i ymlaen yma i Lundain y bore \u2019ma, efo\u2019r un bwriad i\u2019ch gweld chi, syr, ac i ofyn i chi am eich cyngor.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000154", "text": "\u201cTwo years have passed since then, and my life has been until lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage \u2014 Percy Armitage \u2014 the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000155", "text": "\u201cFe wnaethoch chi\u2019n ddoeth,\u201d oedd sylw fy nghyfaill; \u201cond a ydych chi wedi dweud y cyfan wrthyf fi?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000156", "text": "\u201cYou have done wisely,\u201d said my friend. \u201cBut have you told me all?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000158", "text": "\u201cMiss Stoner, d\u2019ych chi ddim. R\u2019ych chi\u2019n cysgod-amddiffyn eich llystad.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000159", "text": "\u201cMiss Stoner, you have not. You are screening your stepfather.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000160", "text": "\u201cPam ... wn i ddim beth ydych chi\u2019n ei olygu ... mae\u2019n ddrwg gen i?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000161", "text": "\u201cWhy, what do you mean?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000162", "text": "Yn hytrach na\u2019i hateb yn ddiatreg a\u0302\u2019i leferydd, camodd Holmes ymlaen yn fonheddig, a gwthiodd yn ei o\u0302l yn ysgafn y ffrilen o les ddu oedd yn rhimyn o amgylch godre llawes ei gwisg, gan ddadorchuddio arddwrn y llaw a orffwysai ein hymwelydd yn ddiymwybod ar ei glin. Wedi eu hargraffu ar yr arddwrn gwelw-wyn hwnnw a ddaeth i\u2019r golwg roedd cleisiau dulas ar ffurf glir pedwar bys ac un bawd."}, {"text_idx": "#000163", "text": "For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor\u2019s knee. Five little livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed upon the white wrist."}, {"text_idx": "#000164", "text": "\u201cRydych chi wedi cael eich defnyddio\u2019n greulon,\u201d mentrodd Holmes ei awgrymu\u2019n dyner."}, {"text_idx": "#000165", "text": "\u201cYou have been cruelly used,\u201d said Holmes."}, {"text_idx": "#000166", "text": "Newidiodd lliw wyneb y fonesig yn goch dwfn, a phrysurodd i orchuddio ei harddwrn briwedig. \u201cDyn caled ydy o,\u201d esboniodd hi\u2019n gwta, ac yn amlwg dan deimlad, \u201cac efallai nad ydy o\u2019n llawn sylweddoli ei nerth ei hun.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000167", "text": "The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. \u201cHe is a hard man,\u201d she said, \u201cand perhaps he hardly knows his own strength.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000168", "text": "Dilynwyd ei chyfaddefiad swil gan ddistawrwydd hir, pryd y gorffwysai Holmes ei e\u0302n ar ei ddwylo gan syllu\u2019n ddwys i fflamau\u2019r ta\u0302n a gracliai yn y gra\u0302t."}, {"text_idx": "#000169", "text": "There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire."}, {"text_idx": "#000170", "text": "\u201cIe, dyma fusnes dwfn iawn,\u201d meddai o\u2019r diwedd."}, {"text_idx": "#000171", "text": "\u201cIe, dyma fusnes dwfn iawn,\u201d meddai o\u2019r diwedd. \u201cMae yna gant a mil o fanylion y dymunwn i ymgyfarwyddo a\u0302 nhw cyn i mi gynnig penderfyniad i chi yngly\u0302n a\u0302\u2019r hyn y dylech chi ei wneud yn eich sefyllfa. Ond does gennym ni\u2019r un eiliad i\u2019w gwastraffu. Pe byddem ni\u2019n dod draw i Stoke Moran brynhawn heddiw, a fyddai hi\u2019n bosib, \u2019dych chi\u2019n tybio, i ni gael golwg drwy\u2019r ystafelloedd hyn r\u2019ych chi wedi cyfeirio atyn nhw, heb i hynny fod yn hysbys i\u2019ch llystad?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000172", "text": "\u201cThis is a very deep business,\u201d he said at last. \u201cThere are a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your stepfather?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000173", "text": "\u201cFel mae\u2019n digwydd, roedd o\u2019n siarad ddoe am ddod draw i\u2019r ddinas yma heddiw ar ryw fusnes a swniai\u2019n eithriadol o bwysig. Mae\u2019n debygol iawn y bydd o oddi cartref drwy\u2019r dydd, ac na fyddai yn Stoke Moran ddim byd i darfu rhag i chi wneud hynny. Erbyn hyn mae gennym ni feistres ty\u0302, ond mae hi mewn gwth o oedran a braidd yn ffwndrus ei meddwl, ac mi allwn i drefnu\u2019n hawdd i\u2019w chael hi o\u2019r ffordd am ryw awr neu ddwy, yn o\u0302l eich cyfarwyddyd chi.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000175", "text": "\u201cArdderchog. Does gennych chi ddim byd yn erbyn ymweliad o\u2019r fath, Watson?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000176", "text": "\u201cExcellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000177", "text": "\u201cOs felly, fe ddeuwn ni\u2019n dau. Beth ydych chi eich hun am ei wneud, rhwng nawr a hynny?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000178", "text": "\u201cThen we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000179", "text": "\u201cMae gen i un neu ddau o bethau yr hoffwn i eu gwneud, tra fy mod innau rwan yma yn Llundain. Ond mi fydda i\u2019n dychwelyd efo\u2019r tre\u0302n deuddeg o\u2019r gloch, fel y bydda i yno mewn pryd i ddisgwyl i chi gyrraedd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000180", "text": "\u201cI have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am in town. But I shall return by the twelve o\u2019clock train, so as to be there in time for your coming.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000181", "text": "\u201cAc fe allwch chi ein disgwyl ni\u2019n gynnar yn y prynhawn. Mae gen i fy hun ryw faterion busnes bychain i ddelio gyda nhw, yn y cyfamser. Wnewch chi ddim aros gyda ni am damaid o frecwast?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000182", "text": "\u201cAnd you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and breakfast?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000183", "text": "\u201cNa\u2019n wir; mae\u2019n rhaid i mi fynd, diolch yn fawr i chi. Mae fy nghalon i wedi ysgafnhau\u2019n barod ers i mi ymddiried fy nhrafferthion i chi. Mi fydda i\u2019n edrych ymlaen at eich gweld chi eto\u2019r prynhawn yma.\u201d Gostyngodd rwyden ei fe\u0302l ddu drwchus dros ei hwyneb, a llithrodd allan o\u2019r ystafell yn gynnil o gwrtais."}, {"text_idx": "#000184", "text": "\u201cNo, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you again this afternoon.\u201d She dropped her thick black veil over her face and glided from the room."}, {"text_idx": "#000185", "text": "\u201cA beth ydych chi\u2019n ei feddwl o\u2019r cyfan, Watson?\u201d holodd Sherlock Holmes, gan bwyso\u2019i gefn yn o\u0302l yn ei gadair."}, {"text_idx": "#000186", "text": "\u201cAnd what do you think of it all, Watson?\u201d asked Sherlock Holmes, leaning back in his chair."}, {"text_idx": "#000187", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019n ymddangos i mi fel fod hwn yn hen fusnes tra thywyll a sinistr.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000188", "text": "\u201cIt seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000189", "text": "\u201cDigon tywyll yn wir, a digon sinistr.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000190", "text": "\u201cDark enough and sinister enough.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000191", "text": "\u201cAc eto, os yw\u2019r fonesig yn gywir wrth ddweud bod y lloriau a\u2019r muriau yn solet, ac nad oes modd cael mynediad drwy\u2019r drws na\u2019r ffenestr na\u2019r simnai, yna mae\u2019n rhaid bod ei chwaer heb amheuaeth wedi bod ar ei phen ei hun, pan gyfarfu hi a\u0302\u2019i diwedd dirgel.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000192", "text": "\u201cYet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her mysterious end.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000193", "text": "\u201cBeth felly yw eich esboniad chi o\u2019r chwibanu liw nos yma? A beth am eiriau rhyfeddol eithriadol y wraig ifanc wrth iddi hi farw?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000194", "text": "\u201cWhat becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the very peculiar words of the dying woman?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000195", "text": "\u201cAlla\u2019 i\u2019n fy myw ddim dychmygu.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000196", "text": "\u201cPan gyfunwch chi\u2019r syniadau am chwibanu ym mherfedd nos, am bresenoldeb cylch o sipsiwn crwydrol sydd ar delerau cyfeillgar agos iawn gyda\u2019r hen feddyg yma, y ffaith bod gennym ni bob rheswm i gredu bod y meddyg yn awyddus y tu hwnt i rwystro ei lysferch rhag priodi, y crybwylliad astrus o wefusau merch ar drengi at ryw gylch o ryw fath, ac yn olaf un y ffaith fod Miss Helen Stoner wedi clywed clang metelaidd, a allai fod wedi cael ei achosi gan un o\u2019r bariau hynny sydd at sicrhau bod shwteri\u2019r ffenestri ar gau, wedi syrthio\u2019n glap i\u2019w gynnal-fachau, yna fe greda\u2019 i ein bod ni ar dir go ddiogel i feddwl mai ar y llinellau hynny y llwyddwn ni i glirio\u2019r dirgelwch hwn.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000197", "text": "\u201cWhen you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has an interest in preventing his stepdaughter\u2019s marriage, the dying allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its place, I think that there is good ground to think that the mystery may be cleared along those lines.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000198", "text": "\u201cOnd pa ran, felly, a chwaraewyd gan y sipsiwn yn hyn oll?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000199", "text": "\u201cBut what, then, did the gipsies do?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000200", "text": "\u201cDuw a w\u0302yr; alla\u2019 i fy hun, ar fy ngair, ddim meddwl.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000203", "text": "\u201cFelly minnau hefyd; ac am yr union reswm hwnnw rydym ni\u2019n mynd draw i Stoke Moran heddiw. Rwyf i am weld p\u2019run ai yw\u2019r gwrthwynebiadau o bwys angheuol, neu a ellir cynnig esboniad rhesymol iddyn nhw. Ond beth, yn enw\u2019r Diawl!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000204", "text": "\u201cAnd so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of the devil!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000205", "text": "Yr hyn a enynnodd y fath ebychiad o enau fy nghyfaill oedd y ffaith i\u2019n drws ni gael ei hyrddio\u2019n agored, yn hollol ddirybudd, gan dynnu ein sylw ni\u2019n ddiatal at anferth o ddyn yn sefyll fel pe wedi ei fframio ym mwlch yr agorfa. Roedd wedi ei ddilladu mewn cymysgedd od o wryw-wisg proffesiynol a gweith-wisg amaethyddol, gyda\u2019i het silc-uchel ddu ar ei ben, ffrog-go\u0302t laes, a pha\u0302r o goesarnau uchel; ac yn ei law swingiai chwip-wialen hela. Roedd y creadur mor dal fel bod ei het silc mewn gwirionedd yn ysgubo yn erbyn trawst uchaf porth y drws, ac roedd ei gorff mor llydan fel ei fod yn ymestyn o un polyn plwm y porth i\u2019r llall. Nodweddid ef hefyd gan ben anarferol o fawr, a hwnnw fel pe bai wedi ei ysgythru gyda miloedd o grychau; roedd croen ei wyneb wedi ei losgi\u2019n felyn gan yr haul, a\u2019i wedd yn bradychu pob nwyd anfadus, wrth iddo droi ei wep o un i\u2019r llall ohonom ni; tra roedd ei lygaid dirgel-ddwfn, gwaetgoch a llawn bustl, a\u2019i drwyn main gyda\u2019i bont uchel, esgyrnog, yn peri iddo edrych yn debyg iawn i hen fwltur ysglyfaethus a ffyrnig."}, {"text_idx": "#000206", "text": "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey."}, {"text_idx": "#000207", "text": "\"Which one of you is Holmes?\""}, {"text_idx": "#000208", "text": "\u201cPa un ohonoch chi ydy Holmes?\u201d rhuodd y ddrychiolaeth yma."}, {"text_idx": "#000209", "text": "\u201cWhich of you is Holmes?\u201d asked this apparition."}, {"text_idx": "#000210", "text": "\u201cFy enw i yw hwnnw, syr; ond ... maddeuwch i mi ... mae gennych chi\u2019r fantais arna\u2019 i,\u201d oedd ymateb tawel a bonheddig fy nghydymaith."}, {"text_idx": "#000211", "text": "\u201cMy name, sir; but you have the advantage of me,\u201d said my companion quietly."}, {"text_idx": "#000214", "text": "\u201cFelly\u2019n wir, Doctor,\u201d atebodd Holmes yn arwynebol groesawgar a chartrefol, mewn ymgais i ddiffiwsio a thyneru\u2019r awyrgylch. \u201cDa chi, syr, cymerwch sedd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000215", "text": "\u201cIndeed, Doctor,\u201d said Holmes blandly. \u201cPray take a seat.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000216", "text": "\u201cWna i ddim o\u2019r fath beth. Mae fy llysferch i wedi bod yma. Rydw i wedi olrhain ei thrywydd hi bob cam i\u2019r lle hwn. Beth mae hi wedi bod yn ei glepian amdano wrthych chi, efo\u2019i thafod ffiaidd a gwenwynllyd?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000218", "text": "\u201cMi dybiaf fod y tywydd ychydig yn oer am yr adeg yma o\u2019r flwyddyn,\u201d cynigiodd Holmes fel mater o sylwebaeth ddigyswllt, eto mewn agwedd radlon a chyfeillgar, i\u2019r perwyl o geisio heddychu\u2019r sefyllfa."}, {"text_idx": "#000219", "text": "\u201cIt is a little cold for the time of the year,\u201d said Holmes."}, {"text_idx": "#000220", "text": "\u201cBeth mae hi wedi ei ddweud wrthych chi?\u201d taranodd yr hen w\u0302r yn flin gynddeiriog."}, {"text_idx": "#000221", "text": "\u201cWhat has she been saying to you?\u201d screamed the old man furiously."}, {"text_idx": "#000222", "text": "\u201cOnd mi rydw i wedi clywed fod y saffrwn yn argoeli\u2019n dda,\u201d atebodd fy nghyfaill, gan barhau i ymddangos yn gwbl ddigyffro dan ymosodiad mor annymunol."}, {"text_idx": "#000223", "text": "\u201cBut I have heard that the crocuses promise well,\u201d continued my companion imperturbably."}, {"text_idx": "#000224", "text": "\u201cHy! Ydych chi\u2019n ceisio fy mwrw i oddi ar fy echel, ydych chi?\u201d meddai ein hymwelydd newydd, gan gymryd cam ymlaen, ac ysgwyd ei fflangell hela\u2019n fygythiol yn wyneb Holmes. \u201cMi wn i amdanoch chi, y cnaf! Rydw i wedi clywed amdanoch chi o\u2019r blaen. Chi ydy Holmes yr ymyrrwr diegwyddor!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000225", "text": "\u201cHa! You put me off, do you?\u201d said our new visitor, taking a step forward and shaking his hunting-crop. \u201cI know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000228", "text": "Chwarddodd Holmes yn foddhaus. \u201cMae eich sgwrs yn eithriadol o ddiddanus,\u201d meddai\u2019n hamddenol. \u201cPan fyddwch chi\u2019n mynd allan, byddwch mor garedig a\u0302 chau\u2019r drws ar eich o\u0302l, gan fod yna ddrafft diamheuol yn yr ystafell yma.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000229", "text": "Holmes chuckled heartily. \u201cYour conversation is most entertaining,\u201d said he. \u201cWhen you go out close the door, for there is a decided draught.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000230", "text": "\u201cMi adawa\u2019 i wedi i mi orffen dweud fy nweud. Peidiwch chi a\u0302 meiddio medlan efo fy materion i, Mr Holmes. Mi wn i\u2019n iawn fod Miss Stoner wedi bod yma; mi wnes i ddilyn ei chamre hi yr holl ffordd i\u2019r lle hwn! Mi rydw i\u2019n ddyn peryglus i chi hyd yn oed ystyried sathru ar fy nghyrn i! Edrychwch yma ...\" Camodd ymlaen yn frysiog, gafaelodd fel gefel yn y pocer ta\u0302n oddi ar yr aelwyd, a chyda\u2019i balfalau melyngoch enfawr fe\u2019i plygodd yn y fan a\u2019r lle yn hanner-crwn fel cryman."}, {"text_idx": "#000231", "text": "\u201cI will go when I have said my say. Don\u2019t you dare to meddle with my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here.\u201d He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands."}, {"text_idx": "#000232", "text": "\u201cJest byddwch chi\u2019n ofalus i\u2019ch cadw eich hun allan o afael fy nghrafangau i,\u201d cyfarthodd; a chan hyrddio\u2019r pocer ystumiedig yn ei o\u0302l i\u2019r lle ta\u0302n, trodd ar ei sawdl a brasgamodd allan o\u2019r ystafell yn gandryll ei dymer."}, {"text_idx": "#000233", "text": "\u201cSee that you keep yourself out of my grip,\u201d he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room."}, {"text_idx": "#000234", "text": "\u201cOnid ydy e\u2019n greadur dymunol,\u201d dychanodd Holmes, gan chwerthin yn isel yn ei wddf. \u201cFe wn i nad wyf i cweit mor gorffog ag e', ond pe buasai\u2019r dyn wedi aros fymryn yn hirach efallai y byddwn innau wedi dangos iddo fe nad yw fy nerth i ryw lawer iawn yn fwy musgrell na\u2019i gryfder yntau.\u201d Wrth iddo siarad felly, plygodd yn bwyllog i godi\u2019r pocer, a chyda hergwd sydyn a\u0302\u2019i ddwy law fe\u2019i sythodd allan yn ei o\u0302l, mor unionsyth ag y disgwylid i bocer ta\u0302n fod."}, {"text_idx": "#000235", "text": "\u201cHe seems a very amiable person,\u201d said Holmes, laughing. \u201cI am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.\u201d As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again."}, {"text_idx": "#000236", "text": "\u201cWel! Dychmygwch y fath haerllugrwydd; i feiddio fy nghamgymryd i am un o dditectifs swyddogol yr heddlu, a\u2019m gosod i\u2019n gyfartal ag un ohonyn nhw! Mae\u2019r digwyddiad hwn, serch hynny, yn symbyliad heriol sydd wedi rhoi inni arddeliad penderfynol i ymroi i\u2019r archwiliad hwn o ddifrif; a \u2019dwyf i ond yn gobeithio na fydd ein cyfaill annwyl ni\u2019n dioddef mewn unrhyw ffordd o ganlyniad i\u2019w hannoethineb, yn caniata\u0301u i\u2019r cythraul gwallgof hwn ddilyn o\u0302l ei throed hi yma. Felly nawr, Watson, fe archebwn ni frecwast, ac wedyn fe gerddwn ni heb oedi i lawr i Lys y Meddygon, lle rwy\u2019n gobeithio cael gafael ar ddata a all ein cynorthwyo ni\u2019n y mater hwn sydd ger ein bron ni.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000237", "text": "\u201cFancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk down to Doctors\u2019 Commons, where I hope to get some data which may help us in this matter.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000238", "text": "Roedd hi bron yn un o\u2019r gloch pan ddychwelodd Sherlock Holmes o\u2019i ecsgwrsiwn. Daliai yn ei law daflen o bapur glas yn llawn o nodiadau a ffigurau wedi eu sgriblo drosto."}, {"text_idx": "#000239", "text": "It was nearly one o\u2019clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures."}, {"text_idx": "#000243", "text": "At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows."}, {"text_idx": "#000246", "text": "A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion."}, {"text_idx": "#000247", "text": "\u201cStoke Moran?\u201d holodd fy nghydymaith."}, {"text_idx": "#000248", "text": "\u201cO, ie, syr,\u201d atebodd y gyrrwr ifanc; \u201chwn \u2019co fan \u2019co yw cartre\u2019 Dr. Grimesby Roylott.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000249", "text": "\u201cYes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott,\u201d remarked the driver."}, {"text_idx": "#000251", "text": "\u201cThere is some building going on there,\u201d said Holmes; \u201cthat is where we are going.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000252", "text": "\u201cA \u2019co\u2019r pentre\u2019 fan \u2019co,\u201d esboniodd y gyrrwr, gan bwyntio at glwstwr o doeau tai beth pellter i ffwrdd ar ein hochr chwith. \u201cOnd os y\u2019ch chi\u2019n mo\u2019yn mynd at y ty\u0302 mawr \u2019co, fe ffindiwch taw cynted i chi fydd croesi\u2019r sticil fan \u2019co, a dilyn y droedffordd \u2019co wedyn drwy\u2019r caeau. \u2019Co fe\u2019r llwybr, lle mae\u2019r lodes \u2019co\u2019n rhodio.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000254", "text": "\u201cA\u2019r lodes, mi debygaf, yw Miss Stoner,\u201d sylwodd Holmes, gan gysgodi\u2019r heulwen o\u2019i lygaid a\u0302\u2019i law. \u201cIe\u2019n wir; ... efallai mai\u2019r doethaf i ni fyddai dilyn eich awgrym chi, hefyd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000255", "text": "\u201cAnd the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner,\u201d observed Holmes, shading his eyes. \u201cYes, I think we had better do as you suggest.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000257", "text": "Arhosodd y march, talasom yr arian oedd yn ddyledus am ein cludiant, ac unwaith yr oedd ein traed ni\u2019n gadarn ar y ddaear, trodd y gyrrwr ei gerbyd i wynebu\u2019r cyfeiriad y teithiasem ohono, a ratlodd y trap ar ei hynt yn o\u0302l tuag at Leatherhead."}, {"text_idx": "#000258", "text": "We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way to Leatherhead."}, {"text_idx": "#000259", "text": "\u201cMeddyliais mai cystal peth,\u201d esboniodd Holmes wrth i ni ddringo dros y gamfa, \u201coedd pe byddai\u2019r llanc yna\u2019n tybied ein bod ni wedi dod yma fel penseiri, neu ar ryw fusnes cyffelyb. O bosib y bydd hynny\u2019n rhoi taw ar ei glebran. Prynhawn da, Miss Stoner. Fe welwch ein bod ni\u2019n dau wedi bod gystal a\u0302\u2019n gair.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000260", "text": "\u201cI thought it as well,\u201d said Holmes as we climbed the stile, \u201cthat this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as our word.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000261", "text": "Roedd y cleient y bu i ni ei chwrdd yn gynharach y bore hwnnw wedi prysuro ymlaen i\u2019n cyfarfod ni gydag wyneb a fynegai ei llawenydd. \u201cRydw i wedi bod yn disgwyl mor eiddgar amdanoch chi,\u201d llefodd yn siriol a hapus, gan ysgwyd ein dwylo ni\u2019n gynnes o groesawgar. \u201cMae popeth wedi gweithio allan yn ardderchog hyd yma. Mae Dr. Roylott wedi mynd tua thref i Lundain, ac mae hi\u2019n annhebygol y bydd o\u2019n dychwelyd cyn y min nos.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000262", "text": "Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a face which spoke her joy. \u201cI have been waiting so eagerly for you,\u201d she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. \u201cAll has turned out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely that he will be back before evening.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000263", "text": "\u201cRydym ni eisoes wedi cael y pleser o ddod i adnabod y Meddyg yn lled dda,\u201d meddai Holmes; ac mewn ychydig eiriau amlinellodd yn fyr yr hyn a ddigwyddasai yn ein cartref-swyddfa, yn dilyn ei hymadawiad hi oddi yno yn gynharach y bore hwnnw. Fel yr oedd hi\u2019n gwrando, trodd gwefusau Miss Stoner yn welw wyn."}, {"text_idx": "#000264", "text": "\u201cWe have had the pleasure of making the doctor\u2019s acquaintance,\u201d said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened."}, {"text_idx": "#000265", "text": "\u201cY nefoedd wen!\u201d ebychodd, \u201cmae o wedi fy nilyn i, felly.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000266", "text": "\u201cGood heavens!\u201d she cried, \u201che has followed me, then.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000268", "text": "\u201cMae o mor llwynogaidd o gyfrwys fel nad ydw i byth yn gwybod pryd rydw i\u2019n ddiogel oddi wrtho. Beth ar y ddaear fawr a ddywedith o pan ddychwelith o\u2019n ei o\u0302l yma?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000269", "text": "\u201cHe is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What will he say when he returns?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000270", "text": "\u201cFe fydd yn rhaid iddo fod ar ei wyliadwriaeth, gan y gallai e\u2019 ddarganfod bod rhywun arall hyd yn oed fwy cynllwyngar nag ef ei hun ar ei drywydd. Mi fydd yn rhaid i chi eich cloi eich hun oddi wrtho fe heno. Os bydd e\u2019n dreisgar, yna fe wnawn ni eich cipio chi i ffwrdd at eich modryb yn Harrow. Nawr \u2019te, mae\u2019n rhaid i ni wneud y gorau o\u2019n hamser prin, felly byddwch gystal a\u0302\u2019n tywys ni ar unwaith i\u2019r ystafelloedd roeddem ni am eu harchwilio, os gwelwch chi\u2019n dda.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000271", "text": "\u201cHe must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to your aunt\u2019s at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to examine.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000273", "text": "The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the outsides of the windows."}, {"text_idx": "#000274", "text": "\u201cDyma, \u2019dw i\u2019n ei gymryd, y rhan o\u2019r ty\u0302 sy\u2019n cynnwys yr ystafelloedd lle roeddech chi\u2019n arfer cysgu; gyda\u2019ch chwaer yn defnyddio\u2019r ystafell ganol yma, siw\u0302r o fod, sydd bared wrth bared a\u0302 siambr Dr. Roylott yn y prif adeilad?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000275", "text": "\u201cThis, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the centre one to your sister\u2019s, and the one next to the main building to Dr. Roylott\u2019s chamber?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000276", "text": "\u201cYn gymwys felly; ond ar hyn o bryd rydw i fy hun yn cysgu yn yr ystafell ganol honna.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000277", "text": "\u201cExactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000280", "text": "\u201cAr ei ben; does dim un rheswm nac un angen yn y byd am unrhyw drwsio yn y fan \u2019na. Fy marn i ydy mai esgus oedd y cyfan, i\u2019m symud i allan o\u2019m hystafell.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000281", "text": "\u201cThere were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from my room.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000282", "text": "\u201cAh! Mi synhwyra\u2019 i ryw awgrym o ddatgeliad bychan yn eich geiriau? Nawr \u2019te, ar yr ochr arall i\u2019r adain gul yma mae\u2019n rhaid bod y coridor y mae drysau\u2019r ystafelloedd hyn yn agor allan iddo. Mae yna ffenestri ar waliau\u2019r coridor, wrth gwrs?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000283", "text": "\u201cAh! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There are windows in it, of course?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000286", "text": "\u201cOnd gan i chi eich dwy gloi eich drysau gyda\u2019r nos, doedd dim ffordd y gellid cael mynediad i\u2019r un o\u2019ch ystafelloedd chi o\u2019r ochr honno. Nawr \u2019te, fyddech chi mor garedig a\u0302 mynd i mewn i\u2019ch ystafell ac agor eich ffenestr, Miss Stoner; yna caewch y caeadau o\u2019r tu mewn, a gosodwch y bar ar eu traws i\u2019w cloi nhw\u2019n eu lle.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000287", "text": "\u201cAs you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness to go into your room and bar your shutters?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000288", "text": "Wedi i Miss Stoner fynd i mewn i\u2019r ty\u0302 a gwneud yn union yn o\u0302l cyfarwyddiadau fy nghyfaill, archwiliodd Holmes y shwteri drwy\u2019r ffenestr agored, o\u2019r tu allan, gan ymdrechu ymhob modd i wthio\u2019r caeadau ar agor, ond heb unrhyw lwyddiant. Doedd dim un rhigol y gellid gwthio llafn fain cyllell drwyddi er mwyn ceisio codi\u2019r bar oddi ar ei gynnal-fachau. Yna gyda\u2019i chwyddhadur gwydr, profodd y colfachau\u2019n fanwl; ond roeddent hwythau o haearn caled, wedi eu hadeiladu\u2019n gadarn i mewn i saern\u0456\u0308aeth y gwaith maen swmpus."}, {"text_idx": "#000289", "text": "Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry."}, {"text_idx": "#000290", "text": "\u201cHm!\u201d anadlodd allan yn y man, gan grafu ei e\u0302n mewn peth penbleth; \u201cmae fy namcaniaeth i yn amlwg yn datgelu mwy o feini tramgwydd na\u2019r disgwyl, ac yn codi mwy o anawsterau nag y mae hyd yma yn eu datrys. Allai\u2019r un copa gwalltog wthio drwy\u2019r shwteri hyn, a hwythau wedi eu bolltio oddi mewn i\u2019r ty\u0302. Wel, mi gawn ni weld os gall y tu fewn i\u2019r ystafell gynnig unrhyw oleuni pellach ar y mater.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000291", "text": "\u201cHum!\u201d said he, scratching his chin in some perplexity, \u201cmy theory certainly presents some difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the matter.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000292", "text": "Arweiniai drws ochr bychan i mewn i dramwyfa\u2019r coridor gwyngalchog, o\u2019r hwn yr agorai drysau i dair ystafell wely ochr yn ochr a\u0302\u2019i gilydd. Gwrthododd Holmes archwilio\u2019r drydedd siambr, felly dyma ni\u2019n ei hanelu hi\u2019n syth at yr ail, sef yr un y symudwyd Miss Stoner iddi hi, i\u2019w defnyddio ar hynny o bryd fel ei hystafell wely bersonol, a\u2019r union ystafell lle yr wynebodd ei chwaer ei thynged angheuol. Ystafell fechan ddigon clyd a chartrefol, ag iddi nenfwd isel a lle ta\u0302n llydan agored yn adlewyrchu steil a ffasiwn hen dai\u2019r pendefigion gwledig ers talwm. Mewn un gongl safai cist ddroriau brown, gyferbyn a\u0302 gwely cul ac arno garthen wen drwsiadus, mewn congl yr ochr arall; ac ar ochr chwith y ffenestr roedd bwrdd ymbincio destlus. Dyna\u2019r cyfan o eitemau, ynghyd a\u0302 dwy gadair fechan o blethwaith gwiail, a gyfansoddai\u2019r casgliad o ddodrefn yn yr ystafell, ar waha\u0302n i ddarn sgwa\u0302r o garped Wilton ar ganol y llawr. Roedd y byrddau a\u2019r paneli ar y muriau amgylchynol o dderw brown, ac yn rhydyllog o dyllau\u2019r pry pren drwyddynt; mor hen a llychwin fel ag i awgrymu eu bod nhw mwy na thebyg yn dyddio\u2019n o\u0302l i gyfnod adeiladu\u2019r ty\u0302 yn wreiddiol. Tynnodd Holmes un o\u2019r cadeiriau plethwaith gwiail i\u2019r gornel wag ac eisteddodd yn araf a thawel ynddi hi, tra teithiai ei lygaid yn bwyllog i fyny ac i waered a sawl gwaith o amgylch y lle, gan gymryd i mewn bob manylyn gweledol o fewn yr ystafell."}, {"text_idx": "#000293", "text": "A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, taking in every detail of the apartment."}, {"text_idx": "#000294", "text": "\u201cGyda ble y mae\u2019r gloch yna\u2019n cysylltu?\u201d gofynnodd o\u2019r diwedd, gan bwyntio at raff cloch drwchus a hongiai i lawr gydag ochr y gwely, ei phen-gwlwm taslog yn gorffwyso mewn gwirionedd ar y gobennydd."}, {"text_idx": "#000295", "text": "\u201cWhere does that bell communicate with?\u201d he asked at last pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the tassel actually lying upon the pillow."}, {"text_idx": "#000297", "text": "\u201cIt goes to the housekeeper\u2019s room.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000299", "text": "\u201cIt looks newer than the other things?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000300", "text": "\u201cDigon posib; gan na ffitiwyd mohoni at ei diben presennol tan ryw flwyddyn neu ddwy yn o\u0302l.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000302", "text": "\u201cEich chwaer chi ofynnodd amdani hi, siw\u0302r o fod?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000303", "text": "\u201cYour sister asked for it, I suppose?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000304", "text": "\u201cNa, go brin; chlywais i mohoni erioed yn so\u0302n am ei defnyddio. Roeddem ni wastad yn arfer ymorol am yr hyn roeddem ni ei angen drosom ni ein hunain.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000306", "text": "\u201cFelly\u2019n wir; os hynny, onid braidd yn ddiangen oedd gosod cloch-raff mor hardd yma o gwbl? Ond ... esgusodwch fi am funud neu ddau, tra bydda i\u2019n fy modloni fy hun ynghylch cyfansoddiad y llawr hwn.\u201d Taflodd ei hun i lawr ar ei ben-gliniau, ei chwyddwydr yn ei law; a chan gropian ar ei bedwar yn frysiog yn o\u0302l a blaen, archwiliodd bob modfedd o bob agen a chrac rhwng y llawr-fyrddau pren. Yna aeth ati yn yr un modd yn union i wirio cyflwr gwaith coed y paneli a orchuddiai\u2019r muriau o amgylch y siambr. Ymhen y rhawg cyfeiriodd ei gamre at y gwely, a threuliodd sbel o amser yn syllu\u2019n fyfyriol arno, gan redeg ei lygaid unwaith eto i fyny ac i lawr y muriau, bob un ohonynt yn eu tro. Yna, fel un weithred derfynol i\u2019w archwiliad, estynnodd allan ei fraich, ymaflodd a\u0302\u2019i law yn y gloch-raff, a thynnodd arni hi a\u0302 phlwc sydyn."}, {"text_idx": "#000307", "text": "\u201cIndeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to this floor.\u201d He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug."}, {"text_idx": "#000308", "text": "\u201cWel, ar fy enaid i; rhaff ffug ydy hi,\u201d ebychodd rhwng ei ddannedd."}, {"text_idx": "#000309", "text": "\u201cWhy, it\u2019s a dummy,\u201d said he."}, {"text_idx": "#000310", "text": "\u201cBeth? Wnaiff hi ddim canu cloch yn unman?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000311", "text": "\u201cNa wnaiff ... ddim byth bythoedd; dydy hi ddim hyd yn oed wedi ei chysylltu ag unrhyw wifren. Dyma ddiddorol iawn. Fe welwch chi\u2019n awr fod y rhaff wedi ei chlymu wrth fachyn yn union uwchben y man lle y mae agoriad bychan yr awyrydd yna wedi ei dyllu drwy\u2019r pared.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000312", "text": "\u201cNo, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000313", "text": "\u201cWel, pa mor hurt yw hynny! Wnes i erioed sylwi ar y peth o\u2019r blaen.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000315", "text": "\u201cRhyfedd iawn, yn wir!\u201d mwmiodd Holmes mewn ymateb iddo\u2019i hun yn fwy na neb arall, efallai; gan ymestyn ei law a thynnu\u2019n ysgafn unwaith eto ar raff y cloch-ganwr ffug. \u201cMae yna un neu ddwy o nodweddion unigryw yngly\u0302n a\u0302\u2019r ystafell hon. Er enghraifft, pa mor wirion yw adeiladydd sy\u2019n ffitio sianel awyriadur neu wyntyllydd trwy wneud twll mewn gwahanfur mewnol, i\u2019w gysylltu ag ystafell arall gyfagos; tra gallai ef gyda\u2019r un faint o drafferth fod wedi tyllu drwy\u2019r wal allanol acw ac agor cyswllt a\u0302\u2019r awyr iach y tu allan i\u2019r adeilad!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000316", "text": "\u201cVery strange!\u201d muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. \u201cThere are one or two very singular points about this room. For example, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated with the outside air!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000317", "text": "\u201cAc onid dyna hefyd y ffasiwn gyfoes o awyriadu ystafelloedd ym mhlastai\u2019r boneddigion enwocaf?\u201d cytunai\u2019r fonesig."}, {"text_idx": "#000319", "text": "\u201cMi w\u2019ranta\u2019 i y tyllwyd sianel yr awyrydd yna oddeutu\u2019r un amser ag y ffitiwyd y gloch-raff dda-i-ddim yna yn ei lle,\u201d awgrymodd Holmes."}, {"text_idx": "#000320", "text": "\u201cDone about the same time as the bell-rope?\u201d remarked Holmes."}, {"text_idx": "#000323", "text": "\u201cAc fe ymddengys eu bod nhw at ei gilydd, ai trwy gyd-ddigwyddiad neu ddim, o ryw natur dra anarferol o ddiddorol; cloch-raffau ffug, ac awyryddion nad ydyn nhw\u2019n darparu awyr iach. Gyda\u2019ch caniata\u0302d chi, Miss Stoner, fe awn ni\u2019n awr i ymestyn ein harchwiliadau i gyffiniau\u2019r rhandy mewnol.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000324", "text": "\u201cThey seem to have been of a most interesting character\u2014dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the inner apartment.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000325", "text": "Er bod siambr Dr. Grimesby Roylott yn fwy o faint nag un ei lysferch, yr oedd wedi ei dodrefnu\u2019r un mor blaen. Gwely cynfas ysgafn, silff fechan yn llawn o lyfrau (y rhan fwyaf ohonynt o natur dechnegol), cadair freichiau wrth erchwyn y gwely, cadair bren blaen yn erbyn y pared, bord gron, a choffr haearn lled fawr; dyna\u2019r prif bethau a dynnai sylw\u2019r llygad ar yr edrychiad cyntaf. Cerddodd Holmes yn araf o amgylch yr ystafell gan archwilio pob un o\u2019r cyfryw eitemau gyda\u2019r diddordeb mwyaf."}, {"text_idx": "#000326", "text": "Dr. Grimesby Roylott\u2019s chamber was larger than that of his step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each and all of them with the keenest interest."}, {"text_idx": "#000327", "text": "\u201cBeth sydd yn hwn?\u201d holodd, gan guro pen haearnaidd y coffr a\u0302 blaen ei fysedd."}, {"text_idx": "#000328", "text": "\u201cWhat\u2019s in here?\u201d he asked, tapping the safe."}, {"text_idx": "#000329", "text": "\u201cO! Ry\u2019ch chi wedi gweld y tu fewn iddo fe, felly, do?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000330", "text": "\u201cOh! you have seen inside, then?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000333", "text": "\u201cDoes yna\u2019r un gath ynddo fe, er enghraifft, oes e\u2019?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000334", "text": "\u201cThere isn\u2019t a cat in it, for example?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000335", "text": "\u201cNac oes. Am syniad od!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000336", "text": "\u201cNo. What a strange idea!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000337", "text": "\u201cWel, edrychwch ar hwn!\u201d Cydiodd Holmes a\u0302\u2019i law, a chododd soser fechan a safai ar ben y coffr; o\u2019i mewn roedd llaeth ffres."}, {"text_idx": "#000338", "text": "\u201cWell, look at this!\u201d He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it."}, {"text_idx": "#000341", "text": "\u201cAh; ie, wrth gwrs! Wel, d\u2019yw llewpard yn ddim amgenach na chath fawr, sbo; ac eto fyddai soser o laeth ddim yn mynd ymhell i dorri syched creadur felly, mi w\u2019ranta\u2019. Ond mae yna un pwynt arall o bwys yr hoffwn i ei ddatrys.\u201d Sgwatiodd i lawr ar ei gwrcwd o flaen y gadair bren, ac archwiliodd ei sedd gyda diddordeb eithriadol."}, {"text_idx": "#000342", "text": "\u201cAh, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine.\u201d He squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat of it with the greatest attention."}, {"text_idx": "#000343", "text": "\u201cDiolch i chi. Dyna\u2019r mater hwnna wedi ei setlo\u2019n ddiamheuol,\u201d mynegodd yn llawn bodlonrwydd, gan godi ar ei draed a dychwelyd ei chwyddhadur i boced ei wasgod."}, {"text_idx": "#000345", "text": "\u201cHelo! Dyma rywbeth diddorol!\u201d Y gwrthrych a dynasai ei sylw oedd tennyn neu gynllyfan ci bychan, oedd wedi ei hongian dros gornel troed y gwely. Roedd blaen y tennyn fflangellaidd hwn, fodd bynnag, wedi ei droelli arno ei hun a\u2019i glymu i ffurfio dolen lasw\u0302aidd."}, {"text_idx": "#000346", "text": "\u201cHullo! Here is something interesting!\u201d The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord."}, {"text_idx": "#000347", "text": "\u201cBeth wnewch chi o hwnna, Watson?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000348", "text": "\u201cWhat do you make of that, Watson?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000349", "text": "\u201cChwipgord ddigon cyffredin, feddyliwn i; ond wn i ddim pam fod neb wedi clymu ei phen yn ddolen yn y modd yna, ychwaith.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000350", "text": "\u201cIt\u2019s a common enough lash. But I don\u2019t know why it should be tied.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000351", "text": "\u201cD\u2019yw\u2019r cwlwm rhedeg yna sydd arni hi ddim cweit mor gyffredin a\u0302\u2019r tennyn ei hun, ydy e\u2019? Ah; ar fy enaid i! Onid ydy\u2019r byd yma\u2019n lle drygionus; a phan fo dyn galluog yn cyfeirio ei feddyliau at gyflawni troseddau, yna dyna\u2019r math gwaethaf o ddrygioni ohonyn nhw i gyd. Wel, \u2019dw i\u2019n credu fy mod i wedi gweld digon erbyn hyn, Miss Stoner; ac felly, gyda\u2019ch caniata\u0302d chi, fe gerddwn ni\u2019n ein holau allan ar y lawnt.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000352", "text": "\u201cThat is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it\u2019s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000353", "text": "Ni welais i erioed wyneb fy nghyfaill mor sarrug a llym, na\u2019i dalcen mor grychedig a thywyll"}, {"text_idx": "#000354", "text": "Ni welais i erioed wyneb fy nghyfaill mor sarrug a llym, na\u2019i dalcen mor grychedig a thywyll, a\u0302\u2019r hyn a ganfyddai fy llygaid wrth i ni ei throi hi ac ymadael a\u0302 mangre anghysurus ei archwiliad. Buom ni\u2019n cerdded sawl gwaith i fyny ac i lawr y lawnt, heb fod yr un ohonom ni\u2019n dau, Miss Stoner na minnau, yn meiddio torri ar draws ei feddyliau difrifddwys, nes iddo o\u2019r diwedd adfywio o\u2019i synfyfyrdod."}, {"text_idx": "#000355", "text": "I had never seen my friend\u2019s face so grim or his brow so dark as it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie."}, {"text_idx": "#000356", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019n hanfodol, Miss Stoner,\u201d meddai yn y man, \"eich bod chi\u2019n dilyn i\u2019r llythyren fy nghyngor i ymhob agwedd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000357", "text": "\u201cIt is very essential, Miss Stoner,\u201d said he, \u201cthat you should absolutely follow my advice in every respect.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000358", "text": "\u201cMi ro\u2019 i fy addewid i chi y gwna\u2019 i hynny, yn ddi-os.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000360", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019r mater hwn yn rhy ddifrifol o lawer i ni betruso\u2019r mymryn lleiaf yn ei gylch. Fe allai eich bywyd chi ddibynnu\u2019n llwyr ar eich cydsyniad chi, yn hyn o beth.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000362", "text": "\u201cMi alla\u2019 i eich sicrhau chi fy mod i\u2019n eich dwylo chi yn gyfan a chyflawn, Mr Holmes.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000363", "text": "\u201cI assure you that I am in your hands.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000364", "text": "\u201cYn y lle cyntaf, bydd yn rhaid i mi a\u2019m cyfaill dreulio\u2019r noson heno yn eich ystafell chi.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000365", "text": "\u201cIn the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in your room.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000368", "text": "\u201cBydd, felly y bydd yn rhaid iddi hi fod. Gadewch i mi esbonio. Os nad wyf i wedi camgymryd, mi ddywedwn i mai\u2019r adeilad draw\u2019r fan acw yw tafarn y pentref?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000369", "text": "\u201cYes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the village inn over there?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000370", "text": "\u201cRydych chi\u2019n iawn; ie, dyna\u2019r Crown.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000371", "text": "\u201cYes, that is the Crown.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000372", "text": "\u201cDa iawn. Fe ellir gweld ffenestri eich ystafell chi oddi yno?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000374", "text": "\u201cRhaid i chi eich cyfyngu eich hun i\u2019ch ystafell ar unwaith, gan gymryd arnoch fod gennych chi ben tost, neu gur yn eich pen fel y dywedech chi, siwr o fod; fel eich bod chi eisoes yno erbyn pan ddaw eich llystad yn ei o\u0302l o Lundain. Yna, pan glywch chi ef, eich llystad, yn noswylio i\u2019w ystafell heno, bydd yn rhaid i chi agor caeadau eich ffenestr, dadwneud cloigyn y ffenestr ei hun a gosod eich lamp yno o flaen paneli\u2019r gwydr, fel arwydd i ni yn y fan draw. Wedyn, rhaid i chi gilio\u2019n dawel iawn allan o\u2019ch ystafell bresennol i\u2019r ystafell roeddech chi\u2019n arfer cysgu ynddi hi gynt, gan fynd a\u0302 phopeth y byddwch chi\u2019n debygol o fod ei angen dros nos, gyda chi yno. Dydw i\u2019n amau dim y gallech chi, er gwaethaf holl lanastr yr atgyweirio, lwyddo i ddod drwyddi hi rywsut yno am un noson, yn eich hen ystafell wely chi eich hun.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000375", "text": "\u201cYou must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000377", "text": "\u201cThe rest you will leave in our hands.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000378", "text": "\u201cOnd beth fyddwch chi eich hunain yn ei wneud?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000379", "text": "\u201cBut what will you do?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000380", "text": "\u201cFe fyddwn ni\u2019n treulio\u2019r noson yn eich ystafell chi, fel y dywedais; a thra yno fe fyddwn ni\u2019n ymchwilio i achos y sw\u0302n yma sydd wedi bod yn tarfu arnoch chi ynghanol y nos.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000381", "text": "\u201cWe shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the cause of this noise which has disturbed you.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000382", "text": "\u201cRydw i\u2019n rhyw feddwl, Mr Holmes, eich bod chi eisoes wedi gwneud eich meddwl ar y mater,\u201d meddai Miss Stoner yn ffyddiog, gan osod ei llaw ar lawes fy nghydymaith."}, {"text_idx": "#000383", "text": "\u201cI believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind,\u201d said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion\u2019s sleeve."}, {"text_idx": "#000385", "text": "\u201cYna, da chi, er mwyn Duw,\u201d erfyniodd yn emosiynol; \u201cd\u2019wedwch wrtha i beth achosodd farwolaeth fy chwaer annwyl.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000386", "text": "\u201cThen, for pity\u2019s sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister\u2019s death.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000387", "text": "\u201cFe hoffwn i gael tystiolaeth eglurach ynghylch hynny, mae arna\u2019 i ofn, cyn mentro gair ymhellach ar y mater, i chi na neb arall.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000388", "text": "\u201cI should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000389", "text": "\u201cMi fedrech chi o leiaf ddweud wrtha i p\u2019un ai ydw i\u2019n amgyffred yn gywir neu ddim; ac a fu hi farw o ryw fraw annisgwyl neu anhygoel o sydyn.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000390", "text": "\u201cYou can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and if she died from some sudden fright.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000391", "text": "\u201cNa\u2019n wir; \u2019dwy\u2019 i ddim yn credu y galla\u2019 i, ar hyn o bryd. Rwy\u2019n tybied bod o bosib ryw achos mwy diriaethol; rhywbeth mwy pendant o real na hynny. A nawr, Miss Stoner, rydym ni\u2019n cael ein goddiweddyd gan yr amser, ac y mae\u2019n hen bryd i ni orfod eich gadael chi; oherwydd pe byddai Dr. Roylott yn dychwelyd a\u2019n gweld ni, byddai ein siwrnai ni yma yn ofer. Da b\u2019och chi, a byddwch wrol; oherwydd os gwnewch chi fel yr erfyniais i arnoch, yna fe allwch chi orffwys yn hyderus y byddwn ni o fewn dim o amser yn anfon ymaith y peryglon sydd wedi bod yn eich bygwth chi cyhyd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000392", "text": "\u201cNo, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers that threaten you.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000393", "text": "Chafodd Sherlock Holmes a minnau ddim trafferth i sicrhau ystafell wely a lolfa gyfun i ni ein dau, ar lawr uchaf tafarn y Crown; ac oddi yno, drwy ein ffenestr, roedd gennym ni olygfa arbennig o glir o lidiart rhodfa\u2019r lo\u0302n goed, ac o adain gyfannedd maenordy Stoke Moran. Yn llwyd dywyllwch y cyfnos fe welem ni Dr. Grimesby Roylott yn gyrru heibio ar garlam, ei gorff enfawr yn ymddangos yn enbyd o gydnerth ochr-yn-ochr a\u0302 ffigur main y llefnyn ifanc a yrrai\u2019r ferlen a thrap. Pan gyrhaeddwyd y llidiart, gwelem fod y llanc yn cael peth trafferth i ddadwneud y bollt ac agor y gatiau haearn trwm. Yna clywem ru crygleisiol y meddyg yn mynegi ei anniddigrwydd, a gwelem ni ei gynddaredd wrth iddo ysgwyd ei ddwrn yn ddwrdiol arno. Yn y man fe yrrodd y trap yn ei flaen, ac ymhen ychydig funudau wedyn gwelem oleuni pw\u0302l yn pelydru\u2019n sydyn ymhlith y coed, wrth i lamp olew gael ei goleuo yn un o lolfeydd y maenordy."}, {"text_idx": "#000394", "text": "Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the hoarse roar of the doctor\u2019s voice and saw the fury with which he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms."}, {"text_idx": "#000395", "text": "\u201cWyddoch chi beth, Watson,\u201d meddai Holmes yn bwyllog, tra roeddem ni\u2019n eistedd gyda\u2019n gilydd yn y tywyllwch a ddwysa\u0302i\u2019n araf o\u2019n hamgylch, \u201crydw i\u2019n wirioneddol betruso yngly\u0302n a\u0302 mynd a\u0302 chi gyda mi heno; oherwydd mae yna elfen ddigamsyniol o berygl ynghlwm a\u0302\u2019n menter ni.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000396", "text": "\u201cDo you know, Watson,\u201d said Holmes as we sat together in the gathering darkness, \u201cI have really some scruples as to taking you to-night. There is a distinct element of danger.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000397", "text": "\u201cWel, a alla\u2019 i fod o unrhyw gymorth?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000398", "text": "\u201cCan I be of assistance?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000399", "text": "\u201cGallai eich presenoldeb chi fod yn anhepgorol, ac amhrisiadwy hefyd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000401", "text": "\u201cOs felly, does dim dwywaith amdani hi; fe fydda i\u2019n dod gyda chi.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000402", "text": "\u201cThen I shall certainly come.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000405", "text": "\u201cOnd rydych chi\u2019n so\u0302n am berygl. Rydych chi\u2019n amlwg wedi canfod mwy yn yr ystafelloedd hyn na\u2019r hyn oedd yn weledig i\u2019m llygaid i fy hun.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000406", "text": "\u201cYou speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms than was visible to me.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000407", "text": "\u201cNa; ond rwy\u2019n tybio efallai fy mod i wedi diddwytho jest ryw ychydig bach yn rhagor. Rwy\u2019n dychmygu eich bod chithau hefyd wedi gweld y cyfan y bu mi fy hun ei ganfod.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000408", "text": "\u201cNo, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine that you saw all that I did.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000409", "text": "\u201cSylwais i ar ddim byd nodedig o anghyffredin, ar waha\u0302n i\u2019r cloch-reffyn hwnnw; ond i ba ddiben yr hongiwyd peth diwerth felly yn y fan a\u2019r lle, mae\u2019n rhaid i mi gyfaddef nad oes gen i mo\u2019r dychymyg lleiaf.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000410", "text": "\u201cI saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000412", "text": "\u201cYou saw the ventilator, too?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000413", "text": "\u201cDo, ond alla\u2019 i ddim credu bod hynny\u2019n gynllun adeiladol mor anarferol a\u0302 hynny; i agor twll bychan yn y gwahanfur i ffurfio cyswllt awyrol rhwng y naill ystafell a\u2019r llall. Roedd y twll mor fychan fel mai prin y gallai llygoden ffrengig wthio drwyddo.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000414", "text": "\u201cYes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a rat could hardly pass through.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000415", "text": "\u201cRo\u2019wn i wedi rhagdybio y byddem ni\u2019n dod o hyd i dwll gwyntyllu o ryw fath yn un o furiau siambr gysgu\u2019r chwaer anffodus, cyn i ni hyd yn oed fentro gosod troed y tu fewn i Stoke Moran.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000416", "text": "\u201cI knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Stoke Moran.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000417", "text": "\u201cWel; erioed! \u2019Dawn ni byth o\u2019r fan, Holmes!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000418", "text": "\u201cO, oeddwn; doedd gen i ddim amheuaeth o gwbl. Fe gofiwch chi i Miss Stoner yn ei datganiad grybwyll y gallai ei chwaer arogleuo siga\u0302rs Dr. Roylott. Nawr mae hynny, wrth gwrs, yn awgrymu ar ei ben bod yn rhaid fod rhyw fath o gyswllt awyrol drwy\u2019r pared cyd-rhwng y ddwy ystafell; ac mae\u2019n rhaid nad oedd y cyswllt hwnnw ond yn agoriad bychan iawn, neu fe fyddai cyfeiriad ato wedi ei gofnodi yn adroddiad Ymchwiliad y Crwner. Yn yr union fan a\u2019r lle hwnnw y deuthum i i\u2019r casgliad diamheuol am fodolaeth agoriad bychan at ddiben awyru, neu o leiaf dan yr esgus o greu cyswllt awyrol rhwng y ddwy ystafell dan sylw. Roedd yn rhaid bod yno wyntyllydd neu awyrydd o ryw fath neu\u2019i gilydd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000419", "text": "\u201cOh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her sister could smell Dr. Roylott\u2019s cigar. Now, of course that suggested at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner\u2019s inquiry. I deduced a ventilator.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000420", "text": "\u201cTewch da chi! Ond pa niwed yn y byd allai fod yn hynny?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000421", "text": "\u201cBut what harm can there be in that?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000422", "text": "\u201cWel, o leiaf, cyfrifol o beth fyddai i ni ystyried cronoleg y digwyddiadau rhyfeddol o fewn yr un cyfnod o ddyddiadau. Fe dyllir drwy\u2019r pared i ffurfio agoriad awyriadur, fe grogir rheffyn wrth fachyn uwch ei ben, ac y mae bonesig sydd ynghwsg yn ei gwely yn marw\u2019n ddisymwth. Ydy hynny ddim yn eich taro chi fel cyfres o gyd-ddigwyddiadau eithriadol o amheus, a dweud y lleiaf?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000423", "text": "\u201cWell, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies. Does not that strike you?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000424", "text": "\u201cOnd alla\u2019 i yn fy myw hyd yma weld unrhyw gyswllt rhwng yr holl bethau hynny i gyd.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000425", "text": "\u201cI cannot as yet see any connection.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000426", "text": "\u201cWnaethoch chi ddim sylwi ar un nodwedd neilltuol o anghyffredin yng nghyswllt y gwely, Watson?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000427", "text": "\u201cDid you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000428", "text": "\u201cRoedd ei goesau wedi eu clampio\u2019n dynn i\u2019r llawr. Welsoch chi erioed o\u2019r blaen wely wedi ei glymu\u2019n ddisymud felly i\u2019r llawr?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000429", "text": "\u201cIt was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened like that before?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000430", "text": "\u201cAlla\u2019 i ddim dweud fy mod i; naddo, erioed. Wel, myn cebyst i!\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000432", "text": "\u201cByddai wedi bod yn amhosib i\u2019r fonesig symud ei gwely fodfedd o\u2019r union fan lle\u2019r oedd wedi ei osod, i unrhyw gyfeiriad, pe byddai wedi dymuno gwneud hynny. Rhaid oedd i\u2019r gwely sefyll yn yr un lleoliad o safbwynt ei berthynas a\u0302\u2019r awyriadur ac a\u0302\u2019r rheffyn yna; a dyna beth wnawn ei alw e\u2019 nawr, gan ei bod hi\u2019n glaear amlwg na fwriadwyd ef erioed fel cloch-ganwr.\""}, {"text_idx": "#000433", "text": "\u201cThe lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope\u2014or so we may call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000434", "text": "\u201cHolmes,\u201d llefais allan mewn dychryn, \u201crydw i\u2019n dechrau amgyffred, er eto braidd yn aneglur rhaid i mi gyfaddef, yr hyn rydych chi\u2019n ei ddarogan. Ac os felly, yna rydym ni ein dau ond mewn da bryd i rwystro rhyw ddrwgweithred ddirgelaidd ac echrydus tu hwnt, yn Stoke Moran.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000435", "text": "\u201cHolmes,\u201d I cried, \u201cI seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000436", "text": "\u201cDirgel ddigon, a digon echrydus hefyd. Pan fyddo meddyg yn mynd ar gyfeiliorn, ef yw\u2019r cyntaf o blith camweddwyr. Mae ganddo nerfau gwydn, ac mae ganddo wybodaeth i\u2019w fantais. Roedd Palmer a Pritchard ymhlith pennau blaenaf eu galwedigaeth; a choeliwch neu ddim, mae\u2019r dyn hwn yn taro hyd yn oed yn ddyfnach. P\u2019run bynnag, Watson, fy marn i yw y byddwn ni yn yr achos hwn yn medru taro\u2019n ddyfnach eto fyth. Ond mi fydd yn rhaid i ni wynebu digon o ddychryn ymhellach ymlaen, cyn y bydd heno drosodd: felly, er mwyn y Bod Mawr, gadewch i ni gael ymlacio gydag ysmygyn bach tawel o\u2019n pibellau, a throi ein meddyliau am ychydig o oriau tuag at fyfyrdodau siriolach.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000437", "text": "\u201cSubtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough before the night is over; for goodness\u2019 sake let us have a quiet pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more cheerful.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000438", "text": "Oddeutu naw o\u2019r gloch yr hwyr diffoddwyd y golau a belydrai drwy ganghennau\u2019r coed, ac amsugnwyd popeth yng nghyfeiriad y maenordy i mewn i bresenoldeb du\u0308wch yr hwyrnos. Yn araf y llithrodd ymaith ddwy awr o\u2019n seibiant disgwylgar ni; ond yna\u2019n ddisyfyd, ar union drawiad cloc y pentan am un ar ddeg, torrwyd ar y tywyllwch dudew y tu allan i ffenestr ein lolfa gan lewyrch un golau disglair yn union o\u2019n blaenau yn y pellter."}, {"text_idx": "#000439", "text": "About nine o\u2019clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us."}, {"text_idx": "#000440", "text": "\u201cDyna\u2019n signal ni,\u201d meddai Holmes, gan lamu ar ei draed, wedi ei ysbrydoli drwyddo; \u201cmae\u2019r golau\u2019n tarddu\u2019n gymwys o\u2019r ffenestr ganol.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000441", "text": "\u201cThat is our signal,\u201d said Holmes, springing to his feet; \u201cit comes from the middle window.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000442", "text": "Wrth ymadael a\u0302\u2019n llety, yn yr ychydig eiriau a gyfnewidiwyd a\u0302\u2019n landlord, esboniodd Holmes ein bod ni\u2019n mynd i ymweld a\u0302 hen gydnabod, ac y byddai posibilrwydd y byddem ni\u2019n treulio\u2019r noson yno. Foment yn ddiweddarach roeddem ni\u2019n dau allan ar y ffordd dywyll, gyda gwynt oerllyd yn chwythu i\u2019n hwynebau, ac un golau melynwyn o lamp wic-olew yn pefrio draw o\u2019n blaenau drwy\u2019r mwrllwch anghysurus, i\u2019n tywys ni ar ein perwyl trymaidd."}, {"text_idx": "#000443", "text": "As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand."}, {"text_idx": "#000445", "text": "There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness."}, {"text_idx": "#000446", "text": "\u201cBrensiach y brain!\u201d sibrydais. \u201cWelsoch chi hwnna?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000447", "text": "\u201cMy God!\u201d I whispered; \u201cdid you see it?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000448", "text": "Safai Holmes am ennyd wedi ei barlysu\u2019n ddiymadferth, mewn cymaint o ddychryn a\u0302 minnau. Yn ei gynnwrf ofnus gwasgodd ei law fel feis haearn bwrw am fy arddwrn. Ond ymhen dim roedd yn ymdrechu ei orau glas i atal chwerthin yn dawel dan ei wynt; a chan ymestyn ataf drwy\u2019r tywyllwch, rhoddodd ei wefusau mor agos ag y gallai at fy nghlust."}, {"text_idx": "#000449", "text": "Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low laugh and put his lips to my ear."}, {"text_idx": "#000450", "text": "\u201cCofiwch ein bod ni yma\u2019n ymweld a\u0302 chartref boneddigion,\u201d sibrydodd yn gellweirus, cyn ychwanegu: \u201cDyna i chi beth yw babw\u0302n.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000451", "text": "\"Cofiwch ein bod ni yma\u2019n ymweld a\u0302 chartref boneddigion,\u201d sibrydodd yn gellweirus, cyn ychwanegu: \u201cDyna i chi beth yw babw\u0302n.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000452", "text": "\u201cIt is a nice household,\u201d he murmured. \u201cThat is the baboon.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000453", "text": "Roeddwn i wedi anghofio tan yr eiliad hwnnw i mi glywed am yr anifeiliaid anwes rhyfedd yr ymddiddorai\u2019r meddyg ynddyn nhw. Onid oedd ganddo lewpard hefyd? O bosib y byddem ni unrhyw foment yn teimlo ei bawennau yntau hefyd yn crafangu ar ein hysgwyddau. Cyffesaf i mi deimlo\u2019n esmwythach yn fy meddwl pan, yn dilyn esiampl Holmes drwy lithro fy esgidiau i ffwrdd oddi ar fy nhraed, y\u2019m cefais fy hun y tu mewn i\u2019r ystafell wely. Yn ofalus-dawel, caeodd fy nghydymaith gaeadau\u2019r ffenestri at ei gilydd, symudodd y lamp a\u2019i gosod ar y bwrdd, a sganiodd ei lygaid o amgylch yr ystafell. Roedd popeth yn union fel y gwelsom ni nhw\u2019n gynharach yn y dydd. Yna, gan agosa\u0301u ataf ar flaenau ei draed, a gwneud sia\u0302p utgorn a\u0302\u2019i ddwylo, sibrydodd i mewn i\u2019m clust i unwaith eto, mor ysgafn-lais mai prin y gallwn i wahaniaethu rhwng ei union eiriau: \u201cGallai unrhyw sw\u0302n neu\u2019r sibrydiad lleiaf oddi wrthym ni brofi\u2019n ergyd farwol i\u2019n cynlluniau ni.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000454", "text": "I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, after following Holmes\u2019 example and slipping off my shoes, I found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to distinguish the words: \u201cThe least sound would be fatal to our plans.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000455", "text": "Nodiais fy mhen i ddangos iddo fy mod i wedi ei glywed a\u2019i ddeall."}, {"text_idx": "#000456", "text": "I nodded to show that I had heard."}, {"text_idx": "#000458", "text": "\u201cWe must sit without light. He would see it through the ventilator.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000459", "text": "Amneidiais eto drwy nodio fy mhen yn yr un modd, i arwyddo a chadarnhau fy nghytuniad a\u0302\u2019i fwriadau ar ein cyfer."}, {"text_idx": "#000460", "text": "\u201cPeidiwch a\u0302 mynd i gysgu; bydd eich bywyd chi\u2019n dibynnu ar fod yn effro gydol yr amser, eiliad wrth eiliad. Byddwch yn barod gyda\u2019ch pistol, rhag ofn y byddwn ni ei angen. Fe eistedda\u2019 i ar erchwyn y gwely hwn, ac eisteddwch chithau yn y gadair honna.\u201d Tynnais fy llawddryll allan o\u2019i wain ym mhoced fy llodrau, a\u2019i osod yn ofalus i orffwyso ar gornel y bwrdd, wrth ochr fy nghadair."}, {"text_idx": "#000461", "text": "\u201cDo not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of the bed, and you in that chair\u201d. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table."}, {"text_idx": "#000462", "text": "Roedd Holmes wedi dod a\u0302 chansen hirfain gydag ef, a gosododd hi ar y gwely o fewn cyrraedd ei law. Wrth ei hochr gosododd y blwch o fatsis a stwmp o gannwyll a gymerasai oddi ar y bwrdd bach ymbincio ger y ffenestr. Yna trodd fflam y lamp wic-olew i lawr a\u2019i chwythu allan; fel ein bod ni o hynny ymlaen ar ein pennau ein hunain yn nhywyllwch llwyr y fagddu."}, {"text_idx": "#000463", "text": "Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left in darkness."}, {"text_idx": "#000465", "text": "How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for whatever might befall. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for whatever might befall."}, {"text_idx": "#000466", "text": "Yn sydyn, ymddangosodd fflachiad o oleuni am amrantiad yn unig fry yng nghyfeiriad yr awyrydd, a diflannodd yn syth bin; ond fe\u2019i dilynwyd yn ddiymdroi gan arogl cryf fel pe bai olew yn cael ei losgi a hefyd fel pe bai metel yn cael ei boethi. Yn sicr ddigon, roedd rhywun yn yr ystafell y drws nesaf wedi goleuo lantern. Clywais sw\u0302n isel-dawel symudiadau esmwyth, ac yna distawodd pob dim drachefn, ond araf gynyddai dwyster yr arogl, yn ddiamheuol. Am hanner awr anesmwyth eisteddwn bron mewn perlewyg, a\u2019m clustiau\u2019n awchus i sugno\u2019r seiniau meddalaf o\u2019r gwacter du. Yna\u2019n ddirybudd, brigdorrai sw\u0302n isel arall i fod dim ond prin yn glywadwy; sw\u0302n lleddf, lliniarus, llariaidd, megis sw\u0302n jet bychan o ager yn chwistrellu\u2019n llyfn-gyson allan o big tegell ar y berw. Y foment y\u2019i clywsom, neidiodd Holmes oddi ar y gwely, taniodd fatsien, a dechreuodd fflangellu\u2019n gynddeiriog a\u0302\u2019i gansen fain yn erbyn y gloch-raff ffug."}, {"text_idx": "#000467", "text": "Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Then suddenly another sound became audible\u2014a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull."}, {"text_idx": "#000468", "text": "\u201cWelwch chi hi, Watson? \u201d crochlefodd allan yn uchel. \u201cWelwch chi hi?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000469", "text": "\u201cYou see it, Watson?\u201d he yelled. \u201cYou see it?\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000470", "text": "Ond welwn i ddim byd. Ar y foment y trawodd Holmes ei fatsien roeddwn i wedi clywed chwibaniad a oedd, er yn isel, yn glir serch hynny; ond yr oedd y llacharedd annisgwyl o sydyn a befriai o\u2019r du\u0308wch yr oedd fy llygaid blinedig erbyn hynny wedi ymgynefino ag ef, yn ei gwneud hi\u2019n amhosib i mi fedru dirnad yn union beth oedd fy nghyfaill yn ei fflangellu mor ffyrnig. Fodd bynnag, fe allwn i weld fod ei wyneb yn farwol o welw, a bod ei ymarweddiad hunanfeddiannol arferol wedi ei drechu gan arswyd ac atgasedd anghyffredin."}, {"text_idx": "#000471", "text": "But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing."}, {"text_idx": "#000472", "text": "Roedd Holmes erbyn hyn wedi rhoi\u2019r gorau i\u2019w fflangellu, ac yn rhythu i fyny at agoriad yr awyrydd, pan rwygwyd tawelwch perfedd y nos gan yr ochenaid fwyaf erchyll y bu i mi erioed ei chlywed. Chwyddai\u2019r waedd yn uwch ac uwch, yn gri gryglyd o boen ac ofn a dicter oll yn un grochlefain gymysg aflednais ac ofnadwy. Maen nhw\u2019n dweud fod yr oergri honno wedi codi cysgwyr o\u2019u gwelyau i lawr yn y pentref, a hyd yn oed draw cyn belled a\u0302\u2019r ficerdy. Yn wir, fe drawodd hi fel saeth oerllyd i\u2019n calonnau ni ein dau, a sefais i\u2019n stond gan lygadrythu ar Holmes, fel y gwnai yntau yn yr un modd arnaf finnau, gyda\u2019n hanadl yn ein dwrn, hyd nes i adleisiau olaf y waedd farw allan ac ymsuddo\u2019n o\u0302l i\u2019r tawelwch llonydd y codasai allan ohono."}, {"text_idx": "#000473", "text": "He had ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it had died away into the silence from which it rose."}, {"text_idx": "#000474", "text": "\u201cYr achlod fawr! Beth ar y ddaear all hynny i gyd ei olygu?\u201d ebychais, gan ollwng fy ngafael o\u2019r diwedd ar fy anadl."}, {"text_idx": "#000475", "text": "\u201cWhat can it mean?\u201d I gasped."}, {"text_idx": "#000476", "text": "\u201cMae\u2019n golygu fod y cyfan drosodd,\u201d atebodd Holmes gyda rhyddhad y gellid ei deimlo ym me\u0302r yr esgyrn. \u201cAc efallai, wedi\u2019r cyfan, fod hynny er y gorau i bawb. Cymerwch eich pistol, Watson, ac fe awn ni\u2019n dau i mewn i ystafell Dr. Roylott.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000477", "text": "\u201cIt means that it is all over,\u201d Holmes answered. \u201cAnd perhaps, after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will enter Dr. Roylott\u2019s room.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000478", "text": "Gydag wyneb celain wyn, goleuodd Holmes y lamp olew a\u2019i chymryd hi oddi ar y bwrdd, ac arweiniodd y ffordd i lawr y coridor. Curodd ar ddrws y siambr ddwywaith heb ennyn unrhyw ymateb oddi mewn. Yna, yn betrusgar, trodd handlen y drws a cherddodd yn araf bach i mewn, gyda minnau\u2019r un mor wyliadwrus wrth ei sodlau, fy mhistol yn fy llaw a\u2019i glicied wedi ei ddatgloi yn barod i\u2019w danio, a\u2019m mynegfys o fewn trwch blewyn i\u2019r triger."}, {"text_idx": "#000479", "text": "With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand."}, {"text_idx": "#000481", "text": "Unigryw y tu hwnt oedd yr olygfa y cyfarfu ein llygaid a\u0302 hi. Ar y bwrdd safai lantern olew gyda\u2019i chaead yn hanner agored, fel ei bod hi\u2019n taflu pefriad o oleuni\u2019n uniongyrchol ar y coffr haearn, oedd a\u0302\u2019i ddrws yntau hefyd ar agor. Wrth ochr y bwrdd, ar gadair bren, eisteddai Dr. Grimesby Roylott, wedi ei ddilladu mewn gw\u0302n nos llwyd-liw laes, gyda\u2019i figyrnau noeth yn y golwg dan ei godre, a\u2019i draed wedi eu gwthio i mewn i sliperi Twrcaidd coch di-sawdl. Ar draws ei arffed gorffwysai\u2019r chwip-wialen a\u0302\u2019r bo\u0302n-stwmp byr hwnnw a welsom ni\u2019n gynharach yn y dydd. Gwyrai gwar y meddyg wysg ei gefn, a gogwyddai ei e\u0302n ar i fyny, a rhythai ei lygaid agored yn ddychrynllyd o ddiysgog i gyfeiriad congl o\u2019r nenfwd. O amgylch ei dalcen cordeddai cylch megis o gadach melyn ac arno smotiau brownaidd, a ymddangosi fel ei fod wedi ei glymu\u2019n dynn o amgylch ei ben. Wrth i ni wneud ein ffordd i mewn i\u2019r ystafell ac agosa\u0301u ato, wnaeth e\u2019 ddim yngan na siw na miw o\u2019i enau, na symud un cyhyryn o\u2019i gorff y mymryn lleiaf."}, {"text_idx": "#000482", "text": "It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion."}, {"text_idx": "#000483", "text": "\u201cY cylch! Y cylch brith!\u201d sibrydodd Holmes gyda chryn syfrdandod, ond yn gymysg hefyd a\u0302 bodlonrwydd amlwg."}, {"text_idx": "#000484", "text": "\u201cThe band! The speckled band!\u201d whispered Holmes."}, {"text_idx": "#000485", "text": "Cymerais un cam pwyllog ymlaen; ond fe\u2019m dychrynwyd i drachefn pan ddechreuodd y penwisg rhyfedd symud yn llithrig o flaen fy llygaid, ac o beth i beth ymgodai o ganol gwallt pen y meddyg ffurf ddiemwntaidd a berthynai i ben cwrcwdaidd arall, ond fod hwnnw ynghlwm wrth wddf chwyddwiberol a chorff ysglyfaethus hir un sarff atgas ei golwg."}, {"text_idx": "#000486", "text": "I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent."}, {"text_idx": "#000487", "text": "\u201cGwiber y gors!\u201d bloeddiodd Holmes. \u201cY neidr fwyaf marwol yn holl India. Fe\u2019i lladdodd e\u2019 ag un llam, a bu yntau farw o fewn deng eiliad i frathiad ei dannedd miniog hi. Gwir yw\u2019r gair; ei bod yn natur ffyrnigrwydd i adlamu\u2019n o\u0302l yn erbyn y tramgwyddwr, a bod y cynllwyniwr yn y diwedd yn agored i syrthio i mewn i\u2019r union bydew y bu iddo ef ei hun ei gloddio ar gyfer un arall diniwed. Gadewch i ni daflu\u2019r creadur didostur hwn yn ei o\u0302l i\u2019w wa\u0302l, ac yna fe allwn ni fynd i symud Miss Stoner i ryw fan diogel, a rhoi gwybod i heddlu\u2019r sir am yr hyn sydd wedi digwydd yma.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000488", "text": "\u201cIt is a swamp adder!\u201d cried Holmes; \u201cthe deadliest snake in India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to some place of shelter and let the county police know what has happened.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000489", "text": "Fel y siaradai, ymaflodd yn sydyn yn y chwip-wialen oddi ar arffed y gw\u0302r marw, a chan daflu dolen y fagl o amgylch gwddf yr ymlusgiad, a thynnu\u2019n dynn ar y cwlwm rhedeg, fe\u2019i tynnodd oddi ar ei chlwyd erchyll a\u2019i llusgo gerfydd ei phen; ac wedi sicrhau fod ei dannedd angheuol hi hyd braich oddi wrtho, gafaelodd a\u0302\u2019i ddwy law am ei bol cynffonaidd a thaflodd hi i mewn yn ddiseremoni i\u2019r coffr haearn; yna, heb wastraffu chwinciad, caeodd ddrws y coffr yn glep arni hi."}, {"text_idx": "#000490", "text": "As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man\u2019s lap, and throwing the noose round the reptile\u2019s neck he drew it from its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm\u2019s length, threw it into the iron safe, which he closed upon it."}, {"text_idx": "#000491", "text": "Dyna\u2019r ffeithiau moel a chywir yng nghyswllt marwolaeth Dr. Grimesby Roylott, o Stoke Moran. Dianghenraid fyddai i mi ymhelaethu ar y traethiad hwn, sydd eisoes wedi meddiannu mwy o ofod na\u2019r hyn a fwriadwyd, trwy fanylu ar sut yr aethom ni ati hi wedi hynny i hysbysu\u2019r fonesig, a ddychrynwyd y tu hwnt i\u2019r hyn y gallwn i byth ei amgyffred, am y newyddion trist; a sut y gwnaethom ni wedyn ei hebrwng hi gyda\u2019r tre\u0302n i ofal ei modryb hynaws yn Harrow, a sut y bu i broses araf yr ymchwiliad swyddogol benderfynu fod y meddyg wedi cyfarfod a\u0302\u2019i dynged tra roedd e\u2019n chwarae\u2019n annoeth gydag anifail \u2018anwes\u2019 gwyllt ac eithriadol o beryglus."}, {"text_idx": "#000492", "text": "Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet."}, {"text_idx": "#000493", "text": "Drannoeth, wrth i ni deithio\u2019n o\u0302l gyda\u2019n gilydd, bu esboniadau sythweledol Holmes yn fodd i lenwi\u2019r nifer o fylchau yn fy nirnadaeth brin i hyd at hynny, yng nghyswllt yr achos gofidus hwnnw y buom ni ynghlwm ag ef."}, {"text_idx": "#000494", "text": "The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day."}, {"text_idx": "#000495", "text": "\u201cYn gynharach,\u201d meddai Holmes, \u201croeddwn i wedi dod i gasgliad anghywir; sy\u2019n dangos, f\u2019annwyl Watson, pa mor beryglus yw hi bob amser i resymegu heb fod gennych chi ddigon o fanylion yn eich meddiant. Fe fu i bresenoldeb y sipsiwn, a\u2019r gair \u2018cylch\u2019 y dewisodd y ferch druan ei ddefnyddio, yn ei braw siw\u0302r o fod, i esbonio\u2019r ddrychiolaeth y cipiodd olwg ffiaidd ohoni yng goleuni\u2019r fatsien a daniodd, fod yn ddigon i\u2019m camarwain i ar drywydd cwbl anghywir. Yr unig beth y galla\u2019 i ei deilyngu fel clod, efallai, yw i mi ailystyried fy marn ar chwap, yr eiliad y daeth hi\u2019n eglur i mi na allai\u2019r perygl oedd yn fygythiad i drigiannydd yr ystafell wely honno, ddod i mewn i\u2019r ystafell naill ai drwy\u2019r ffenestr na thrwy\u2019r drws. Fe dynnwyd fy sylw i\u2019n syth bin, fel y crybwyllais i eisoes wrthych chi, at dwll uchel agoriad yr awyriadur hwnnw ger y nenfwd, ac at raff y cloch-ganwr tybiedig a hongiai i lawr o\u2019r union fan honno at y gwely islaw. Ond dod i sylweddoli mai ffug oedd y ddyfais honno, a bod y gwely wedi ei glampio\u2019n dynn i\u2019r llawr; hynny a barodd i mi ddechrau drwgdybio fod y rheffyn yno i gyflawni rhyw ddiben cwbl wahanol, sef i fod yn fath o rychwant neu bont ar gyfer rhywbeth neu\u2019i gilydd, rhyw anifail byw o bosib, a allai sleifio drwy dwll yr awyrydd a gwneud ei ffordd ysgeler i lawr y rheffyn at y gwely. Yn ddiatreg, fel ergyd o ddryll, Watson, trawodd y syniad yn fy mhen y gallai\u2019r anifail hwnnw fod yn neidr; ac o gysylltu hynny wedyn gyda\u2019r wybodaeth fod gan y meddyg yn ei feddiant amryw o greaduriaid ecsotig o\u2019r India, fe deimlwn i wrth reddf fy mod i ar y trywydd cywir. Wedyn, onid oedd y syniad o ddefnyddio ffurf o wenwyn na ellid fod wedi ei ganfod na\u2019i olrhain drwy gyfrwng unrhyw brofion cemegol cyffredin, yr union fath o gynllwyn a fyddai\u2019n apelio at ddychymyg dyn galluog a didostur, ac yntau hefyd wedi derbyn hyfforddiant meddygol ym mharthau dwyreiniol y byd? At hynny, fe fyddai\u2019r buander gyda\u2019r hwn y byddai\u2019r gwenwyn yn gwneud ei waethaf, o\u2019i safbwynt ef, o fantais ychwanegol iddo. Fe fyddai angen crwner eithriadol o graff ei lygaid yn wir, i hanfod-adnabod y ddau smotyn clais-liw fel y brath-dyllau a adawyd heb os nac onibai gan ddau ddant gwenwynig a chanddynt y gallu i chwistrellu angau mewn chwinciad. Yna fe feddyliais i am y chwiban."}, {"text_idx": "#000496", "text": "\u201cI had,\u201d said he, \u201ccome to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of the word \u2018band,\u2019 which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not come either from the window or the door. My attention was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but sooner or later she must fall a victim."}, {"text_idx": "#000497", "text": "\u201cRoeddwn i wedi dod i\u2019r casgliadau hyn cyn i mi erioed daro troed oddi mewn i ystafell y meddyg. Ond o fewn ychydig eiliadau\u2019n unig wedi cael y cyfle i fwrw golwg dros y lle, a sylwi\u2019n fanwl ar ei gadair, gwelwn ei bod hi wedi bod yn arferiad ganddo i sefyll arni hi; yr hyn fyddai\u2019n rhaid iddo fod wedi ei wneud, wrth gwrs, er mwyn medru cyrraedd twll y gwyntyllydd. Yna roedd canfod y coffr, y soser a\u2019r llaeth, a\u2019r chwip-wialen gyda\u2019i dolen-fagl lasw\u0302aidd, yn ddigon i chwalu unrhyw ansicrwydd oedd gen i hyd at hynny. Mae\u2019n amlwg i\u2019r atsain fetelaidd a glywodd Miss Stoner gael ei hachosi gan ei llystad yn cau drws ei goffr yn frysiog ar ei breswylydd arswydus. Unwaith wedi penderfynu yn fy meddwl am y sefyllfa, fe wyddoch chi wedyn, Watson, y camre a gymerais i i\u2019r perwyl o brofi holl agweddau fy namcaniaeth. A phan glywais i hisian y creadur mileinig \u2019na, fel rydw i\u2019n sicr y bu i chithau hefyd ei glywed, fe drewais i\u2019r fatsien ar fy union i gael rhywfaint o oleuni, ac yna fe ymosodais i ar y sarff yn ddiymdroi ac yn ddidrugaredd gyda\u2019r gansen roeddwn i\u2019n ffodus wedi gweld yn dda i ddod a\u0302 hi gyda mi, ar gyfer yr union orchwyl hwnnw.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000498", "text": "\u201cI had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the light and attacked it.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000499", "text": "\u201cA chanlyniad hynny oedd gyrru\u2019r ysglyfaeth yn ei ho\u0302l drwy\u2019r awyriadur.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000501", "text": "\u201cA chyda\u2019r canlyniad hefyd o achosi i\u2019r sarff, wedi ei chyffroi i\u2019w gwylltineb cyntefig, droi ar ei meistr ar yr ochr arall i\u2019r mur. Fe drawodd rhai o guriadau fy ngwialen i adref, a\u2019i chynddeiriogi; gan achosi iddi fwrw ei thymer wallgof a saethu allan ei safnau dieflig i gyfeiriad y person cyntaf o fewn cyrraedd ei llygaid ffyrnig. Yn hynny o beth, does gen i ddim amheuaeth i mi fy hun fod yn anuniongyrchol yn gyfrifol am farwolaeth Dr. Grimesby Roylott; ac alla\u2019 i ddim dweud y bydd y digwyddiad hwnnw yn debygol o bwyso mor drwm a\u0302 hynny ar fy nghydwybod.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000502", "text": "\u201cAnd also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Grimesby Roylott\u2019s death, and I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience.\u201d"}]