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then your brother is
the escaped convict sirselden the criminal .
thats the truth sir i said that it was not my secret and that i could not tell it to you . but now you have heard it and you will see that if there was a plot it was not against you .

is this true barrymore ?
yes sir henry . every word of it .
well i can not blame you for standing by your own wife . forget what i have said . go to your room you two and we shall talk further about this matter in the morning .

i wonder he dares
it may be so placed as to be only visible from here .
very likely . how far do you think it is ?
out by the cleft tor i think .
not more than a mile or two off .
hardly that .
well it can not be far if barrymore had to carry out the food to it . and he is waiting this villain beside that candle . by thunder watson i am going out to take that man !

i will come
then get your revolver and put on your boots . the sooner we start the better as the fellow may put out his light and be off .

are you armed ?
i have a huntingcrop .
we must close in on him rapidly for he is said to be a desperate fellow . we shall take him by surprise and have him at our mercy before he can resist .
i say watson what would holmes say to this ? how about that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted ?

my god whats that watson ?
i dont know . its a sound they have on the moor . i heard it once before .
watson it was the cry of a hound .
what do they call this sound ?
who ?
the folk on the countryside .
oh they are ignorant people . why should you mind what they call it ?
tell me watson . what do they say of it ?
they say it is the cry of the hound of the baskervilles .
a hound it was but it seemed to come from miles away over yonder i think .
it was hard to say whence it came .
it rose and fell with the wind . isnt that the direction of the great grimpen mire ?
yes it is .
well it was up there . come now watson didnt you think yourself that it was the cry of a hound ? i am not a child . you need not fear to speak the truth .
stapleton was with me when i heard it last . he said that it might be the calling of a strange bird .
no no it was a hound . my god can there be some truth in all these stories ? is it possible that i am really in danger from so dark a cause ? you dont believe it do you watson ?
no no .
and yet it was one thing to laugh about it in london and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that . and my uncle ! there was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay . it all fits together . i dont think that i am a coward watson but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood . feel my hand !
youll be all right tomorrow .
i dont think ill get that cry out of my head . what do you advise that we do now ?
shall we turn back ?
no by thunder we have come out to get our man and we will do it . we after the convict and a hellhound as likely as not after us . come on ! well see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor .

what shall we do now ?
wait here . he must be near his light . let us see if we can get a glimpse of him .

barrymore considers that he has a grievance he thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his brotherinlaw down when he of his own free will had told us the secret .
i may have spoken too warmly sir and if i have i am sure that i beg your pardon . at the same time i was very much surprised when i heard you two gentlemen come back this morning and learned that you had been chasing selden . the poor fellow has enough to fight against without my putting more upon his track .
if you had told us of your own free will it would have been a different thing you only told us or rather your wife only told us when it was forced from you and you could not help yourself .
i didnt think you would have taken advantage of it sir henryindeed i didnt .
the man is a public danger . there are lonely houses scattered over the moor and he is a fellow who would stick at nothing . you only want to get a glimpse of his face to see that . look at mr . stapletons house for example with no one but himself to defend it . theres no safety for anyone until he is under lock and key .

what do you say watson ?
if he were safely out of the country it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden .
but how about the chance of his holding someone up before he goes ?
he would not do anything so mad sir . we have provided him with all that he can want . to commit a crime would be to show where he was hiding .
that is true well barrymore
god bless you sir and thank you from my heart ! it would have killed my poor wife had he been taken again .
i guess we are aiding and abetting a felony watson ? but after what we have heard i dont feel as if i could give the man up so there is an end of it . all right barrymore you can go .
youve been so kind to us sir that i should like to do the best i can for you in return . i know something sir henry and perhaps i should have said it before but it was long after the inquest that i found it out . ive never breathed a word about it yet to mortal man . its about poor sir charless death .
do you know how he died ?
no sir i dont know that .
what then ?
i know why he was at the gate at that hour . it was to meet a woman .
to meet a woman ! he ?
yes sir .
and the womans name ?
i cant give you the name sir but i can give you the initials . her initials were l . l .
how do you know this barrymore ?
well sir henry your uncle had a letter that morning . he had usually a great many letters for he was a public man and well known for his kind heart so that everyone who was in trouble was glad to turn to him . but that morning as it chanced there was only this one letter so i took the more notice of it . it was from coombe tracey and it was addressed in a womans hand .
well ?

have you got that slip ?
no sir it crumbled all to bits after we moved it .
had sir charles received any other letters in the same writing ?
well sir i took no particular notice of his letters . i should not have noticed this one only it happened to come alone .
and you have no idea who l . l . is ?
no sir . no more than you have . but i expect if we could lay our hands upon that lady we should know more about sir charless death .
i can not understand barrymore how you came to conceal this important information .
well sir it was immediately after that our own trouble came to us . and then again sir we were both of us very fond of sir charles as we well might be considering all that he has done for us . to rake this up couldnt help our poor master and its well to go carefully when theres a lady in the case . even the best of us
you thought it might injure his reputation ?
well sir i thought no good could come of it . but now you have been kind to us and i feel as if it would be treating you unfairly not to tell you all that i know about the matter .
very good barrymore you can go . well watson what do you think of this new light ?
it seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before .
so i think . but if we can only trace l . l . it should clear up the whole business . we have gained that much . we know that there is someone who has the facts if we can only find her . what do you think we should do ?
let holmes know all about it at once . it will give him the clue for which he has been seeking . i am much mistaken if it does not bring him down .

by the way mortimer i suppose there are few people living within driving distance of this whom you do not know ?
hardly any i think .
can you then tell me the name of any woman whose initials are l . l . ?
no there are a few gipsies and labouring folk for whom i cant answer but among the farmers or gentry there is no one whose initials are those . wait a bit though there is laura lyonsher initials are l . l . but she lives in coombe tracey .
who is she ?
she is franklands daughter .
what ! old frankland the crank ?
exactly . she married an artist named lyons who came sketching on the moor . he proved to be a blackguard and deserted her . the fault from what i hear may not have been entirely on one side . her father refused to have anything to do with her because she had married without his consent and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well . so between the old sinner and the young one the girl has had a pretty bad time .
how does she live ?

then your brother is

the escaped convict sirselden the criminal .

thats the truth sir i said that it was not my secret and that i could not tell it to you . but now you have heard it and you will see that if there was a plot it was not against you .

is this true barrymore ?

yes sir henry . every word of it .

well i can not blame you for standing by your own wife . forget what i have said . go to your room you two and we shall talk further about this matter in the morning .

i wonder he dares

it may be so placed as to be only visible from here .

very likely . how far do you think it is ?

out by the cleft tor i think .

not more than a mile or two off .

hardly that .

well it can not be far if barrymore had to carry out the food to it . and he is waiting this villain beside that candle . by thunder watson i am going out to take that man !

i will come

then get your revolver and put on your boots . the sooner we start the better as the fellow may put out his light and be off .

are you armed ?

i have a huntingcrop .

we must close in on him rapidly for he is said to be a desperate fellow . we shall take him by surprise and have him at our mercy before he can resist .

i say watson what would holmes say to this ? how about that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted ?

my god whats that watson ?

i dont know . its a sound they have on the moor . i heard it once before .

watson it was the cry of a hound .

what do they call this sound ?

who ?

the folk on the countryside .

oh they are ignorant people . why should you mind what they call it ?

tell me watson . what do they say of it ?

they say it is the cry of the hound of the baskervilles .

a hound it was but it seemed to come from miles away over yonder i think .

it was hard to say whence it came .

it rose and fell with the wind . isnt that the direction of the great grimpen mire ?

yes it is .

well it was up there . come now watson didnt you think yourself that it was the cry of a hound ? i am not a child . you need not fear to speak the truth .

stapleton was with me when i heard it last . he said that it might be the calling of a strange bird .

no no it was a hound . my god can there be some truth in all these stories ? is it possible that i am really in danger from so dark a cause ? you dont believe it do you watson ?

no no .

and yet it was one thing to laugh about it in london and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that . and my uncle ! there was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay . it all fits together . i dont think that i am a coward watson but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood . feel my hand !

youll be all right tomorrow .

i dont think ill get that cry out of my head . what do you advise that we do now ?

shall we turn back ?

no by thunder we have come out to get our man and we will do it . we after the convict and a hellhound as likely as not after us . come on ! well see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor .

what shall we do now ?

wait here . he must be near his light . let us see if we can get a glimpse of him .

barrymore considers that he has a grievance he thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his brotherinlaw down when he of his own free will had told us the secret .

i may have spoken too warmly sir and if i have i am sure that i beg your pardon . at the same time i was very much surprised when i heard you two gentlemen come back this morning and learned that you had been chasing selden . the poor fellow has enough to fight against without my putting more upon his track .

if you had told us of your own free will it would have been a different thing you only told us or rather your wife only told us when it was forced from you and you could not help yourself .

i didnt think you would have taken advantage of it sir henryindeed i didnt .

the man is a public danger . there are lonely houses scattered over the moor and he is a fellow who would stick at nothing . you only want to get a glimpse of his face to see that . look at mr . stapletons house for example with no one but himself to defend it . theres no safety for anyone until he is under lock and key .

what do you say watson ?

if he were safely out of the country it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden .

but how about the chance of his holding someone up before he goes ?

he would not do anything so mad sir . we have provided him with all that he can want . to commit a crime would be to show where he was hiding .

that is true well barrymore

god bless you sir and thank you from my heart ! it would have killed my poor wife had he been taken again .

i guess we are aiding and abetting a felony watson ? but after what we have heard i dont feel as if i could give the man up so there is an end of it . all right barrymore you can go .

youve been so kind to us sir that i should like to do the best i can for you in return . i know something sir henry and perhaps i should have said it before but it was long after the inquest that i found it out . ive never breathed a word about it yet to mortal man . its about poor sir charless death .

do you know how he died ?

no sir i dont know that .

what then ?

i know why he was at the gate at that hour . it was to meet a woman .

to meet a woman ! he ?

yes sir .

and the womans name ?

i cant give you the name sir but i can give you the initials . her initials were l . l .

how do you know this barrymore ?

well sir henry your uncle had a letter that morning . he had usually a great many letters for he was a public man and well known for his kind heart so that everyone who was in trouble was glad to turn to him . but that morning as it chanced there was only this one letter so i took the more notice of it . it was from coombe tracey and it was addressed in a womans hand .

well ?

have you got that slip ?

no sir it crumbled all to bits after we moved it .

had sir charles received any other letters in the same writing ?

well sir i took no particular notice of his letters . i should not have noticed this one only it happened to come alone .

and you have no idea who l . l . is ?

no sir . no more than you have . but i expect if we could lay our hands upon that lady we should know more about sir charless death .

i can not understand barrymore how you came to conceal this important information .

well sir it was immediately after that our own trouble came to us . and then again sir we were both of us very fond of sir charles as we well might be considering all that he has done for us . to rake this up couldnt help our poor master and its well to go carefully when theres a lady in the case . even the best of us

you thought it might injure his reputation ?

well sir i thought no good could come of it . but now you have been kind to us and i feel as if it would be treating you unfairly not to tell you all that i know about the matter .

very good barrymore you can go . well watson what do you think of this new light ?

it seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before .

so i think . but if we can only trace l . l . it should clear up the whole business . we have gained that much . we know that there is someone who has the facts if we can only find her . what do you think we should do ?

let holmes know all about it at once . it will give him the clue for which he has been seeking . i am much mistaken if it does not bring him down .

by the way mortimer i suppose there are few people living within driving distance of this whom you do not know ?

hardly any i think .

can you then tell me the name of any woman whose initials are l . l . ?

no there are a few gipsies and labouring folk for whom i cant answer but among the farmers or gentry there is no one whose initials are those . wait a bit though there is laura lyonsher initials are l . l . but she lives in coombe tracey .

who is she ?

she is franklands daughter .

what ! old frankland the crank ?

exactly . she married an artist named lyons who came sketching on the moor . he proved to be a blackguard and deserted her . the fault from what i hear may not have been entirely on one side . her father refused to have anything to do with her because she had married without his consent and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well . so between the old sinner and the young one the girl has had a pretty bad time .

how does she live ?