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come sir come ! you will see with your own eyes and judge for yourself .

well ! am i right ?
certainly there is a boy who seems to have some secret errand .
and what the errand is even a county constable could guess . but not one word shall they have from me and i bind you to secrecy also dr . watson . not a word ! you understand !
just as you wish .
they have treated me shamefullyshamefully . when the facts come out in frankland v . regina i venture to think that a thrill of indignation will run through the country . nothing would induce me to help the police in any way . for all they cared it might have been me instead of my effigy which these rascals burned at the stake . surely you are not going ! you will help me to empty the decanter in honour of this great occasion !

holmes ! holmes !
come out and please be careful with the revolver .

i never was more glad to see anyone in my life
or more astonished eh ?
well i must confess to it .
the surprise was not all on one side i assure you . i had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat still less that you were inside it until i was within twenty paces of the door .
my footprint i presume ?
no watson i fear that i could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world . if you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist for when i see the stub of a cigarette marked bradley oxford street i know that my friend watson is in the neighbourhood . you will see it there beside the path . you threw it down no doubt at that supreme moment when you charged into the empty hut .
exactly .
i thought as muchand knowing your admirable tenacity i was convinced that you were sitting in ambush a weapon within reach waiting for the tenant to return . so you actually thought that i was the criminal ?
i did not know who you were but i was determined to find out .
excellent watson ! and how did you localise me ? you saw me perhaps on the night of the convict hunt when i was so imprudent as to allow the moon to rise behind me ?
yes i saw you then .
and have no doubt searched all the huts until you came to this one ?
no your boy had been observed and that gave me a guide where to look .
the old gentleman with the telescope no doubt . i could not make it out when first i saw the light flashing upon the lens . ha i see that cartwright has brought up some supplies . whats this paper ? so you have been to coombe tracey have you ?
yes .
to see mrs . laura lyons ?
exactly .
well done ! our researches have evidently been running on parallel lines and when we unite our results i expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of the case .
well i am glad from my heart that you are here for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both becoming too much for my nerves . but how in the name of wonder did you come here and what have you been doing ? i thought that you were in baker street working out that case of blackmailing .
that was what i wished you to think .
then you use me and yet do not trust me ! i think that i have deserved better at your hands holmes .

then my reports have all been wasted !
here are your reports my dear fellow and very well thumbed i assure you . i made excellent arrangements and they are only delayed one day upon their way . i must compliment you exceedingly upon the zeal and the intelligence which you have shown over an extraordinarily difficult case .

this is most important it fills up a gap which i had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair . you are aware perhaps that a close intimacy exists between this lady and the man stapleton ?
i did not know of a close intimacy .
there can be no doubt about the matter . they meet they write there is a complete understanding between them . now this puts a very powerful weapon into our hands . if i could only use it to detach his wife
his wife ?
i am giving you some information now in return for all that you have given me . the lady who has passed here as miss stapleton is in reality his wife .
good heavens holmes ! are you sure of what you say ? how could he have permitted sir henry to fall in love with her ?
sir henrys falling in love could do no harm to anyone except sir henry . he took particular care that sir henry did not make love to her as you have yourself observed . i repeat that the lady is his wife and not his sister .
but why this elaborate deception ?
because he foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman .

it is he then who is our enemyit is he who dogged us in london ?
so i read the riddle .
and the warningit must have come from her !
exactly .
but are you sure of this holmes ? how do you know that the woman is his wife ?

if this woman is in truth his wife where does mrs . laura lyons come in ?
that is one of the points upon which your own researches have shed a light . your interview with the lady has cleared the situation very much . i did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her husband . in that case regarding stapleton as an unmarried man she counted no doubt upon becoming his wife .
and when she is undeceived ?
why then we may find the lady of service . it must be our first duty to see herboth of ustomorrow . dont you think watson that you are away from your charge rather long ? your place should be at baskerville hall .

where is it ? where is it watson ?
there i think .
no there !

he has beaten us watson . we are too late .
no no surely not !
fool that i was to hold my hand . and you watson see what comes of abandoning your charge ! but by heaven if the worst has happened well avenge him !

can you see anything ?
nothing .
but hark what is that ?

the brute ! the brute ! oh holmes i shall never forgive myself for having left him to his fate .
i am more to blame than you watson . in order to have my case well rounded and complete i have thrown away the life of my client . it is the greatest blow which has befallen me in my career . but how could i knowhow could i knowthat he would risk his life alone upon the moor in the face of all my warnings ?
that we should have heard his screamsmy god those screams ! and yet have been unable to save him ! where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death ? it may be lurking among these rocks at this instant . and stapleton where is he ? he shall answer for this deed .

why should we not seize him at once ?
our case is not complete . the fellow is wary and cunning to the last degree . it is not what we know but what we can prove . if we make one false move the villain may escape us yet .
what can we do ?
there will be plenty for us to do tomorrow . tonight we can only perform the last offices to our poor friend .

a beard ! a beard ! the man has a beard !
a beard ?
it is not the baronetit iswhy it is my neighbour the convict !

then the clothes have been the poor devils death it is clear enough that the hound has been laid on from some article of sir henrysthe boot which was abstracted in the hotel in all probabilityand so ran this man down . there is one very singular thing however how came selden in the darkness to know that the hound was on his trail ?
he heard him .
to hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help . by his cries he must have run a long way after he knew the animal was on his track . how did he know ?
a greater mystery to me is why this hound presuming that all our conjectures are correct
i presume nothing .
well then why this hound should be loose tonight . i suppose that it does not always run loose upon the moor . stapleton would not let it go unless he had reason to think that sir henry would be there .
my difficulty is the more formidable of the two for i think that we shall very shortly get an explanation of yours while mine may remain forever a mystery . the question now is what shall we do with this poor wretchs body ? we can not leave it here to the foxes and the ravens .
i suggest that we put it in one of the huts until we can communicate with the police .
exactly . i have no doubt that you and i could carry it so far . halloa watson whats this ? its the man himself by all thats wonderful and audacious ! not a word to show your suspicionsnot a word or my plans crumble to the ground .

why dr . watson thats not you is it ? you are the last man that i should have expected to see out on the moor at this time of night . but dear me whats this ? somebody hurt ? notdont tell me that it is our friend sir henry !
whowhos this ?
it is selden the man who escaped from princetown .
dear me ! what a very shocking affair ! how did he die ?
he appears to have broken his neck by falling over these rocks . my friend and i were strolling on the moor when we heard a cry .
i heard a cry also . that was what brought me out . i was uneasy about sir henry .
why about sir henry in particular ?
because i had suggested that he should come over . when he did not come i was surprised and i naturally became alarmed for his safety when i heard cries upon the moor . by the way did you hear anything else besides a cry ?

come sir come ! you will see with your own eyes and judge for yourself .

well ! am i right ?

certainly there is a boy who seems to have some secret errand .

and what the errand is even a county constable could guess . but not one word shall they have from me and i bind you to secrecy also dr . watson . not a word ! you understand !

just as you wish .

they have treated me shamefullyshamefully . when the facts come out in frankland v . regina i venture to think that a thrill of indignation will run through the country . nothing would induce me to help the police in any way . for all they cared it might have been me instead of my effigy which these rascals burned at the stake . surely you are not going ! you will help me to empty the decanter in honour of this great occasion !

holmes ! holmes !

come out and please be careful with the revolver .

i never was more glad to see anyone in my life

or more astonished eh ?

well i must confess to it .

the surprise was not all on one side i assure you . i had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat still less that you were inside it until i was within twenty paces of the door .

my footprint i presume ?

no watson i fear that i could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world . if you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist for when i see the stub of a cigarette marked bradley oxford street i know that my friend watson is in the neighbourhood . you will see it there beside the path . you threw it down no doubt at that supreme moment when you charged into the empty hut .

exactly .

i thought as muchand knowing your admirable tenacity i was convinced that you were sitting in ambush a weapon within reach waiting for the tenant to return . so you actually thought that i was the criminal ?

i did not know who you were but i was determined to find out .

excellent watson ! and how did you localise me ? you saw me perhaps on the night of the convict hunt when i was so imprudent as to allow the moon to rise behind me ?

yes i saw you then .

and have no doubt searched all the huts until you came to this one ?

no your boy had been observed and that gave me a guide where to look .

the old gentleman with the telescope no doubt . i could not make it out when first i saw the light flashing upon the lens . ha i see that cartwright has brought up some supplies . whats this paper ? so you have been to coombe tracey have you ?

yes .

to see mrs . laura lyons ?

exactly .

well done ! our researches have evidently been running on parallel lines and when we unite our results i expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of the case .

well i am glad from my heart that you are here for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both becoming too much for my nerves . but how in the name of wonder did you come here and what have you been doing ? i thought that you were in baker street working out that case of blackmailing .

that was what i wished you to think .

then you use me and yet do not trust me ! i think that i have deserved better at your hands holmes .

then my reports have all been wasted !

here are your reports my dear fellow and very well thumbed i assure you . i made excellent arrangements and they are only delayed one day upon their way . i must compliment you exceedingly upon the zeal and the intelligence which you have shown over an extraordinarily difficult case .

this is most important it fills up a gap which i had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair . you are aware perhaps that a close intimacy exists between this lady and the man stapleton ?

i did not know of a close intimacy .

there can be no doubt about the matter . they meet they write there is a complete understanding between them . now this puts a very powerful weapon into our hands . if i could only use it to detach his wife

his wife ?

i am giving you some information now in return for all that you have given me . the lady who has passed here as miss stapleton is in reality his wife .

good heavens holmes ! are you sure of what you say ? how could he have permitted sir henry to fall in love with her ?

sir henrys falling in love could do no harm to anyone except sir henry . he took particular care that sir henry did not make love to her as you have yourself observed . i repeat that the lady is his wife and not his sister .

but why this elaborate deception ?

because he foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman .

it is he then who is our enemyit is he who dogged us in london ?

so i read the riddle .

and the warningit must have come from her !

exactly .

but are you sure of this holmes ? how do you know that the woman is his wife ?

if this woman is in truth his wife where does mrs . laura lyons come in ?

that is one of the points upon which your own researches have shed a light . your interview with the lady has cleared the situation very much . i did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her husband . in that case regarding stapleton as an unmarried man she counted no doubt upon becoming his wife .

and when she is undeceived ?

why then we may find the lady of service . it must be our first duty to see herboth of ustomorrow . dont you think watson that you are away from your charge rather long ? your place should be at baskerville hall .

where is it ? where is it watson ?

there i think .

no there !

he has beaten us watson . we are too late .

no no surely not !

fool that i was to hold my hand . and you watson see what comes of abandoning your charge ! but by heaven if the worst has happened well avenge him !

can you see anything ?

nothing .

but hark what is that ?

the brute ! the brute ! oh holmes i shall never forgive myself for having left him to his fate .

i am more to blame than you watson . in order to have my case well rounded and complete i have thrown away the life of my client . it is the greatest blow which has befallen me in my career . but how could i knowhow could i knowthat he would risk his life alone upon the moor in the face of all my warnings ?

that we should have heard his screamsmy god those screams ! and yet have been unable to save him ! where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death ? it may be lurking among these rocks at this instant . and stapleton where is he ? he shall answer for this deed .

why should we not seize him at once ?

our case is not complete . the fellow is wary and cunning to the last degree . it is not what we know but what we can prove . if we make one false move the villain may escape us yet .

what can we do ?

there will be plenty for us to do tomorrow . tonight we can only perform the last offices to our poor friend .

a beard ! a beard ! the man has a beard !

a beard ?

it is not the baronetit iswhy it is my neighbour the convict !

then the clothes have been the poor devils death it is clear enough that the hound has been laid on from some article of sir henrysthe boot which was abstracted in the hotel in all probabilityand so ran this man down . there is one very singular thing however how came selden in the darkness to know that the hound was on his trail ?

he heard him .

to hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help . by his cries he must have run a long way after he knew the animal was on his track . how did he know ?

a greater mystery to me is why this hound presuming that all our conjectures are correct

i presume nothing .

well then why this hound should be loose tonight . i suppose that it does not always run loose upon the moor . stapleton would not let it go unless he had reason to think that sir henry would be there .

my difficulty is the more formidable of the two for i think that we shall very shortly get an explanation of yours while mine may remain forever a mystery . the question now is what shall we do with this poor wretchs body ? we can not leave it here to the foxes and the ravens .

i suggest that we put it in one of the huts until we can communicate with the police .

exactly . i have no doubt that you and i could carry it so far . halloa watson whats this ? its the man himself by all thats wonderful and audacious ! not a word to show your suspicionsnot a word or my plans crumble to the ground .

why dr . watson thats not you is it ? you are the last man that i should have expected to see out on the moor at this time of night . but dear me whats this ? somebody hurt ? notdont tell me that it is our friend sir henry !

whowhos this ?

it is selden the man who escaped from princetown .

dear me ! what a very shocking affair ! how did he die ?

he appears to have broken his neck by falling over these rocks . my friend and i were strolling on the moor when we heard a cry .

i heard a cry also . that was what brought me out . i was uneasy about sir henry .

why about sir henry in particular ?

because i had suggested that he should come over . when he did not come i was surprised and i naturally became alarmed for his safety when i heard cries upon the moor . by the way did you hear anything else besides a cry ?