1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,100 Chapter 14 of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,900 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:11,100 the public domain. Chapter 14. 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,700 The Hound of the Baskervilles one of Sherlock Holmes is 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,400 defects. If indeed one may call it a 6 00:00:18,407 --> 00:00:21,700 defect was that he was exceedingly lows to communicate 7 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:25,300 his full plans to any other person until the instant of 8 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:27,700 their fulfillment partly. It came. 9 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:31,600 No doubt from his own masterful nature, which love to dominate 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,400 and surprised those who were around him partly also from his 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,700 professional caution, which urged him, never to take any 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,200 chances. The result, however, was very 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,800 trying for those who were acting as his agents and assistance. 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,700 I had often suffered under it, but never more. 15 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,400 So than during that long drive in the darkness, the great 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,900 ordeal was in front of us at last, we were about to make our 17 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:59,100 final effort and yet Holmes had said, nothing. 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,500 And I could only surmise what his cause of action would be, my 19 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:06,700 nerves thrilled with anticipation, when at last the 20 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,600 cold wind upon our faces and the Dark Void. 21 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,600 His on either side of the narrow road told me that we were back 22 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,000 upon the Moor. Once again every stride of the 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,900 horses and every turn of the wheels was taking us nearer to 24 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:25,300 our Supreme Adventure, our conversation was hampered by the 25 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,600 presence of the driver of the hired wagonette so that we were 26 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,700 forced to talk on trivial matters when our nerves were 27 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,300 tense with emotion and anticipation. 28 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,200 It was a relief to me after that unnatural restraint, when we 29 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,400 were at last passed Franklin's house and knew that we were 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,700 Drawing Near to the hall. And to the scene of action, we 31 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:50,900 did not drive up to the door, but got down near the Gate of 32 00:01:50,908 --> 00:01:54,200 the Avenue. The wagonette was paid off and 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,500 ordered to return to coombe Tracey forthwith. 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,400 While we started to walk to marry pit house. 35 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,800 Are you armed lestrade? The little detective smiled. 36 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:08,199 As long as I have my trousers, I have a hip pocket. 37 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,300 And as long as I had my hip pocket, I have something in it. 38 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:15,900 Good, my friend and I are also ready for emergencies. 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,600 You're mighty close about this affair. 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,800 Mr. Ohms, what's the game now? A waiting game? 41 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,200 My word. It does not seem very cheerful 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,600 place. So the detective with a shiver 43 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,700 glancing round him at the gloomy, slopes of the hill. 44 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:35,700 And at the huge Lake of fog which lay over the grimpen mire. 45 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,500 I see the lights of a house out of us, That is Mary pit house 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,400 and the end of our journey, I must request you to walk on 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,100 tiptoe and not talk above a whisper. 48 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:52,300 We moved cautiously along the track as if we were Bound for 49 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:56,400 the house, but Holmes halted us when we were about 200 yards 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:02,100 from it, this will do said he these rocks upon the right, make 51 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,300 an admirable screen. We're to wait here. 52 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:09,600 Yes, we shall make our little Ambush here, get into this 53 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,300 hollow lestrade you have been inside the house. 54 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,000 Have you not Watson? Can you tell the position of the 55 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,600 rooms? What are those latticed windows 56 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,700 at this end? I think they're the kitchen 57 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:26,400 windows and the one Beyond which shines so brightly that is 58 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,400 certainly the dining room. The blinds are up, you know, the 59 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,500 LIE of the land, best creep forward quietly and see what 60 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:38,500 they are doing. But For Heaven's Sake, don't let 61 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:43,200 them know that they are watched. I tiptoed down the path and 62 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,500 stooped behind the low wall, which surrounded? 63 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,500 The stunted Orchard. Creepin and its shadow. 64 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,500 I reached a point whence I could look straight through the 65 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,800 uncurtained window. There were only two men in the 66 00:03:54,808 --> 00:03:58,700 room. So Henry and Stapleton they sat 67 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:00,200 with their profiles toward me on. 68 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,800 Either side of the Round Table, both of them were smoking, 69 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,800 cigars and Coffee, and Wine were in front of them. 70 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,900 Stapleton was talking with animation but the baronet looked 71 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:15,900 pale and distrait perhaps the thought of that lonely, walk 72 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,899 across the ill. And more was weighing heavily 73 00:04:18,899 --> 00:04:23,500 upon his mind. As I watched them Stapleton rose 74 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:26,600 and left the room. While Sir Henry filled his glass 75 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,400 again and leaned back in his chair puffing at his cigar. 76 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:35,300 I heard the Creak of a door and the crisp sound of boots upon 77 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:38,300 the gravel, the steps passed along the path. 78 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:42,100 On the other side of the wall, under which I crouched looking 79 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,200 over. I saw the naturalist pause at 80 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,000 the door of an outhouse in the corner of the orchard. 81 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,700 A key turned in a lock, and as he passed in, there was a 82 00:04:52,707 --> 00:04:56,800 curious, scuffling noise from within He was only a minute or 83 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,700 so inside. And then I heard the key turn 84 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,900 once more and he passed me and re-entered the house. 85 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,900 I saw him, rejoin his guest and I crept quietly back to where my 86 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:10,700 companions were waiting to tell him what I had seen. 87 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,400 You say Watson that the lady is not their homes asked when I had 88 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,300 finished my report know where can she be? 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,500 Since there is no light in any other room except the kitchen? 90 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,600 I cannot think where she is. I've said that over the great, 91 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,300 grimpen mire, their hunger dense, white fog, it was 92 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:38,600 drifting slowly in our Direction and banked itself up like a war 93 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,100 on that side of us. Lo but thickened well-defined 94 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,400 the moon Shone on it and it looked like a great shimmering 95 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,900 ice filled with the heads of the distant tours as rocks born upon 96 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:54,400 its surface. Holmes's face was turned towards 97 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,600 it and he muttered impatiently as he watched it sluggish drift. 98 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,200 It's moving towards us. Watson, is that serious? 99 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,800 Very serious. Indeed, the one thing upon Earth 100 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,000 which could have disarranged. My plans. 101 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:14,100 He can't be very long now. It is already 10:00. 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,000 Alice success and even his life may depend upon his coming out 103 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,300 before the fog is over the path. The night was clear and fine 104 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,500 above us. The Stars Shone cold and bright. 105 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:31,900 While a Half Moon Bay the whole scene in a soft uncertain light 106 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:35,300 before us lay the dark bulk of the house. 107 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:39,300 It's serrated roof and bristling chimneys, hard outlined against 108 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:43,600 the silver Spangled sky. Broad bars of golden light from 109 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,500 the lower Windows stretched across the Orchard. 110 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:51,600 And a more one of them was suddenly shut off the servants 111 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,300 had left a kitchen there, only remained a lamp in the dining 112 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,800 room, where the two men, the murderous host, and the 113 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,100 unconscious guest still, chatted over their cigars. 114 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,300 Every minute that white woolly plane, which covered one half of 115 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:10,800 the more was drifting closer and closer, to the house already. 116 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,900 The first Thin wisps of it, were curling across the Golden square 117 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:18,400 of the lighted window. The farther wall of the orchard 118 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,900 was already invisible and the trees were standing out of a 119 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:26,700 swirl of a white Vapor. As we watched it, the fog reads 120 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:30,300 came crawling around both corners of the house and rolled 121 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,200 slowly into one dense Bank on which the Upper Floor and the 122 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,600 roof. Floated like a strange ship Upon 123 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,100 A shadowy. See Holmes struck his hand 124 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:43,700 passionately upon the rock. In front of us, and stamped his 125 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:48,000 feet in his impatience. If he isn't out in a quarter of 126 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,100 an hour, the path will be covered in half an hour. 127 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,300 We won't be able to see our hands in front of us. 128 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:56,500 Shall we move further back upon High Ground? 129 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,400 Yes, I think it would be as well. 130 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:05,400 So as the fog Bank flowed on word, we fell back before it 131 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,600 until we were half a mile from the house and still that dense. 132 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,000 White. See, with the moon, silvering 133 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,500 its upper Edge, swept slowly and inexorably on, we are going too 134 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:21,100 far, said, Holmes, we dare not take the chance of his being 135 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:24,800 overtaken before he can reach us at all costs. 136 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,800 We must hold our ground where we are. 137 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:30,700 He dropped on his knees and clapped his ear to the ground. 138 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:34,100 Thank God, I think that I hear him coming. 139 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:38,000 A sound of quick steps. Broke the Silence of the more 140 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:42,100 crouching among the stones. We stared intently at the 141 00:08:42,108 --> 00:08:46,800 silver-tipped bank in front of us, the steps grew louder and 142 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,500 through the fog as through a curtain. 143 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,200 There stepped a man whom we were awaiting. 144 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,300 He looked around him in Surprise as he emerged into the clear 145 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:59,700 Starlit Night, then he came swiftly along the path pass 146 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:03,400 close to where we lay and went on up the long slope behind us 147 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,200 as he walked. He glanced continually over 148 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,500 either shoulder, like a man who is ill at ease. 149 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,800 Hist cried Holmes and I heard the sharp click of a cocking 150 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,700 pistol. Look out, it's coming. 151 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:22,600 There was a thin crisp continuous patter from 152 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,700 somewhere, in the heart of that crawling Bank, the cloud was 153 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:30,500 within 50 yards of where we lay and we glared at it. 154 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,400 All three uncertain. What horror was about to break 155 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,600 from the heart of it? I was at homes, his elbow. 156 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:40,700 And I glanced for an instant at his face it was pale and 157 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:43,600 exultant. His eyes shining brightly in the 158 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,400 Moonlight but suddenly, they started forward in a rigid fixed 159 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:53,000 stare and his lips parted in amazement at the same instant, 160 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,600 the strad gave a yell of Terror and threw himself face downward 161 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,400 upon the ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert 162 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,400 hand grasping, my pistol, my mind Paralyzed by the Dreadful 163 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,800 shape, which had sprung out upon us from the Shadows of the Fog. 164 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:14,200 A Hound, it was an enormous coal black Hound but not such a Hound 165 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,700 as mortal eyes of ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth. 166 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:23,000 Its eyes glowed with a smoldering glare, its muzzle and 167 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,100 hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame, never in a 168 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:31,600 Delirious dream of a disordered brain, could anything more 169 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,000 Savage, more, appalling more, hellish be conceived than that, 170 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,800 dark form, and Savage face. Which broke upon us out of the 171 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,500 wall of fog with long bounds, the huge black creature was 172 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:47,100 leaping down the track. Following hard upon the 173 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:50,400 footsteps of our friend. So paralyzed. 174 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,900 Where we, by The Apparition that we allowed him to pass before we 175 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:58,000 had recovered our nerve then homes and I both fired together 176 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:02,000 and a creature, gave a hideous howl, which showed that one at 177 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,600 least had hit him. He did not pause. 178 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,400 However, but bounded on Word. Far away on the path. 179 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,500 We saw Sir Henry, looking back. His face white in the Moonlight. 180 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,800 His hands raised in horror glaring helplessly at the 181 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,600 frightful thing, which was hunting him down, but that cry 182 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,800 of pain from the Hound, had blown all our fears to the 183 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,100 winds. If he was vulnerable, he was 184 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:29,400 mortal. And if we could wound him we 185 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,800 could kill him. Never have. 186 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,700 I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night Hi. 187 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:39,700 I'm Rick and Fleet of foot but he outpaced me as much as I have 188 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:44,000 pasted the little professional in front of us as we flew up the 189 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,900 track. We heard Scream After scream 190 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:50,000 from Sir, Henry and the Deep Roar of the Hound. 191 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,400 I was in time to see the Beast spring upon its victim, hurl him 192 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,800 to the ground and worried at his throat. 193 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,400 But the next instant Holmes had emptied Five. 194 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,600 Barrels of his revolver into the creatures flank with a last howl 195 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,900 of agony. Knee and a vicious snap in the 196 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:12,400 air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pouring furiously and 197 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:18,800 then fell limp upon its side. I stooped panting and pressed my 198 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,300 pistol to the Dreadful shimmering head, but it was 199 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:26,700 useless to press the trigger. The giant Hound was dead. 200 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:32,000 So, Henry, Lai insensible where he had fallen, we tore away, his 201 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,400 collar and homes, breathed. A prayer of gratitude. 202 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:38,600 When we saw that, there was no sign of a wound and that the 203 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:44,000 rescue had been in time already, our friends, eyelids shivered, 204 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,800 and he made a feeble effort to move the strawed thrust. 205 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,200 His Brandy flask between the baronet's teeth and two, 206 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,100 frightened eyes were looking up at us. 207 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,800 My God, he whispered what was it? 208 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:04,000 What in Heaven's name was it, it's dead, whatever it is said, 209 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,200 Holmes, we've laid the family ghost once and forever in his 210 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,800 size and strength. It was a terrible creature which 211 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,600 was lying stretched before us. It was not a pure Bloodhound and 212 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,200 it was not a pure Mastiff but it appeared to be a combination of 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:26,200 the two gaunt Savage. And as large as a small lioness 214 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:30,700 even now in the Stillness of death, the huge Jaws seem to be 215 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:34,900 dripping with a bluish flame. And the small deep-set cruel, 216 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:38,800 eyes were ringed with fire. I placed my hand upon the 217 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,100 glowing muzzle and as I held them up my own fingers, 218 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:44,500 smoldered and gleamed in the Darkness. 219 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,700 Phosphorus. I said a cunning preparation of, 220 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:51,900 it said Holmes sniffing at the dead animal. 221 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:55,300 There is no smell, which might have interfered with his power 222 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,500 of scent. We owe you a deep apology, Sir 223 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:03,900 Henry, for having exposed, you to this fright, I was prepared 224 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:08,400 for a Hound but not for such a creature as this and the fog 225 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,300 gave us little time to receive him. 226 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:16,500 You have saved my life. Having first endangered, it are 227 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:20,100 you strong enough to stand? Give me another mouthful of that 228 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:22,900 Brandy and I shall be ready for anything. 229 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:28,300 So now, if you'll help me up, what do you propose to do to 230 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:31,100 leave you here? You are not fit for Further 231 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:34,500 Adventures tonight. If you will wait, one or other 232 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:36,500 of us will go back with you to the hall. 233 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:41,400 He tried to stagger to his feet, but he was still ghastly pale 234 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,500 and trembling. In every limb, we helped him to 235 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,600 a rock where he sat shivering with his face buried in his 236 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,500 hands. We must leave you now, said, 237 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:54,000 Holmes. The rest of our work must be 238 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,600 done and every moment is of importance. 239 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,400 We have our case and now we only want our man. 240 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,600 It's a thousand to one against our, finding him at the house. 241 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,000 He continued, as we retraced, our steps swiftly, down the 242 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,900 path. Those shots must have told him 243 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:17,400 that the game was up. We were some distance off, and 244 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,400 this fog may have dead in them. He followed the Hound to call 245 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,600 him off of that. She may be certain now. 246 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:28,200 Now he's gone by this time, but we'll search the house and make 247 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,800 sure The front door was open, so he rushed in and hurried from 248 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,900 room to room to the amazement of a doddering old manservant who 249 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:40,100 met us in the passage. There was no light, saving the 250 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,300 dining room, but Holmes caught up, the lamp and left. 251 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:45,600 No corner of the house, unexplored. 252 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,600 No sign could we see of the man whom we were chasing on the 253 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,300 Upper Floor? However, one of the bedroom 254 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:55,500 doors was locked. It's someone in here. 255 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,300 Cried lestrade, Arcania movement, open this door. 256 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,300 Or a faint, moaning and rustling Came From Within Holmes. 257 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:07,300 Struck the door, just over the lock with a flat of his foot. 258 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,900 And it flew open pistol in hand. We all three rushed into the 259 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,900 room. But there was no sign within it 260 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,900 of that desperate and defiant villain. 261 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:22,100 Whom we expected to see instead. We were faced by an object so 262 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:26,400 strange and so unexpected that we stood for a moment staring at 263 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,200 it in amazement. The room had been fashioned into 264 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,700 a small Museum and the walls were lined by a number of 265 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:36,800 glass-topped cases, full of that collection of butterflies. 266 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,200 And moths, the formation of which have been the relaxation 267 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:45,000 of this complex and dangerous man in the center of this room. 268 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,100 There was an upright beam which have been placed at some period 269 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,400 as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of Timber, 270 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,600 which span the roof To this post, a figure was tied, so 271 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,800 Suede and muffled in the sheets which had been used to secure 272 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,300 it. That one could not for the 273 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:07,200 moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman, one towel 274 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,500 passed around the throat and was secured at the back of the 275 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:13,800 pillar. Another cover, the lower part of 276 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,900 the face and over it too. Dark eyes. 277 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,200 Eyes, full of grief, and shame, and a dreadful questioning 278 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,000 stared back at us in a minute. We had torn off the gag 279 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,700 unswayed. The bonds and mrs. 280 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:33,900 Stapleton sank, upon the floor in front of us, as a beautiful 281 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,100 head fell upon her chest. I saw the clear red wheel of a 282 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:42,100 whiplash across her neck. The Brute cried Holmes here, 283 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,500 lestrade your brandy bottle. Put her in the chair. 284 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:48,500 She's fainted from ill-usage. Exhaustion. 285 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,600 She opened her eyes again. Is he safe? 286 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:57,800 She asked as he escaped, he cannot Escape us Madam. 287 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,400 No, no, I did not mean my husband. 288 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,100 Sir. Henry, is he safe? 289 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,800 Yes. And the Hound. 290 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,500 It is dead. She gave a long sigh of 291 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,500 satisfaction. Thank God. 292 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:16,500 Thank God. All this villain. 293 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,400 See how he Has treated me. She shot her arms out from her 294 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,700 sleeves. And we saw with horror that they 295 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:27,700 were all mottled with bruises but this is nothing nothing. 296 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,700 It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled, I 297 00:18:32,708 --> 00:18:37,700 could endure it all ill-usage, Solitude a life of deception, 298 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:40,900 everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I 299 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:43,800 had his love. But now, I know that in this 300 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,300 also, I have been his dupe and his tool. 301 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,000 She broke into a passionate sobbing as she spoke. 302 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,100 You bear him. No good. 303 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:56,700 Will Madam said, Holmes. Tell us then where we shall find 304 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:58,900 him. If you have ever aided him in 305 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:03,800 evil, help us now. And so a tone That is but one 306 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:09,300 place where he could have fled. She answered there is an old Tin 307 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,500 Mine on an island in the heart of the Maya. 308 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:15,000 It was there that he kept his hound. 309 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,500 And they're also, he had made preparations so that he might 310 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:21,600 have a refuge that is where he would fly. 311 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,700 The fog Bank lay like white wall against the window. 312 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:32,600 Holmes held the lamp towards it. See said he no one could find 313 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,800 his way into the grimpen mire tonight. 314 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,200 She laughed and clapped her hands her eyes and teeth gleamed 315 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,100 with Fierce merriment. He may find his way in, but 316 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:46,000 never out. She cried, how can he see The 317 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,400 Guiding ones tonight? We planted them together. 318 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,000 He and I to Marks a pathway through the mire. 319 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,300 Oh if I could only have plucked them out today. 320 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:58,300 Then indeed you would have had him at your mercy. 321 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,000 It was evident to us at all Pursuit was in vain until the 322 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,400 fog had lifted. Meanwhile, we left lestrade in 323 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,600 possession of the house while Holmes, and I went back with the 324 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,700 baronet to Baskerville Hall. The story of the stapleton's 325 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,800 could no longer be withheld from him, but he took the blow 326 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,100 bravely. When he learned the truth about 327 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:22,300 the woman, whom he had loved. But the shock of the knights 328 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:24,500 Adventures had shattered his nerves. 329 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,300 And before morning, he'll a Delirious in a high fever under 330 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:31,600 the care of dr. Mortimer, the two of them were 331 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,700 destined to travel together around the world before Sir 332 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:38,700 Henry had become once more, the Hale, hearty man that he had 333 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:42,300 been before, he became master of that ill-omened, as State. 334 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:46,400 And now I come rapidly to the conclusion of this singular 335 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,700 narrative in which I've tried to make the reader, share those 336 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:54,900 dark fears and vague surmises, which Cloud our lives, so long 337 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:58,700 and ended in. So, tragic a manner on the 338 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:02,500 morning after the death of the Hound, the fog had lifted and we 339 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:04,100 were Guided by mrs. Stapleton. 340 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,400 To the point where they had found a pathway through the bog. 341 00:21:08,300 --> 00:21:11,200 It helped us to realize the horror of This Woman's life. 342 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,800 When we saw the eagerness and joy with which she laid us on 343 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,500 her husband's track, We left her standing upon the thin. 344 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:23,600 Peninsula of firm peaty soil, which tapered out into the 345 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,800 widespread bog? From the end of it, a small wand 346 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,000 planted here, and there showed where the path zigzag from tuft 347 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,500 to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul 348 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:42,100 Quagmire's, which barred the way to the stranger rank reads and 349 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:46,800 Lush slimy water plants, sent an odor of Decay and a heavy meal. 350 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,700 Has mattock Vapor onto our faces while a false step. 351 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:54,300 Plunged us more than once sigh deep into the dark quivering 352 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:58,500 Maya, which shook four yards in soft undulations around our 353 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,400 feet. It's tenacious grip plucked at 354 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,800 our heels as we walked. And when we sank into it, it was 355 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,000 as if some malignant hand was tugging his down into those, 356 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,500 obscene depths. So grim, and purposeful was the 357 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:18,400 clutch in which it held us. Once only, we saw a trace that 358 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,900 someone had passed that perilous way before us from amid, a tuft 359 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:25,700 of cotton grass, which bore it up out of the Slime. 360 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:30,700 Some dark thing was projecting home sank to his waist, as he 361 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:34,200 stepped from the past to seize it and had we not been there to 362 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,400 drag him out, he could never have set his foot upon firm land 363 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,600 again. He held an old black boot in the 364 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,500 air. Myers Toronto was printed on the 365 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:48,200 leather inside it is worth a mud bath. 366 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:51,800 Said he, it is our friends, a Henry's missing boot. 367 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,500 Thrown here by Stapleton in his flight. 368 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,000 Exactly. He retained it in his hand, 369 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,900 after using it to set the Hound upon the track, he fled, when he 370 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:06,100 knew the game was up, still clutching it, and he hurled it 371 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:07,800 away at this point of his flight. 372 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:11,100 We know, at least that he came so far in safety. 373 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:15,100 But more than that, we were never destined to know. 374 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,900 Though there was much, we might surmise. 375 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:22,100 There was no chance of finding Footsteps in the mire for the 376 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,600 rising, mud used swiftly in upon them. 377 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:27,400 But as we at last reached firmer, ground beyond the 378 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,700 morass, we all looked eagerly for them but no slightest sign 379 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:35,700 of them ever met our eyes. If the Earth told a true story, 380 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,200 then Stapleton never reached that island of Refuge towards 381 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,100 which he struggled through the fog upon that last night. 382 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,700 Somewhere in the heart of the great, grimpen mire down in the 383 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:50,900 foul slime of the huge morass, which had sucked him in this 384 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:54,700 cold and cruel. Hearted man is forever, buried. 385 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,500 Many traces, we found of him in the Bog GE Thailand, where he 386 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:04,800 had hid his Savage, a lie. A huge driving wheel and a shaft 387 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,000 half filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned. 388 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Mine beside it with a crumbling remains of the cottages of the 389 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,200 miners driven away. No doubt by the foul reek of the 390 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,200 surrounding swamp in one of these a staple and chain with a 391 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,400 quantity of gnawed bones, showed where the animal had been 392 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,900 confined a skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to 393 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:33,900 it, lay among the debris. A dog said, Holmes by jove are 394 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:37,900 curly-haired spaniel for Mortimer, will never see his pet 395 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:40,400 again. Well, I do not know that this 396 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,900 place contains any secret, which we would not already fathomed. 397 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:46,900 He could hide his Hound, but he could not hush. 398 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:50,100 It's voice. And hence, came those cries 399 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:53,100 which even in daylight were not pleasant to hear. 400 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,200 On an emergency, he could keep the Hound in the Outhouse at 401 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,100 Mary pit, but it was always a risk and it was only on the 402 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:05,400 Supreme day which he regarded as the end of all his efforts that 403 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,900 he dared do it. This paste in the tin is, no 404 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:12,000 doubt the Luminous mixture with which the creature was dogged. 405 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,300 It was suggested, of course, by the story of the family 406 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:17,900 hellhound. And by the desire to frightened 407 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:21,500 old, Sir, Charles to death, no wonder the poor devil of a 408 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:24,900 convict ran and screamed even as our Friended. 409 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,700 And as we ourselves might have done when he saw such a creature 410 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:33,000 bounding through the darkness of the more upon his track, it was 411 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,600 a cunning device for apart, from the chance of driving your 412 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,400 victim to his death, what peasant would venture to inquire 413 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,900 too closely into such a creature, should he get a sight 414 00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:46,300 of it? As many have done upon the more? 415 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,100 I said it in London, Watson. And I say it again. 416 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,700 Now that never yet. Have we helped to hunt down a 417 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:56,800 more A dangerous man than he who is lying Yonder. 418 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:00,000 He swept his long arm towards the huge. 419 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:03,700 Mottled expanse of green splotched, bog, which stretched 420 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:07,200 away until it merged into the russet, slopes of the Moor. 421 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,300 End of chapter 14.