1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:04,100 Chapter 6 of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,400 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:12,100 the public domain. Chapter 6, Baskerville Hall. 4 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:16,700 Sir, Henry Baskerville and dr. Mortimer were ready upon the 5 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:19,900 appointed day and we started as arranged for Devin. 6 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:21,900 Sure. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 7 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:25,200 Drove his me to the station and gave me his last parting 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,400 injunctions and advice. I will not buy us your mind by 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,700 suggesting theories or suspicions Watson said, he, I 10 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:37,800 wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,800 to me and you can leave me to do the theorizing. 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:45,700 What sort of fact, I asked anything which may seem to have 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:48,500 a bearing. However, indirect upon the case, 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,100 and especially the relations between young Baskerville and 15 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:56,000 his neighbors or any fresh particulars concerning the death 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 of Sir, Charles, I I've made some inquiries myself in the 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,800 last few days, but the results have I fear. 18 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,000 Ben - one thing only appears to be certain, and that is that mr. 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,100 James Desmond. Who is the next Heir, is an 20 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:13,800 elderly gentleman of a very amiable disposition. 21 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:17,400 So that, this persecution does not arise from him. 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,900 I really think that we may eliminate him entirely from our 23 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,900 calculations. There remained the people who 24 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,800 will actually surrounds the Henry Baskerville upon the Moor. 25 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:30,200 Would it not be well in the first place to get rid of this 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,200 Barrymore? Couple. 27 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:36,700 By no means you could not make a great mistake, if they are 28 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:38,800 innocent, it will be a cruel Injustice. 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,900 And if they are guilty, we should be giving up all chance 30 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,800 of bringing it home to them. No, no. 31 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:47,800 We will preserve them upon our list of suspects. 32 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,200 Then there is a groom at the hall. 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,400 If I remember, right, there are two more than the farmers. 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,400 There is our friend, dr. Mortimer. 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,300 Whom I believed to be entirely honest, and there is his wife of 36 00:01:59,300 --> 00:01:59,800 whom. We know. 37 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,400 Nothing there is this natural Journalist Stapleton. 38 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,300 And there is his sister who is said to be a young lady of 39 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:08,500 attractions. There is mr. 40 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,900 Frankland of lafter Hall. Who is also an unknown factor 41 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,900 and there are one or two other neighbors. 42 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,800 These are the folk who must be your very special study. 43 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,500 I'll do my best. You have arms I suppose? 44 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,200 Yes I thought it as well to take them. 45 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,000 Most certainly keep your revolver near you night and day 46 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:32,500 and never relax your precautions. 47 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:37,200 How friends had already secured? A first-class carriage and were 48 00:02:37,208 --> 00:02:42,100 waiting for us on the platform? No, we have no news of any kind 49 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,200 said, dr. Mortimer, an answer to my 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,500 friends questions, I can swear to one thing and that is that we 51 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,000 have not been shadowed during the last two days. 52 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,100 We have never gone out without keeping a sharp watch and no one 53 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:59,300 could have escaped our notice You have always kept together, I 54 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:02,400 presume except yesterday afternoon. 55 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,800 I usually give up one day to Pure Amusement, when I come to 56 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,500 town. So, I spent it at the Museum of 57 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,400 the College of Surgeons and I went to look at the folk in the 58 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,700 park said Baskerville. But we had no trouble of any 59 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:20,500 kind. It was imprudent all the same 60 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,500 said Holmes shaking his head and looking very grave. 61 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,500 I beg Sir Henry that you will not go about alone. 62 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,900 Some great Misfortune will befall you if you do. 63 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:34,400 Did you get your other boot? No, sir. 64 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,800 It is gone forever. Indeed, that is very 65 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,000 interesting. Well, goodbye, he added as the 66 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 train began to Glide down the platform. 67 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:50,100 Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old 68 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,200 Legend, which dr. Mortimer has read to us and 69 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,000 avoid the more in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil 70 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,700 are exalted. I looked back at the platform 71 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:04,800 when we had left it far behind and saw the tall or steer figure 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,000 of homes, standing, motionless and gazing after us. 73 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:12,500 The journey was a Swift and pleasant one and I spent it in 74 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:14,600 making the more intimate acquaintance of my two 75 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,899 companions and in playing with dr. 76 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,899 Mortimer's spaniel in a very few hours, the brown Earth had 77 00:04:20,899 --> 00:04:23,600 become ready. The brick had changed to Granite 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,200 and red cows grazed in. Well, hedged Fields where the 79 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Lush grasses and more, luxuriant vegetation spoke of a richer. 80 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,300 If add a climate Young Baskerville stared eagerly out 81 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:39,600 of the window and cried aloud with delight. 82 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,900 As he recognized The Familiar features of the Devon scenery. 83 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,400 I've been over a good part of the world since I left it. 84 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,000 Dr. Watson said he but I've never seen a place to compare 85 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,200 with it. I never saw a Devonshire man who 86 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,000 did not swear by his County. I remarked. 87 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:58,900 It depends upon the breed of men. 88 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:01,300 Quite as much as on the county said, dr. 89 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:03,900 Mortimer a glance at our friend here. 90 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,800 Reveals the rounded head of the celt which carries inside it, 91 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,800 the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment. 92 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:16,200 Poor sir Charles's head was a very rare type half Gaelic half. 93 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,800 I vernian in its characteristics but you are very young when you 94 00:05:19,808 --> 00:05:22,000 last Saw Baskerville Hall. Were you not? 95 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,600 I was a boy my teens at the time of my father's death and had 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,500 never seen the whole for. He lived in a little cottage on 97 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,700 the south coast thence. I went straight to a friend in 98 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,400 America. I tell you it is all as new to 99 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,100 me as it is to dr. Watson. 100 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,800 And I'm as Keen as possible to see the more are you then your 101 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,900 wish is easily granted for there is your first sight of the more 102 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,100 said dr. Mortimer pointing out of the 103 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:52,600 carriage window. Over the green squares of the 104 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,100 fields and the low curve of a wood There. 105 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:59,600 Rose in the distance, a gray Melancholy hill with a strange 106 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,700 Jagged Summit dim and vague in the distance, like some 107 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,700 fantastic landscape. In a dream Baskerville sat, for 108 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,200 a long time. His eyes fixed upon it and I 109 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,900 read upon his eager face. How much it meant to him. 110 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,500 This first sight of, that strange spot where the men of 111 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:20,600 his blood had held sway, so long and left. 112 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,400 Their Mark so deep. There he sat with his Tweed suit 113 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,500 in the corner of a prosaic Railway carriage and yet as I 114 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,900 looked at his dark and expressive face, I felt more 115 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:36,400 than ever how true a descendant. He was of that long line of high 116 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,700 blooded, fiery and masterful men. 117 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:43,800 They were Pride Valor and strength in his thick brows, his 118 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,600 sensitive nostrils and his large, hazel eyes. 119 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,300 If on that forbidding more, a difficult and dangerous Quest 120 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:55,100 should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one. 121 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,900 Might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he 122 00:06:57,900 --> 00:07:01,800 would, bravely share it, the train pulled up at a small 123 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,100 Wayside station and we all descended outside, beyond the 124 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:09,900 low white fence, a wagon act with a pair of cops was waiting. 125 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,400 Our coming was evidently a great event for stationmaster and 126 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,200 porters, clustered round us to carry out our luggage. 127 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:21,100 Judge, it was a sweet, simple country spot, but I was 128 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:23,600 surprised to observe that by the gate. 129 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,600 There stood, two soldierly, men in dark uniforms, who leaned 130 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,900 upon their short, rifles and glanced, keenly at us as we 131 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:35,400 passed The Coachman. A hard-faced gnarled little 132 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,800 fellow saluted, Sir, Henry Baskerville. 133 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,100 And in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad 134 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,300 White Road. Rolling past. 135 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:49,200 Dylan's curved upward on either side of us and old gabled houses 136 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,200 peeped out from amid, the thick green, foliage, but behind the 137 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,100 peaceful and sunlit Countryside There. 138 00:07:56,100 --> 00:08:00,800 Rose ever dark against the evening Sky, the long gloomy 139 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:06,600 curve of the more broken by the jagged and Sinister Hills Do I 140 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,700 connect swung round into a side road and we curved upward 141 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:13,900 through deep planes worn by centuries of Wheels, High banks 142 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:17,300 on either side heavy with dripping moss and fleshy Hearts, 143 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:22,100 tongue ferns, bronzing Bracken and mottled bramble gleaned in 144 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:26,500 the light of the sinking Sun. Still steadily Rising. 145 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:30,500 We passed over a narrow, Granite bridge and skirted a noisy 146 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,700 stream which gushed swiftly down foaming. 147 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:37,900 And roaring amid, the gray Boulders both Road and stream 148 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:42,299 wound up through a valley dense with scrub Oak and fur at every 149 00:08:42,299 --> 00:08:45,500 turn Baskerville gave an exclamation of delight. 150 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,300 Looking eagerly about him and asking countless questions. 151 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,600 To his eyes, all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of 152 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,800 melancholy lay upon the countryside which bore so 153 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,000 clearly the mark of the waning year, yellow leaves carpeted, 154 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,800 the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed the rattle 155 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,500 of our Wheels died away. As we drove through, drifts of 156 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:13,200 rotting vegetation, sad gifts, as it seemed to me for nature to 157 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,900 throw before the carriage of the returning are of the 158 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:20,000 Baskervilles. Hello cried, dr. 159 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,300 Mortimer, what is this a steep curve of Heath Cloudland? 160 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:30,100 An outlying spur of the more lay in front of us on the summit 161 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,000 hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon. 162 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Its pedestal was a mounted Soldier, dark and Stern, his 163 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,200 rifle poised ready over his forearm. 164 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,300 He was watching the road along which we traveled. 165 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:46,700 What is this Perkins asked? Dr. Mortimer. 166 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:52,100 Our driver half turned in his seat is a convict escaped from 167 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:54,600 Princetown sir. He's been out here. 168 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,000 Three days now and the waters. Watch every Road in every 169 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,900 station, but we've had no sight of him yet. 170 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,100 The farmers are out here. Don't like you sir. 171 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,700 And that's a fact. Well, I understand that they get 172 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:08,800 five pounds if they can give information. 173 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,700 Yes, sir. But the chance of five pounds is 174 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:15,200 but a poor thin compared to the chance of having your throat 175 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,500 cut. You see? 176 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:18,800 It isn't like any ordinary convict. 177 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,800 This is a man who would stick at nothing. 178 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:25,400 Who is he? Then it is Selden the Notting 179 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,900 Hill murderer. I remember the case, well for it 180 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:31,600 was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of 181 00:10:31,608 --> 00:10:35,500 the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality, 182 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,000 which had marked all the actions of the Assassin. 183 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:41,900 The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some 184 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:43,900 doubts as to his complete sanity. 185 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,100 So, atrocious was his conduct, our wagonette had topped a rise 186 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:52,300 and in front of us, Rose the huge expanse of the Moor 187 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,900 mottled, with gnarled and craggy Cairns and tours a cold wind 188 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:02,000 swept down from it and set a shivering somewhere there on 189 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,400 that desolate. Plain was lurking. 190 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,500 This fiendish man hiding in a burrow like a wild beast. 191 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,900 His heart full of malignancy against the whole race, which 192 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:16,200 had cast him out it needed, but this to complete the Grim, 193 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,600 suggestiveness of the barren, waste the chilling, wind and the 194 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,700 darkling Sky even Baskerville fell silent and pulled his 195 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:27,600 Overcoat more closely around him. 196 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,000 We had left the fertile country behind, and beneath us. 197 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,100 We looked back on it now. The slanting Rays of a low Sun, 198 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,300 turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red 199 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,700 Earth. New turned by the plow and 200 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:48,100 abroad, tangle of the woodlands. The road in front of us grew, 201 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:52,300 Bleaker, and Wilder over. Huge russet and olives, slopes 202 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:57,000 sprinkled with giant Boulders now and then we passed a 203 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Moorland Cottage wall. Roofed with stone with no 204 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,100 creeper to break its harsh outline. 205 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,300 Suddenly, we look down into a cup-like depression, patched 206 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:10,600 with stunted Oaks and Furs, which have been twisted and bent 207 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,100 by the fury of years of storm to high narrow Towers Rose over the 208 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:19,200 trees, the driver pointed with his whip. 209 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,200 Baskerville. Hall said he his master had 210 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,500 risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and Shining eyes 211 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,300 a few minutes later. We had reached the lodge Gates, 212 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,000 a maze of fantastic. Tracery in wrought iron with 213 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,100 weather. Bitten pillars on either side 214 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,300 blotched with lichens and surmounted by The Boar's. 215 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:45,000 Head's of the Baskervilles The lodge was a ruin of black 216 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,800 granite and Baird, ribs of Rafters, but facing, it was a 217 00:12:48,808 --> 00:12:51,100 new building. Half constructed. 218 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:54,600 The first fruit of Sir, Charles's South African gold 219 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:58,800 through the Gateway. We passed into the Avenue where, 220 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,900 the wheels were again hushed. Amid the leaves and the old 221 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:04,600 trees shot their branches in a Samba tunnel. 222 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:08,100 Over our heads Baskerville shuddered, as we looked up the 223 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,300 long dark drive to where the house? 224 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:12,900 Glimmered, like a ghost at the farther end. 225 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,400 Was it here? He asked in a low voice. 226 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,400 No, no. The you Ali is on the other 227 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,800 side. The young are glanced round with 228 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,800 a gloomy face. It's no wonder, my uncle felt as 229 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,800 if trouble were coming on him in such a place. 230 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,500 As this said, he it's enough to scare any man. 231 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:36,800 I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six 232 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,100 months and you won't know it again with 1,000 candlepower 233 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:42,800 Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door. 234 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,500 The Avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf and the house 235 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:52,400 lay before us in the fading light, I could see that the 236 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,100 center was a heavy block of building from which a porch 237 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:59,900 projected, the whole front was draped in IV with a patch. 238 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,400 Clipped bear here and there where a window or a coat of arms 239 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,700 broke through the dark Veil. From this Central block, Bros 240 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:12,000 the Twin Towers ancient crenellated and pierced with 241 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 many loopholes to right? And left of the turrets were 242 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000 more modern wings of black granite, a dull light Shone 243 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,700 through heavy, mullioned windows, and from the high 244 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:26,300 chimneys, which rose from the Steep High angled roof there, 245 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:28,500 sprang a single black column of smoke. 246 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,300 Welcome sir. Henry, welcome to Baskerville 247 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,800 Hall a tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open 248 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,000 the door of the wagonette. The figure of a woman was 249 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,200 silhouetted against the yellow light of the hall. 250 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:45,600 She came out and helped the man to hand down our bags. 251 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,600 You don't mind my driving straight home Sir. 252 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,600 Henry said dr. Mortimer. 253 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,900 My wife is expecting me. Surely you'll stay and have some 254 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:57,500 dinner. No, I must go. 255 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:00,200 I shall probably find some work. Awaiting me. 256 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,000 I would stay to show you over the house but Barrymore will be 257 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,200 a better guide than I goodbyes and never hesitate night or day 258 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,100 to send for me if I can be of service. 259 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,400 The wheels died away down the drive. 260 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,800 While Sir Henry, and I turned into the hall and the door 261 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,400 clanged heavily behind us, it was a fine apartment in which we 262 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:27,100 found ourselves, large lofty and heavily rafted with huge walks 263 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:31,100 of age black and Oak in the great old fashioned fireplace 264 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:35,400 behind the high iron dogs, a log fire, crackled and snapped. 265 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,800 So Henry and I held out our hands to it for, we were numb 266 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,100 from our long drive. Then we gazed round us at the 267 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:47,000 high within window of old stained glass the oak. 268 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,800 Paneling the Stags heads, the Coats of Arms upon the walls all 269 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,900 dim, and sombre, in the subdued light of the central lamp, It's 270 00:15:56,900 --> 00:16:01,100 just as I imagined it said, Sir Henry is it not the very picture 271 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,400 of an old family home to think that this should be the same 272 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,300 Hall in which for 500 years, my people have lived, it strikes me 273 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:13,600 solemn to think of it. I saw his dark face lit up with 274 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,200 a boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him, the light beat upon 275 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,200 him, where he stood, but Long Shadows Trail Down the Walls and 276 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,400 hung, like a black canopy above him. 277 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,500 Barrymore had returned from taking our luggage to our rooms. 278 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,100 He stood in front of us. Now with the subdued manner of a 279 00:16:32,108 --> 00:16:36,000 well-trained servant he was a remarkable looking man. 280 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,500 Tall handsome with a square black beard and pale 281 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:44,300 distinguished Hers. Would you wish dinner to be 282 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:49,000 served at once sir? Is it ready in a few minutes? 283 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,300 Sir? You will find out water in your 284 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:54,800 rooms. My wife and I will be happy Sir 285 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,800 Henry to stay with you until you've made your fresh 286 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,900 Arrangements, but you will understand that under the new 287 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:04,700 conditions, this house will require a considerable staff. 288 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,200 What new conditions, I only meant it sir that Sir Charles 289 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,599 led a very retired life and we were able to look after his. 290 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:19,000 Once you would naturally wish to have more company and so you 291 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 will need changes in your household. 292 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,800 Do you mean that your wife and you wish to leave only when it's 293 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,200 quite convenient to you, sir? But your family have been with 294 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,300 us for several Generations. Have they not? 295 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:35,900 I should be sorry to begin. My life here by breaking an old 296 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,000 family connection. I seem to discern some signs of 297 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,200 emotion upon the butler's white face. 298 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,500 I feel light also sir, and so does my wife, but to tell the 299 00:17:47,508 --> 00:17:51,700 truth, sir, we were both very much attached to Sir Charles and 300 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,600 he's death. Gave us a shock and made these 301 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,500 surroundings, very painful to us. 302 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,400 I fear that we shall never. Again be easy in our minds at 303 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,000 Baskerville Hall. But what do you intend to do? 304 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,100 I have no doubt sir that we shall succeed in establishing 305 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:11,400 ourselves in some business sir, Charles's generosity has given 306 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,800 us the means to do so. And now sir, perhaps I'd better 307 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,500 show you to your rooms. A square balustraded Gallery, 308 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:22,500 ran around the top of the old Hall approached by a double 309 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:27,300 stare, from this Central Point to Long corridors, extended the 310 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:30,400 whole length of the building from which all the bedrooms 311 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,500 opened. My own was in the same Wing as 312 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:36,200 Baskervilles and almost next door to it. 313 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:40,100 These rooms appear to be much more modern than the central 314 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:42,600 part of the house and the bright paper. 315 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,400 Are numerous scandals. Did something to remove the 316 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,200 somber impression. Which our arrival had left upon 317 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,600 my mind. But the dining room which opened 318 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,100 out of the hall was a place of Shadow and Gloom. 319 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,700 It was a long chamber with a step. 320 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,500 Separating the days where the family's at from the lower 321 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:03,600 portion reserved for their dependents. 322 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,300 At one end, a minstrels gallery, overlooked it, black beans shot 323 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,900 across above our heads, with a smoked are concealing Beyond 324 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:17,200 them with rows of flaring, torches to light it up and the 325 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,100 color and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet. 326 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,600 It might have Softened, but now when two black clothes 327 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,900 gentleman, sat in the little circle of light thrown by a 328 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,300 shaded lamp, ones voice became hushed. 329 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:36,400 And one Spirit subdued a dim line of ancestors in every 330 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,700 variety of dress. From the Elizabethan night, to 331 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:44,000 the buck of the Regency stared down upon us and daunted Us by 332 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,600 their silent company. We talked a little and I for one 333 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,900 was glad when the meal was over and we were Were able to retire 334 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:54,700 into the modern billiard room and smoke a cigarette. 335 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,500 My word, it isn't a very cheerful Place. 336 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,500 Said, Sir. Henry, I suppose one can tone 337 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:04,800 down to it, but I feel a bit out of the picture at present. 338 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:07,300 I don't mind that. My uncle got a little jumpy. 339 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:11,800 If he lived all alone in such a house as this, however, if it 340 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,900 suits you, we will retire early tonight and perhaps things may 341 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:17,600 seem more cheerful in the morning. 342 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,900 I drew aside my curtains before I went to bed and looked out 343 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:26,000 from my window. It opened up upon the grassy 344 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,900 space which lay in front of the hall door Beyond to copses of 345 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,900 trees moaned and swung in a rising wind, a Halfmoon broke 346 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:40,100 through the Rifts of racing clouds in its cold light. 347 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,000 I saw beyond the trees are broken Fringe of rocks and the 348 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,700 long low curve of The Melancholy more. 349 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 I closed the curtain feeling that my last impression was in 350 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,200 keeping with the rest and yet, it was not quite the last. 351 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,200 I found myself weary and yet wakeful tossing, restlessly from 352 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:05,400 side to side, seeking for the Sleep, which would not come far 353 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,400 away a chiming Clock Struck out the quarters of the hours, but 354 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,400 otherwise are deathly silence lay upon the old house. 355 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,600 And then suddenly in the very dead of night, there came a 356 00:21:17,608 --> 00:21:23,100 sound to my ears, clear, resonant and unmistakable, it 357 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:27,400 was the Saab of a woman, the muffled strangling gasp of one 358 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,900 who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow. 359 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:33,700 I sat up in bed and listened intently. 360 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:38,000 The noise could not have been far away and was certainly in 361 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,700 the house. For half an hour. 362 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:44,300 I waited with every nerve on the alert, but there came no other 363 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:48,900 sound, save the chiming clock and the rustle of the ivy on the 364 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:53,200 wall. End of chapter 6.