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Chapter 12 of The Hound of the 
Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Chapter 12, death on the more 

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for a moment or two. 
I sat breathless hardly able to 

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believe my ears. 
They're my senses. 

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And my voice came back to me 
while a crushing weight of 

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responsibility seemed in an 
instant to be lifted from my 

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soul that cold incisive, 
ironical voice could belong to. 

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But one man in all the world 
Holmes, I cried, Holmes come 

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out. 
Said he and please be careful 

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with the revolver. 
I stooped under the rude lintel.

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And there he sat upon a stone 
outside. 

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His gray eyes dancing with 
Amusement, as they fell upon my 

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astonished features, he was thin
and worn but clear and alert his

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Keen face bronzed by the Sun and
roughened by the wind in his 

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Tweed suit and cloth cap. 
He looked like any other tourist

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upon the Moor and he had 
contrived with that cat like 

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love of. personal cleanliness, 
which was one of his 

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characteristics that his chin 
should be, as smooth and is 

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linen as perfect as if he were 
in Baker Street, I never was 

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more glad to see anyone in my 
life said I as I run him by the 

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hand or more astonished a well I
must confess to it, the surprise

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was not all on one side. 
I assure you. 

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I had no idea that you had found
my occasional Retreat, still 

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less that you were inside it, 
until I was within Twenty Paces 

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of the door. 
My footprint, I presume No 

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Watson, I fear that I could not 
undertake to recognize your 

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footprint and with all the 
footprints of the world. 

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If you seriously desire to 
deceive me, you must change your

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tobacconist for when I see the 
stub of a cigarette marked 

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Bradley Oxford Street. 
I know that my friend Watson is 

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in the neighborhood, you will 
see it there beside the path. 

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You threw it down, no doubt at 
that Supreme moment when you 

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charged into the empty Hut. 
Exactly. 

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I thought as much and knowing 
your admirable tenacity, I was 

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convinced that you are sitting 
in Ambush a weapon Within Reach,

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waiting for the tenant to 
return. 

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So you actually thought that I 
was the criminal. 

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I did not know who you were, but
I was determined to find out 

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excellent Watson and how did you
localize me? 

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You saw me, perhaps, on the 
night of the convict hunt when I

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was so imprudent as to allow the
moon to rise, Is behind me? 

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Yes, I saw you then and have no 
doubt. 

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Searched all the Huts until you 
came to this one. 

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No, your boy has been observed 
and that gave me a guide where 

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to look the old gentleman with 
the telescope. 

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No doubt, I could not make it 
out. 

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When first I saw the light 
flashing upon the lens Heroes 

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and peeked into the Hut, huh? 
I see that Cartwright has 

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brought up some supplies. 
What's this paper? 

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So you've been to coombe Tracey,
have you? 

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Yes. 
To see mrs. 

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Laura Lyons. 
Exactly! 

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Well done. 
Our research has of evidently 

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been running on parallel lines 
and when we unite our results I 

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expect we shall have a fairly 
full knowledge of the case. 

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Well, I'm glad from my heart 
that you are here for. 

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Indeed, the responsibility in 
the mystery were both becoming 

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too much for my nerves. 
But how in the name of Wonder? 

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Did you come here? 
And what have you been doing? 

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I thought that you were in Baker
Street. 

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Working out that case of 
blackmailing. 

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That was what I wished you to 
think. 

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Then you use me and yet, do not.
Trust me. 

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I cried with some bitterness. 
I think that I deserve better at

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your hands homes. 
My dear fellow. 

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You have been invaluable to me 
in this as in many other cases. 

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And I beg that you will forgive 
me if I've seemed to play a 

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trick upon you in truth, it was 
partly for your own sake that I 

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did it. 
And it was my appreciation of 

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the danger, which you ran, which
led me to come down and examine 

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the matter for myself. 
Had I been with Sir, Henry and 

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you it is confident that my 
point of view would have been 

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the same as yours. 
And my presence would have 

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warned our very formidable 
opponents to be on their guard, 

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as it is. 
I have been able to get about as

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I could not possibly have done. 
Had I been living in the hall 

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and I remain an unknown factor 
in the business ready to throw 

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in all my weight at a critical 
moment. 

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But why keep me in the dark for 
you to know could not have 

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helped us and might possibly 
have led to my Discovery, you 

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would have wished to tell me 
something or in your kindness. 

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You would have brought me out 
some comfort or other and so, an

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unnecessary risk would be run. 
I brought cart ride down with 

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me. 
You remember the little chap at 

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the Express office, and he is 
seen after my simple once a loaf

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of bread and a clean collar. 
What does man want more? 

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Has given me an extra pair of 
Eyes Upon a very active pair of 

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feet and both have been 
invaluable. 

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Then my reports of all been 
wasted, my voice trembled as I 

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recalled the pains and the pride
with which I had composed them, 

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Holmes, took a bundle of papers 
from his pocket. 

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Here are your reports, my dear 
fellow and very well thumbed. 

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I assure you, I made excellent 
arrangements and they were only 

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delayed one day upon their way. 
I must compliment you 

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exceedingly upon the Zeal and 
the intelligence, which you have

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shown over an extraordinarily 
difficult case. 

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So, I was still rather raw over 
the deception, which have been 

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practiced upon me, but the 
warmth of homes is praise drove 

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my anger from my mind. 
I felt also in my heart but he 

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was right in what he had said 
and that it was really best for 

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our purpose, that I should not 
have known that, he was upon the

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Moor. 
That's better said he seeing the

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shadow rise from my face. 
And now tell me the result of 

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your visit to mrs. 
Laura Lyons it was not difficult

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for me to guess that it was to 
see her that you had gone for. 

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I'm already aware that. 
She is the one person in coombe 

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Tracey who might be of service 
to us in the matter. 

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In fact, if you had not gone 
today, it is exceedingly 

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probable that I should have gone
tomorrow. 

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The sun had set and dusk was 
settling over, the more the air 

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had turned chill and we withdrew
Drew into the hut for warmth. 

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They're sitting together in the 
Twilight. 

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I told homes of my conversation 
with the lady, so interested was

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he? 
But I had to repeat some of it 

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twice before he was satisfied. 
This is most important said he 

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when I had concluded it fills up
a gap which I had been unable to

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bridge. 
In this most complex Affair, you

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are aware perhaps that are 
close, intimacy exists between 

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this lady. 
And the man Stapleton, I did not

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know of a close intimacy. 
There can be no doubt about the 

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matter. 
They meet they write. 

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There is a complete 
understanding between them. 

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Now this puts a very powerful 
weapon into our hands. 

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If I could only use it to detach
his wife, his wife, I am giving 

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you some information. 
Now in return for all that you 

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have given me the lady who has 
passed here as Miss Stapleton is

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in reality his wife. 
Good Heavens Holmes. 

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Are you sure of what you say, 
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Henry to fall in love with her? 
Sir Henry's falling in love, 

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Could Do no harm to anyone 
except Sir Henry he took 

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particular care that Sir Henry 
did not make love to her as you 

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have yourself observed. 
I repeat that the lady is his 

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wife and not his sister but why 
this elaborate deception? 

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Because he foresaw that she 
would be very much more useful 

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to him in the character of a 
free woman. 

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All my unspoken instincts, my 
vague suspicions suddenly took 

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shape and centered upon the 
naturalist in that impassive 

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colorless, man with his straw 
hat, and his butterfly. 

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Net. 
I seemed to see something 

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terrible, a creature of 
infinite, patience and crafts 

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with a smiling face and a 
murderous heart. 

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It is he, then who's our enemy? 
It, is He Who doctors in London?

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So I read the riddle. 
And the warning. 

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It must have come from her. 
Exactly the shape of some 

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monstrous villainy half. 
Seen half guessed loomed through

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the darkness, which had guts me 
so long. 

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But are you sure of this homes? 
How do you know that the woman 

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is his wife because he so far 
for God himself has to tell you 

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a true piece of autobiography 
upon the occasion when he first 

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met you. 
And I dare say he has many a 

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Time regretted it since he was 
once a Schoolmaster in the north

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of England. 
Now there is no one more easy to

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trace than a Schoolmaster. 
There Are Scholastic agencies by

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which one may identify any man 
who has been in the profession. 

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A little investigation showed me
that a school had come to grief 

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under attrocious circumstances 
and that the man who had owned 

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it. 
That name was different had 

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disappeared with his wife. 
The descriptions agreed. 

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When I learned that the missing 
man was devoted to entomology 

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the identification was complete,
the darkness was Rising, but 

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much was still hidden by the 
Shadows. 

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Is this woman is in truth, his 
wife. 

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Where does mrs. 
Laura Lyons, come in. 

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I asked that is one of the 
points upon which your own. 

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Researchers have shed a light 
your interview with a lady has 

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cleared the situation very much.
I did not know about a projected

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divorce between herself and her.
Husband in that case regarding 

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Stapleton. 
As an unmarried man, she 

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counted, no doubt upon becoming 
his wife, And when she is 

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undeceived, why then we may find
the lady of service. 

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It must be. 
Our first duty to see her, both 

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of us, tomorrow. 
Don't you think Watson that you 

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are away from your charge rather
long? 

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Your place should be at 
Baskerville Hall. 

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The last red streaks had faded 
away in the west and night had 

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settled upon the Moor. 
A few faint Stars Were Gleaming 

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in a violet sky. 
One last question homes, I said 

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as I Rose surely, there's no 
need of secrecy between you and 

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me. 
What is the meaning of it all? 

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What is he after? 
Holmes voice sank, because he 

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answered it is murder. 
Watson refined cold-blooded, 

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deliberate murder, do not ask me
for particulars. 

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My Nets are closing upon him 
even as his are upon Sir Henry. 

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And with your help, he is 
already almost at my Mercy. 

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There is, but one danger, which 
can threaten us, it is that he 

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should strike before, we are 
ready to do. 

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So, another day, two at the 
most, And I have my case 

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complete, but until then guard, 
your charge, as closely as ever 

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a fond mother watched her ailing
child. 

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Your mission today has Justified
itself and yet I could almost 

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wish that you had not left his 
side hark. 

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A terrible scream, a prolonged 
yell of horror and anguish burst

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out of the Silence of the more. 
That frightful cry. 

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Turned the blood to ice in my 
veins. 

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Oh my God, I gasped. 
What is it? 

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What does it mean? 
Holmes had sprung to his feet 

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and I saw his dark athletic 
outline the door of the Hut, his

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shoulders stooping. 
His head thrust forward his face

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peering into the darkness hush. 
He whispered Josh The cry had 

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been loud on account of its 
vehemence, but it had peeled out

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from somewhere. 
Far off on the shadowy plane. 

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Now it's burst upon our ears 
nearer. 

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Louder, more urgent than before.
Where is it? 

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Holmes whispered, and I knew 
from the thrill of his voice 

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that he, the man of iron was 
shaken to the soul. 

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Where is it? 
Watson, There. 

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I think I pointed into the 
darkness. 

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No there again, the agonized 
cries swept through the Silent 

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Night louder and much nearer 
than ever and a new sound 

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mingled with it. 
A deep muttered Rumble Musical 

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and yet menacing rising and 
falling like the low constant, 

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murmur of the sea, The Hound, 
cried, Holmes, come Watson, 

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come, great Heavens. 
If we are too late, he had 

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started running swiftly over the
Moor and I had followed at his 

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heels. 
But now from somewhere among the

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Broken Ground immediately in 
front of us, there came one last

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despairing yell and then a dull 
heavy thud we halted and 

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listened. 
Not another sound broke the 

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heavy Silence of the windless 
night. 

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I saw Holmes, put his hand to 
his forehead, like a man 

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distracted. 
He stamped his feet upon the 

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ground. 
He has beaten us. 

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Watson. 
We are too late. 

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No, no, surely not fool that. 
I was to hold my hand and you 

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Watson see what comes of 
abandoning, your charge. 

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But by Heaven, if the worst has 
happened, will avenge him. 

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Blindly we ran through the Gloom
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forcing our way through gorse 
bushes panting up, hills and 

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rushing down slopes heading. 
Always in a direction, whence 

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those Dreadful sounds had come 
at every rise. 

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Holmes looked eagerly around him
but the Shadows were thick upon 

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the Moor and nothing moved upon 
its dreary face. 

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Can you see anything? 
Nothing but hark. 

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What is that? 
A low moan had fallen upon. 

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Our ears there, it was again 
Upon Our left on that side, a 

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ridge of rocks, ended in a sheer
Cliff, which overlooked the 

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stone strewn slope on its Jagged
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dark irregular object. 
As we ran towards it, the vague 

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outline. 
Hardened into a definite shape. 

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It was a prostrate man face 
downward upon the ground. 

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The head doubled under him at a 
horrible angle, the shoulders 

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rounded and the body, huh? 
Together as if in the act of 

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throwing a somersault. 
So grotesque was the attitude 

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that I could not for the instant
realize that that Mona had been 

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the passing of his soul. 
Not a whisper not a Russell 

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Rose. 
Now from the dark figure over 

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which we stooped Holmes, laid 
his hand upon him and held it up

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again with an exclamation of 
horror The Gleam of the match, 

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which he struck Sean, upon his 
clotted, fingers and upon the 

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ghastly pool, which widens 
Slowly from the crushed skull of

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the victim and it Shone upon 
something else, which turned our

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heart sick and faint within us, 
the body of Sir, Henry 

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Baskerville. 
There was no chance of either of

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us, forgetting that peculiar 
ready, Tweed suit the very one, 

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which he had worn on the first 
morning that we had seen him in 

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Baker Street. 
We caught the one clear glimpse 

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of it, and then the match 
flickered and went out even as 

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the Hope had gone out of our 
souls. 

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Holmes groaned and his face 
glimmered white through the 

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darkness. 
The Brute, The Brute I cried 

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with clenched hands. 
Oh homs, I shall never forgive 

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myself for having left him to 
his fate. 

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I am more to blame than you 
Watson in order to have my case.

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Well, rounded and complete. 
I have thrown away the life of 

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my client. 
It is the greatest blow which 

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has befallen me in my career. 
But how could I know how could I

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know that he would risk his life
alone upon the Moor in the face 

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of all my warnings that we 
should have heard the screams, 

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my God, those screams and yet 
have been unable to save him. 

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Where is this brute of a hound 
which drove him to his death? 

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It may be lurking among those 
rocks at this, instant and 

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Stapleton. 
Where is he? 

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He shall answer for this deed. 
He shall, I will see to that 

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Uncle and nephew have been 
murdered the one frightened to 

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death by the very sight of a 
beast, which he thought to be 

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Supernatural the other driven to
his end in this wild flight to 

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escape from it. 
But now we have to prove the 

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connection between the man and 
the Beast safe from what we 

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heard, we cannot even swear to 
the existence of the latter. 

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Since Sir, Henry has evidently 
died from the fall, but by 

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Heavens cunning, as he is a 
fellow, shall be in my power 

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before. 
Another day has passed. 

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We stood with bitter hearts on 
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overwhelmed by this sudden and 
irrevocable disaster, which had 

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brought all our long and weary 
laborers to so piteous and end. 

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Then as the moon Rose, we 
climbed to the top of the Rocks 

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over which our poor friend had 
fallen. 

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And from the summit, we gazed 
out over the shadowy more half, 

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silver, and half Gloom far away 
miles off in the direction of 

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grimpen. 
A single steady, yellow light 

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was shining. 
It can only come from the lonely

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Abode of the stapleton's with a 
bitter curse. 

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I shook my fist at it as I 
gazed. 

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Why should we not seize him at 
once? 

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Our case is not complete, the 
fellow is weary and cunning to 

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the last degree. 
It is not what we know but what 

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we can prove if we make one 
false move, the villain May 

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Escape us yet. 
What can we do? 

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There will be plenty for us to 
do tomorrow tonight. 

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We can only perform the last 
offices to our poor friend. 

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Together, we made our way down 
the precipitous slope and 

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approached the body black and 
clear against the silvered 

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stones. 
The agony of those contorted. 

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Limbs, struck me with a spasm of
pain and blurred my eyes with 

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tears. 
We must send for help homes. 

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We cannot carry him all the way 
to the hall. 

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Good Heavens. 
Are you mad? 

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He had uttered a cry and bent 
over the body. 

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Now he was dancing and laughing 
and ringing. 

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My hand, could this be my Stern,
self-contained friend, these 

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were hidden fires, indeed, a 
beard a beer. 

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Beard. 
The man has a beard. 

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A beard. 
It is not the baronet. 

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It is why it is my neighbor, the
convict. 

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With feverish haste, we had 
turned the body over and that 

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dripping beard was pointing up 
to the cold. 

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Clear Moon, there could be no 
doubt about the beating 

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forehead. 
The sunken animal eyes. 

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It was indeed the same face 
which had glared upon me in the 

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light of the candle from Over 
The Rock, the face of Selden the

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criminal. 
Then in an instant, it was all 

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clear. 
To me, I remembered how the 

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baronet had told me that he'd 
handed his old wardrobe to 

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Barrymore. 
Barrymore had passed it on in 

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order to help Selden in his 
Escape boots shirt cap. 

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It was also Henry's, the tragedy
was still black enough but this 

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man had at least deserve death 
by the laws of his country. 

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I told homes how the matter 
stood my heart bubbling over 

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with thankfulness and joy. 
Then the clothes have been the 

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poor Devils death said he It is 
clear enough that the Hound has 

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been laid on from some article 
of say, Henry's the boot, which 

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was abstracted in the hotel in 
all probability. 

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And so ran, this man down there 
is one very singular thing. 

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However, how came Selden in the 
darkness to know that the Hound 

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was on his Trail, he heard him 
to hear a Hound upon the Moor 

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would not work a hard man, like 
this convict into such a 

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paroxysm of Terror. 
He would risk recapture by 

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Beaming wildly for Help by his 
cries. 

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He must have run a long way 
after he knew the animal was on 

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his track. 
How did he know greater mystery 

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to me is why this Hound 
presuming that? 

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All our conjectures are correct.
I presume nothing. 

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Well then why this Hound should 
be loose tonight. 

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I suppose that it does not 
always run loose upon the Moor 

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Stapleton would not let it go 
unless he had reason to think 

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that Sir Henry would be there. 
My difficulty is the more 

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formidable of the 24. 
I think that we shall very 

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shortly get an explanation of 
yours while. 

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Mine may remain forever. 
A mystery. 

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The question now, is, what shall
we do with this poor wretches 

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body? 
We cannot leave it here to the 

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foxes and the Ravens. 
I suggest we put it in one of 

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the Huts until we can 
communicate with the police. 

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Exactly. 
I have no doubt that you and I 

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could carry it so far. 
Hello. 

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Watson, what's this? 
It's the man himself by all 

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that's wonderful. 
And audacious not a word, to 

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show your suspicions. 
Not a word on my plans crumble 

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to the ground. 
A figure was approaching us over

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the more and I saw the dull red 
glow of a cigar. 

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The moon Shone upon him and I 
could distinguish the Dapper 

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shape and jaunty walk of the 
naturalist he stopped when he 

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saw us and then came on again, 
why dr. 

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Watson that's not you is it. 
You are the last man that I 

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should have expected to see out 
on the Moor at this time of 

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night but dear me. 
What's this? 

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Somebody hurt. 
Not don't tell me that it is our

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friend Sir Henry. 
He hurried past me and stooped 

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over the dead, man. 
I heard a sharp intake of his 

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breath and the cigar fell from 
his fingers. 

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Who-who's this he stammered It 
is seldom the man who escaped 

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from Princetown. 
Stapleton turned, the ghastly 

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face upon us but by a supreme 
effort, he had overcome his 

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amazement and his disappointment
he looked sharply from homes to 

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me, dear me, what a very 
shocking Affair? 

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How did he die? 
He appears to have broken his 

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neck by falling over these 
rocks. 

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My friend and I were strolling 
on the more when we heard a cry.

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I heard a cry. 
Also, that was what brought me 

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out. 
I was uneasy about Sir, Henry. 

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Why about Sir Henry, in 
particular? 

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I could not help asking because 
I had suggested that he should 

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come over when he did not come. 
I was surprised and I naturally 

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became alarmed for his safety. 
When I heard cries upon the 

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Moor, by the way, his eyes 
darted again from my face to 

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Holmes's. 
Did you hear anything else 

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besides a cry? 
No said Holmes, did you know 

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what do you mean then? 
Oh, you know the stories that 

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the peasants tell about a 
phantom hound and so on it is 

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said to be heard at night upon 
the more. 

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I was wondering if there were 
any evidence of such a sound 

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tonight, we heard nothing of the
kind, so die. 

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And what is your theory of this?
Poor fellow's, death? 

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I have no doubt that anxiety and
exposure have driven him off his

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head, he has rushed about the 
more in a crazy State and 

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eventually fallen over here and 
broken his neck. 

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That seems the most reasonable 
Theory said Stapleton and he 

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gave a sigh, which I took to 
indicate his relief. 

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What do you think about it, mr. 
Sherlock Holmes. 

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My friend bowed, his 
compliments. 

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You are quick at identification 
said he we've been expecting you

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in these parts since dr. 
Watson came down your in time to

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see a tragedy. 
Yes, indeed. 

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I have no doubt that my friends 
explanation will cover the 

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facts. 
I will take an unpleasant 

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remembrance back to London with 
me tomorrow. 

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Oh, you return tomorrow, that is
my intention. 

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I hope your visit is cast some 
light upon these occurrences, 

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which have puzzled us Holmes 
Shrugged, his shoulders. 

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One cannot always have the 
success for which one hopes and 

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investigator needs facts. 
And not Legends or rumors, it 

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has not been a satisfactory 
case. 

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My friend spoke in his frankest 
and most unconcerned manner. 

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Stapleton still looked hard at 
him then he turned to me. 

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I would suggest carrying this 
poor fellow to my house but it 

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would give my sister such a 
fright that I do not feel 

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justified in doing it. 
I think that if we put something

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over his face, he will be safe 
until morning. 

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And so it was arranged resisting
stapleton's offer of hospitality

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homes and I set off to 
Baskerville Hall. 

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Leaving the naturalist to return
alone, looking back. 

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We saw the figure moving slowly 
away over the Broadmoor. and 

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behind him, that one black 
smudge on the silvered slope, 

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which showed where the man was 
lying who had come so horribly 

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to his end end of chapter 12,