1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,700 Chapter 4 of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:03,700 --> 00:00:06,200 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:12,300 the public domain. Chapter 4 Sir Henry Baskerville. 4 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:17,800 Our breakfast table was cleared early and Holmes waited in his 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,800 dressing gown for the promised interview. 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,900 Our clients were punctual to their appointment for the clock 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:27,400 had just struck ten when dr. Mortimer was shown up, followed 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,300 by the young baronet, the latter was a small alert. 9 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:33,700 Dark-eyed man about thirty years of age. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,900 Very sturdily built with thick black eyebrows and a strong 11 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:40,300 pugnacious face. He wore a ready. 12 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:43,600 Tinted Tweed suit and had a weather-beaten appearance. of 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,300 one who has spent most of his time in the open air and yet 14 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:49,500 there was something in his steady eye and the quiet 15 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:54,700 Assurance of his bearing, which indicated the gentlemen This is 16 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,500 Sir, Henry Baskerville said dr. Mortimer, why? 17 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:01,800 Yes said he and the strange thing is mr. 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,500 Sherlock, Holmes. That if my friend here had not 19 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,600 proposed coming round to you this morning, I should have come 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,100 on my own account. I understand that you think out 21 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:14,800 little puzzles and I've had one this morning, which once more 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,100 Thinking Out than I am. Able to give it pray, take a 23 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:22,100 seat Sir. Henry do I understand you to say 24 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,000 that you have yourself had some remarkable A couple experience 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,100 since you arrived in London. Nothing of much importance, mr. 26 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:32,100 Holmes, only a joke as like as not. 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,600 It was this letter. If you can call it a letter 28 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:39,900 which reach me this morning, he laid an envelope on the table 29 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:44,200 and we all bent over it. It was a common quality grayish 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,100 in color. The address. 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,200 Sir Henry Baskerville Northumberland Hotel was printed 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,800 in rough characters. The postmark Charing Cross. 33 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:56,800 Ross and the date of posting the preceding evening. 34 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:01,400 Who knew that you were going to the Northumberland Hotel asked 35 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Holmes. Glancing keenly across at our 36 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,600 visitor. No one could have known. 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,900 We only decided after I met dr. Mortimer. 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,100 But dr. Mortimer was no doubt already 39 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:16,800 stopping there. No, I had been staying with a 40 00:02:16,808 --> 00:02:21,700 friend said, the doctor. There was no possible indication 41 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:23,500 that we intended to go to this hotel. 42 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:27,800 Hmm. Someone seems to be very deeply 43 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,500 interested in your movements. Out of the envelope. 44 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,100 He took a half-sheet of foolscap paper folded into for this, he 45 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:40,300 opened and spread flat upon the table across the middle of it. 46 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,300 A single sentence have been formed by the expedient of 47 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:49,100 pasting printed words upon it. It ran as you value your life, 48 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:54,200 or your reason, keep away from the more, the word, more only 49 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,500 was printed in ink. Now said, Sir Henry Baskerville. 50 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,700 Perhaps you'll tell me mr. Holmes, what in Thunder is the 51 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,000 meaning of that and who it is. That takes so much interest in 52 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,100 my affairs. What do you make of it? 53 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,000 Doctor Mortimer. You must allow that there is 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,900 nothing Supernatural about this at any rate. 55 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,300 No sir. But it might very well come from 56 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:21,500 someone who was convinced that the business is Supernatural. 57 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,500 What business asked, Sir, Henry sharply. 58 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,200 It seems to me that all you gentlemen, know a great deal, 59 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,400 more than I do about my own Affairs. 60 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,400 You shall share our knowledge before you leave this room Sir. 61 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:40,400 Henry I promise you that. Sherlock Holmes, we will confine 62 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,600 ourselves for the present with your permission to this very 63 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,700 interesting document, which must have been put together and 64 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:51,600 posted yesterday evening. Have you yesterday's times 65 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,200 Watson? It is here in the corner. 66 00:03:55,100 --> 00:03:58,900 Might I trouble you for it. The inside page pleased with the 67 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:03,200 leading articles, he glanced swiftly over it, running his 68 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,800 eyes up and down the columns. Capital article this on free 69 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,800 trade, permit me to give you an extract from it. 70 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:14,100 You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special 71 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,300 trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective 72 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:21,000 tariff but it stands to reason that such legislation must in 73 00:04:21,007 --> 00:04:23,600 the long run, keep away wealth from the country. 74 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,800 Diminish the value of our Imports and lower the general 75 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,000 conditions of life in this island. 76 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,000 What do you think of that Watson cried Holmes in high Glee? 77 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,100 Rubbing his hands together with satisfaction. 78 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,500 Ian. Don't you think that is an 79 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,200 admirable sentiment? Dr. Mortimer looked at homes 80 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,200 with an air of professional interest. 81 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,900 And Sir, Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled, dark 82 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:51,300 eyes upon me. I don't know much about the 83 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:55,800 Tariff and things of that kind said he but it seems to me we've 84 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:00,500 got a bit off the trail so far. As that note is concerned on the 85 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:05,200 contrary, I think we are particularly hot upon the trail. 86 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,300 So Henry Watson here knows more about my methods than you do, 87 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:13,200 but I fear that even he has not quite grasped the significance 88 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,900 of this sentence. No, I confess that, I see no 89 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,000 connection. And yet my dear Watson there is 90 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,000 so very close a connection that the one is extracted out of the 91 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,200 other, you your, your life reason value. 92 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,200 Keep away from the, don't you see? 93 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,300 Now, whence these words have been taken, By Sundar, you're 94 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:41,600 right. Well if that isn't smart cried 95 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,600 Sir, Henry, if any possible doubt remained it is settled by 96 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,700 the fact that keep away and from thee are cut out in one piece. 97 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:58,800 Well, now, so it is Really mr. Holmes this exceeds anything 98 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,900 which I could have imagined. Said, dr. 99 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:05,300 Mortimer, gazing at my friend in amazement, I could understand 100 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:08,400 anyone saying that the words were from a newspaper but that 101 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,900 you should name which and add that it came from. 102 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:14,200 The leading article is really one of the most remarkable 103 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,300 things which I have ever known. How did you do it? 104 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:22,800 I presume doctor that you could tell the skull of a negro from 105 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,400 that of an Eskimo. Most certainly, but how? 106 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:30,100 Because, that is my special hobby. 107 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,500 The differences are obvious, the supraorbital crest, the facial 108 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:39,800 angle, the maxilla recurve. The but this is my special 109 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,800 Hobby, and the differences are equally obvious. 110 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:47,200 There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded 111 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,100 Bourgeois type of A Times article and the slovenly print 112 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,600 of an evening halfpenny paper, as it could be between your 113 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,700 negro. And your Eskimo, the detection 114 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:00,800 of types is one of the most Elementary branches of knowledge 115 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,600 to the special expert in crime though. 116 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,500 I confess that once when I was very young, I confuse the leads 117 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:11,700 Mercury with a western morning news, but a Times Leader is 118 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:14,400 entirely distinctive. And these words could have been 119 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,400 taken from nothing else as it was done yesterday, the 120 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:21,900 Probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's 121 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,300 issue. So far as I can follow you then 122 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:27,100 mr. Holmes said Sir Henry 123 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:31,400 Baskerville someone cut out this message with a scissors. 124 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:36,800 Nail scissors said Holmes, you can see that it was a very short 125 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,400 bladed, scissors since the cutter had to take two Snips 126 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:46,000 over, keep away. That is so someone then cut out 127 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 the message with a pair of short bladed, scissors pasted it with 128 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,300 paste, gum said, Holmes. With gum onto the paper. 129 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:59,400 But I want to know why the word more should have been written 130 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,100 because he could not find it in print. 131 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,100 The other words were all simple and might be found in any issue 132 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,900 but more would be less common. Why? 133 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:15,900 Of course that would explain it. Have you read anything else in 134 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,400 this message? Mr. Holmes, there are one or two 135 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,500 indications, and yet the utmost pains have been taken to remove 136 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:28,000 all Clues the address. You observe is printed in rough 137 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,700 characters. But the times is a paper, which 138 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,700 is seldom found in any hands, but those of the Highly 139 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:39,700 Educated, we may take it there for but the letter was composed 140 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:44,800 by an educated man who wish to pose as an uneducated one and is 141 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,600 effort to conceal. His own writing suggest that the 142 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,200 writing might be known or come to be known by you. 143 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:55,700 Again, you will observe that the words are not gummed on, in an 144 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,000 accurate line, but that some are much higher than others. 145 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,900 Life, for example, is quite out of its proper place that may 146 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,900 point to carelessness, or it may point to agitation and hurry 147 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:12,900 upon the part of the cutter. On the whole I inclined to the 148 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:16,800 latter view since the matter was evidently important, and it is 149 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,500 unlikely that the composer of such a letter, would be 150 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:23,300 careless. If you were in a hurry, it opens 151 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,500 up the interesting question. Why he should be in a hurry 152 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,900 since any letter posted up to early morning, would reach Sir, 153 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:34,500 Henry before he would leave his hotel, did the composer fear and 154 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:40,200 Interruption, and from whom we are coming now rather into the 155 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,200 region of guesswork. I said, dr. 156 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,800 Mortimer, say rather into the region where we balance 157 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,700 probabilities and choose the most likely. 158 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:54,200 It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always 159 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,600 some material basis on which to start our speculation. 160 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,100 Now, you would call it a guest, no doubt. 161 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,200 But I am almost certain that this address has been written in 162 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,300 a hotel. How in the world can you say 163 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:11,300 that? If you examine it carefully, you 164 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:14,300 will see that both the pen and the ink have given the writer 165 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:17,500 trouble. The pain as splattered twice in 166 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,300 a single word and has run dry three times. 167 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:23,800 In a shorter dress showing that there was very little ink in the 168 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,400 bottle. Now, a private pain or ink 169 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,700 bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the 170 00:10:30,708 --> 00:10:33,300 combination of the two must be quite rare. 171 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:37,500 But, you know, the hotel in. Can the hotel pain, where it is, 172 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:39,000 rare to get anything else. Yes. 173 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,400 Yes. I have very little hesitation in 174 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,000 saying that could we examine the wastepaper baskets of the hotels 175 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,800 around Charing Cross. Until we found the remains of 176 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,000 the mutilated Times? Leader, we could lay our hands 177 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,200 straight upon the person who sent this singular message. 178 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:57,900 Hello. Hello. 179 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,600 What's this? He was carefully examining the 180 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,200 foolscap upon which the words were pasted holding it only an 181 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:10,800 inch or two from his eyes. Well, nothing said he throwing 182 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,400 it down. It is a blank half sheet of 183 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,800 paper without even a water mark upon it. 184 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:19,500 I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter. 185 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,600 And now, Sir, Henry as anything else of Interest happened to you 186 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,000 since you've been in London. Why no, mr. 187 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,200 Holmes, I think not. You have not observed anyone, 188 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,600 follow? Or watch you? 189 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,000 I seem to walked right into the thick of a dime. 190 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,400 Novel said, our visitor wind Thunder. 191 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,500 Should anyone follow a watch me we are coming to that. 192 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,500 You have nothing else to report to us before we go into this 193 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:50,100 matter. Well it depends upon what you 194 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:51,500 think. Worth reporting. 195 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,300 I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life Well 196 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:01,600 worth reporting so Henry smiled. I don't know much of British 197 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,400 life yet for. I've spent nearly all my time in 198 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,000 the states and in Canada but I hope that to lose one of your 199 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,400 boots is not part of the ordinary routine of Life over 200 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,900 here. You have lost one of your boots. 201 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:19,900 My dear sir, cried, dr. Mortimer it is only mislaid. 202 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,800 You will find it when you return to the hotel, what is the use of 203 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,900 troubling mr. Holmes, with Trifles of this 204 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,800 kind? Well, he asked me for anything 205 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,500 outside. The extraordinary. 206 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,400 Exactly said, Holmes. However, foolish the incident 207 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:40,300 may seem you have lost one of your boots, you say, Well 208 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:45,100 mislaid it anyhow, I put them both outside my door last night, 209 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:47,100 and there was only one in the morning. 210 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,000 I could get no sense out of the chap, who cleans them. 211 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,500 The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in 212 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,500 the Strand, and I've never had them on. 213 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,400 If you have never worn them, why did you put them out to be 214 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,800 cleaned? They were tan boots and had 215 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,000 never been varnished. That was why I put them out. 216 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:12,000 Then I understand that on your arrival, in London, yesterday, 217 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:14,900 you went out at once and bought a pair of boots. 218 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:19,400 I did a great deal of shopping. Dr. Mortimer here went round 219 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,900 with me. You see, if I'm to be Squire 220 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,100 down there, I must rest apart and it may be that. 221 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,600 I've got a little careless in my ways out west. 222 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,000 Among other things. I bought these brown boots gave 223 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,200 six dollars for them and had one stolen before ever. 224 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,500 I had them on my feet. It seems a singularly useless 225 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:41,800 thing to steal said Sherlock Holmes. 226 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,500 I confess that I shared dr. Mortimer's belief that it will 227 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:48,200 not be long before the missing boot is found. 228 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,500 And now gentlemen, said the baronet with decision, it seems 229 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,300 to me that I have spoken quite enough about the little that I 230 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:58,800 know. It is time that you kept your 231 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,800 promise and gave me a full account of what we are, all 232 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,700 driving at, Your request is a very reasonable one. 233 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:10,800 Holmes answered dr. Mortimer, I think you could not 234 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,200 do better than to tell your story as you told it to us? 235 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:19,500 Thus encouraged our scientific friend, Drew his papers, from 236 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:22,900 his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon 237 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:26,100 the morning before. So Henry Baskerville listened 238 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,700 with the deepest attention and with an occasional exclamation 239 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,800 of surprise. Well, I seem to have come into 240 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,100 an inheritance with a Vengeance. Said he, when the long narrative 241 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:41,700 was finished, of course, I've heard of the Hound ever since I 242 00:14:41,708 --> 00:14:46,700 was in the nursery, it's the pet story of the family though. 243 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,500 I never thought of taking it seriously before, but as to my 244 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:55,000 uncle's death, well, it all seems boiling up in my head and 245 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,500 I can't get it clear yet. You don't seem quite to have 246 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:01,600 made up your mind whether it's a case for a policeman or a Uh 247 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,900 German precisely and now there's this affair of the letter to me 248 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,100 at the hotel. I suppose that fits into its 249 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:13,500 place. It seems to show that someone 250 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,200 knows more than we do about what goes on upon the Moor. 251 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,200 So dr. Mortimer and also said Holmes 252 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:25,000 that someone is not ill-disposed towards you since they warn you 253 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,400 of danger. Or it may be that they wish for 254 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,700 their own purposes to scare me away. 255 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,500 Well, of course, that is a possible. 256 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,900 Also, I'm very much indebted to you dr. 257 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:42,500 Mortimer for introducing me to a problem, which presents several 258 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:46,200 interesting Alternatives, but the Practical point, which we 259 00:15:46,208 --> 00:15:49,700 now have to decide. So Henry is whether it is or is 260 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,500 not advisable for you to go to Baskerville Hall. 261 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,200 Why should I not go? There seems to be danger. 262 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,800 Do you mean Danger from this family fiend? 263 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,300 Or do you mean Danger from human beings? 264 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,600 Well, that is what we have to find out which ever it is. 265 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,400 My answer is fixed. There is no devil in hell, mr. 266 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,900 Holmes. And there is no man, upon Earth 267 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:18,900 who can prevent me from going to the home of my own people. 268 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,000 And you may take that to be my final answer. 269 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,900 His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a Dusky red as 270 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,900 he spoke. It was evident that the fiery 271 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,200 temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last 272 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,000 representative. Meanwhile said he, I have hardly 273 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,900 had time to think over all that. You've told me it's a big thing 274 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:46,400 for a man to have to understand. And to decide at one sitting, I 275 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,900 should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind. 276 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,300 Now look here mr. Holmes, it's Past eleven now and 277 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:56,400 I'm going back right away to my hotel. 278 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,000 Suppose you and your friend, dr. Watson come round and lunch with 279 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 us at to, I'll be able to tell you more clearly, then how this 280 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,200 thing's strikes me is that convenient to you Watson 281 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:13,900 perfectly, then you may expect us, shall I? 282 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:18,700 Have a cab called? I'd prefer to walk for this 283 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:23,300 affair, has flurry to me, rather I'll join you in walk with 284 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:28,500 pleasure said his companion. Then we meet again at 2:00 Irv. 285 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:32,200 Ah, and good morning. We heard the steps of our 286 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,400 visitors, descend, the stair. And the bang of the front door 287 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:39,900 in an instant Holmes, had changed from the languid dreamer 288 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:43,100 to the Man of Action. Your hat and Boots Watson. 289 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,000 Quick not a moment to lose. He rushed into his room in his 290 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,500 dressing-gown and was back again in a few seconds. 291 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,200 In a frock-coat. We hurried to Gather down the 292 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,400 stairs and into the street dr. Mortimer and Baskerville was 293 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,900 still visible about 200 yards ahead of us in the direction of 294 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:02,900 Oxford Street shy run, and stop them. 295 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:05,700 Not for the world. My dear Watson. 296 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:08,600 I am perfectly satisfied with your company. 297 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,400 If you will tolerate mine, our friends are wise for. 298 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,900 It is certainly a very fine morning for a walk. 299 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:18,500 He quickened his Pace until we had decreased the distance, 300 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:23,400 which divided Us by about half, then still keeping a hundred 301 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,600 yards behind, we followed into Oxford Street and so, down, 302 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,500 Regent Street, Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop 303 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:37,500 window upon which Holmes did the same, an instant afterwards, he 304 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:40,500 gave a little cry of satisfaction and following the 305 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:44,100 direction of his eager eyes I saw that a handsome cab with a 306 00:18:44,108 --> 00:18:47,700 man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was 307 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,200 now proceeding slowly onward. Again there's our man Watson. 308 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,300 Come along. We'll have a good look at him. 309 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:58,500 Even if we can do no more at that. 310 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:01,900 Instant, I was aware of a bushy, black beard and a pair of 311 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:05,000 piercing eyes turned upon us through the side window of the 312 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,700 cab instantly. The trap door at the top, flew 313 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,300 up, something was screened to the driver and the calves flew 314 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:16,300 madly off down Regent Street, Holmes looked eagerly around for 315 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:20,500 another, but no empty one was in sight, then he dashed in Wild 316 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,600 Pursuit amid. The stream of the traffic. 317 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,900 But the start was too great and already the cab was out of 318 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:28,700 sight. There. 319 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,600 Now said, Holmes, bitterly as he emerged panting and white with 320 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,000 vexation from the tide of vehicles was ever such bad luck 321 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 and such bad management to Watson Watson. 322 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,200 If you're an honest man, you will record this also and set it 323 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,500 against my successes. Who was the man? 324 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:54,000 I have not an idea. A spy well it was evident from 325 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 what we've heard. That Baskerville has been very 326 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,500 closely shadowed by someone since he has been in town how 327 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:02,600 else could it be known so quickly that it was the 328 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,900 Northumberland hotel which he had chosen if they had followed 329 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:08,600 him. The first day, I argued that 330 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,500 they would follow him. Also the second you may have 331 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,600 observed that I twice strolled over to the window while dr. 332 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,100 Mortimer was reading his Legend. Yes, I remember I was looking 333 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:24,300 out for loiterers in a street, but I saw non, we are dealing 334 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,500 with a clever man. Watson this matter Cuts very 335 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,700 deep and though, I have not finally made up my mind, whether 336 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:33,700 it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency, which is in 337 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:39,500 touch with us, I am conscious always of power and design when 338 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:42,200 our friends left at once, followed them in the hopes of 339 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,500 marking down their invisible attendant. 340 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:47,000 So while he was he but he had not. 341 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:51,600 Trust himself upon foot but he availed himself of a cab so that 342 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,200 he could loiter behind or Dash past them. 343 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,200 And so escape, the notice his method had the additional 344 00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,800 Advantage. But who say what? 345 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,000 To take a cab, he was already to follow them. 346 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,100 It has however, one obvious disadvantage, it puts him in the 347 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,800 power of the cabmen. Exactly. 348 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:13,000 What a Pity we didn't get the number. 349 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:18,300 My dear Watson clumsy as I have been you surely do not 350 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,100 seriously. Imagine that I neglected to get 351 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:26,300 the number. Now to 704 is our man but that 352 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:30,500 is no use to us for the moment. I fail to see how you could have 353 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:33,800 done more. On observing the cab, I should 354 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,600 have instantly turned and walked in the other direction. 355 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,900 I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed 356 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:46,400 the first at a respectful distance or better still have 357 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,200 driven to the Northumberland hotel and waited there, when our 358 00:21:50,208 --> 00:21:53,600 unknown had followed Baskerville home, we should have had the 359 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,300 opportunity of playing his own game upon himself and seeing 360 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:02,300 where he made for as it is by an Indiscreet eagerness, which was 361 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,900 taken advantage of with extraordinary quickness and 362 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,400 energy by our opponent. We have betrayed Add ourselves 363 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,400 and lost our man. We had been sauntering slowly 364 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,700 down Regent Street during this conversation and dr. 365 00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:18,900 Mortimer With His companion, had long vanished in front of us. 366 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,900 There is no object in our following them said Holmes, The 367 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:26,400 Shadow has departed and will not return. 368 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:30,000 We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play 369 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,900 them with decision. Could you swear to that man's 370 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,600 face with in the cab? I could swear only to the beard 371 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,000 And so could I from which I gather that in all probability, 372 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,700 it was a false one. A clever man upon so delicate 373 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:47,900 and errand has no use for a beard safe to conceal. 374 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:52,500 His features coming here Watson, he turned into one of the 375 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:55,300 district messenger offices where he was warmly greeted by. 376 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:59,900 The manager are Wilson. I see you have not forgotten the 377 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:03,600 little case in which I had the Good Fortune to help you now 378 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,100 sir, indeed, I have not you save my good name. 379 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,300 And perhaps my life, my dear fellow, you exaggerate. 380 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 I have some recollection Wilson that you had among your boys. 381 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,700 A lad named Cartwright who showed some ability during the 382 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:22,600 investigation. Yes, sir, he's still with us. 383 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,900 Could you ring him up? Thank you. 384 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,300 And I should be glad to have change of this five-pound note. 385 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,000 A lot of 14 with a bright Keen face had a bay, the Summons of 386 00:23:34,008 --> 00:23:37,100 the manager. He stood now gazing with great 387 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,100 reverence at the famous detective. 388 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:44,200 Let me have the hotel directory. Said Holmes, thank you. 389 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:50,100 Now Cartwright There are the names of 23 hotels here. 390 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:53,200 All in the immediate neighborhood of Charing Cross. 391 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,000 Do you see? Yes, sir. 392 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,200 You will visit each one of these in turn? 393 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,700 Yes sir. You will begin in each Case by 394 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:06,700 giving the outside Porter. One shilling here are twenty 395 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:11,000 three Shillings. Yes sir you will tell him that 396 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,300 you want to see the waste paper of yesterday. 397 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,300 You will say that an important telegram has miscarried and that 398 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,500 you are looking for it. You understand? 399 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:23,000 Yes, sir. What you're really looking for 400 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,600 is the center page of the times with some holes, cut in it with 401 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,700 scissors, here is a copy of the times. 402 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,600 It is. This page you could easily 403 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,100 recognize it could you not? Yes sir. 404 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,600 In each case the outside portal will send for the hall Porter to 405 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,200 whom also you will give a shilling here are twenty three 406 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,300 Shillings, you will then learn in possibly 20 cases out of the 407 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:51,500 23 at the waist of the day before has been burned or 408 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,300 removed in the three other cases. 409 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:57,600 You will be shown a heap of paper and you will look for this 410 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,800 page of the times among it. The odds are enormously against 411 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,600 your finding. It there are ten shillings over 412 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,800 in case of emergencies, let me have a report by wire at Baker 413 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,600 Street before evening, and now Watson, it only remains for us 414 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,600 to find out by wire the identity of the cabmen. 415 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,200 Number 270 for. And then we will drop into one 416 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,500 of the Bond Street picture galleries and fill in the time 417 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:30,200 until we are due at the hotel. End of chapter 4. 418 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,200 End of chapter 4.