1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Chapter 15 of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,500 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:12,000 the public domain. Chapter 15, our retrospection. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,600 It was the end of November and Holmes and I sat upon a raw and 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,500 foggy night on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting room 6 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:25,400 in Baker Street since the tragic upshot of our visit to 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,600 Devonshire. He had been engaged in to 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,400 Affairs of the utmost importance in the first of which he had 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,000 exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel upward in connection 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,500 with the famous card scandal of the nonpareil Club. 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,200 While in the second he had defended the unfortunate Madam 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,700 Open Sea. The from the charge of murder, 13 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:47,300 which hung over her in connection with the death of her 14 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:51,000 stepdaughter. Mademoiselle car are the young 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,700 lady who has it will be remembered was found. 16 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:57,100 Six months later alive and married in New York. 17 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:00,500 My friend was in excellent Spirits over the success which 18 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,800 had attended a succession of difficult and important cases so 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 that I was able to induce him to discuss the details of the 20 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,500 Baskerville mystery. I'd waited patiently for the 21 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:15,000 opportunity for Aware that he would never permit cases to 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,700 overlap. And that is clear and logical. 23 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:21,200 Mind would not be drawn from its present work to dwell upon 24 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,300 memories of the past so Henry and dr. 25 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,800 Mortimer were, however, in London on their way to the long 26 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,600 Voyage, which had been recommended for the restoration 27 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,700 of his shattered nerves. They had called upon us, that 28 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:36,500 very afternoon. So it was natural that the 29 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:38,500 subject should come up for discussion. 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,800 The whole course of events, said, Holmes from the point of 31 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,200 view of the man who called himself Stapleton, was simple 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,200 and direct, although to us who had no means in the beginning of 33 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,500 knowing the motives of his actions and could only learn 34 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:59,300 part of the facts, it all appeared exceedingly complex. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,500 I have had the advantage of two conversations with mrs. 36 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,600 Stapleton, and the case has now been so entirely cleared up 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,400 that. I am not aware that there is 38 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,900 anything, which is Remained a secret to us, you will find a 39 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:16,100 few notes upon the matter, Under The Heading, be in my index list 40 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,000 of cases. Perhaps you'd kindly give me a 41 00:02:19,008 --> 00:02:21,300 sketch of the course of events. From memory. 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,000 Certainly though, I cannot guarantee that I carry all the 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,200 facts. In my mind. 44 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,600 Intense, mental concentration has a curious way of blotting 45 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,500 out, what has passed the Barrister who has his case at 46 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,000 his fingers ends, and is able to argue with an expert upon his 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,400 own. Object finds that a week or two 48 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,500 of the courts will drive it all out of his head once more. 49 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:49,300 So each of my cases displaces the last and Mademoiselle 50 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:52,100 carrier has blurred, my recollection of Baskerville 51 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,000 Hall. Tomorrow. 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,600 Some other little problem may be submitted to my notice, which 53 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,700 will in turn dispossess. The fair French lady and the 54 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:04,700 infamous upward so far as the case of the Hound goes. 55 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:08,300 However, I'll give you the course of events as nearly as I 56 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:10,700 can. And you will suggest anything, 57 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:15,000 which I may have forgotten. My enquiry show beyond all 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,900 question that the family portrait did not lie, and that 59 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:20,900 this fellow was indeed a Baskerville. 60 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:24,300 He was a son of that Rodger Baskerville. 61 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,700 The younger brother of Charles who fled with a Sinister 62 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:32,000 reputation to South America, where he was said to have died. 63 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,800 Unmarried, he did as a matter of fact, Mary and had one child. 64 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:40,900 This fellow whose real name is that same as his father's. 65 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:45,100 He married Barrel Garcia. One of the beauties of Costa 66 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,700 Rica and having purloined a considerable sum of public 67 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:51,600 money. He changed his name to vandalur 68 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,300 and fled to England where he established a school in the east 69 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:58,500 of Yorkshire. His reason for attempting this 70 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:01,500 special line of business was that he had struck up an 71 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:06,500 acquaintance with a consumptive tutor on the Voyage Home and 72 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:09,300 that he had used this man's ability to make the undertaking 73 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:13,800 a success. Fraser, the shooter Died. 74 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,900 However, and the school which had begun. 75 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:21,500 Well sank from disrepute into infamy, the Vandal has found it 76 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:25,300 convenient to change their name to Stapleton and he brought the 77 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:28,800 remains of his fortune, his schemes for the future. 78 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,300 And his taste for entomology to the south of England. 79 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,100 I learned at the British museum that he was a recognized 80 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,600 Authority upon the subject. And that the name of vandeleur 81 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,300 has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had in 82 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,400 his Yorkshire days, being the first to describe. 83 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,500 We now come to that portion of his life which has proved to be 84 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:55,200 of such intense interest to us. The fellow had evidently made 85 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,400 inquiry and found that only two lives intervened between him and 86 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,100 a valuable estate. When he went to Devonshire. 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,400 His plans were I believe exceedingly hazy but that he 88 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,100 meant Mischief from the first is evident from the way in which he 89 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:15,000 took his wife with him. In the character of his sister, 90 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,700 the idea of using her as a decoy was clearly already. 91 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,900 In his mind though, he may not have been certain how the 92 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:25,500 details of his plot would be arranged. 93 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,200 He meant in the end to have the estate and he was ready to use 94 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,100 any tool or run any risk for that end. 95 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:37,300 His First Act was to establish himself as near to his ancestral 96 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:41,700 home as he could, and his second was to cultivate a friendship 97 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:44,600 with Sir Charles Baskerville. And with the neighbors. 98 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,200 The baroness himself told him about the family hound and so 99 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,200 prepared the way for his own death Stapleton, as I will 100 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,000 continue to call him knew that the old man's heart was weak and 101 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,900 that a shock would kill him so much. 102 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:02,900 He had learned from dr. Mortimer. 103 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,900 He had heard also that Sir Charles was superstitious and a 104 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:10,700 taken this Grim Legend very seriously. 105 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,200 His ingenious mind instantly suggested a way by which Which 106 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,200 the baronet could be done to death and yet it would be hardly 107 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,600 possible to bring home the guilt to the real murderer. 108 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,000 Having conceived the idea. He proceeded to carry it out 109 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,500 with considerable finesse. An ordinary schemer would have 110 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,400 been content to work with a Savage Hound. 111 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:39,500 The use of artificial means to make the creature diabolical was 112 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:44,100 a Flash of Genius upon his part. The dog he brought in London 113 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,500 from Ross and mangles the dealers in Fulham Road. 114 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,900 It was the strongest and most Savage in their possession. 115 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,600 He brought it down by the north Devon line and walked a great 116 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,400 distance over the more. So as to get it home without 117 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,700 exciting any remarks You'd already on these insect hunts. 118 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:03,800 Learn to penetrate the grimpen mire. 119 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,200 And so had found a safe hiding place for the creature. 120 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:11,100 Here he kenneled it and waited his chance. 121 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,200 But it was some time. Coming the old gentleman could 122 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,100 not be decoys outside of his grounds at night. 123 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,700 Several times Stapleton looked about with his Hound but without 124 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:28,100 Avail, it was during these fruitless quests that he or 125 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:31,900 rather his ally was As seen by peasants and that the legend of 126 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:36,400 the demon dog received a new confirmation, he had hoped that 127 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,600 his wife might Lewis a child to his ruin, but he or she proved 128 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,100 unexpectedly independent. She would not Endeavor to 129 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:47,700 entangle the Old Gentleman In a Sentimental attachment which 130 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:51,100 might deliver him over to his enemy threats. 131 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:55,100 And even I'm sorry to say, blows refused to move her. 132 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,400 She would have nothing to do with it and for a Time, 133 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,900 Stapleton was a a Deadlock. He found a way out of his 134 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:06,100 difficulties through the chance that Sir Charles who had 135 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,500 conceived a friendship for him, made him the minister of his 136 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,200 charity in the case of this unfortunate woman, mrs. 137 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:18,100 Laura Lyons, by representing himself as a single man, he 138 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,500 acquired complete influence over her and he gave her to 139 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:25,000 understand that in the event of her, obtaining a divorce from 140 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,700 her husband, he would marry her. His plans were suddenly brought 141 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:32,900 to a head by his knowledge. That Sir Charles was about to 142 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:34,900 leave the hall on the advice of dr. 143 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:40,400 Mortimer with whose opinion he himself pretended to coincide. 144 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:45,600 He must act at once or his victim might get Beyond his 145 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,600 power. He therefore, put pressure upon 146 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,500 mrs. Lyons to write this letter 147 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,600 imploring. The old man to give her an 148 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,200 interview on the evening before his departure for London. 149 00:08:57,100 --> 00:09:02,200 He them by a specious argument. Prevented her from going and so 150 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,500 had the chance for which he had waited. 151 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:07,800 Driving back in the evening from coombe Tracey. 152 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:12,500 He was in time to get his Hound to treat it with his infernal 153 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:16,100 paint and to bring the Beast round to the gate, but which he 154 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:19,100 had reason to expect that he would find the Old Gentleman 155 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:24,400 waiting the dog incited by his master, sprang over the 156 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,300 wicket-gate and pursued the unfortunate baronet who fled 157 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:32,400 screaming down the yew alley. In that gloomy tunnel. 158 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:36,200 It must indeed have been a dreadful sight to see that huge 159 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,800 black creature with its flaming jaws and blazing eyes bounding 160 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,200 after its victim. He fell dead at the end of The 161 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,200 Alley from heart disease and Terror. 162 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:49,500 The Hound had kept upon the grassy border. 163 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:53,100 While the baronet had run down the path so that no track, but 164 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:56,300 the man's was visible. On seeing him lying. 165 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:00,500 Still the creature had probably approach to sniff at him but 166 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,000 finding him. Dead had turned away again, it 167 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,900 was then that it left the print which was actually observed by 168 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:09,600 dr. Mortimer, the Hound was called 169 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,200 off and hurried away to its lair in the grimpen mire and a 170 00:10:13,208 --> 00:10:16,700 mystery was left which puzzled the authorities, alarm the 171 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:20,700 countryside and finally brought the case within the scope of our 172 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,900 observation. So much for the death of Sir. 173 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:27,500 Charles Baskerville you perceives a devilish cunning of 174 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:31,000 it for really, it would be almost impossible to make a case 175 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,400 against the real murderer. His only accomplice was one who 176 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,400 could never give him away and the grotesque inconceivable 177 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,100 nature of the device. Only served to make it more 178 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:46,700 effective, both of the women concerned in the case, mrs. 179 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:50,500 Stapleton and mrs. Laura Lyons were left with a 180 00:10:50,508 --> 00:10:53,800 strong suspicion against Stapleton mrs. 181 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,700 Stapleton knew that he had designs upon the old man and 182 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,800 also the existence of the Hound mrs. 183 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,200 Lyons New, neither of these things but have been impressed 184 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,900 by the death occurring at the time of an uncounseled 185 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,800 appointment, which was only known to him. 186 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,400 However, both of them were under his influence and he had nothing 187 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,700 to fear from them. The first half of his task was 188 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:21,000 successfully accomplished, but the more difficult still 189 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,400 remained, It is possible that Stapleton did not know of the 190 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,600 existence of an air in Canada, in any case he would very soon. 191 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,500 Learn it from his friend dr. Mortimer. 192 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:35,400 And he was told by the latter all details about the arrival of 193 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:40,100 Henry Baskerville stapleton's. First idea, was that this young 194 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,300 stranger from Canada might possibly be done to death in 195 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:47,300 London, without coming down to Devonshire at all, he 196 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:50,900 distrusted, his wife ever since she had refused to help him in 197 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:54,100 laying a trap for the old. Man, and he dared, not leave her 198 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,400 long out of his sight for fear. He should lose his influence 199 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,700 over her. It was, for this reason that he 200 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:03,600 took her to London with him. They lodged. 201 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,700 I find at the Mex prefer private hotel in Craven Street, which 202 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:12,400 was actually one of those called upon by my agent in search of 203 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,400 evidence. Here. 204 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,400 He kept his wife, imprisoned in her room while he disguised in a 205 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,400 beard followed dr. Mortimer to Baker Street and 206 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:27,400 afterwards to the station, and to the Northumberland Hotel, his 207 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,200 wife had some inkling of his plans, but she had such a fear 208 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,800 of her husband, a fear, founded upon brutal ill treatment, that 209 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,300 she dare not right to warn the man who she knew to be in danger 210 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,100 if the letter should fall into stapleton's. 211 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:45,100 Hands, her own life. Would not be safe. 212 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:50,900 Eventually, as we know she adopted the expedient of cutting 213 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:54,000 out the words, which would form the message and addressing the 214 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 letter. In a disguised hand, it reached 215 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,200 the baronet and gave him the first warning of his Danger. 216 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,500 It was very essential for Stapleton to get some article of 217 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:07,800 Sir Henry's attire. So that in case he was driven to 218 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,500 use the dog, he might always have the means of setting him 219 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:15,500 upon his track with characteristic promptness. 220 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,600 And audacity he set about this at once, and we cannot doubt 221 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,500 that the boots or chambermaid of the hotel was well bribed to 222 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:27,900 help him in his design by chance. 223 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:31,200 However, the first boot, which was procured for him was a new 224 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,600 Ooh 1 and therefore useless for his purpose he then had it 225 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,900 returned and obtained. Another a most instructive 226 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,500 incident since it proved conclusively to my mind that we 227 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:46,300 were dealing with a real Hound. As no other supposition could 228 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:50,400 explain this anxiety to obtain an old Boot and this 229 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:55,200 indifference to a new one. The more you Trey and grotesque 230 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,500 and incident is the more carefully, it deserves to be 231 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:01,400 examined. And the Very point which appears 232 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,900 to complicate a case is when Julie considered and 233 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,500 scientifically handled the one which is most likely to 234 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:11,900 elucidate it. Then we had the visit from our 235 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,500 friends. Next morning shadowed Always by 236 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:18,500 Stapleton in the cab from his knowledge of our rooms and of my 237 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:21,500 appearance as well as from his General conduct. 238 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,800 I am inclined to think Thing, that stapleton's career of crime 239 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,200 has been by no means limited to this single Baskerville Affair. 240 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:32,700 It is suggestive that during the last three years there have been 241 00:14:32,700 --> 00:14:36,200 for considerable, burglaries in the west country for none of, 242 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,600 which was any criminal ever arrested. 243 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:44,000 The last of these at folkestone court in May was remarkable for 244 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,600 the cold-blooded pistol in of the page who surprised the 245 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,400 masked and solitary burglar. I cannot doubt that Stapleton 246 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,300 recruited his waning resources in this fashion and that for 247 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:57,700 years, he had been a desperate and dangerous, man. 248 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:01,600 We had an example of his Readiness of resource that 249 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,500 morning when he got away from us, so successfully and also of 250 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:09,000 his audacity and sending back my own name to me, through the cab 251 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,900 man. From that moment, he understood 252 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:15,200 that I had taken over the case in London and that therefore 253 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,900 there was no chance for him. There he returned to Dartmoor 254 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,700 and awaited the arrival of the baronet. 255 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:27,100 One moment said, I have no doubt describe the sequence of events 256 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,900 correctly, but there's one point which you've left unexplained. 257 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,800 What became of the Hound. When its master was in London, I 258 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,700 have given some attention to this matter and it is 259 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:43,400 undoubtedly of importance. There can be no question that 260 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,900 Stapleton. Had a confident though, it is 261 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:50,100 unlikely that he ever placed himself in his power by sharing 262 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:53,900 all his plans with him. There was an old man servant at 263 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:56,400 merripit house. Whose name was Anthony. 264 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,300 His connection with the stapleton's can be traced for 265 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:03,200 several years as far back as the school mastering days. 266 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:06,600 So that he must have been aware that his master and mistress 267 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:11,700 were really husband and wife. This man has disappeared and has 268 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:15,700 escaped from the country. It is suggestive that Anthony is 269 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:20,200 not a common name in England. While Antonio is so in all 270 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,800 Spanish or Spanish American countries, the man like mrs. 271 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,900 Stapleton herself, spoke good English. 272 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:32,100 But with the Curious lisping accent, I have myself seen this 273 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:35,700 old man cross the grimpen mire by the path, which Stapleton had 274 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,900 marked out. It is very probable, therefore, 275 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,000 But in the absence of his master, it was he who cared for 276 00:16:43,008 --> 00:16:46,800 the Hound though, he may never have known the purpose for which 277 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,700 the Beast was used. The stapleton's then went down 278 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:53,500 to Devon. Sure, whether they were soon 279 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:56,500 followed by Sir, Henry. And you one word. 280 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:01,300 Now, as to how I stood myself at that time, it may possibly recur 281 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:04,000 to your memory. That when I examine the paper 282 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,400 upon, which the printed words were fastened, I made a close 283 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,700 inspection for the watermark in doing. 284 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:14,300 So, I held it within a few inches of my eyes and was 285 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:17,800 conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white 286 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,700 Jessamine. There are 75 perfumes which is 287 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,500 very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to 288 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:28,500 distinguish from each other and cases have more than once within 289 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:32,400 my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition. 290 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,300 The scent suggested the presence of a lady and already my 291 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:41,800 thoughts began to turn towards the stapleton's, the side made 292 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,200 certain of the hound and add guests at the criminal before 293 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,100 ever. We went to the West country It 294 00:17:48,108 --> 00:17:52,500 was my game to watch Stapleton. It was evident however that I 295 00:17:52,508 --> 00:17:55,800 could not do this, if I were with you, since he would be 296 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,800 keenly on his guard. I deceived everybody there for 297 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:03,700 yourself included and I came down secretly when I was 298 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:07,700 supposed to be in London, my hardships were not so great. 299 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:11,400 As you imagined though, such trifling details must never 300 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,800 interfere with the investigation of a case. 301 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:17,100 I stayed for the most part at coombe Tracey. 302 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,400 And only used the Hut upon the Moor. 303 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:23,600 When it was necessary to be near the scene of action, Cartwright 304 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,100 had come down with me and in his disguise as a country boy, he 305 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:31,000 was of great assistance to me how is dependent upon him for 306 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,600 food and clean linen. When I was watching Stapleton 307 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:38,600 Cartwright was frequently watching you so that I was able 308 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,000 to keep my hand upon all the strings. 309 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:46,000 I've already told you that your reports reached me rapidly being 310 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 forward instantly from A street to coombe Tracey. 311 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,200 They were of great service to me. 312 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,500 And especially that one, incidentally, truthful piece of 313 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,400 biography of stapleton's. I was able to establish the 314 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,400 identity of the man, and the woman. 315 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:05,000 And knew at last exactly how. I stood, the case had been 316 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,700 considerably complicated through the incident of the escaped 317 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,300 convict, and the relations between him and the Barrymore's. 318 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:18,100 This also, you cleared up in a very effective way though. 319 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:20,800 I had already come to the same conclusions from my own 320 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,300 observations by the time that you discovered me upon the more. 321 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,100 I had a complete knowledge of the whole business but I had not 322 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:33,900 a case which could go to a jury even stapleton's, attempt, upon 323 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,100 Sir Henry that night which ended in the death of the unfortunate. 324 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,900 Convict did not help us much improving murder against our 325 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:43,200 man. There seemed to be no 326 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,000 alternative. Alternative but to catch him 327 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,200 red-handed and to do. So we had to use Sir Henry alone 328 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,800 and apparently unprotected as a bait we did. 329 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,300 So and at the cost of a severe shock to our client, we 330 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:03,300 succeeded in completing our case and driving Stapleton to his 331 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:06,400 destruction. That's a Henry should have been 332 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,700 exposed to. This is I must confess our 333 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:13,500 approach to my management of the case, but we had no means of 334 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:17,200 Before seeing the terrible and paralyzing spectacle, which the 335 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,200 Beast presented nor could we predict the fog which enabled 336 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,500 him to burst upon us at such short notice. 337 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:28,400 We succeeded in our object at a cost which both The Specialist 338 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,500 and dr. Mortimer assure me, will be a 339 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,000 temporary one. A long journey may enable our 340 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,800 friend to recover, not only from his shattered nerves but also 341 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,000 from his wounded feelings. His love for the lady was deep 342 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,200 and sincere and to him. The saddest part of all this 343 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,500 black business was that he should have been deceived by 344 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:52,800 her. It only remains to indicate the 345 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,900 part which she had played throughout. 346 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:57,800 There can be no doubt that Stapleton. 347 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,800 Exercised, an influence over her, which may have been love or 348 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,000 may have been fear or very possibly both since they are by 349 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,400 no means incompatible, emotions. It was, at least Least, 350 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:16,000 absolutely effective. At his command, she consented to 351 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,600 pass as his sister, though he found the limits of his power 352 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,100 over her when he endeavored to make her the direct accessory to 353 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:26,200 murder. She was ready to warn Sir Henry 354 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,800 so far as she could without implicating her husband. 355 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,500 And again, and again, she tried to do so Stapleton himself seems 356 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:38,400 to have been capable of jealousy and when he saw the baronet 357 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,000 paying Court to the lady, even though it was part of his own 358 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,200 plan, Still, he could not help interrupting with a passionate 359 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,400 Outburst which revealed the Fiery Soul, which is 360 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,700 self-contained manner. So cleverly concealed by 361 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,800 encouraging the intimacy. He made it certain that Sir 362 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,600 Henry would frequently come to Mary pit house and that he would 363 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,300 sooner or later, get the opportunity which he desired. 364 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,800 On the day of the crisis. However, his wife turned 365 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,600 suddenly against him, she had learned something of the death 366 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,300 of the convict. And she knew that the Hound was 367 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:17,200 being kept in the Outhouse on the evening, that Sir, Henry was 368 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,600 coming to dinner. She taxed her husband, with his 369 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,900 intended crime, and a furious scene, followed in, which he 370 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:27,800 showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his 371 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,700 love. Her Fidelity turned in an 372 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:32,600 instant too. Bitter hatred. 373 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,000 And he saw that she would be Betray him. 374 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,300 He tied her up there for but she might have no chance of warning 375 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:44,900 so Henry and he hoped no doubt that when the whole Countryside, 376 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:48,400 put down the baronet's, death to the curse of his family, as they 377 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,200 certainly would do. He could win his wife back to 378 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,100 accept an accomplished fact and to keep silent upon what she 379 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,500 knew. In this, I fancy that in any 380 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:03,600 case he made a miscalculation and that if we had not been 381 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,700 there, his Doom would nonetheless have been sealed a 382 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,300 woman of Spanish. Blood does not condone such an 383 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:14,800 injury so lightly and now my dear Watson without referring to 384 00:23:14,808 --> 00:23:16,800 my notes. I cannot give you a more 385 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,600 detailed account of. This curious case, I do not know 386 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,300 that anything essential has been left. 387 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:26,900 Unexplained, he could not hope to frighten Sir, Henry to death 388 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:31,200 as he had done the Uncle with his bogey Hound, the Beast was 389 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,500 Savage and half-starved. If its appearance did not 390 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,900 frighten his victim to death, at least he would paralyze the 391 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:41,600 resistance which might be offered no doubt. 392 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:45,300 There are no remains one difficulty, if Stapleton came 393 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:49,000 into the succession, how could you explain the fact that he the 394 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 air had been living unannounced under another name? 395 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:55,400 So close to the property. How could he claim it without 396 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,800 causing suspicion and inquiry? It is a formidable difficulty 397 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:04,700 and I fear that you ask too much when you expect me to solve it 398 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:09,000 the past and the present are within the field of my inquiry. 399 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,800 But what a man may do in the future is a hard question to 400 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,000 answer. Mrs. Stapleton has heard her 401 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,900 husband discussed. The problem on several 402 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:20,900 occasions, there were three possible courses. 403 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:25,700 He might claim the property from South America, establish his 404 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:27,800 identity before the British authorities there. 405 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,200 And so, obtain the fortune without ever coming to England 406 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,400 at all, or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the 407 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,200 short time that he need be in London. 408 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,100 Or again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and 409 00:24:42,108 --> 00:24:46,800 papers putting him in as a Air and retaining a claim upon some 410 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,700 proportion of his income. We cannot doubt from what we 411 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,900 know of him that he would have found some way out of the 412 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:58,500 difficulty and now my dear Watson, we've had some weeks of 413 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:03,100 severe work and for one evening I think we may turn our thoughts 414 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:07,700 into more pleasant channels. I have a box for lazy, you know. 415 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,500 Have you heard the direct skis? Might I trouble you? 416 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:16,700 Then to be ready in half an hour and we can stop at Marcy knees 417 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:24,200 for a little dinner on the way. End of chapter 15 and the end of 418 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,500 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle read by 419 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:33,300 David Clark, BG, David dot, wordpress.com and b.g. coffee 420 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,900 dotnet. Thank you so much for listening. 421 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:25,800 End of chapter 15 and the end of The Hound of the Baskervilles by 422 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,900 Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle read by David Clark, BG, David dot, 423 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:34,000 wordpress.com and b.g. coffee dotnet. 424 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,900 Thank you so much for listening.