1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Chapter 7 of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,200 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,900 the public domain. Chapter 7, the stapleton's of 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:15,700 merripit house. The fresh beauty of the 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,900 following morning did something to efface from our minds, the 6 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,300 Grim and grey impression, which have been left upon both of us. 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,900 By our first experience of Baskerville Hall as Sir Henry. 8 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:29,800 And I sat at breakfast, the sunlight flooded in through the 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,500 high mullioned Windows throwing watery, patches of color, from 10 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,200 the Coats of Arms, which covered them. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,000 The dark paneling glowed like bronze in the golden rays and it 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,700 was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which had 13 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:47,700 struck such a Gloom into our souls upon the evening before, I 14 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:50,600 guess it is ourselves. And not the house that we have 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,700 to blame said the baronet, we were tired with our journey and 16 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,600 chilled by our drive. So we took a gray view of the 17 00:00:57,608 --> 00:01:00,800 place. Now, we are fresh and well so it 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,700 is all cheerful once more. And yet it was not entirely a 19 00:01:04,708 --> 00:01:08,000 question of imagination. I answered did you? 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 For example happened to hear someone a woman. 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,700 I think sobbing in the night that is curious for. 22 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:17,800 I did. What I was half-asleep fancy 23 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,800 that I heard something of the sort. 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,100 I waited quite a time but there was no more of it. 25 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,700 So I concluded that it was all a dream. 26 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,400 I had it distinctly and I am sure that it was really the Saab 27 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,300 of a woman. We must ask about it right away. 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,400 He rang the bell and asked Barrymore whether he could 29 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,500 account for our experience. It seemed to me that the pallid 30 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,400 features of the butler turned a shade paler still as he listened 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,400 to his master's question. There are only two women in the 32 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,700 house. Senri he answered. 33 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:55,300 One is the scullery maid who sleeps in the other Wing? 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,400 The other is my wife and I can answer for it that the sound 35 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,000 could not have come from her. And yet, he lied. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,800 As he said it for a chance that after breakfast. 37 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,400 I met mrs. Barrymore in the long Corridor 38 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,300 with the sun full upon her face, she was a large impassive, heavy 39 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,500 featured woman with a Stern set expression of mouth. 40 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:20,900 But her Telltale eyes were red and glanced at me from between 41 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:25,000 swollen Lids. It was she then who wept in a 42 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,600 night? And if she did, so her husband 43 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,800 must know it yet. He had taken the obvious risk of 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,800 Discovery in Glaring, as it was not. 45 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,400 So why had he done this? And why did she weep so 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,900 bitterly? Already round this pale-faced 47 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,000 handsome black-bearded, man, there was gathering an 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,100 atmosphere of mystery and of Gloom. 49 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:49,200 It was, he who had been the first to discover the body of 50 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,200 Sir, Charles and we had only his word for all the circumstances, 51 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,400 which led up to the old man's death. 52 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,300 Was it possible that it was Barrymore after all whom we had 53 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:02,400 seen in the cab in Regent Street? 54 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:04,900 The beard might, well have been the same. 55 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,200 The cabman have described a somewhat shorter, man, but such 56 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,900 an impression might easily have been erroneous, how can I settle 57 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,700 a point forever? Obviously, the first thing to do 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,300 was to see the grimpen postmaster and fine, whether the 59 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:23,700 test telegram, had really been placed in Barrymore's, own 60 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:25,800 hands. Be the answer. 61 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,200 What it might, I should at least have something to report to 62 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,900 Sherlock Holmes. So Henry had numerous papers to 63 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:36,300 examine after breakfast so that the time was propitious for my 64 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:40,000 Excursion. It was a pleasant walk of for 65 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,100 Miles along the edge of the Moor leading me at last, to a small 66 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:47,900 gray hamlet in which to larger buildings, which proved to be 67 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,900 the in and the house of dr. Mortimer, stood High Above the 68 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:55,200 Rest. The postmaster who was also the 69 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,400 village grocer had a clear, recollection of the telegram. 70 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:02,900 Certainly sir said he, I had the telegram delivered to mr. 71 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:05,900 Barrymore. Exactly as directed who 72 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:07,800 delivered it? My boy here. 73 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:10,700 James, you delivered that telegram to mr. 74 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:12,800 Barrymore, at the old last week, did you not? 75 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:17,500 Yes, Father, I delivered it into his own hands. 76 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,800 I asked, well, he was up in The Loft at the time, so that he 77 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,900 could not put into his own hands boy. 78 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,400 Give in to mrs. Barrymore's hands and she 79 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,300 promised to deliver it once. Did you see mr. 80 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,100 Barrymore, no sir. I tell you. 81 00:04:33,108 --> 00:04:36,700 He was in The Loft if you didn't see him. 82 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:38,900 How do you know he Was in The Loft. 83 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:43,300 Well, surely his own wife, ought to know where he is, said the 84 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,300 postmaster testily, didn't he get the telegram? 85 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,600 If there's any mistake? It is for mr. 86 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,800 Barrymore himself to complain. It seemed hopeless to pursue the 87 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,800 inquiry any father, but it was clear that in spite of homes is 88 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,200 ruse. We had no proof that Barrymore 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,900 had not been in London all the time, suppose that it were so 90 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,400 suppose that the same man had been the last two had seen such 91 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,600 as alive and the first two dogs and you are when he returned to 92 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,700 England, what then was he the agent of others or had he some 93 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:21,100 Sinister design of his own? What interest could he have in 94 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:23,100 persecuting the Baskerville family? 95 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,500 I thought of the strange, warning clipped out of the 96 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,800 leading article of the times. Was that his work or was it 97 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,700 possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting? 98 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:38,200 His schemes, the only conceivable motive was that 99 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,900 which have been suggested by Sir Henry that if the family could 100 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:45,700 be scared away a comfortable and permanent home would be secured 101 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:48,900 for the Barrymore's, but surely such an explanation. 102 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Nation as that would be quite inadequate to account for the 103 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,400 deep and subtle scheming which seemed to be weaving an 104 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,600 invisible net around the young baronet Holmes himself. 105 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,700 Had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the 106 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,700 long series of his Sensational investigations. 107 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,300 I prayed as I walked back along the gray lonely road that my 108 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:15,000 friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations and able to 109 00:06:15,008 --> 00:06:18,100 come down to take his heavy burden of responsibility from my 110 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:21,200 shoulders. Suddenly, my thoughts were 111 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,000 interrupted by the sound of running feet behind me, and by a 112 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,600 voice, which called me by name. I turned expecting to see dr. 113 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,300 Mortimer, but to my surprise, it was a stranger who was pursuing 114 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:36,000 me. He was a small slim 115 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,800 clean-shaven. Prim faced man flaxen-haired and 116 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,300 lean George between 30 and 40 years of age, dressed in a gray 117 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:49,000 suit and wearing a straw hat at inbox for Botanical specimens, 118 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,000 huh? Her over his shoulder and he 119 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,800 carried a green butterfly. Net in one of his hands. 120 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:58,000 You will I am sure excuse my presumption Doctor. 121 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,300 Watson said he as he came panting up to where I stood Here 122 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:07,100 on the more we are a homely folk and do not wait for formal 123 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:10,800 introductions, you may possibly have heard my name from our 124 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,200 mutual friend Mortimer. I am Stapleton of merripit 125 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,400 house. Your net and box would have told 126 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,200 me as much said, I for, I knew that mr. 127 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,600 Stapleton was a naturalist. But how did you know me how 128 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,900 you've been calling on Mortimer? And he pointed you out to me 129 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:34,100 from the window of his surgery as you passed as our road lay 130 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:36,700 the same way. I thought that I could overtake 131 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:40,900 you and introduce myself. I trust that Sir Henry is none. 132 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,500 The worse for his journey. He's very well thank you. 133 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:48,800 We were all rather afraid that after the sad death of Sir, 134 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,000 Charles, the new baronet might refuse to live. 135 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,800 Here it is asking much of a wealthy man to come down and 136 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,300 bury himself in a place of this kind, but I need not tell you 137 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:03,500 that it means a very great deal to the countryside. 138 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,100 So Henry, as I suppose, no superstitious fears in a matter, 139 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,800 I do not think that it is likely. 140 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,400 Of course, you know, the legend of the fiend dog, which haunts 141 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,500 the family I have heard of it. It is extraordinary how 142 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:23,900 credulous the pheasants are about here. 143 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:27,900 Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a 144 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:32,100 creature upon the more. He spoke with a smile, but I 145 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:35,299 seem to read in his eyes and he took the matter more seriously. 146 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:40,400 The story took a great hold upon the imagination of Sir Charles 147 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:47,000 and I have no doubt that it led to his tragic end but how his 148 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,500 nerves were so worked up that the appearance of any dog might 149 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:53,400 have had a fatal effect upon his diseased heart. 150 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,900 I fancy that he really did see something of the kind upon that 151 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,900 last night in the you Ali. I feared that some disaster 152 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:06,400 might occur for I was very fond of the old man and I You that 153 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,300 his heart was weak. How did you know that my friend 154 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:16,000 Mortimer told me? You think then that some dog, 155 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,900 pursued, Sir, Charles and that he died of fright in 156 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:22,800 consequence? Have you any better explanation? 157 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,600 I have not. Come to any conclusion. 158 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:28,500 Has mr. Sherlock Holmes. 159 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,200 The words took away my breath for an instant, but a glance at 160 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,800 the Placid face and steadfast eyes of my companion, showed 161 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,000 that no surprise was intended. It is useless for us to pretend 162 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,500 that we do not know you dr. Watson said he the records of 163 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,800 your detective have reached as here and you could not celebrate 164 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,800 him without being known yourself. 165 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,600 When Mortimer told me your name, he could not deny your identity. 166 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:01,100 If you are here, then it follows that mr. 167 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:05,000 Sherlock Holmes is interesting himself in the matter and I Am 168 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Naturally curious to know what viewing may take. 169 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,400 I'm afraid that I cannot answer that question. 170 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:16,500 May I ask him if he's going to honor us with a visit himself, 171 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,800 he cannot leave town at present. He has other cases, which 172 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:26,500 engages attention what a Pity. He might throw some light on 173 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:30,800 that, which is so dark to us. But as to your own researches, 174 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,600 if there is any possible way in which I can be of service to 175 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,200 you, I trust that you will command me if I had any 176 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,100 indication of the nature of your suspicions, or How you propose 177 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,900 to investigate the case? I might perhaps even now give 178 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:51,600 you some Aid or advice. I assure you that I am simply 179 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,700 here upon a visit to my friend Sir, Henry and that I need no 180 00:10:55,700 --> 00:11:00,000 help of any kind. Excellent said Stapleton. 181 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,900 You are perfectly right to be wary and discreet. 182 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,100 I am justly reproved. For what I feel was an 183 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:11,300 unjustifiable intrusion and I promise you that I will not 184 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:15,700 mention the matter again. We'd come to a point where an 185 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:18,900 arrow grassy pass. Struck off from the road and 186 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:23,700 wound away across the Moor. A steep Boulder sprinkled, he'll 187 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,600 lay upon the right which had in bygone days. 188 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,600 Been cut into a Granite Quarry the face which was turned 189 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,300 towards us formed a dark Cliff with Ferns and brambles growing 190 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,200 in its niches from over a distant rise. 191 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,300 They floated a grey plume of smoke. 192 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,300 A moderate walk along this more path. 193 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:48,600 Brings us to marry pit house said he perhaps she will spare 194 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,900 an hour that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to 195 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,800 my sister. My first thought was that I 196 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,700 should be by Sir Henry side but then I remembered the pile of 197 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:03,000 papers and bills with which his study table was littered. 198 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,100 It was certain that I could not help with those and homes had 199 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:09,900 expressly said that I should study the neighbors upon the 200 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:12,600 more. I accepted stapleton's 201 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,700 invitation and we turn together down the path. 202 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:21,100 It is a wonderful place to more said he looking around over the 203 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:25,400 undulating Downs, long green rollers with crests of jagged. 204 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:30,300 Granite foaming up into fantastic surges, you never Tire 205 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:34,200 of them or you cannot think the wonderful Secrets which it 206 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,100 contains, it is so vast and so Barren. 207 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:44,400 And so mysterious You know, well then our you've only been here 208 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,000 two years, the residents would call me a newcomer we came 209 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,900 shortly after Sir, Charles settled, but my tastes led. 210 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:57,200 Me to explore every part of the country round and I should sing 211 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,800 that. There are few men who know it 212 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,200 better than I do. Is it hard to know? 213 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,100 Very hard? You see for example this Great 214 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:09,600 Plain to the north here with the queer ills. 215 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,500 Breaking out of it. Do You observe anything 216 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:16,200 remarkable about that? It will be a rare place for a 217 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,600 gallop. You would naturally think so, 218 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,900 and the thought has cost several their lives before. 219 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:27,700 Now, you notice those bright green spots scattered thickly 220 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,100 over it? Yes, they see more fertile than 221 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:35,200 the rest Stapleton, laughed her. That is the great. 222 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,400 Grimpen mire said, he a false step Yonder means death to man 223 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,700 or beast only yesterday. I saw one of the more ponies 224 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:48,500 Wonder into it. Me never came out. 225 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,400 I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog hole 226 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:58,500 but it sucked him down at last even in dry seasons, it is a 227 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:03,200 danger to cross it but after these Autumn rains it is an 228 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,600 awful place and yet I can find my way to the very heart of it 229 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,600 and return Alive by George. There's another of those 230 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,800 miserable ponies. Something brown was rolling and 231 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,500 tossing among the green sedges and a long agonized writhing. 232 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:22,900 Neck shot upward and a dreadful cry. 233 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:26,500 Echoed over the more. It turned me cold with horror. 234 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:30,000 But my companions nerves seemed to be stronger than mine. 235 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,200 It's gone. Said he, the Meyer has him to in 236 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,400 two days, and many more perhaps for they get in the way of going 237 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,600 there, in the dry weather and never know the difference until 238 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,500 the Meyer as the minutes clutches, it's a bad place. 239 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:51,900 The great grimpen mire and you say you can penetrate it. 240 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:56,800 Yes, there are one or two paths which are very active man. 241 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,500 Can take, I have found them out. But why should you wish to go 242 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:07,400 into so horrible a place? Well you see the hills Beyond 243 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:11,200 they are really Ireland's cut off on all sides by The 244 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,900 Impossible Meyer which is crawl, drowned them in the course of 245 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:18,200 years. That is where the rare plants 246 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,300 and the butterflies are if you have the wit to reach him. 247 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,700 I shall try my luck someday. He looked at me with a surprised 248 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:32,200 face for God's sake, put such an idea out of your mind said he, 249 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,200 your blood will be upon my head. I assure you that there would 250 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,300 not be the least chance of your coming back alive. 251 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:45,700 It is only by remembering certain complex, landmarks that 252 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:49,500 I am able to do it. Hello. 253 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,000 I cried. What is that? 254 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:58,600 A long low moan indescribably sad swept over the more it 255 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,000 filled the whole air and yet it was impossible to say. 256 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,400 Whence it came. From a dull, murmur it swelled 257 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,500 into a deep Roar. And then sank, back into a 258 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:13,000 Melancholy throbbing, murmur. Once again, Stapleton looked at 259 00:16:13,008 --> 00:16:18,400 me with a curious expression in his face, We're place, the more 260 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:24,000 said he but what is it? The Peasants say it is the Hound 261 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,700 of the Baskervilles calling for its prey. 262 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,700 I've heard it once or twice before but never quite so loud. 263 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:36,400 I looked round with a chill of fear in my heart, the huge 264 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,800 swelling plane mottled with the green patches of Russia's 265 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,600 nothing stirred. Over the vast expanse. 266 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,000 Save a pair of ravens which croaked loudly from a tour 267 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,300 behind us. You are an educated man. 268 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:55,400 You don't believe such nonsense. As that said I What do you think 269 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,700 is the cause of? So strange, a sound? 270 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:03,500 Boggs make queer noises. Sometimes it's a mud set Lenore 271 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:08,900 the Water Rising or something. No no, that was a living voice. 272 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,599 Well, perhaps it was. Did you ever hear a bitten 273 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:16,300 booming? No I never did. 274 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,300 It is a very rare bird practically extinct in England 275 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:24,700 now but all things are possible upon the Moor. 276 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,500 Yes, I should not be surprised to learn what we have heard. 277 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,300 Is the Cry of the last of the britons. 278 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,800 Is the weirdest strangest thing that ever I heard in my life. 279 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:39,800 Yes, it's rather an uncanny Place altogether. 280 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:44,000 Look at the hillside Yonder. What do you make of those? 281 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:48,000 The whole steep slope was covered with grey, circular 282 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,900 rings of stone, a score of them, at least. 283 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:57,500 What are they sheep pens? Know they are the homes of our 284 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:01,000 worthy ancestors prehistoric man. 285 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,100 Lived sickly on the Moor and as no one in particular as lived 286 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:09,500 there since we find all these little Arrangements exactly as 287 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:13,900 he left them, these are his wigwams with the roofs off. 288 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,300 You can even In see his Hearth and his couch, if you have the 289 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:22,400 Curiosity to go inside. But it is quite a town. 290 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,500 When was it inhabited? Neolithic man. 291 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,700 No date. What did he do? 292 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,500 He grazed his cattle on those slopes and he learned to dig for 293 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,900 tin when the bronze sword began to serve supersede the stone 294 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:40,700 axe. Look at the great trench in the 295 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:45,200 opposite Hill, that is his Mark. Yes, you'll find some very 296 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,500 singular points about the more dr. 297 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,600 Watson. Oh, excuse me, an instant. 298 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:56,300 It is surely cyclop adiz. A small fly or moth had 299 00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:00,300 fluttered across our path and in an instant Stapleton was rushing 300 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:04,400 with extraordinary energy and speed in pursuit of it to my 301 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,700 dismay. The creature flew straight for 302 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:09,800 the great Maya. And my acquaintance never paused 303 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,700 for an instant bounding from tuft to tuft behind it. 304 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:19,100 His Green net waving in the air his grey clothes and jerky. 305 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:23,300 Zigzaggy regular progress, made him not unlike some huge moth 306 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,000 himself. If I was standing watching his 307 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,300 Pursuit with a mixture of admiration, for his 308 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:31,900 extraordinary, activity and fear, lest he should lose his 309 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,300 footing in the treacherous Meyer, when I heard the sound of 310 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:39,400 steps and turning round found a woman near me upon the path. 311 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:42,500 She had come from the direction in which the plume of smoke 312 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:46,300 indicated, the position of merripit house, but the dip of 313 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:49,300 the more had hit her until she was quite close. 314 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,400 I could not doubt that this was the Miss Stapleton of whom I had 315 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,400 been told since ladies of any sort Must Be Few upon the Moor. 316 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,400 And I remembered that I had heard someone describe her as 317 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,900 being a beauty, the woman who approached me was certainly that 318 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,800 and of a most uncommon type, they could not have been a 319 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,900 greater contrast between brother and sister for Stapleton was 320 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:15,800 neutral-tinted with light hair and gray eyes. 321 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,200 While she was darker than any brunette who might seen in 322 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,200 England. Slim elegant and tall. 323 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,300 She had a proud finally cut face. 324 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:29,400 So regular that it might have seemed impassive, were it? 325 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,400 Not for the sensitive mouth and the Beautiful Dark eager eyes 326 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:38,100 with her, perfect figure, and elegant dress, she was indeed a 327 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:42,900 strange Apparition upon a lonely Moreland path, her eyes were on 328 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:46,200 her brother as I turned and then she quickened her Pace towards 329 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,000 me. I had raised my hat and was 330 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,500 about to make some explanation or E remark, when her own words 331 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:58,500 turned, all my thoughts into a new channel, go back, she said, 332 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,100 go straight back to London instantly. 333 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:03,700 I could only stare at her and stupid. 334 00:21:03,700 --> 00:21:07,900 Surprise, her eyes blazed at me, and she tapped the ground 335 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:11,800 impatiently with her foot. Why should I go back? 336 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:16,400 I asked, I cannot explain. She spoke in a low eager voice, 337 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,400 with a curious lisp in her utterance. 338 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,500 But for God's sake, do what? I asked you go back and never 339 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:27,600 set foot upon the Moor again. But I've only just come man, 340 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:30,600 man. She cried, can you not tell when 341 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,500 a warning is for your own good, go back to London. 342 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,300 Start tonight. Get away from this place at all 343 00:21:36,300 --> 00:21:39,700 costs. Hush my brother's coming, not a 344 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:42,400 word of what I've said. Would you mind getting that 345 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,500 Orchid for me among the mares Tails Yonder? 346 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,700 Where very rich in orchids on the more of course you're rather 347 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:50,400 late to see the beauties of the place? 348 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,600 Stapleton had abandoned, the Chase and come back to his 349 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,300 breathing hard and flushed with his exertions. 350 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:02,000 Hello Barrel said, he and it seemed to me that the tone of 351 00:22:02,008 --> 00:22:04,400 his greeting was not altogether a cordial one. 352 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:11,200 Well, Jack, you're very hot. Yes, I was chasing as cyclope 353 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,600 days. He's very rare and seldom found 354 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:15,600 in the late. Autumn. 355 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,700 What a pity you that I should have missed him. 356 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:23,300 He spoke unconcernedly, but his small light eyes glanced 357 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:28,600 incessantly from the girl to me. You have introduced yourselves 358 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,200 or you can see. Yes. 359 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,800 I was telling say Henry that it was rather late for him to see 360 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:39,300 the true beauties of the Moor. Why, who do you think this is? 361 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,600 I imagine that it must be Sir. Henry Baskerville. 362 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:47,200 No, no. I said I only a humble commoner 363 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,900 but his friend. My name is dr. 364 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:53,200 Watson. A flush of vexation passed over 365 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,700 her expressive face, we have been talking at cross-purposes 366 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,500 said, she why? You had not very much time for 367 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:04,600 talk. Her brother remarked, with the 368 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,800 same questioning eyes. I talked as if dr. 369 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,600 Watson were a resident instead of being a merely, a visitor, 370 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:15,000 said she, it cannot much matter to him whether it is early or 371 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,900 late for the orchids but you will. 372 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,100 Come on. Will you not and see merripit 373 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:25,900 house a short walk brought us to it a bleak Moorland house once 374 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:30,000 the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days but now put 375 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,300 in to repair and turned into a modern dwelling. 376 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,000 An orchard surrounded it, but the trees as is usual upon the 377 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,900 Moor was stunted and nipped and the effect of the whole place 378 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,200 was mean and Melancholy. We were admitted by a strange 379 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,100 wizened, Rusty coated old manservant, who seemed in, 380 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:53,600 keeping with the house inside. However, there were large rooms 381 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,500 furnished with an Elegance in which I seem to recognize the 382 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:00,100 taste of the lady. As I looked from their windows, 383 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:04,000 at the interminable Granite, flecked more rolling unbroken to 384 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,400 the farthest Horizon, I could not. 385 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,200 But Marvel at. What could have brought this 386 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,200 Highly Educated man, and this beautiful woman to live in such 387 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:18,400 a place, Queer spot to choose is it not said he is if in answer 388 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,400 to my thought and yet we managed to make ourselves. 389 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,400 Fairly happy. Do we not Barrel? 390 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:29,000 Quite happy said she but there was no ring of conviction. 391 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,300 In her words, I had a school said Stapleton, it was in the 392 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:39,100 North Country, the work to a man of my temperament was mechanical 393 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:42,800 and uninteresting but the privilege of living with youth 394 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,900 of helping to mold those. Those young minds and of 395 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:49,600 impressing them with one's own character and ideals was very 396 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,400 dear to me. However, the fates were against 397 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,500 us a serious epidemic broke out in the school and three of the 398 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:02,100 boys died in never recovered from the blow and much of my 399 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:06,600 Capital was irretrievably swallowed up and yet if it were 400 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,800 not for the loss of the Charming companionship of the boys. 401 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,500 I could Rejoice over my own Misfortune for with my Wrong 402 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:18,700 taste for botany and zoology. I find an unlimited field of 403 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:24,100 work here and my sister is as devoted to Nature as I am, all 404 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,700 this dr. Watson has been brought upon 405 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:30,000 your head by your expression as you surveyed the more out of our 406 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,600 window. It certainly did cross my mind, 407 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,900 that it might be a little dull less for you, perhaps and for 408 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:40,400 your sister. No, no, I'm never dull. 409 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,700 Said she quickly. We have books. 410 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:46,900 We have our studies and we have interesting neighbors. 411 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,700 Dr. Mortimer is a most learned man in his own line. 412 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,100 Poor Sir, Charles was also an admirable companion. 413 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,900 We knew him well and miss him more than I can tell. 414 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:00,600 Do you think that I should intrude? 415 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,400 If I were to call this afternoon? 416 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:04,900 I make the acquaintance of Sir Henry. 417 00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,600 I'm sure that he would be delighted. 418 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,000 Then perhaps you would mention that I propose to do so we met 419 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,900 in our humble way, do something to make things more easy for him 420 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:20,200 until he becomes accustomed to his new surroundings. 421 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:25,000 Will you come upstairs dr. Watson and inspect my collection 422 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,200 of lepidoptera, I think it is the most complete one in the 423 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,500 southwest of England. By the time that you've looked 424 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:35,300 through them lunch will be almost ready. 425 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,700 But I was eager to get back to my charge, The Melancholy of the 426 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:44,200 more, the death of the unfortunate Pony, the weird 427 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,300 sound which have been associated with the Grim legend of the 428 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:51,600 Baskervilles, all these things. Tinged my thoughts with sadness. 429 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,900 Then on top of these more or less vague Impressions. 430 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,000 There had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss 431 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,300 Stapleton delivered. With such intense earnestness. 432 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,100 That I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason. 433 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,500 Behind it. I resisted all pressure to stay 434 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,900 for lunch and I set off at once upon my return Journey, taking 435 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:19,100 the grass grown pass by which we had come, It seems however that 436 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,000 there must have been some shortcut for those who knew it 437 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,200 for. Before I'd reached the road, I 438 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,700 was astounded to see Miss Stapleton sitting upon a rock by 439 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:31,700 the side of the track. Her face was beautifully flushed 440 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:35,100 with her exertions and she held her hand to her side. 441 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,500 I've run all the way in order to cut you off. 442 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:43,400 Dr. Watson said she I had not even time to put on my hat I 443 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,800 must not stop on my brother may miss me, I wanted to say You how 444 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,800 sorry I am about the stupid mistake. 445 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,700 I made in thinking that you were Sir. 446 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:56,300 Henry, please forget the words I said, which have no application 447 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:59,900 whatever to you, But I can't forget them. 448 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:03,500 Miss Stapleton said, I I am sir Henry's friend. 449 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:06,500 And his welfare is a very close concern of mine. 450 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,700 Tell me why it was that you were so eager. 451 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,200 That Sir Henry should return to London. 452 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:16,700 A woman's whim, dr. Watson when you know me better 453 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:19,500 you will understand that I cannot always give reasons for 454 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:22,300 what I say or do. No. 455 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:24,400 No I remember the thrill in your voice. 456 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:26,300 I remember the look in your eyes. 457 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,400 Please please. Be frank with me Miss Stapleton 458 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,700 forever. Since I've been here, I have 459 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:33,900 been conscious of Shadows all around me. 460 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,300 Life has become like that, great. 461 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:40,900 Grimpen mire, with little green, patches everywhere into which 462 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:44,400 one may sink and with no guide to point the track. 463 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,900 Tell me then what it was, you meant, and I will promise to 464 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,900 convey your warning to Sir Henry. 465 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:55,500 An expression of a resolution passed for an instant over her 466 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,100 face. But her eyes had hardened again, 467 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:01,800 when she answered me. You make too much of it. 468 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,100 Dr. Watson said she my brother and I were very much shocked by 469 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:08,300 the death of Sir. Charles, we knew him very 470 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:11,500 intimately for his favourite, walk was over the more to our 471 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,100 house. He was deeply impressed with the 472 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:15,900 curse which hung over the family. 473 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,700 And when this tragedy came, I naturally felt that there must 474 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:22,500 be some grounds for the fears, which he had expressed. 475 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,700 I was distressed. Therefore, when another member 476 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:29,000 of the family came down to live here and I felt that he should 477 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,200 be warned of the sure, which he will run, that was all, which I 478 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,800 intended to convey. But what is the danger? 479 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,700 You know, the story of the Hound? 480 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,600 I do not believe in such nonsense but I do if you have 481 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,800 any influence with Sir Henry take him away from a place which 482 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,900 has always been fatal to his family. 483 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,300 The world is wide. Why should he wish to live at 484 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,900 the place of danger? Because it is the place of 485 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:02,400 danger that is Sir. Henry's nature, I fear that 486 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,600 unless you can give me some more definite information than this, 487 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,200 it would be impossible to get him to move. 488 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:12,200 I cannot say anything. Definite for I do not know 489 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,500 anything definite. I would ask you one more 490 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:19,400 question Miss Stapleton if you meant no more than this when you 491 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,300 first spoke to me. Why should you not wish your 492 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,300 brother, to overhear? What you said? 493 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,600 There's nothing to which he or anyone else could object. 494 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:33,100 My brother is very anxious to have the whole inhabited for he 495 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:35,800 thinks it is for the good of the poor folk upon the more. 496 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,800 He would be very angry if he knew that I have said anything 497 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,000 which might induce a Henry to go away, but I have done my duty 498 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,600 now and I will say no more. I must go back or you will miss 499 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,500 me and suspect that I have seen you goodbye. 500 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:55,500 She turned and had disappeared in a few minutes among the 501 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:59,400 scattered Boulders while I with my Soul full of vague. 502 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,300 Fears. Pursued my way to Baskerville 503 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,300 Hall. End of chapter 7. 504 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,300 End of chapter 7.