1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Chapter 10 of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,400 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,600 the public domain. Chapter 10 extract from the 4 00:00:11,607 --> 00:00:13,200 Diary of dr. Watson. 5 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:18,000 So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,800 forwarded during those early days to Sherlock Holmes. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,400 Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,000 am compelled to abandon this method and to trust once more to 9 00:00:29,008 --> 00:00:32,900 my Recollections, aided by the diary, which I kept at the time, 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,100 a few extracts from the latter will carry me onto those scenes 11 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:41,000 which are indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory. 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:44,700 I proceed, then from the morning, which followed are 13 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:48,000 abortive, Chase of the convict and our other strange 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,800 experiences upon the Moor. October sixteenth, a dull and 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,800 foggy day with a drizzle of rain. 16 00:00:57,100 --> 00:01:00,700 The house is banked in with rolling clouds which rise now. 17 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:04,500 And then to show the dreary curves of the more with thin 18 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:08,200 silver veins upon the sides of the hills and the distant 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,300 Boulders gleaming, where the light strikes upon their wet 20 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:17,200 faces, it is melancholy outside. And in the baronet is in a black 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,100 reaction. After the excitement's of the 22 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:24,000 night, I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a 23 00:01:24,008 --> 00:01:28,600 feeling of impending danger ever. in danger, which is the 24 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,600 more terrible because I am unable to Define it and have I 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,200 not cause for such a Feeling Consider the long sequence of 26 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,400 incidents, which have all pointed to some Sinister 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,600 influence which is at work around us. 28 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,100 There is a death of the last occupant of the hall fulfilling. 29 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:51,300 So exactly the conditions of the family Legend and there are the 30 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:55,000 repeated reports from peasants of the appearance of a strange 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,100 creature upon the Moor twice. I have with my own ears, heard 32 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:03,500 the sound which resembled the distant baying of a hound. 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,699 It is incredible impossible as it should really be outside. 34 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:13,400 The ordinary laws of nature a spectral Hound which leads 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,900 material footmarks and fills the air with its howling is surely 36 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,600 not to be thought of Stapleton may fall in with such a 37 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,300 Superstition and Mortimer also, but if I have one quality on 38 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:30,300 Earth, it is common sense. And nothing will persuade me to 39 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,500 believe in such a thing to do. So would be to descend Level of 40 00:02:34,508 --> 00:02:39,300 these poor peasants who are not content with a mere fiend, dog. 41 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:42,400 But must needs describe him with Hellfire. 42 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,200 Shooting from his mouth and eyes. 43 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,100 Holmes would not listen to such fancies and I am his agent but 44 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:53,000 facts are facts. And I have twice heard this 45 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,300 crying upon the Moor suppose that there were really some huge 46 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,100 Hound loose upon it. That would go far to explain 47 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:04,700 everything, but where could such a Hound like and sealed? 48 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,500 Where did it get its food? Where did it come from? 49 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,200 How was it that? No one saw it by day, it must be 50 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,700 confessed that the natural explanation offers almost as 51 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:21,000 many difficulties as the other and always apart from the Hound, 52 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:24,000 there is a fact of the human agency in London. 53 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:28,000 The man in the cab and the letter, which warns her Henry 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,700 against the more This, at least was real, but it might have been 55 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:36,100 the work for protecting friend as easily as of an enemy. 56 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:41,300 Where is that friend or enemy? Now, has he remained in London, 57 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,700 or has he followed us down here? Could he could he be the 58 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:48,900 stranger? Whom I saw a pond the tour. 59 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,700 It is true that I've had only the one glance at him. 60 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,300 And yet there are some things to which I'm ready to swear. 61 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,200 He is no one whom I have seen down here and I have now met all 62 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,100 the neighbors. The figure was Far taller than 63 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:07,700 that of Stapleton far, thinner than that of Frankland. 64 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,700 Barrymore, it might possibly have been but we had left him 65 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,100 behind us and I'm certain that he could not have followed us. 66 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,899 A stranger then is still dogging. 67 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:22,900 Us just as a stranger dogged Us in London with never shaken him 68 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,700 off. If I could lay my hands upon 69 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:28,200 that man. Then at last, we might find 70 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,200 ourselves at the end of all our difficulties to this one 71 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,000 purpose. I must now devote all my 72 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,400 energies. My first impulse was to tell 73 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:44,000 Sir, Henry all my plans, my second and wisest one is to play 74 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 my own game and speak as little as possible to anyone. 75 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:51,900 He is silent and astray. His nerves have been strangely 76 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,800 shaken by that sound upon the Moor. 77 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:58,400 Or I will say nothing to add to his anxieties but I will take my 78 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,600 own steps to attain my own end. We had a small scene this 79 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,200 morning after breakfast Barrymore asked leave to speak 80 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,700 with Sir. Henry and they were closeted in 81 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:14,200 his study some little time sitting in the billiard room, I 82 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,100 more than once heard the sound of voices raised and I had a 83 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:21,500 pretty good idea what the point was, which was under discussion. 84 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:26,400 After time, the baronet opened his door and called for me 85 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,000 Barrymore considers that he has a grievance. 86 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,500 He said he thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his 87 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,800 brother-in-law down when he of his own free will and told us 88 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,000 the secret the butler was standing very pale but very 89 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,300 collected before us Or he may have spoken too warmly. 90 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:51,900 Sir, said, he and if I have I'm sure that I beg your pardon but 91 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:54,400 the same time I was very much surprised. 92 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,700 When I heard you two gentlemen, come back this morning and 93 00:05:57,700 --> 00:05:59,700 learned that you had been chasing Selden. 94 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,200 The poor fellow has enough to fight against without my putting 95 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,700 more upon his track. If you told us of your own free 96 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:10,200 will, there would have been a different thing. 97 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,100 Said the baronet you only told us or rather your wife only told 98 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,500 us when it was forced from you and you could not help yourself. 99 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,000 I didn't think you would have taken advantage of it Sir. 100 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,300 Henry indeed. I didn't. 101 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,700 The mat is a public danger, there are lonely houses 102 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:31,400 scattered over the Moor and he is a fellow. 103 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,000 Who would stick at nothing, you would only want to get a glimpse 104 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,800 of his face to see that look at mr. 105 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,600 Stapleton's. House, for example, with no one 106 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,000 but himself to defend it, there's no safety for anyone 107 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,200 till he's under lock and key. You break into no house sir, or 108 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,300 you give you my solemn word upon it, but he will never trouble 109 00:06:52,300 --> 00:06:55,100 anyone in this country again. Are you sure? 110 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,700 You sir, Henry don't know, very few days. 111 00:06:57,900 --> 00:07:02,300 The necessary arrangements will have been made and he will be on 112 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,200 his way to South America for God's sake. 113 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,200 Sir, are you beg of you? Not to let the police know that 114 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,800 he's still on the more? It given up the chase there and 115 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,200 he can lie, quiet, until a ship is ready for him. 116 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,400 You can't tell on him without getting my wife and me into 117 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,600 trouble. I beg you sir to say nothing to 118 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,000 the police. What do you say Watson? 119 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,700 I Shrugged my shoulders. If he was safely out of the 120 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,200 country, it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden. 121 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,000 But how about the chance of his holding someone up before he 122 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,300 goes? He would not do anything. 123 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,500 So mad sir, we have provided him with all the. 124 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,200 Can one to commit a crime would be to show where he was hiding. 125 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:53,500 that is true said, Sir, Henry well Barrymore God bless you, 126 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,700 sir? And thank you for my art. 127 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,700 It would have killed. My poor wife. 128 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:01,500 Had he been taken again. I guess we are aiding and 129 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:05,400 abetting a felony Watson but after what we've heard I don't 130 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,600 feel as if I could give the man up so there's an end to it. 131 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,300 Alright Barrymore you can go With a few broken words of 132 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:16,700 gratitude. The man turned but he hesitated. 133 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,500 And then came back. You've been so kind to us her 134 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:24,200 that I should like to do the best I can for you in return. 135 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,600 I know something Sir Henry and perhaps I should have said it 136 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,400 before but it was long after the inquest that I found out. 137 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:35,700 I'd never breathed a word about it yet to Mortal man. 138 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:39,000 It's about poor sir. Charles's death. 139 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:42,400 The baronet and I were both Upon Our Feet. 140 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:46,300 Do you know how he died? No, sir. 141 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:51,000 I don't know that. What then I know why was at the 142 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,900 Gate of the hour. It was to meet a woman. 143 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,000 To meet a woman, he yes, sir and the woman's name. 144 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,400 I can't give you the name sir, but I can give you the initials 145 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:10,400 or initials were LL. How do you know this Barrymore? 146 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:15,100 Well Sir, Henry your uncle had a letter that morning. 147 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,200 He had usually a great many letters, but he was a public man 148 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,200 and well known for his kind heart. 149 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:24,500 So that everyone who was in trouble was glad to turn to him 150 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,300 but that morning as it chanced there was only this one letter. 151 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:34,100 So I took the more notice of it it was from coombe Tracey and it 152 00:09:34,108 --> 00:09:39,900 was addressed in a woman's hand well well sir are you thought no 153 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,200 more of the mire? And never would have done that. 154 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,000 It not been for my wife. Only a few weeks ago she was 155 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,900 cleaning out sir Charles's study. 156 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:52,600 It has never been touched since his death and she found the 157 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,100 ashes of a burned letter in the back of the great the greater 158 00:09:56,100 --> 00:10:00,700 part of it was charred to Pieces but one little slip the end of a 159 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:05,200 page untogether and the writing could still be read though. 160 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,500 It was gray on a black background. 161 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,600 It seemed to us to be a PostScript at the end of the 162 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,900 letter. And it said, please, please, as 163 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:19,300 you are a gentleman burn this letter and be at the gate by ten 164 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:23,800 o'clock beneath it was signed the initials ll. 165 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:27,700 Have you got that slip? No, sir. 166 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,500 It crumbled all to bits after we moved it. 167 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:34,300 Had Sir Charles received any other letters in the same 168 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,800 writing? Well, sir, are you took no 169 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,400 particular notice of his letters? 170 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,300 And I should not have noticed this one on? 171 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:47,100 Only happen to come alone and you have no idea who LL is, no 172 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:51,200 sir, no more than you have. But I expect if we could lay our 173 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,800 hands upon that lady, we should know more about Sir Charles's 174 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,600 death. I cannot understand Barrymore 175 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:03,500 how you came to conceal. This important information will 176 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,900 sir, it was immediately after that our own trouble came to us. 177 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,700 And then against her, we are both of us very fond of Sir. 178 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:14,900 Charles, as we, well, might be considering all he has done for 179 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:19,200 us to write this up, couldn't help our poor master and it's 180 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,500 well to go carefully when there's a lady in the case, even 181 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,300 the best of us You thought it might injure his reputation. 182 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,600 Well, sir, are you thought? No good. 183 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,500 Could come of it, but now you've been kind to us and I feel as if 184 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,400 it would be treating you unfairly not to tell you all 185 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,200 that I know about the matter. Very good Barrymore you can go 186 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:45,100 when the butler the left us. So Henry turned to me. 187 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Well Watson, what do you think of this new light? 188 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,900 It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. 189 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,900 So I think, but if we can only Trace LL, it should clear up the 190 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:01,600 help business. We've gained that much. 191 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:04,100 We know that there's someone who has a fact. 192 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:07,100 If we can only find her, what do you think we should do? 193 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,700 Let homes know all about it at once. 194 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,500 It'll give him the clue for which has been seeking. 195 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:18,800 I am much mistaken. If it does not bring him down, I 196 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,800 went at once to my room and Drew up my report of the morning's 197 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,400 conversation for homes. It was evident to me as he been 198 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,900 very busy of late for the notes which I had from Baker, Street 199 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:33,700 were few and short with no comments upon the information, 200 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:37,500 which I had supplied and hardly any reference to my mission. 201 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,400 No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties. 202 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,800 And yet this new Factor, must surely arrest his attention and 203 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,000 renew his interest. I wish that he were here. 204 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:58,700 October 17th all day today. The rain poured down rustling on 205 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:00,700 the Ivy and dripping from the eaves. 206 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,800 I thought of the convict out upon the Bleak, cold shelterless 207 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,700 more poor devil, whatever his crimes, he's suffered something 208 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:14,300 to atone for them and then I sort of that other one, the face 209 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:19,200 in the cab, the figure against the moon, was he also out in 210 00:13:19,208 --> 00:13:22,700 that Deluge? The Unseen Watcher, the man? 211 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:27,000 Of darkness in the evening. I put on my waterproof and I 212 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,800 walked far upon the sodden more full of dark imaginings. 213 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:34,400 The rain beating upon my face and the wind whistling about my 214 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,500 ears. God help those who wander into 215 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:40,900 the great Maya. Now, for, even the Firma plans 216 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:44,900 are becoming a morass. I found the black tour upon 217 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:48,600 which I had seen the solitary Watcher and from its craggy 218 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,200 Summit. I looked out myself across the 219 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,200 Melancholy Downs. Rain squalls drifted across 220 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,800 their russet face and the heavy slate-colored clouds hung low 221 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,800 over the landscape trailing in Gray Ruiz down the sides of the 222 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,900 Fantastic Hills in the distant, Halo, on the left, half hidden 223 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,700 by the missed. The two Thin towers of 224 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:16,400 Baskerville Hall, Rose above the trees, they were the only signs 225 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:21,000 of human life, which I could see save only those prehistoric Huts 226 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,800 which lay thickly upon the slopes. 227 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:26,700 Of the hills. Nowhere, was there any trace of 228 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:30,000 that lonely, man. Whom I had seen on the same spot 229 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,900 two nights before. As I walked back, I was 230 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,300 overtaken by dr. Mortimer driving in his dog-cart 231 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:40,600 over a rough Moreland track which led from The outlying 232 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,800 Farmhouse of foul Mayer. He's been very attentive to us 233 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,200 and hardly a day has passed that he is not called the hall to see 234 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,500 how we're getting on. He insisted upon my climbing 235 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,200 into his dog-cart and he gave me a lift home. 236 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,900 Would I found him much troubled Over? 237 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:00,000 The Disappearance of his little spaniel. 238 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,900 It had wandered onto the Moor and had never come back. 239 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,900 I gave him such consolation as I might, but I thought of the pony 240 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,600 on the grimpen mire and I do not fancy that he will see his 241 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,900 little Again, by the way, Mortimer said I, as we jolted 242 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:21,400 along the rough road, I suppose there are few people living 243 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,400 within driving distance of this whom you do not know hardly any 244 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,700 I think. Can you then tell me the name of 245 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:37,100 any woman whose initials are LL? He thought for a few minutes, no 246 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,800 said, he, there are a few Gypsies and laboring folk for 247 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,200 whom I can't answer but among the Farmers or Gentry. 248 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,200 There is no one whose initials are those? 249 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:51,300 Wait a bit though. He added after a pause, there is 250 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:55,600 Laura Lyons her. Initials are LL but she lives in 251 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,300 coombe Tracey. Who is she? 252 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:04,000 I asked she is Franklin's daughter what old Franklin the 253 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,200 crank exactly. She married an artist named 254 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,600 Lions who came sketching on the more. 255 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,400 He proved to be a black card and deserted her. 256 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,700 The fault from what I hear may not have been entirely on one 257 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,000 side. Her father refused to have 258 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,700 anything to do with her because she had married without his 259 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:25,500 consent and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well. 260 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,300 So between the old And the young one, the girl has had a pretty 261 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:32,900 bad time. How does she live? 262 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,100 I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it can't be more 263 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,200 for his own Affairs are considerably involved. 264 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,900 Whatever she may have deserved when could not allow her to go 265 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:49,100 hopelessly to the bad, her story got about and several of the 266 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,200 people here, did something to enable her to earn an honest, 267 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:57,400 living Stapleton did for one and Sir, Charles for another I gave 268 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,600 a trifle myself, it was to set her up in a typewriting 269 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,800 business. He wanted to know the object of 270 00:17:03,808 --> 00:17:07,900 my inquiries, but I managed to satisfy his curiosity without 271 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,800 telling him too much. For there is no reason why we 272 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,599 should take anyone into our confidence tomorrow morning. 273 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:19,000 I shall find my way to coombe Tracey and if I can see this 274 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,500 mrs. Laura Lyons of equivocal 275 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,500 reputation. A long step will have been made 276 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:29,100 towards clearing one incident. In this chain of mysteries, I'm 277 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:32,700 certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent for when Mortimer 278 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:36,700 pressed his questions to An Inconvenient extent I asked him 279 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:40,900 casually to what type Franklin's skull belonged and so heard 280 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:45,200 nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive, I have not 281 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,600 lived for years with Sherlock, Holmes for nothing. 282 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:52,000 I have only one other incident to record upon this tempestuous 283 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,900 and melancholy day. This was my conversation with 284 00:17:55,900 --> 00:18:00,400 Barrymore just now which Give me one more strong card, which I 285 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,600 can play In Due Time. Mortimer, had stayed to dinner, 286 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,900 and he and the baronet played a cart afterwards. 287 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:12,400 The butler brought me my coffee into the library and I took the 288 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,700 chance to ask him a few questions. 289 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:20,800 Well said, I has this precious relation of yours departed or is 290 00:18:20,808 --> 00:18:24,500 he still looking out yonder? Are you don't know sir? 291 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,200 I hope to Heaven that he's gone freeze, brought nothing but 292 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,700 trouble here. I've not heard of him since I 293 00:18:30,708 --> 00:18:33,900 left our food from last and that was three days ago. 294 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:37,300 Did you see him then? No sir. 295 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,400 But the food was gone. When next, I went that way. 296 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:45,500 Then he was certainly there. So you would think sir, unless 297 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:46,800 it was the other man who took it. 298 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,800 I sat with my coffee cup halfway to my lips and stared at 299 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:58,300 Barrymore You know that there is another man then yes sir there's 300 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:01,400 another man upon the Moor. Have you seen him? 301 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,400 No sir. How do you know of him then? 302 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:08,400 Selden told me of him sir a week ago or more. 303 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,500 He's in hiding too but he's not a convict as far as I can make 304 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,400 out. I don't like it dr. 305 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,300 Watson, I tell you straight sir that I don't like it. 306 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,500 He spoke with a sudden passion of earnestness. 307 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,700 Now listen to me Barrymore I have no interest in this matter 308 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,600 but that of your master I've come here with no object except 309 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,200 to help him. Tell me frankly what is it that 310 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,400 you don't like Barrymore hesitated for a moment. 311 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,400 As if you regretted his Outburst or found it difficult, to 312 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,500 express his own feelings in words. 313 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,700 It's all these goings on sir, he cried at last waving his hand 314 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:53,000 towards the rain lashed window, which faced a more serious Foul 315 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,600 Play somewhere and there's black villainy Brewing to that else. 316 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,000 We're very glad I should be sir to see, Sir Henry on his way 317 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 back to London again. But what is it? 318 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,300 That alarms you look at sir, Charles's death. 319 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,000 That was bad enough for all that. 320 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000 The coroner said, look at the noises on the Moor at night. 321 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,800 There's not a man who would cross it after Sundown, if he 322 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,700 was paid for it. Look at this, stranger iding, 323 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:22,100 out, yonder, and watching and waiting. 324 00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:25,300 What's he waiting for? What does it mean? 325 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,400 It means no good to anyone of the name of Baskerville and very 326 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,100 glad I shall be to quit of it all in the day that surrender. 327 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:33,500 He's new servants are ready to take. 328 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,500 Take over the whole but about this stranger said, I can you 329 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:41,600 tell me anything about him? What did Selden say? 330 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,000 Did he find out where he hid? What he was doing? 331 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:50,100 He saw him once or twice but he's a deep one and gives 332 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:53,800 nothing away at first. He thought he was the police. 333 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,700 But soon he found that he had some layer of his own. 334 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,600 A kind of gentleman. He was as far as he could see. 335 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:03,700 But what he was doing, he could not make out. 336 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,300 And where did he say that? He lived. 337 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:10,700 Among the old houses on the hillside, the stone Hut's, where 338 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:14,400 the old folk used to live, but how about is food? 339 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:18,700 Selden found out that he has got a lad who works for him and 340 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:21,600 brings all he needs. Are you dare say he goes to 341 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,400 coombe Tracey for. He once. 342 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:28,600 Very good Barrymore. We may talk further of this some 343 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,700 other time when the Butler had gone I walked over to the black 344 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:35,900 window and I looked through a blurred pain at the driving 345 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:39,500 clouds and at the tossing outline of the Windswept trees, 346 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:44,200 it is a wild night indoors and what must it be in stone Hut 347 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,600 upon the Moor. What passion of hatred can it 348 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,900 be? Which leads a man to lurk in 349 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:54,300 such a place at such a Time. And what deep and Earnest 350 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:58,800 purpose can he have which calls for such a trial there? 351 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,700 In that Hut upon the Moor, seems to lie, the very center of that 352 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:07,800 problem, which was vexed. Me so sorely, I swear that 353 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,500 another day shall not have passed before. 354 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:14,700 I have done all that man can do to reach the heart of the 355 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,000 mystery. End of chapter 10. 356 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,000 End of chapter 10.