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Chapter 3 of The Hound of the 
Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Chapter 3, the problem. 

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I confess that these words are 
shudder pass through me. 

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There was a thrill in the 
doctors voice which showed that 

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he was himself. 
Deeply moved by that which he 

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told us Holmes, leaned forward 
in his excitement and his eyes 

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had the hard dry glitter which 
shock from them when he was 

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keenly interested. 
You saw this as clearly as I see

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you. 
And you said nothing what was 

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the use? 
How was it? 

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That no one else saw it? 
The marks were some 20 yards 

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from the body and no one gave 
them a thought. 

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I don't suppose, I should have 
done so had I not known this 

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Legend. 
There are many sheep dogs on the

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more no doubt, but this was no 
sheepdog. 

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You say it was large enormous 
but it had not approached. 

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The body know what sort of night
was it damp and raw but not 

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actually raining know what is 
the alley? 

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Like there are two lines of old 
yew hedge, 12 feet, high and 

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impenetrable. 
Walk in the center is about 8 

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feet across. 
Is there anything between the 

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hedges and the walk? 
Yes, there is a strip of grass 

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about 6 feet. 
Broad on either side, I 

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understand that the you hedge is
penetrated at one point by a 

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gate. 
Yes, the wicket-gate which leads

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onto the Moor. 
Is there any other opening? 

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None? 
So that to reach the yew alley 

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one either has to come down it 
from the house or else to enter 

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it by the Moor gate. 
There is an exit through a 

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summer house at the far end had 
Sir. 

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Charles reach this. 
No, he lay about 50 yards from 

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it. 
Now tell me dr. 

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Mortimer and this is important, 
the marks which you saw were on 

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the path and not on the grass. 
There's no marks, could show on 

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the grass, were they on the same
side of the path? 

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As the Moor gate? 
Yes, they were on the edge of 

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the path. 
On the same side as the Moor 

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gate. 
You interest me exceedingly. 

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Another point, was the Wicket 
gate closed closed. 

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And padlocked, how high was it 
about four feet high? 

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Then anyone could have got over 
it. 

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Yes. 
And what Marx did you see by the

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wicket-gate not in particular, 
good heaven did no one examine. 

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Yes, I examined myself and found
nothing. 

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It was all very confused. 
Sir Charles had evidently stood 

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there for 5 or 10 minutes. 
How do you know that? 

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Because the ash had twice 
dropped from his cigar 

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Excellent. 
This is a colleague Watson after

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our own heart but the marks he 
had left his own marks all over 

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that small. 
Patch of gravel, I could 

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discern. 
No others. 

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Sherlock Holmes, struck his hand
against his knee with an 

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impatient gesture. 
If I'd only been there, he 

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cried. 
It is evidently a case of 

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extraordinary interest and one 
which presented immense 

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opportunities to these 
scientific expert. 

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That gravel page upon, which I 
might have read. 

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So much has been long ear. 
This smudged by the rain and 

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defaced by the clogs of curious 
peasants. 

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Oh dr. 
Mortimer, dr. 

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Mortimer to think that you 
should not have called me in. 

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You have indeed much to answer 
for. 

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I could not call you in mr. 
Holmes, without disclosing these

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facts to the world and I have 
already given my reasons for not

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wishing to do so. 
Sides. 

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Besides why do you hesitate 
there is a realm in which the 

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most acute and most experienced 
of detectives is helpless. 

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You mean that the thing is 
Supernatural. 

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I did not positively say so no, 
but you evidently think it since

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the tragedy mr. 
Holmes, they have come to my 

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ears. 
Several incidents, which are 

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hard to reconcile with the 
settled order of nature. 

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Nature. 
For example, I find that before 

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the terrible event occurred, 
several people had seen a 

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creature upon the Moor which 
corresponds with this 

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Baskerville demon and which 
could not possibly be any animal

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known to science. 
They all agreed that it was a 

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huge creature luminous ghastly 
and spectral. 

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I have cross-examined these men,
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Countryman, one, a farrier and 
one a Moreland farmer. 

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Ah, who all tell the same story 
of this Dreadful Apparition, 

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exactly. 
Corresponding to the hellhound 

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of the legend. 
I assure you. 

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That there is a reign of terror 
in the district, and that it is 

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a Hardy man who will cross the 
Moor at night. 

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And you a trained man of 
science. 

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Believe it to be Supernatural. 
I do not know what to believe. 

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Holmes, Shrugged his shoulders. 
I have hitherto confined. 

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My investigations to this world,
said he in a modest way, I have 

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combated evil, but to take on 
the father of evil himself would

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perhaps be too ambitious a task 
yet. 

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You must admit that the foot. 
Mark is material the original 

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Hound. 
And was material enough to tug a

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man's throat out and yet he was 
diabolical as well. 

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I see that you have quite gone 
over to the supernaturalists, 

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but now, dr. 
Mortimer, tell me this. 

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If you hold these views, why 
have you come to consult me at 

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all? 
You tell me in the same breath 

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that, it is useless to 
investigate such Charles's death

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and that you desire me to do it.
I did not say that I desired you

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to do it. 
Then how can I assist you by 

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advising me as to what I should 
do with Sir? 

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Henry Baskerville who arrives at
Waterloo Station? 

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Dr. Mortimer looked at his watch
in exactly one hour and a 

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quarter. 
He being the air. 

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Yes, on the death of Sir. 
Charles we inquired for this 

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young gentleman and found that 
he had been farming in Canada 

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from the accounts which have 
reached us. 

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He is an excellent fellow in 
every way, I speak. 

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Now not as a medical man, but as
a trustee and executor of Sir, 

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Charles's will There is no other
claimant, I presume none. 

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The only other Kinsman. 
Whom we've been able to trace 

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was Rodger Baskerville, the 
youngest of three brothers of 

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whom poor Sir. 
Charles was the Elder. 

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The second brother who died 
young is the father of this lad 

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Henry. 
The third Roger was the black 

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sheep of the family. 
He came as the old masterful 

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Baskerville strain and was a 
very image. 

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They tell me of the family 
picture of old Hugo. 

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He made England too hot to hold 
him fled to Central America and 

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died. 
There in 1876 of yellow fever. 

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Henry is the last of the 
Baskervilles in one hour and 

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five minutes. 
I meet him at Waterloo Station. 

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I have had a wire that he 
arrived at Southampton this 

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morning now, mr. 
Holmes, what would you advise me

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to do with him? 
Why should he not go to the home

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of his father's? 
It seems natural, does it not 

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and yet consider that every 
Baskerville who goes there meets

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with an evil fate. 
I feel sure that if Sir Charles 

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could have spoken with me before
his death, he would have warned 

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me against bringing this the 
last of the old race and the 

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heir to great wealth to that 
deadly place. 

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And yet, it cannot be denied 
that the prosperity of the whole

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poor Bleak Countryside. 
Depends upon his presence. 

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All the good work which has been
done by Sir, Charles will crash 

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to the ground, if there is no 
tenant of the hall, I fear lest 

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I should be swayed too much by 
my own obvious interest in the 

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matter. 
And that is why I bring the case

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before you and ask for your 
advice. 

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Homes considered for a little 
time. 

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Put into plain words. 
The matter is, this said, he in 

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your opinion, there is a 
diabolical agency which makes 

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Dartmoor and unsafe Abode for a 
Baskerville that is your 

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opinion. 
At least, I might go the length 

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of saying that there is some 
evidence that this may be so 

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Exactly. 
But surely if your Supernatural 

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Theory be correct. 
It could work. 

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The young man evil in London as 
easily as in Devonshire. 

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A devil. 
With merely local powers like a 

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parish Vestry would be to 
inconceivable thing. 

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You put the matter more 
flippantly, mr. 

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Holmes then you would probably 
do if you were brought into 

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personal contact with these 
things, your advice, then, as I 

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understand it is that the young 
man will be as safe in 

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Devonshire. 
As in London, he comes in 50 

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minutes. 
What would you recommend? 

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I recommend sir that, you take a
cab call off, your spaniel who 

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is scratching at my front door 
and proceeded to Waterloo to 

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meet Sir Henry Baskerville. 
And then and then you will say 

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nothing to him at all. 
Until I've made up my mind about

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the matter. 
How long will it take you to 

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make up your mind? 
24 hours at 10:00 tomorrow, dr. 

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Mortimer, I'll be much obliged 
to you if you will call upon me 

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here and it will be of help to 
me in my plans for the future. 

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If you will bring Sir Henry 
Baskerville with you. 

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I will do so mr. 
Holmes, he scribbled the 

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appointment on his shirt cuff 
and hurried off in his strange 

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peering absent-minded fashion 
Holmes, stopped him at the head 

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of the stair. 
Only one more question, dr. 

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Mortimer, you say that before 
Sir, Charles Baskervilles, 

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death, several people saw this 
Apparition upon the Moor three 

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people did did any see it after 
I have not heard of any. 

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Thank you. 
Good morning, Holmes returned to

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his seat with that quiet, look 
of inward satisfaction which 

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meant that he had a congenial 
task before him going out, 

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Watson unless I can help you. 
No, my dear fellow. 

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It is at the hour of action that
I Turn to You for aid but this 

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is Splendid really unique from 
some points of view when you 

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pass Bradley's, would you ask 
him to send up a pound? 

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A strongest shag tobacco. 
Thank you. 

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It would be as well if you could
make it convenient, not to 

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return before evening. 
Then I shall be very glad to 

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compare impressions as to this 
most interesting problem which 

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has been submitted to us this 
morning. 

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I knew that seclusion and 
Solitude were very necessary for

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my friend in those hours of 
intense mental concentration, 

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during which he weighed every 
particle of evidence constructed

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alternative theories, balanced 
one. 

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Against the other and made up 
his mind as to, which points 

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were essential and which 
immaterial, I therefore spent 

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the day at my club and did not 
return to Baker Street until 

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evening. 
It was nearly 9:00 when I found 

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myself in the sitting room once 
more, My first impression, as I 

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opened the door was that a fire 
had broken out for the room, was

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so filled with smoke that the 
light of the lamp upon the 

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table, was blurred by it, as I 
entered. 

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However, my fears were set at 
rest for it was the acrid fumes 

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of strong course tobacco, which 
took me by the throat and set 

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me. 
Coughing through the haze, I had

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a vague vision of homes in his 
dressing-gown coiled up, in an 

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armchair with his black clay 
pipe between his lips. 

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Several Rolls of paper lay 
around him, caught cold Watson 

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said he know it's this poisonous
atmosphere I suppose. 

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It is pretty thick now that you 
mention it. 

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Thick it's intolerable. 
Open the window. 

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Then you've been at your Club 
all day. 

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I perceive my dear Holmes. 
Am I right? 

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Certainly, but how he laughed at
my bewildered expression, there 

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is a delightful freshness. 
It's about you Watson which 

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makes it a pleasure to exercise 
any small Powers, which I 

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possess at your expense. 
A gentleman Goes Forth on a 

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showery and Miry day, he returns
Immaculate in the evening with a

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gloss. 
Still on his hat and his boots. 

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He has been a fixture therefore 
all day. 

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He is not a man with intimate 
friends, where then could he 

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have been? 
Is it not obvious? 

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Well, it is rather obvious the 
world is full of Things which 

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Nobody by any chance ever 
observes? 

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Where do you think that? 
I have been a fixture? 

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Also, on the contrary I have 
been to Devonshire in spirit, 

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exactly. 
My body has remained in his 

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armchair and has I regret to 
observe consumed in my absence 

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two large pots of coffee and an 
incredible amount of tobacco. 

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After you left, I sent down to 
Stanford's for the Ordnance map 

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of this portion of the Moor. 
And my spirit has hovered over 

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it all day. 
I flatter myself that I could 

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find my way about Large-scale 
map. 

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I presume very large. 
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it over his knee. 
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District which concerns us that 
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Middle with a wood around it. 
Exactly. 

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I fancy. 
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marked under that name must 
stretch along this line with the

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Moor as you perceive upon the 
right of it. 

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This small clump of buildings. 
Here is the Hamlet of grimpen 

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where our friend dr. 
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within a radius of 5 miles there
are. 

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As you see, only a very few 
scattered dwellings. 

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Here is laughter Hall which was 
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There is a house indicated here 
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the naturalist Stapleton. 
If I remember, right? 

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Was his name? 
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houses. 
Hi, I tore and foul Meyer, then 

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14 miles away, the great convict
prison of Princetown between and

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around these scattered points. 
Extends the desolate lifeless 

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more. 
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which tragedy has been played, 
and upon which we may help to 

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play it. 
Again, it must be a wild place. 

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Yes, the setting is a worthy 
one. 

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If the devil did desire to have 
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Then you owe yourself inclining 
to the supernatural explanation.

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The devil's agents may be of 
Flesh and Blood may they not. 

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There are two questions waiting 
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The one is whether any crime has
been committed at all. 

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The second is, what is the 
crime? 

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And how was it committed? 
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Mortimer's surmise should be 
correct. 

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And we are dealing with forces 
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The ordinary laws of nature. 
There is an end of our 

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investigation. 
Ian, but we are bound to exhaust

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all other hypotheses before 
falling back upon this one. 

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I think will shut that window 
again, if you don't mind. 

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It is a singular thing that I 
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atmosphere, helps a 
concentration of thought, I have

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not pushed it to the length of 
getting into a box to think, but

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that is The Logical outcome of 
my convictions. 

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Have you turned the case over in
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Yes, I've thought a good deal of
it in the course of the day. 

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What do you make of it? 
It is very bewildering. 

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It has certainly a character of 
its own. 

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There are points of Distinction 
about it that change in the 

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footprints. 
For example, what do you make of

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that Mortimer? 
Said that the man had walked on 

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tiptoe down that portion of the 
alley. 

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He only repeated what some fool 
had said at the inquest. 

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Why should a man walk on tiptoe 
down the alley, what then he was

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running Watson, running 
desperately running for his life

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running, until he burst his 
heart, and fell dead upon his 

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face running from what? 
There lies our problem. 

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There are indications that the 
man was crazed with fear before 

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he ever began to run. 
How can you say that? 

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I am presuming that, the cause 
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the Moor. 
If that was so and it seems most

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probable, only a man who had 
lost his wits would have run 

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from the house instead of 
towards it. 

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If the gypsies evidence may be 
taken as true, he ran with cries

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for help in the direction, where
help was least likely to be. 

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Then again, whom was he waiting 
for that night and why was he 

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waiting for him in the you Ally,
rather than in his own house? 

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You think that he was waiting 
for someone? 

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The man was elderly and infirm, 
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evening stroll, but the ground 
was damp and the night in 

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Clement is it natural that he 
should stand for 5 or 10 minutes

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as dr. 
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sense than I should have given 
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Did you strum the cigar Ash But 
he went out every evening. 

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I think it unlikely that he 
waited at the Moor gate, every 

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evening on the contrary, the 
evidence is that he avoided the 

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more that night, he waited 
there, it was the night before 

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he made his departure for 
London. 

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The thing takes shape Watson it 
becomes coherent. 

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Might, I ask you to hand me my 
violin and we will postpone all 

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further thought upon this 
business, until we've had the 

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advantage of meeting dr. 
Ultima and Sir, Henry 

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Baskerville in the morning end 
of chapter 3.