1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,500 Chapter 11 of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:06,200 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:11,800 the public domain. Chapter 11 the man on the tour. 4 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:16,500 The extract from my private diary which forms the last 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:20,300 chapter has brought my narrative up to the 18th of October. 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,100 A time when these strange events began to move swiftly towards 7 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:27,900 their terrible conclusion. The incidents of the next few 8 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,900 days are indelibly, Graven upon my recollection. 9 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,300 And I can tell them without reference to the notes made at 10 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:38,600 the time, I start them from the day which succeeded that upon 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,400 which I had established two facts of great importance the 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,200 one that mrs. Laura Lyons of coombe Tracey had 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,400 written to Sir Charles Baskerville and made an 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,400 appointment with him at the very place and our that he met his 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,900 death, the other that the looking man upon the Moor was to 16 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,600 be found among the stone Huts upon the hillside. 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,900 With these two facts in my possession, I felt that either 18 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,400 my intelligence or my courage must be deficient if I could not 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,000 throw some further light upon these dark places. 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,300 I had no opportunity to tell the baronet. 21 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:15,900 What I'd learned about. Mrs. Lyons upon the evening 22 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,700 before for dr. Mortimer remained with him at 23 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:21,900 cards until it was very late at breakfast. 24 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:26,100 However, I informed him about my Discovery and asked him whether 25 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:28,700 he would care to accompany me to coombe Tracey. 26 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,500 At first, he was very eager to come, but on second thoughts, it 27 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:37,000 seemed to both of us that if I went alone, the results might be 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,600 better. The more formal we made the 29 00:01:39,607 --> 00:01:44,900 visit, the less information, we might obtain I left Sir, Henry 30 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:49,500 behind there for not without some pickings of conscience and 31 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:54,500 drove off upon my new Quest. When I reached coombe Tracey, I 32 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,000 told Perkins to put up the horses and I made inquiries for 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,200 the lady who might come to interrogate. 34 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,300 I had no difficulty in finding her rooms, which were Central 35 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:09,100 and well-appointed, A maid showed me in without ceremony. 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,400 And as I entered the sitting-room, a lady who was 37 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,600 sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,700 pleasant smile of. Welcome her face fell. 39 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:22,600 However, when she saw that, I was a stranger and she sat down 40 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,900 again and asked me the object of my visit The first impression 41 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,300 left by mrs. Lyons was one of extreme Beauty 42 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:34,800 her eyes and hair were of the same Rich hazel color and her 43 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,600 cheeks though. Considerably freckled were 44 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,800 flushed with the Exquisite Bloom of the brunette, the dainty pink 45 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,300 which lurks the heart of the sulphurous. 46 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:49,900 Admiration was, I repeat the first impression, but the second 47 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:53,200 was criticism there was something subtly wrong with the 48 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,100 face. Some coarseness of expression, 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,600 some hardness, perhaps of I some looseness of lip which marred 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:06,100 it's perfect Beauty but these of course are afterthoughts at the 51 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:08,000 moment. I was simply conscious that I 52 00:03:08,008 --> 00:03:11,400 was in the presence of a very handsome woman and that she was 53 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,400 asking me the reasons for my visit I had not quite understood 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,700 until that instant how delicate my mission was. 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,300 I have the pleasure said I of knowing your father it was a 56 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:28,300 clumsy introduction and the lady made me feel it. 57 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:33,000 There is nothing in common between my father and me she 58 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 said I owe him nothing and his friends are not mine. 59 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,300 If it were not for the late Sir Charles Baskerville and some 60 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,700 other kind Hearts, I might have starved for all that my father 61 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,400 cared. It was about the late Sir 62 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,800 Charles Baskerville that I have come here to see you. 63 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:52,100 The freckles started out on the lady's face. 64 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,800 What can I tell you about him? She asked and her fingers played 65 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,300 nervously, over the stops of her typewriter. 66 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:01,900 You knew him? Did you not? 67 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,700 I have already said that I owe a great deal to his kindness if 68 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:09,900 I'm able to support myself. It is largely due to the 69 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:12,700 interest which he took in my unhappy situation. 70 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,700 Did you correspond with him? The lady looked quickly up with 71 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:19,899 an angry gleam in her hazel eyes. 72 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,800 What is the object of these questions? 73 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,000 She asked sharply? The object is to avoid a public 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,500 Scandal. It is better that I should ask 75 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,300 them here than that the matter should pass outside our control. 76 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:38,700 She was silent and her face was still very pale at last. 77 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:41,100 She looked up with something Reckless and defiant in a 78 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:44,100 manner. Well, I'll answer. 79 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,700 She said, what are your questions? 80 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,600 Did you correspond with Sir? Charles, I certainly wrote to 81 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,400 him once or twice to acknowledge his delicacy and his generosity. 82 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:58,000 Have you the dates of these letters? 83 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:01,100 No. Have you ever met him? 84 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:06,300 Yes, once or twice when he came in to coombe Tracey, he was a 85 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,900 very retiring man, and he preferred to do good by stealth. 86 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:15,100 But if you saw him so seldom and wrote so seldom, how did he know 87 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:17,900 enough about your Affairs to be able to help you? 88 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,800 As you say that he has done? She met my difficulty with the 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,100 utmost readiness. There were several gentlemen. 90 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,800 Who knew my sad history and United to help me one was mr. 91 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,500 Stapleton, a neighbor, and intimate friend of Sir, 92 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:36,600 Charles's he was exceedingly, kind, and it was through him. 93 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:41,000 That Sir, Charles learned about my affairs, I knew already that 94 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Sir, Charles Baskerville had made Stapleton. 95 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,200 His almoner upon several occasions. 96 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,800 So the lady's statement bore the impress of Truth upon it. 97 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:53,100 Did you ever write to Sir Charles asking him to meet you? 98 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:58,200 I continued this is Lions flushed with anger again really 99 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,300 sir? This is very extraordinary 100 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:03,300 question. I am sorry madam but I must 101 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:08,400 repeat it. Then I answer certainly not not 102 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,200 on the very day of Sir Charles's death. 103 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:15,000 The flush had faded in an instant and the Deathly face 104 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,300 was. Before me, her dry lips could 105 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:22,600 not speak the know which I saw rather than heard Surely your 106 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,000 memory deceives. You said I, I could even quote, 107 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,700 a passage of her letter. It ran, please, please. 108 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,700 As you are a gentleman burn this letter and be at the gate by ten 109 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,100 o'clock. I thought that she had fainted 110 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:40,300 but she recovered herself by a supreme effort. 111 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:42,000 Is there? No? 112 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,700 Such thing as a gentleman. She gasped. 113 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,900 You do such as an injustice. He did burn the letter, but 114 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:53,800 sometimes a letter may be legible even when burned you 115 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,200 acknowledge now that you wrote it Yes, I did. 116 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,200 Write it. She cried pouring out her soul 117 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,500 in a torrent of words. I did write it. 118 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,700 Why should I deny it? I have no reason to be ashamed 119 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:09,700 of it. I wished him to help me. 120 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,600 I believe that. If I had an interview, I could 121 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,300 gain his help. So I asked him to meet me. 122 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:21,200 But why at such an hour? Because I had only just learned 123 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,300 that he was going to London next day and might be away for 124 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:26,600 months. There were reasons why I could 125 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,100 not get there earlier. But why a rendezvous in the 126 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:32,200 garden instead of a visit to the house? 127 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,400 Do you think a woman could go alone at that hour to a 128 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,500 bachelor's house? Well, what happened? 129 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:43,400 When you did get there? I never went mrs. 130 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Lyons no, I swear it to you on all I hold sacred. 131 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,400 I never went something intervene to prevent me going. 132 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,700 What was that? That is a private matter. 133 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:00,700 I cannot tell it You acknowledge them that you made an 134 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:03,800 appointment with Sir, Charles at the very hour and place in, 135 00:08:03,808 --> 00:08:07,100 which he met his death. But you deny that you kept the 136 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,800 appointment. That is the truth. 137 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,100 Again, and again, I cross questioned her but I could never 138 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:18,700 get past that point. This is Lyons said, I as I Rose 139 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:22,900 from this long and inconclusive interview, you are taking a very 140 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:25,900 great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false 141 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:29,500 position by not making an absolute clean, breast of all 142 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:33,200 that, you know, if I have to call in the aid of the police, 143 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,000 you will find how seriously you are compromised. 144 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,400 If your position is innocent, why did you in the first 145 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:40,400 instance? Didn't I? 146 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:44,700 I having written to Sir, Charles upon that date. because I feared 147 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:48,000 that some false conclusion, might be drawn from it and that 148 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,400 I might find myself involved in a scandal And why were you so 149 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,300 pressing that Sir? Charles should destroy your 150 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,200 letter? If you had read the letter you 151 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,800 will know. I did not say that. 152 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,600 I'd read all the letter you quoted. 153 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,000 Some of it. I quoted the PostScript the 154 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,400 letter had, as I said been burned and it was not all 155 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,700 legible, I ask you once again. Why it was that you were so 156 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:16,600 pressing that Sir, Charles should destroy this letter which 157 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,600 he received on the day of his death. 158 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,500 The matter is a very private one. 159 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,200 The more reason why you should avoid a public investigation. 160 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,900 I will tell you then if you've heard anything of my unhappy 161 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:34,600 history, you will know that I made a rash marriage and had 162 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,000 reason to regret it. I have heard so much. 163 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,200 My life has been one incessant persecution from a husband whom 164 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,400 I abhor. The law is upon his side and 165 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,100 every day, I am faced by the possibility that he may force me 166 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,800 to live with him. At the time that I wrote this 167 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,600 letter to Sir, Charles I had learned that there was a 168 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,300 prospect of my regaining. My Freedom, if certain expenses 169 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:03,600 could be met, it meant everything to me, peace of mind, 170 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:08,600 happiness, self-respect, everything I knew such as is 171 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,200 generosity and I thought that if he heard the story from my own 172 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,200 lips he would help me. Then how is it that you did not 173 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,200 go? Because I received help in the 174 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,400 interval from another source. Why then did you not write to 175 00:10:24,408 --> 00:10:28,400 Sir Charles and explain this? So I should have done. 176 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,200 Had I not seen his death in the paper next morning. 177 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,000 The woman's story hung coherently together and all my 178 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,900 questions were unable to shake it. 179 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:42,000 I could only check it by finding if she had indeed instituted 180 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,700 divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of 181 00:10:45,708 --> 00:10:48,900 the tragedy. It was unlikely that she would 182 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,800 dare to say that she had not been to Baskerville Hall if she 183 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,300 really had been for a trap, would be necessary to take her 184 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:58,600 there and could not have returned to coombe Tracey until 185 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,900 the early hours of the morning. Such an Excursion could not be 186 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:06,200 kept secret. The probability was there for 187 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:07,800 that. She was telling the truth, or at 188 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,600 least a part of the truth. I came away baffled and 189 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,300 disheartened once again, I had reached that dead wall which 190 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,700 seemed to be built across every path by which I tried to get at 191 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:23,200 the object of my mission. And yet, the more I thought of 192 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,900 the lady's face and of her manner, the more I felt that 193 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:28,900 something was being held back from me. 194 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,600 Why should she turn so pale? Why should she fight against 195 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,100 every admission until it was forced from her? 196 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,700 Why should she have been so reticent at the time of the 197 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:44,000 tragedy? Surely the explanation of all, 198 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 this could not be as innocent as she would have me believe. 199 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:53,300 For the moment, I could proceed no father in that direction, but 200 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:55,400 must turn back to that other clue. 201 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,900 Which was to be sought for among the stone Huts upon the Moor. 202 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,800 And that was a most vague Direction I realized it as I 203 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,500 drove back and noted how Hill after Hill showed traces of the 204 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:11,700 ancient people Barrymore's, only indication had been that the 205 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:15,900 stranger lived in one of those abandoned huts and many hundreds 206 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:18,200 of them are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the 207 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,300 more but I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown 208 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,100 me, the man himself standing upon the summit of the black 209 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:29,300 tour. That then should be the center 210 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:33,000 of my search from there. I should explore every Hut upon 211 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,500 the Moor until I lighted upon the right, one. 212 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,300 If this man were inside it, I should find out from his own 213 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:43,400 lips at the point of My Revolver, if necessary who he 214 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,800 was and why he had dogged us so long. 215 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,100 He might slip away from us in the crowd of Regent Street, but 216 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,500 it would puzzled him to do so upon the lonely more. 217 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,700 On the other hand, if I should find the Hut and its tenant 218 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:00,400 should not be within it. I must remain there. 219 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:03,400 However, long, the vigil until he returned. 220 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,100 Holmes had missed him in London, it would indeed be a Triumph for 221 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:13,300 me if I could run him to Earth where my master had failed luck 222 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:15,900 had been against us again and again, in this inquiry. 223 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,900 But now at last, it came to my Aid and the messenger of Good 224 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:24,100 Fortune was none, other than mr. Frankland who was standing gray, 225 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:27,700 whiskered and red-faced outside. The Gate of his garden, which 226 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:30,400 opened on to the high road along, which I traveled. 227 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,000 Good day, dr. Watson cried, he, with unwanted 228 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,700 Good Humor. You must really give your horses 229 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:40,200 arrest and come in to have a glass of wine. 230 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:44,000 And to congratulate me my feelings towards him were very 231 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,900 far from being friendly. After what I had heard of his 232 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:51,000 treatment of his daughter but I was anxious to send Perkins and 233 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,100 the wagonette home and the opportunity was a good one. 234 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,700 I alighted and sent a message to Sir, Henry that I should walk 235 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:02,000 over in time for dinner. Then I followed Frankland into 236 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,700 his dining room. It is a great day for me, sir. 237 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,500 One of the red letter days of my life, he cried with many 238 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,300 Chuckles cut. I've brought off a double event. 239 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:15,600 I mean, to teach them in these parts that law is Law. 240 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,800 And that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it, I 241 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,600 have established a right of way through the center of old 242 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:27,100 Middleton's Park slap across it. Sir within 100 yards of his own 243 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:29,300 front door, what do you think of that? 244 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,900 Will teach these magnets that they cannot ride roughshod over 245 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:35,400 the rights of the common? Commoners, confound them. 246 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,700 And I've closed the wood where the fern worthy folk used to 247 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:42,200 picnic these infernal people seem to think that there are no 248 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,900 rights of property and that they can swarm where they like, with 249 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:48,600 their papers and their bottles both cases. 250 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,500 Decided dr. Watson and both in my favor, I 251 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,200 haven't had such a day since I had surged on Moreland for 252 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,600 trespass because he's shut in his own Warren. 253 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:02,100 How on Earth did you do that? Look it up in the book, sir. 254 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,400 It will repay reading Franklin versus small and Court of 255 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,100 Queen's, bench. It cost me 200 pounds, but I got 256 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:13,400 my verdict. Did it do you any good? 257 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,800 None, sir. None. 258 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,900 I am proud to say that. I've no interest in the matter. 259 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,100 I act entirely from a sense of public duty. 260 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:25,100 I have no doubt. For example, that the firm 261 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:27,600 worthy people will burn me in effigy tonight. 262 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:31,500 I told the police last time they did it, they should stop these 263 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,300 disgraceful. Exhibitions, the county 264 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,800 constabulary is in a scandalous State, sir, and it is not 265 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,800 afforded made the protection to, which I'm entitled the case, Ace 266 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,400 of Franklin versus for agena will bring the matter before the 267 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,500 attention of the public. I told them that they would have 268 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,700 occasion to regret their treatment of me. 269 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:53,500 And already my words have come true. 270 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:59,200 How so I asked the old man put on a very knowing expression, 271 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:03,100 because I could tell them what they are dying to know, but 272 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,400 nothing could induce me to help the Rascals in any way. 273 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:10,400 I had been casting around for some excuse for which I could 274 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,400 get away from his gossip, but now I began to wish to hear more 275 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,100 of it. I'd seen enough of the contrary 276 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:20,700 nature of the old sinner to understand that any strong sign 277 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:24,400 of Interest, would be the surest way to stop his confidences. 278 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:28,400 Some poaching case. No doubt said I with an 279 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,500 indifferent manner. Ha ha. 280 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,000 My boy are very much more important matter than that. 281 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:36,100 What about the convict on the more? 282 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,200 I stared, we don't mean that, you know, where he is said. 283 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,800 I I may not know exactly where he is, but I'm quite certain 284 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,800 that I could help the police to lay their hands on him as it 285 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,600 never struck you that the way to catch that man was to find out 286 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,200 where he got his food and so trace it to him. 287 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:58,600 He certainly seemed to be getting uncomfortably near the 288 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,800 truth. No doubt said I. 289 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,800 But how do you know that he's anywhere upon the more? 290 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:09,200 I know it because I've seen with my own eyes, the messenger who 291 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,200 takes him his food, My heart sank for Barrymore. 292 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,900 It was a serious thing to be in the power of this spiteful old 293 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:19,700 busybody. But his next remark, took a 294 00:17:19,708 --> 00:17:23,900 weight from my mind. You'll be surprised to hear that 295 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:26,099 his food is taken to him by a child. 296 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,100 I see him every day through my telescope Up on the Roof, he 297 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:34,300 passes along the same path at the same hour and to whom should 298 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:36,300 he be going? Except to the convict? 299 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,100 He was lucky indeed. And yet I suppress all 300 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:45,000 appearance of Interest a child Barrymore had said that our 301 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:50,100 unknown was supplied by a boy, it was on his track and not upon 302 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:54,100 the convicts that Franklin had Bold, if I could get his 303 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:58,600 knowledge, it might save me a long and weary hunt, but in 304 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,200 credulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards. 305 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:06,100 I should say that it was much more likely that it was the son 306 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,300 of one of the mall and Shepherds taking out his father's dinner. 307 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,300 The least appearance of opposition struck fire out of 308 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,200 the old autocrat. His eyes looked malignantly at 309 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,700 me and his gray whiskers bristled, like those of an angry 310 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:25,200 cat indeed, sir said, he pointing out over the wide 311 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,200 stretching more. Do you see that black tour Over 312 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,800 Yonder? Well do you see the low Hill 313 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,500 Beyond with the thorn bush upon it? 314 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:36,200 It is a stoniest part of the whole more. 315 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:39,200 Is that a place where a Shepherd would be likely to take his 316 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,100 station? Your suggestion, sir is a most 317 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:45,300 absurd one. I meekly answered that. 318 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,500 I had spoken without knowing all the facts, my submission, 319 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,500 pleased him and led him to further confidences. 320 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,000 You may be sure sir that I have very good grounds before I came 321 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,300 to an opinion. I have seen the boy again and 322 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:03,900 again with his bundle every day and sometimes twice a day. 323 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:06,200 I've been able, but wait a moment dr. 324 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,600 Watson do, my eyes deceive me? Or is there present moment 325 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,400 something moving up on that Hillside? 326 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:16,500 It was several miles off, but I could distinctly see a small 327 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,100 dark dot against the dull, green and gray. 328 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,200 Come sir, come cried Franklin rushing upstairs. 329 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:27,700 You will see with your own eyes and judge for yourself. 330 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,900 The telescope, a formidable, instrument mounted upon a 331 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,900 tripod, stood upon the flat LEDs of the house. 332 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,400 Frankland clapped, his eye to it, and gave a cry of 333 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:44,100 satisfaction quick, dr. Watson quick before he passes 334 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,400 over the hill, Barry was sure enough. 335 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:50,700 A smaller chin with a little bundle upon his shoulder 336 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:52,700 toiling. Slowly up the hill. 337 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,100 When he reached the crest, I saw the Ragged uncouth figure 338 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:01,000 outlined for an instant against a cold blue sky. 339 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,000 He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy are as one 340 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,100 who dreads Pursuit then he vanished over the hill. 341 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,800 Well, am I right? Certainly there is a boy who 342 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,700 seems to have some secret errand. 343 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:19,400 And what that errand is even a County Constable, could guess, 344 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:23,900 but not one word shall have from me and I bind you to secrecy. 345 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,700 Also dr. Watson not a word, you 346 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:30,400 understand? Just as you wish they have 347 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,000 treated me, shamefully shamefully when the facts come 348 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,500 out in Franklin versus Regina. I ventured a think that a thrill 349 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:39,600 of indignation will run through the country. 350 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,500 Nothing would induce me. Doubt the police in any way for 351 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:45,500 all they cared who might have been met in? 352 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,000 Instead of my Effigy which these Rascals burned at the stake, 353 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 surely you're not going. You will help me to empty the 354 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,200 decanter in honor of this great occasion. 355 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,800 But I resisted all his solicitations and succeeded in 356 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,900 dissuading him from his announced intention of walking 357 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:06,400 home with me. I kept the road as long as his 358 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,600 eye was on me and then I struck off across the Moor and made for 359 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,600 the Stony Hill over, which the boy had disappeared. 360 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,900 Everything was working in my favor and I swore that it should 361 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:21,300 not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss 362 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:23,900 the chance, which Fortune had thrown in my way. 363 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,100 The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill 364 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:31,700 and the long, slopes beneath me were all gold and green on one 365 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:36,600 side and gray shadow on the other a haze lay low upon the 366 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,700 farthest Skyline out of which jutted the Fantastic shapes of 367 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:44,600 bell over and Vixen tour over the wide expanse. 368 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:50,000 There was no sound and no movement one great gray bird a 369 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,800 gull or curl. You soared Aloft in the Blue 370 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,700 Heaven. He and I Seem to be the only 371 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:59,700 living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert 372 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,000 beneath it. The baron seen the sense of 373 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,200 loneliness and the mystery and urgency of my tasks, all struck 374 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,500 a chill into my heart. The boy was nowhere to be seen 375 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:15,500 but down beneath me in a cleft of the hills, there was a circle 376 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:19,700 of the Old Stone huts and in the middle of them, it was one which 377 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,300 retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather. 378 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:28,600 My heart leaped within me, as I saw it, this must be the burrow 379 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,300 where the stranger looked at last. 380 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:33,700 My foot was on the threshold of his hiding place. 381 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:40,700 His secret was within my grasp. As I approached the Hut walking 382 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:44,300 as warily as Stapleton would do when with poise net, he drew 383 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:48,100 near the settled butterfly. I satisfied myself that the 384 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:52,800 place had indeed been used as a habitation, a vague pathway 385 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,200 Among The Boulders. Led to the dilapidated opening 386 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,900 which served as a door. All was silent within the 387 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:03,200 unknown might be looking there or he might be prowling on the 388 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,000 more my nerves tingled with the sense of adventure throwing 389 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,900 aside my cigarette. I closed my hand upon the butt 390 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:14,300 of My Revolver and walking swiftly up to the door. 391 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:19,800 I looked in the place was empty, but there were ample signs, that 392 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,700 had not come upon a false scent, this was certainly where the man 393 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:26,300 lived. Some blankets rolled in a 394 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,800 waterproof, lay upon the very stone slab upon which Neolithic 395 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,100 man had one slumbered, the ashes of a fire, were heaped in a 396 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:38,500 rude, great beside it. Lay some cooking utensils and a 397 00:23:38,508 --> 00:23:42,900 bucket half full of water, a litter of empty tins, showed 398 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,200 that the place had been occupied for some time. 399 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,600 And I saw, as my eyes became accustomed to the checkered 400 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,900 light, a panicking and a half full bottle of spirits standing 401 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,600 in the corner. In the middle of the Hut. 402 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:59,600 A flat stone serve. The purpose of a table and upon 403 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,200 this stood, a small cloth. Bundle the same, no doubt which 404 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,000 I had seen through the telescope upon the shoulder of the boy. 405 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,200 It contained a loaf of bread at in tongue and two tins of 406 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,300 preserved. Peaches. 407 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:19,100 As I set it down again after having examined it, my heart 408 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,500 slipped to see that beneath it there, lay a sheet of paper with 409 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,800 writing upon it. I raised it and this was what I 410 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:32,000 read roughly scroll in pencil. Dr. Watson has gone to coombe 411 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,500 Tracey. For a minute, I stood there with 412 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:37,600 the paper in my hands sinking out. 413 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,700 The meaning of this Kurt message, it was, I then and not 414 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:43,400 Sir. Henry, who is being dogged by 415 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,900 this secret man? He had, not followed me himself, 416 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:50,900 but he had set an agent. The boy, perhaps upon my track, 417 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:55,400 and this was his report. Possibly, I had taken no steps 418 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,600 inside been upon the Moor which had not been observed and 419 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,700 reported Always, there was this feeling of an unseen force, a 420 00:25:03,708 --> 00:25:07,300 fine, net drawn, round us with infinite, skill, and delicacy 421 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,500 holding a so lightly. That it was only at some Supreme 422 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:14,100 moment, that one realize that one was indeed entangled in its 423 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:19,200 meshes If there was one report there might be others. 424 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:21,900 So, I looked around the Hut in search of them. 425 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,500 There was no Trace. However, have anything of the 426 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:29,200 kind nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the 427 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,600 character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular 428 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,200 Place. Say that he must be of Spartan 429 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,700 habits and cared little for the Comforts of life when I thought 430 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,400 of the heavy rains and looked at the gaping roof. 431 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,900 I understood how strong and immutable must be the purpose 432 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:48,500 which had kept him in that inhospitable abode. 433 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,900 Was he our malignant enemy or was he by chance our guardian 434 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:56,700 angel? I swore that I would not leave 435 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:01,400 the Hut until I knew Outside, the sun was sinking low in the 436 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,900 west was Blazing with scarlet and gold. 437 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,800 Its Reflection was shot back in ready, Patches by the distant 438 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,900 pools, which lay amid the great grimpen mire there with the two 439 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,300 towers of Baskerville Hall. And there are distant blur of 440 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:20,200 smoke, which marked a village of grimpen between the two behind 441 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,300 the hill, was the house of the stapleton's. 442 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:26,200 Always sweet and mellow and peaceful in the golden evening 443 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,300 light. And yet, as I looked at them, my 444 00:26:29,300 --> 00:26:33,900 soul shared, none of the piece of nature, but quivered at the 445 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:37,100 vagueness, and the terror of that interview, which every 446 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:41,200 instant was bringing nearer. With tingling nerves, but a 447 00:26:41,208 --> 00:26:46,100 fixed purpose, I sat in the dark recess of the Hut and waited 448 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,200 with Samba patients for the coming of its tenant. 449 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:54,500 And then at last, I heard him far away came the sharp clink of 450 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:59,200 a boot striking upon a stone. Then another and yet another 451 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:03,100 coming nearer and nearer, I shrank back into the darkest 452 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:07,100 corner and cocked the pistol. In my pocket, determined not to 453 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,400 discover myself. Until I had an opportunity of 454 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,600 seeing something of The Stranger. there was a long pause 455 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,800 which showed that he had stopped, then once more the 456 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,100 footsteps approached and a shadow fell across the opening 457 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:23,800 of The Hut, It is a lovely evening. 458 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,400 My dear Watson did a well-known voice. 459 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,400 I really think that you will be more comfortable outside than 460 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,800 in. End of chapter 11. 461 00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:33,800 End of chapter 11.