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The.Hound c)f the
Oaskervilles
Another Adventure o Sheriock Holmes,
BY A. CONA OYLE.
Author of 'The GreenFlag" and "The Great Boer War"
Copyright 0908) by 4. Genius Doyle.
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concealed our approach, and crouching the distant boulders gleaming where
behind it we -gazed over it at the signal the light strikes upon their wet faces.
liegliVIVorarstrange-30•Serthis-single----ft-w-Lnetaneholy-outside-and•-•11n-The-
O Tfingqicilion.:rouolat...Ftre
candle burning there in the middle of baronet is in a. black reaction after the
the moor, with•np sign of life near it- excitements of the night. 6I am Fon;
jUat the one etraight yellow flame and •scious myself of a weight at my heart
the glea.m.of the rock on each side of and a feeling of impending danger -
it. 0 ever present danger, which is the
"What shall we do now?" whispered, more terrible because X ani unable to.
Sir Henry, • • define it, ' •
-Walt here, He Must be near his And have I not cause for euCh a
light. Let Us See if we can get a feeling? Consider the long Sequence of
glimpse of him." incidentswhich. have all pointed to
The words, were hardly out. of My -some sinister influence which, is at
mouth when we both saw him. Over work around U.S.. There is the death of
the rocks in the crevice of which the the last occupant of the Hall fulfilling
candle bilenecle-there_wee._ thetist out so exactly the conditions of the fam-
an evil yellow 'lace, a terrible ariimaF Ily legend, and thereaarte-the rePented-
face,* all seamed and *cored virith vile reports from peasants of the appear.
paselonsaFoul with mire, with a-brist- Ance of a strange creature upon tlae
ling beard, and hang -with matted hair, moor;Twice I have with my own ears
It might well have bhlonged te one of •heards the sound which resembled the
those old savages. -who 'dwelt in the distant baying of a hound. It is In -
burrows on the aillsidea.The light be- credible, impossible, that it Should
neath hirn *as reflected in his small,' really be outside the ordinary laws of
cunningaeyes which peered ,fiercely to nature. A spectral hound which, leaves
right and left through the darkness, material footmarks and fills the •air
Bee a crafty and savage animal- who with its howling is 'surely not to be
has heard the steps of the hunters1 thought of:Stapleton may tali In with
, Something -had evidently aroused his such a superstition, and Mortimer al -
suspicions. It May have been that so; but if I have one quality' upon
„Barrymore bad someprivate, signal earth it is .common-sense, and nothing
which we had negleeted. to give, Or will persuade me to believe in such •a
the fellow may have - had some thing. To do so would be to descend
ether reason for thinking • that all to , the level of these' poor 'peasants,
was not well, but I could reed his fears who arenot content with a mere
epee his avicaed face. Any "instant he •fiend dog, but must needs describe him •
raight dash out the light and vanish in , with hell -fire -shooting from his mouth
the darkness.? sprangforward there- . and eyes.- Holmes would not listen to
lore, and Sir Henry did the sane. At such fancies, -and I am • his agent But
the same niement the. 'convict sere,aae 1 facts are facts, end I have twice heard
ed out a curse at us and hurled a' wee this crying upon the. mcioia Suppose
which splintered up against the boul- that there • were really some -huge
der .which had sheltered us. I caught houndloos000 upon it; . that 'would go
one glimpse of his -Short squat, ,strong -1 far to explain everything. But where
ly-built 'figure as he sprang to his feet , ouldeach a hound lie concealed,'
andturned to run. .at the ' same nua where dia it get its food, where did it
nientby a lucky chance the moon come from; ho* was it that no one saw
broke through the clouds. We rushed it- by'alb.y? It -Must be -confessed that
overthe brow of the hill, and' there the natural. explanation offers almost
was our man immang With great speed ai 'many difficulties as the other. And
down the Other • side, springing over always, apart from the hound, there
the stones in his way' with the activity is thefact of the human -agency in
of a mountain. goat A Ilieka, long Shot London; the man in the cb, and the
of My. revolver _Might have crippled 0 letter which- warned Sir Henry against
him but I had brought it only to de- the moor. This at least was real, but
'feed myself if attacked, and not 'toit might have been the work of a pro
shoot an 'unarmed, Man who was run- teCting friend as easily as of an enemy.
ning away.. • . - • Where it that friend or enemy now?
. -We were both Swift .runners and in, Has he remained ih London, or has he
.fairly.. good training,. but . we • soon . fellowed us down here? Cold he -
found that we had no chance of over- be- the stranger whom I saw upon tiie,.
taking . him. We saw him for a long Tor?. . •. . ' • .
time In the moonlight until he was a It as:tree-that I have had only the
only a small speck moving swiftly one glance at him, and- et there • are
among the boulders upon the side Of e some things to which. I are .ready to
distant hill. We and ran'iintli we.. swear. He is no one whom I have seen
• were completely .blown, but the space 'down. here, .arid 1.' have now •reet
'between US grew ever wider. • Finallythe neighbors. The -figurewas far tall
we stopped •and sat panting on two ea than that of Stapleton a far thinner
. . " • . .,
rocks, while we watched hire disap- than that •of Frankland a Barrymore it
-peering in thedistancemight possibly have been but we had
And it was. at this moment thatthere left Iran behind us, and .1 am certain
occurred a most strenge•arid•ueexp'ect, that he could not have followed us A
-ad thine. We had risen from our reeks stranger :thenis still dogging us, just
and were turning to, go home; having • as n stranger' dogged • us in London.
abandoneciathe hopeless chase. . The We have never shaken him off. If I
Moon was low epee the right, and the could lay .my hands upon that Man,
.jagged pirmadeof a granite tor stood • then at last we might end ourselves at
up against the levier curve of . its eta the end of all our. dalleulties. To this
ver disc. There,' outlined as black as one parposel Must now •devote all my
an ebonystatue on that Shining back -1 energies. ' .„ ' • • • •
'ground, I saw the. figure Of a man upon My •first impulse was to tell Sir
the tor Do not think that It was 'a de Henry all my plans. Me second and
lesion,. Holmes. I assure yea that I wisest one ,is to play my own game and
have never .in DVlife. seen .anything speak as little as possible , to anyone.
More clearly a As far as I Ould judge, a He is silent and distrait His nerves
the figure was that of a tall, thin. Man; .: have been strangely shaken • bythat.
He etOcid with his legs a:little separat- sound upon the Moot. I will say no
ed, hit .arms folded,his head bowed, thing, to a.dd to his•anxieties, -bat:I will
as If he were -brooding:ever that enor take ity own 'Stepp to i4tain my own
moue wilderness of peat and granite end. • . •.. • •
whichlay before hinaalle Might have We had a small •scene thismorning
been the ver* .apiritiof that terrible after breakfast . Barrymore asked .
place. It was net the conVictthis leave to speak with Sir. Henry, and
man Was far from the place where the they were closeted in his study • some
latter had disappeared.. ' Besides, she • -little time Sitting.tn.the billiard -room
was a much taller man: 'With a cry of I Mere than once heard, thesound of
surprise 1 pointed .hbae out to the • viaces raised, andI .had e, pretta• good
•tude the MU turned, but be hesitated
and then came hack.
"You've 'been so kind to ue, sir, that
I should like to do the best I .can for
You. In. return. I know something, Sir
Henry', and perhaps 1 should have mild
It before, but it was long after tale in-
quest that ,I found it out. I've never
breathed a word about it yet to Martel
Man. It's about poor Sir Charles's
death,"
The baronet and I were both upon
out feet. "Do you know how he died?"
" "No, sir, I don't know that.'
"NiLlat then?"
"I know why be was at the gate at
that hour, It was to meet a woman."
"To meet a Inman! Be?"
"Yes, sir."
"And the woman's name?"
•"I can't give you the name, sir, but
I can give you the initials. Iler int-
tiais were L. L."
..,...-Maw--do-you-know -Alas; a -Barry -
more?".
"Well, Sir Henry, your uncle had a
letter that raorning. He had usually. a
great -many letters, for he was a public
Man and well known for his hind
heart, so that everyone who was in
trouble was glad to turn to him, But
that morning, as if chanced, there was
only this one letter, so I tok the more
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baronet, but in the instant during •
which I hadturned to grasp his arm
the man was. gond. There was the
sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting -
the lower edge of the . moon, but its
peak bore no trace of that silent and
raotionless figure.
r wished to go in that direction and
to search the tor, but it was some clis-
atanceaway- Thebasonet's nerves were
Still quivering from that cry, which
recalled the dark story of his family,
and he was hot in the mood for fresh
adventures. He had not seen this lone,
ly man upon the tor and could not feel
the thrill which bis strange presence
and his commanding • attitude had
giiren to me. "A warder, no doubt," has enough to fight • against without
said he. "Theamoor _has been thick...my' potting more upon his track."
"If you had told us of your own free
will it would have been a different
thing," said' the baronet, "you only
told • es, or rather y.our wife only told
us,when it was forced • from you and
you could not help yourself."
"I didel think you would have taken
advantage of it, Sir' Henre=tirdeea I
didn't."
"The men is a public dagger. There
are lonely houses scattered over the
moor, and he is a' fellow Who would
stick at nOthirig. You only want to get
a glimpse of his face to see that. Look
at Mr. Stapleton'a house, for example,
•withno one but himself to defend it.
There's no safety for anyone until he
is under lock and key."
"He'll break into no house, sir. 0 I
give yea my solemn word 'upon that.
But he, will never trouble anyone ,1n
Jhi.scpeptry aagairea I assure yau, Sir
Henry, that in a very few -days the
necessary arrangements will have
been made and he will be on his way
to South America. For God's sake, sir,
I beg of you not to let the'pollee know
idea:whet the point was which was en-
der discuation. After a time the baron-
et peened his door and called for me.
aBarryinore considers that he has
a grieVanee," he.said. "Hrthinks that
it was unfair, on our part to hunt his
brother-in-law down when he, of his
own free vvill; bad told us the secret."
Thebetler was standing very. pale
,butavery-collected laeforeautr-a-
may have spoken too warmly,
sir," said he, "and if I have I am sure
that I beg your 'pardon. At tae same
time, X was: very much surprised when
I heard you two gentlemen come back
this ramming and learned that you had
been chasing Selden: The poor fellow
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with them since this fellow escaped:
Well, perhaps. his explanation mey be
theright one, but I should like to have
sorne further proof of it. Tb -day • we
mean to coromunicate to the Prince
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town .people where* they should look
for their Missing mare .but it is.hard
itirniutaes tvhhatowf ebrhiauvgewnsothainictubaalleykhaasa. othuer
own prisoner. Such are the adven-
tures of last night, and you must ac-
knowledge, my dear Holmes,. that I
have done youvery well in the matter
of a report Much ofwhat I tell you
Is no doubt quite irrelevant, but still
I fee that it is best that,I should let
you have all the facts and leave you to
,,Select for yOUrSelf those which will be
of some service to you in helpirig you
to your conclusions. We are certainly
making some progress. So far as the
Barrymores_go_wahave,found_the nw
tive of their actions, and that has
cleared up the situation very much.
But the moor with its mysteries and
its strange inhabitants remains as he
tcrutable as ever. Perhaps in my next
I mae be able to throw some light that he is still on the moor, They
liami this also, Best of all would it be have given up the chase thereand he
if you could come down i
to us. In any can lie quiet untli-the ship s ready
•case You will hear from me again in for hire. 'You oan't tell on him without
the course of the next few dais. getting my wife and me into trouble.
iIonbecge.,you, sir, •to say nothing to the
cuArEn
As I walked. bltek I 'ergo Overtaken
be Dr. Mortimer driving in his dog -
rad over a. reugh moorland track,
which led from the outlying farratiouee
of Foulmire. He has been very atten-
tive to us, and beadle a day bast pass-
ed that he has not called at the Hall to
aee how we were getting on. He in.
elated upon my climbing into his dog-
cart and be gap me a lift homewards.
I found him Much troubled over the
disappearance of his little spaniel. It
had wandered on to the moor and had
never come back. I gave him ouch con.
Wallop. as 1 ruigha but I tlaought of
:the pony on the Grimpee Mire, and I
, do. not fancy' that he mill see his lit-
tle dog again, , _
"BiatineeWaye Mortimeia" said I, as.
we jolted along the rough road, "I sup-
pose there are few people living with -
do not anew?"
"'Hardly any, I, think," . •
"Can you, then, tell me the name of
any woman 'whose initials are L. L.?"
He thought for a few minutes. .
• "No," said he. "There are a few gip
-
oleo and laboring folk for whom I
can't answer, but among the farmers,
ar gentry there is no one whose
initials are those. Wait a bit though,"
'he added; after a pause, "There Is
Laura Lyons -her initials are L, L. -
but she lives in Coombe Tracey,"
"Who is she?" I asked.
"She is Frankland's daughter." "
' 'What! Old Fro:Orland the crank?'
"Exactly. She raarrie,a an artist
O named Lyons, who tame sketching on
the moor. He proved to be a black --
guard and deserted her. The fault from
what I- hear may net have been en.
tirely on one stde. Her father refused
to have anything to do with her, be-
cause she. had married without bis- con-
seit, and perha.ps for one or two other
islo
re ns as well, So, between the old
sin, ea anal the, young one the girl
ha' ,a. pretty -bad . time."
"Hew does she live?"
"I fancy old Frankland allows her
a pittance, but. it cannot be more, for
jils own affairs are considerably level-
ved. Whatever she may have deserved
one could not allow her to . go hope.
lessly to the bad. Her story got about,
and several of the people here did
something to enable her to earn an:.
honest living. -Stapleton did .for one,
and Sir Charles for another. I gave a
trifle myself. It- was to •set her up an.
a typewriting business," . . -
, • He wanted to know the object of My
inquiries, but I managed to setiste his
curiosity without telling him too much,
tea -there is no reason why We should
take • anyone into our confidence. To-
morrow morning I' shall find :my Way
to Coombe•Tracey, and if I can see this
Mrs: Laura Licosa of equivocal retie-,
tation, a long 'step will have been made
O towards clearing one ancident in this
caain Of mysteries. I am certainly de-,
ireloping the wisdom of the serpent,
for when Mortimer. pressed his clues-,
. .
tams to an inconvenient extent I 'ask-
ed him. casually to what type 'Pamela
•
land's skull belonged, and. 80 so 'heard.
nothing hitt Craniology for the rest of
our • drive. I have not lived far years
with Sherlock Holmes Ma nothing. •
X -have only one othereancident to
record ., Upon this tempestuous. and
melanehety .day. This was my 'conver-
sation with Barrytnore Just now, Which
glees .rne one more strong card. which
I can pia ar in due time. .0 , ..•
o Mortimer had stayed to diener,. and
he and the baronet played ecarte af-
terwards. The butler brought me • my
Coffee. Into the library, and I took. the
.chance to ask • him' a...,few questions. -
."Well," said I; 'has this precious re-
lation Of yours. departed, or is he still
lurking: out yonder?" -.. • •
"I don't know, sir. I hope to Heaven
that he- has gone, fcir he. has brought.
nothing bat trouble here.! I've - not
heard. of him since I left out food. Mr
hirn.-.1esta and. that was three days
ago:" ' • • • ' .. .
. "Did yell see hire. then?" ,
"No, sir, but the food was gone When
next I went that way." . .. •
"Then -he was 'certainly there?".
a . eSo -"yea. would thidk, sir, unless it
was the :other man. who took jt' :
I sat with my coffee -cup half way
to mylips and stared at Barrymore -
"You. know that there •is. another
Mari then?" a • • • • : .
... "Yes, sir; there is another rime ,upen
• the naocita . ' . • a . • • ‘• •
. "Heve 'you. seerrehimr
a."No, sir." ' . • . .
"How' do you, -know of him then?"
• ' "Selden told me' of, hina. air, a week.
age or more. He's. in hiding,. too, -but
'he's not a convictas far as I can makd
out. I don't like it, Dr.:Watson-I tell
yeti straight, sir, that I don't like it"-
• He spoke with. a sudden. passion of
earnestneas. - .. • - .
"Now, listen to the, .13arrymoiet I
-haVe-inti er--reata-in this matter but
.thatof your Master. I have tome here
. with' no 'object except to, itelii that.
O Teil me; frankly, what lt is that you
don't like," . • -' '
Barrymore hesitated. for a Moment,
as if he regretted •his 'outburst; • or
found it difficult to express his owe
feelings in words:
"It's- all these. goings-on ' eta", he
cried at last, waving his haracatowards
. the rain -lashed: window Which. faced
the moor. asTheres. foul . play. '. •sorrie-•
where; and there's black villaixfy brew-
ing, to that all . swear!. Very glad I
should be .sir, to seehir Henry on his
way' back' to London again!" a ••
' : "But what is it' thetalarrns you?" ,.
"Look at Sir. Charles's death!' That
was bad enough, for: all that the,
coroner said. Look at the noises en the
moor • at night. There's not a Man
would cross it after sundown if he was
paid for it. Look at this stringer
hiding 'put, yonder,. and watching and
n.wdoaoistipir tIWeahra?helthernweaapitsinngofo;00,? Wcin htaot
aneone of the ria.me of • Baskerville,
and aere glad I Shall bcato be•quit of it
all ou the day that Sir Henry's new.
servants are ready VC take over the
--"I loai231 in. 4" ' tit 4e. Pl t mtilarlys.:tirliairinIarat;3'-`dUstahidarri:1+.
What did Selden say? Did he find out
• Where he hiclaoi what he was Wrap?"
"fleliew him once • or twice, • but he
O Is a deep. one, and gives nothing away,
At first he thought that .he. was the
police, but soon he found that he had
some lay of his own. A kind of gentle-
man he was, as far as he .could see, -
but what he was doing he cold not
make out." .
"And where did he say that he
lived?" . .
a"Among• the old houses on the hill-
side -the stone huts where the Old.
folk used: to live." ,.
.13tit how mbeet his food?"
"Selderi- found out that he has got
a lad wile works for him and .brings
him all he needs. I daresay be goes to
Coombe Tracey!or what he wants."
"Very good, Barrymore, We. ratty
talk further of thile Stene Other time."
Whet the butler had gone I artaaed
over to the black window, and I look-
ed through a blurred. pane , at the
driving clouds and at the tossing out,
line of the wind-swept trees'. It is a
wild night Indoors, and What Must It
be in a aerie, hut upon the moor. What
Widen Of hatred can it be whicli
Imola a man to leak hi such a place at
such It time! And What deep And earn.
est purpOge ean he have which OttlIS
tfr" .Atieb a Wel! ..There. la the+ let
WPM 'r
said. 1; "has this precious relation
, of Ours departed?"
notice pf it. It was from .0oonibe
Tracey, and it .was addressed in a
woman's hand." •
"Well?" '
"Well, sir, I thoughtno more of the
matter, and never would have • done
had It not been for my wife. Only
few. weeks . ago she was .cleaning ' out '
Sir Charles's study -it had never been
touched •since his death -and L she
found the sakes of a burned letter in.
the back OT the grate. The greater
pert of it •was ehari-1 to pieces, .but
one little slip, the end of .a page, hung .
together, and•the writing could still be
read, though • it. Was.. grey en a. black
grband. It seemed to us to be a post-
script. at the end of the letter, and it
said: .`Please,,please, as you are ,a gen-
tleman, 'burn this letter, and be at the
gate by ten o'clock.', Beneath it were
signed the initials L.
"Have you got that slip.?"' ,
"No,.sir, it Crumbled all to bits after
we Moved it".
Had 'Sir Charles received any. ether
letters in the. same writing?" ,
. 'Men, sir, I took no. p.articular no-
tiee, of his letter's. I should not haae•
noticed this one 'only it, happened to
"come alone," '
"And yog have no idea who L. L.
"No. sir. No more than .you have.
But I.expect if we could ley our, heeds
upon that lady we should know more
about Sir • Charles's deeth.". •
aI cannot • understand, Barrymore,
how you came to. conceal this import-
ant information." •
"Well, "was immediately 'after.
that our, owntrouble came to es. And
then again, sir, we were both of us
very fond of Sir. 'Charles, as we well.
Might be considering all that he has
done' for US: .To rake this up. couldn't
help our poor . matter, and it's men to
•go -carefully :When there's alady in the
case. Even the best of us --7" • • .
0.'Yon thoughtalt might. injure his
reputation?" • • •
, "Well; sir, L thought no • good could'
come 4 it But now 'you. have • been
• kind to Us, and I feel as if It would be
treatingyou unfairlynotto tell you.all-
O that X Imo* about the matter."! . •
.• "Very, good; Bar .
agrea-When the •butler had left Us Sir
Henry turned to Inc. "Well, Watson,
.what you think ot this new dight?"
"It seems to leave the , darkness,
rather blacker than •before."
"So I think. But if we can only trace
L. L. it should clear up the whole
business. We •haire gained. that much.
We know that there is. sordeone who.
has the facts *if we -can only -find .her.
What do you thinlawe-Should-eor _
, ."Let Holmes know . all about it at
once. It will give him the clue ' for •
which .he..has,been seeking. am Much
mistaken if it. does not • bring hire
down,!' • . • , .. • • • •
'went. at once to my mem and drew
up ray report of the morning's con-
vereatien for -ramps. It was evident to
me that he haa been very busy of late,
for the. notes which I had from Baker
Street , were few and Short, Natal • no
comments upon the information 'which
I had 'etiPplied, and hardly any refer-
ence to. my missiori.,,,No doubt -• his
hlackmailing ease is abSorbing. all his .
fa.cultieia And, yetthis new factor must
eurely. arrest. his attention and renew
O his, intete.st. I wish that he. Were here.'
Oetober 17th. -All day to -day." the
ram poured down, mustang On the ivy
and dripping from the eaves. I thought
.cf- tire -ton -via enit-upori -thehlealca-cold,
shelterless 'Moor. Poor devil! What --
ever 'his crimes, he has suffered some;
thing to .atone for them. And then I
thought of that _other ohe-theface in '
the eab, the hgure 'against the moon.
Was he also out In that deluge -the
unseen watcher, the mae of darkness?
Inathe evening I,put on my waterproof
011d .1 walked far upon the sodden
moor, full.of dark imaginings, the rail.
beating upon ray face and the wind
whistling about my ears. God • 'help
those who wander into the great mire
7 .
-upon the Meer, seelas to lie the YOrY
centre of that problera eihich bait Yea -
ed me 00 ,isorOlY. I ergo that another
iley shall net have passed before I
havealOne all that -man- eau do to reacb.--
tae aeaet of the mystery.
. , "What do you SO, Watson?"
So 'far I have been able to quote 1 shrugged my shoulders, "If he
from the reports which I have for- were safely out of the Country it would
warded diking these early days to relieve the tax -payer of a burden."
Sherlock Holmes. Now,
however, I "But how about the chance of hiS
have arrived. at. a pointin my narra- holding someone up before he goes?"
tive-where 1 amacompelled to Abandon__ -.elle, would, aidt d,0 anything so mad,
this Method and to trust once more to sir. We have provided him with all.
my recollections, aided by the diary that he can want. To commit. 0. crime
which I kept at the time. A fevv ex- would be to show where he " was
tracts from the latter will carry Me hiding."
on to those 'cones which are indelible "That is true." said sir Henry,
fixed in every detail upon my Mein-, "WO, Barrymore-".
ory. X proceed, then, from the morning "God bless you, sir, and thank You
which 'followed our abortive chase of front iny heart! It would We killea.
the convict and ottr Other Strange eie my poor Wife had he been taken
perienees upon the moor. ° again."
October dull and foggy day "I guess we are aiding and abetting
with a drizzle of rain. The house'ls a felony, Watson? But, after what we
banked in with rolling clouds, whieh have heard, X don't feel as Af I could
rise now and then to show the dreary give the maxi up, so there is sp end of
Mulct Of the moor, With thin, Over it, All right, Barrymore,you eati go."
Veine, neon the Aides of the hills, and With a few broken words of grad.
011APTIOR XL
The extract from my private diary
which forms the last chapter has
brought my narrative Up to the lath
of October, a time when these strange
events began to move ewiftly towards
their terrible conclusion. The inci-
dente ef the next feW ()aye are indelib-
ly graven upon My recollection, tied I
can tell them without refereece to the
notes Made at the time. I start then
from the day which eucceeded that '
npon which I had established two
facts of great impettance the one that
-Lyons Tracer- -
had written to Sir Charles Beaker-
ville and made an appointment with...
him at the eery plaCe and hour that
he met his death, the .other that the
lurking man Upon the moor was to be •
found among the stone butts upon the
hilaside. With these two facts in my
possession I felt that either my hitel-
ligence or my courage must be de- .
ficient if I could not throw' some fur-
ther light upon these dark places.
I had no opportunity to the.
baronet wbat I had learned about Mra.
Lyons upon the evening before, for
Dr. Mortimer remained with alin at
cards until It was very jate. At break.
fast, however, r informed him about
my discovery, and naked aim whether
he would care to accompany me to
Coombe Tracey. At first -he was very
eager to come, buten second thoughts
it seemed to both of us that if I went *
alone the results might be better, The •• •
more formal we made the visit the
less information we might obtain.
• left 'Sir Henry behind, -therefore, not •
ithout some priokings of obsciencea.
and drove off upon my new 'quest.
When reached Coombe Tracey f
told' Perkins to -put up the horses, and
I made. inquiries for the lady whom I
bad come •to interrogate, I ha a no
difficulty in finding her moms, w.hieh '
were central and well appointed. A•
maid showed me in Without ceremonY,
and as I entered the sitting -room a
lady, who was sitting before a Renaing.
ton typewriter, sprang up with a
pleasant smile of welcome. Her face
fell, however, when tlie -saw that I was
a stranger, and she sat down again
and asked me the object of. my visit.
O The first iinpression left by Mrs,
Lyons was one of extrerne beauty. Her
-eyes and heir were of the sa-me rich.
hazel color, .and. her cheeks., thoneh
considerably • freckled, were flushed. .
with the exquisite .bloom of the brie
matte, the dainty pink which lurks at
the heart-iil the sulphur rose. AdnAlr-
. aeon waS, I repeat, the first impres-
• sten. But the second was oriticisma
There was something subtly wrong ,
with the .face, *some coarseness of ex-
pression, some hardness, perhaps,' .
.eye, some.looseness of Bp which inur-
ed its .perfect beauty. But these,. of
course; are after -thoughts. At the moe
ment I was simply conscious that I
was in the presence of a, -very hand-
some woman, and that. she was asking
.me the 'reasons for my visit. I had not.
O quite understood until that instant acive
delicate my mission was. '
"I have the pleasure," :said • I, -c"of
knowing your father." •
It •was a clumsy introduction, 'and .
the lady made me feel it. .
• "There, is nothing in common be-
tween my father and me," she said. •
"I owe him, nothing, Etna his friends
are not mine. If it were not for the late
Sir Charles Baskerville and, some other
kind hearts. I might -have starved -for
all that my father. cared" '
O "It was about ;the late Sir Charlet
Baskerville that I have come here .to
Isaede3rY's°ufa.nce.'
The freckle's started out on • the -
O "What ein I 'tell you about him?"
she asked, and her fingers played.
ner-
vously •over the stops of her type -
'Writer. • '
i'You knew him, did you not?" ,
O "I have already ;mid' that owe a.
great deal to his kindness. If I am able
to support Myself it is largely due, to!
the interest which he took in. my 1111::
happy situation." • '
"Did you .correspond with hint?"
angry
ye glaleclayrillooinitehderqr4zokellyeuypeswith an.
"What is the object of .these ques-
tions?"' she asked, "sharply.
"The object is to avoid a 'peblie
scandal: It hi better that I should ask:
theta here than that the matter'
should pais outside our. control."
.• She Ines silent and her face was
'still very Pale.. At last she looked .up
with something reckless and defiant in
her inaniner......
'Weirill.nriswer,". she said. "What
are your. questions?" • . ,
O "Did you ,correspond
.with Sir Char
les?"
certainly Wrote to him- once or
thwisicgeentoerailcskitny7ledge his alel,icacy. and
"Have you the dates of those let-
ters?"
. ,
"Have -you ever met him?" •
o CONTINUED' IN NEXT ISSUE.
\ now, for even the firm uplands are Le -
coming a morass. I found the black tor
Upon which I had seen the. solitary
watcher, and from its craggy summit
0I000lookod out myself across the melan-
choly downs. Rain squalls drifted
across their russet face, and the
heavy, slate -colored clottds hung low
over the landscape, trailing iri grey
wreaths down the sides of the fantas-
tic hills. In the distant hollow on the
left, half hidden by the mist, the two
thin towers of tiaskerville Hall rose
O above the trees. They were the only
signs of hu.nettn life whieh I could see,
O Salte„ortly those prehistorie huts which
lay thickly upon the elopes of the hills.
Nowhere was there any traee of that
)nhely man whom•1 had seen on the
AittaA snot tur.n, et,xh444,0•60.
-
O The Worid's Ceeateet Libriry.
O •The library of the Britian mneeuna
which now contains' between 3,000,000
and 4,000,000 volumes, is 'without ex- •
Option the largest in the world,the
only one which approaches it in: size
being the 13ibliotheque Nationale, Par-
is,' and It is interesting to note that for
the accommodation of this immense
number of books upward of forty-
three miles of shelves are required.
Jap Colony In Canada.
' Apparently' Canada has no fear of a
Japanese intrasion. A scheine is on
foot for creating a Japanese agricul-
tarifl --e:tilerty-- tir-ifeatt-of-AlbeL
Well to do qaptinese 'farmers are to
be taken out to turn their attention to
the raising of wheat and the eultiva-
eon of sugar beets and anything else •
.which will thrive in the climate. The
negotiations are being tattled out by
B. R, Nagatany, who proposes, accord -
mg to the China Telegraph, to bey
50,000 acres from the Canadian Paci-
fic.
A Montreal Freak. f •
Montreal possesses one of the most.
carious freaks of nature ever heard
of. It, IS 11 colt, fourteen months old,
which has a growth on its right fore
Loot. just above the hoof, which is
hardly explainable. The growth has
the appearance of branches of trees,
and already three sprays have come
out, one of which is fourteen inches
long,, and several ethers are sprOuting.
The queerest part of the whole thing
is that the colt does not seem 'ember -
rested by it at all, and reeves', about
quite es freely as Any other of his
species.
".13thokino In Argentina.
Argentinians, who etrieke alined coti.-
thatiouely in their waking hours, rel
their own cigarettes as they need them.
A