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The Wingham Times, 1907-08-01, Page 7' 1+ #4 'f+' +'4++++++ •++.+' ' +++++'#': ': The Hound of the Baskervilles Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, BY A. G , NAN DOYLE, Author of "The Green Flag" and "The Creat Boer War" ( TFfB wiNorua TIS:F$, AUGUST 1, 1007 oto not believe eta such nonsense." "But I do. If you have any influence with air Henry, take him away from a piece which has always been fatal to his family. The world is wide. Why should he wish to live at the place of danger?" "Because it is the place of danger. That is Sir Henry's nature. I fear that unless yon can give me some more definite information than this it would be impossible to get him to move." "I cannot say .'anything definite,,for I do not know anything definite."' "I would ask you one more question, Miss Stapleton. If you meant no more than this when you first spoke to pie, Copyright (190,) by A. Conan Doyle. 14. why should you Act wish your brother ♦ +++++•+++++-+tri+##•+-+-f•1•+ +++-hF#• 4 ++ ad into a modern dwelling. An orchard • s feIce inclicatdd the position of merrf- surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual ;tit House, but the dip of the Moor had upon the moor, were stunted and alp - laid her mita she was quite Close. ped, and the effect of the whole place I could not doubt that this was the was Mean and melancholy. We were Miss Stapleton of whom I had been admitted by a strange. wizened, rusty � told since ladies of anysort must be coated old man servant, who seemed few upon the moor, and I remembered in keeping with the house. Inside, how - that I had heard someone describe her ever, there were large rooms furnished as being •a beauty, The woman who ap- with en elegance in which I seemed proached me was certainly that, and to recognize the taste of the lady, As of a most uncommon type. There could I looked from their window at the in - not have been a greater contrast be- terminable granite -flecked spoor rolling tween brother and sister, for Stapleton unbroken to the farthest horizon I was neutral tinted, with light hair and could not but marvel at what could grey eyes, while she was darker than have brought this highly educated man any brunette whom I have seen in Eng- and this beautiful woman to live in land --slim, elegant, and tail. She had such a place. a proud, finely cut face, so regular that "Queer spot to choose, is it not?" It might have seemed impassive were said he, as if in answer to my thought. 'It not for the sensitive mouth and the ".And yet we manage to make ousel - beautiful dark, eager eyes. With her ves fairly happy, do we not, Beryl?" low the course of events by transcrib- ^perfect figure and elegant dress, she "Quite !sappy," said she, but there ing my own letters to Sherlock ^was, indeed, a strange apparition upon was no ring of conviction in her words. Holmes which Ile before Mr. en k zs lonely moorland Path. Her eyes were I had a school, said Stapleton. It table. One achpage is before but other - she the on her brother as I turned, and, then was in the north country, The work to e are exactly ss written, haad she quickened her pace towards me. I a man of my temperament was me- wise they feelings and suspicions d ?had raised my hat, and was about to chanical and uninteresting, but the f the moment more accurately than my snalre some explanatory remark, when privilege of living with youth, of help• memory, clear as it is upon these tra- 'her own words turned all my thoughts big to mould those young minds and me events, can possibly do. "Into a new channel.. of impressing them with one's own - "Go tack!" she said, "Go straight character and ideals, was very dear to Baskerville Hall, October 13th. 'back to London, instantly." me. However, the fates were against My Dear Holmes,—My previous let - I could only stare at her in stupid us, A serious epidemic broke. out in ters and telegrams have kept you xsurprise. Her eyes blazed at me, and the school and three of the boys died.. pretty well up-to-date as to all that has she tapped the ground impatiently It never recovered from the blow, and occurred in this most God -forsaken with her foot, much of my capital was irretrievably ' corner of the world. The longer one "Why should I go back?" I asked. swallowed up. Ana yet, if it were not stays here the more does the spirit of "I cannot explain." She spoke in a low, eager voice, with a curious lisp In ter utterance, "But for Crud's sake do what I ask you. Go back and never set foot upon the moor again." "But I have only just come." "Man, man!" she cried. "Can you -not tell when a warning is for your •own good? Go back to London! Start • to -night! Get away from this place at all costs! Hush, my brother is coming! :Not a word of what I have said. Would you mind getting'tbat orchid for me :among the mares -tails yonder? We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late -to see the beauties of the place." Stapleton had abandoned the chase . and came back to us breathing hard ::'and flushed with his exertions. "Halloa, Beryl!" said he, and it -seemed to me that the tone of his :greeting was not altogether a cordial to overhear what you said? There is nothing to which he, or anyone else, could object." "My brother Is very anxious to have the Hall inhabited, for be thinks that it is for the good of the poor folk upon themoor He beverYan angry if he knew that I had said anything which might induce Sir Henry to go away, But I have done my duty now and I will say no more. I must get back, or he will miss me and suspect that I haye seen you. Good-bye!" She turned, and had disappeared in a few minutes among the scattered boulders, while I, with my soul full of vague fears, pursued my way to Baskerville Hall. CHAPTER VIII, -One, "Well, Jack, you are very het," "Yes, I was chasing a Cyclopides. Ile u d in the andion 'ie very rare `late autumn. What a pity that I should have missed him!" He spoke uncon- . cernedly, but his small light eyes glanced incessantly from the girl to me. "You have introduced yourselves, I • .can see." "Yes. I was telling Sir Henry that it was rather late for him to see the true beauties of the moor." "Why, who do you think this is?" "I imagine that it must be Sir Henry • Baskerville." "No, no," said I. "Only a humble • commoner, but his friend. My name is Dr. Watson." A flush of vexation passed over her -.expressive face. "We have been talking . at cross purposes," said she. "Why, you bad not very much time for talk," her brother remarked, with =the same questioning eyes. "I talked as if Dr. Watson were a resident instead of being merely a visitor," said she. "It cannot much matter to him whether it is early or late for the orchids. But eou will come e'en, will you not, and see Merripit `House?" A short walk brought us to it, a :bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and tura- UNRIPE FRUIT, CRUDE OF WATER, COLDS, IMPROPER MEET "USE :DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, COLIC, CRAMPS, PAIN IN THE STOMACH, SUMMER COMPLAINT, Ete. These annoying bowel complaints may ',be quickly and effectually cured by the elm of DR. FOWLER'S EXTRACT OF WILD STRAWBERRY for the loss of the charming compare ' the moor sink into one's soul, its vast- ionship of the boys, I could rejoice over ness, and also its grim charm. When my own misfortune, for, with my you are once out upon its bosom you strong tastes for botany and zoology, I have left all traces of modern Eng - find an unlimited field of work here, land behind you, but on the other hand and my sister is as devoted to Nature you are conscious everywhere of the as I am. All this, Dr. Watson, has homes and the work of the prehistoric been brought upon your head by your people. On all sides of you as you walk expression as you surveyed the moor are the houses of these forgotten folk, out of our window." with their graves and the huge mono - "It certainl r+UZ TO YOU. If you have lelreutaati:,m, any Kidney or Bladder Trouble, .or think that these ors gaps are affected, write for our valuable booklet. Free to you, and tells all about suffer If I we're -to carry' out your or, dors to the letter. i The other day—Thursday, to be snore exact—Dr. Mortimer lunched with us. He has beers excavating a barrow at Long Down, and has get a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy. Never was there such a singleeninded enthusiast as he! The Stapletons came in afterwards, and the good doctor took us all to the Yew Alley, at Sir Henry's request, to show us exactly how everything occurred upon that fatal night. It is a long, dis- mal walk, the Yew Alley, between two �'heeritlo Kidney Pili. ac 1 high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side. Tho ciaain Chemical Co. Ltd., Windsor, Ont. At the far end is an old tumble-down summer -house. Half -way down is the moor -gate, where the old gentleman left his cigar -ash. It is a white wooden gate with a latch. Beyond it lies the wide moor. I remembered your theory f - of the affair and tried to lecture all = t t V • that had occurred, As the old man s• l�. Q. P.•A. stood thereh sawsomething coming s a m n g across the moor, something which ter- rified hint so that he Lost his wits, and ran and ran until he died of sheer hor- ror and exhaustion. There was the long, gloomy tunnel down which be fled. And from what? A sheep -dog of the moor? Or a spectral hound, black, silent, and monstrous? Was there a human agency in the matter? Did the pale, watchful Barrymore know more than he cared to say? It was all dim and vague, 'but always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it. One other neighbor I have met since I wrote last. This is Mr, Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who lives some four miles to the south of us. He is an elderly man, red faced, white haired, and choleric. Hie passion is for the British law, and he has spent a large fortune In litigation. He fights for the mere pleasure of fighting and is equally ready to take up either side of a ques- tion, so that it is no wonder that he bas found it a costly amusement. Sometimes he will shut up a right of le way and defy the parish to make him open it. At others he will with Ills own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has exist- ed there from time immemorial, defy- ing the owner to prosecute him for Ile stared out into the ZlacZnessojthe moor. trespass. He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies concealment goes there is no difficulty his knowledge sometimes in favor of at all. Any one of these stone huts the villagers of Fernworthy and some - would give him a hiding -place. But times against them, so that he is there is nothing to eat unless he were periodically either carried in triumph to catch and slaughter one of the moor down the village street or else burned sheep. We think, therefore, that he in effigy, according to his latest ca- lms gone, and the outlying farmers 1 plait. He is said to have about seven sleep the better in consequence. I lawsuits upon his hands at present, y did cross my mind that - liths which are supposed to have mark- We are four able-bodied men in this : which will probably swallow up the It might be a little dull—less for you, ed their temples. As you look at their household, so that we could take good ' remainder of his fortune and so draw perhaps, than for your sister." grey stone huts against the scarred care of ourselves, but I confess that I his sting and leave him harmless for "No, no, I am never dull," said she, = bill -sides you leave your own age be- have had uneasy moments when I have the future. Apart from the law he quickly, hind you, and if you were to see a thought of the Stapletons, They live seems a kindly, good-natured person, We have books, we have our stud- skinclad, hairy man crawl out from miles from any help. There are one and I only mention him because you les, and we have interesting neighbors. the low door, fitting a flint•tipped ar- maid, an old manservant, the sister, were particular that I should send Dr. -Mortimer is a most learned man row on to the string of his bow, You and the brotber, the latter not a very some deseription of the people who in his own line. Poor Sir Charles was - would feel that his presence there was strong pian. They would be helpless surround us. He is curiously employed also an admirable companion. We ' more natural than your own. The in the hands of a desperate fellow Iike at present, for, being an amateur as - knew him well, and miss him more : strange thing is that they should have this Notting Hill criminal, if be could tronomer, he has an excellent teles - than I can tell. Do you think that I : lived so thieely on what must always once effect an entrance. Both Sir cope, with which he Ices upon the roof should intrude if I were to call this, af- have been most unfruitful soil. I am Henry and I were concerned at their of his own house and sweeps the moor ternoon and make the acquaintance of no antiquarian, but I could imagine situation, and it was suggested that all day in the hope of catching a Sir Henry?" - that they were some unwarlike and Ferkins the groom should go over to glimpse of the escaped convict. If he "I am sure that he would be delight- harried race who were forced to ac- sleep there, but Stapleton would not would confine his energies to this all 1 ed:" ceptthat which none other would oc-hear of it. would be well,but there are rumors "Then perhaps you would mention cum The fact is that .our friend the baron- that he intends to prosecute Dr. Moe th t I propose t dos . We mayin our begins p p o o All this, however, is foreign to the et begins to display a considerable in- .timer for opening a grave without the humble way dp something to make mission on which you sent me, and will forest in our fair neighbor. It is not to consent of the next-of-kin, because he things more easy for him until he be- probably be very uninteresting to your be wondered at, for time hangs heavily dug up the neolithic skull in the bar - comes accustomed to his new surround- severely practical mind. I can still re- in this lonely spot to an active man row on Long Down. He helps to keep lugs. Will you come upstairs, Dr. Wat- member your complete indifference as ^` like him, and she is a very fascinating our lives from being monotonous and son, and inspect m' collection of le- to whether the sun moved round the and beautiful woman. There is some- gives a little comic relief where it is pidoptera? I think it is the most cont- earth or the earth round the sun. Let thing tropical and exotic about her badly needed. plete one in the south-west of England. me, therefore, return to the facts con- which forms a singular contest to And row, having brought you up to By the time that you have looked cerning Sir Henry Baskerville. her cool and unemotional brother. Yet date in the escaped convict, the - through them lunch will be almost if you have not had any report with- he also gives the idea of hidden fires. Stapletons, Dr. Mortimer, and Frank - ready." in the last few days it is because up He has certainly a very marked in- land, of Lafter Hall, let me end on that But I was eager to get back to inY to to -day there was nothing of import- fluence over her, for I have seen her a tant nd tell you charge. The melancholy of the moor, ance to relate. Then a very surprising continually glance at him as she talk- which is most impormore about the Bartatamores, and es - the death of the unfortunate pony, the circumstance occurred, which I shall ed as if seeking approbation for what ecialiy about the surprising develo weird sound which had been associ- tell you in due course. But, first of all, she said. I trust that he is kind to her. p g ated with the grim legend of the Bas- I must keep you in touch with some of There is a dry glitter In his eyes, and meat of last night. • kervilles, all these things tinged my the other factors in the situation. a firm set of his thin lips, which goes First of all about the test telegram, thoughts with sadness. Then on the . One of these, concerning which I with a positive and possibly a harsh which you sent from London in order top of these more or less vague Impres- have said little, is the escaped convict nature. You would find him an interest- to make sure that Barrymore was real- ly here, I have already explained that distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, de- :now to believe that Ire has gat right He came over to call upon Barker- the testimony of the postmaster shows livered with such intense earnestness + away, which is a considerable relief to ville on that first day, and the very that the test was worthless and that that I could not doubt that some grave the lonely householders of this district. next morning he took us both to show we have no proof one way or the and deep reason Icy behind it. I resist , A fortnight has passed since his flight, us the spot where the legend of the other. I told Sir Henry how the mat ed all pressure to stay for lunch, and I , during which, he has not been seen wicked Hugo is supposed to have had ter stood, and he at once, in his down - set off at once upon my return jour- ' hf It right fashion had Barrymore up and ney, taking the grass -grown path by which we had come. It seems, however, that there must have been some short cut for those who knew it, for before I had reaeh- ed the road I was astounded to see . Miss Stapleton sitting upon a rock by the side of the track. Her face was beautifully flushed with her exertions, and she held her hand to her side. "I have run all the way in order to cut you off, Dr. Watson," said she. "I had not even time to put on my hat. I must not stop, or my brother may miss me. I wanted to say to you how sorry I am about the stupid mistake I made in thinking that you were Sir Henry. Please forget the words I said, which have no application whatever to you." "But I can't forget then, Miss Stapleton," said I. "I am Sir Henry's friend, and his welfare is a very close concern of mine. Tell me why it was that you were so eager that Sir Henry - should return to London." "A woman's whim, Dr. 'Watson. When you know me better you wile un- derstand that I cannot always give reasons for what I say or do." "No, no. I remember the thrill in your voice. I remember the look in your eyes. Please, please, be frank with me, Miss Stapleton, for ever since I have been here I have been conscious of shadows all round me. Life bas be- come like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the trace. Tell me then what it was that you meant, and I will promise to convey your warning to Sir Henry." An expression of irresolution passed for an instant over her face, but her eyes had hardened again when she an- swered me. "You make too much of it, Dr. Wat- son," said she. 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When you want to surprise yourself, give your appetite a treat with Mooney's of Perfection Cream Sodas r 1r its origin. It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have sug- gested the story. We fouud a short . valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass. In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end,' until they Iooked like the huge cor- roding fangs of some monstrous beast. In every way it corresponded with the scene of the old tragedy. Sir Henry was much interested, and asked Staple- ton more than once whether he dad really believe in the possibility of the interference of the supernatural in the affairs of men. He spoke lightly, but it was evident that he was very much in earnest. Stapleton was guarded in his replies, but It was easy to see that h6 said less than be might, and that he would not express his whole opin- ion out of consideration for the feel- ings of the baronet. He told us of similar cases, where families had suf- fered from some evil influence, and he left us with the impression that he shared the popular view upon the mat- ter, On our way back we stayed for lunch at Merripit House, and it was there that Sir Henry made the ac- quaintance of Miss Stapleton. From the first moment that he saw her he appeared to be strongly attracted by her, and I ani muck mistaken if the feeling was not mutual. He referred to her again and again on our walk home, and since then hardly a day has passed that we have not seen something of the brother and sister. They dine stere to -night, and there is some talk of our going to them next week. One would imagine that such a match would be very welcometo Stapleton, and yet I have more than once caught a look of the strongest disapprobation in his face when Sir Henry has been paying some atten- tion to his sister. He is =eh attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a Ionely life without her, but it would seen the height of selfishness if he were to stand its the way of her mak- ing so brilliant a marriage. 'Yet I am certain that he does not wish their in- , tinuaey to ripen into love, and I have; several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them froin be- ing tete-a-tete. i3y the way, your in- structions to me never to allow Sir Henry to go out alone will become very much more onerous if a love af- fair were to be added to our other difficulties. My popularity would soon asked him whether he had received the telegram. himself. Barrymore said that he had. "Did the boy deliver it into your own hands?" asked Sir Henry. 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