WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:09.560 Chapter twelve, Death on the Moor. For a moment or two, 2 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:13.800 I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears, that 3 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.320 my senses and my voice came back to me, while 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:20.320 a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to 5 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:26.399 be lifted from my soul. That cold, incisive, ironical voice 6 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.920 could belong to but one man in all the world, Holmes, 7 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:35.039 I cried, Holmes, come out, said he, and please be 8 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:40.600 careful with the revolver. I stooped under the rude lintel, 9 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.880 and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray 10 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.560 eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features. 11 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.320 He was thin and worn, but clear and alert, his 12 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.640 keen face bronzed by the sun and roughened by the wind. 13 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.240 In his tweed suit and cloth cap, he looked like 14 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.000 any other tourist upon the moor. And he had contrived, 15 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.920 with that cat like love of personal cleanliness, which was 16 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.079 one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as 17 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.439 smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were 18 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.280 in Baker Street. I never was more glad to see 19 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.120 any one in my life, said I, as I wrung 20 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.799 him by the hand, or more astonished, Eh well, I 21 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.760 must confess to it. The surprise was not all on 22 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.439 one side. I assure you I had no idea that 23 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:33.040 you had found my occasional retreat, still less that you 24 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.040 were inside it until I was within twenty paces of 25 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:41.400 the door. My footprint I presume no, Watson, I fear 26 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.239 that I could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid 27 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:48.200 all the footprints of the world. If you seriously desire 28 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.079 to deceive me, you must change your tobacconist. When I 29 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.560 see the stub of a cigarette marked Bradley Oxford Street, 30 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.519 I know that my friend Watson is in the neighborhood. 31 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.760 You will see it there beside the path. You threw 32 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.680 it down, no doubt at that supreme moment when you 33 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:10.719 charged into the empty hut, exactly, I thought as much, and, 34 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.000 knowing your admirable tenacity, I was convinced that you were 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.400 sitting in ambush, a weapon within reach, waiting for the 36 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.800 tenant to return. So you actually thought that I was 37 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.000 the criminal. I did not know who you were, but 38 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:28.439 I was determined to find out. Excellent Watson, and how 39 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.400 did you localize me? You saw me, perhaps on the 40 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.240 night of the convict hunt when I was so imprudent 41 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.479 as to allow the moon to rise behind me. Yes, 42 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.240 I saw you then, and have no doubt, searched all 43 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.039 the huts until you came to this one. No, your 44 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.960 boy had been observed, and that gave me a guide 45 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.159 where to look. The old gentleman with the telescope, No 46 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.159 doubt I could not make it out when first I 47 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.560 saw the light flashing upon the lens. He rose and 48 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.560 peeped into the hut. Ha, I see that Cartwright has 49 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:02.599 brought up some supplies. What's this paper? So you have 50 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.639 been to comb Tracy? Have you? Yes? To see missus 51 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:12.199 Laura Lyons? Exactly well done. Our researches have evidently been 52 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.719 running on parallel lines, and when we unite our results, 53 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.039 I expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of 54 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.280 the case. Well, I am glad from my heart that 55 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:24.560 you are here, for indeed, the responsibility and the mystery 56 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:28.039 were both becoming too much for my nerves. But how 57 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.120 in the name of wonder did you come here? And 58 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.439 what have you been doing? I thought that you were 59 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.879 in Baker Street working out that case of blackmailing. That 60 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.080 was what I wished you to think. Then you use me, 61 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.080 and yet do not trust me. I cried with some bitterness. 62 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.240 I think that I have deserved better at your hands homes, 63 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.960 My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in 64 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.360 this as in many other cases, and I beg that 65 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.280 you will forgive me if I have seemed to play 66 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:59.039 a trick upon you. In truth, it was partly for 67 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.759 your own sake that I did it, and it was 68 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.960 my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led 69 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.319 me to come down and examine the matter for myself. 70 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.240 Had I been with Sir Henry and you, it is 71 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.479 confident that my point of view would have been the 72 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.520 same as yours, and my presence would have warned our 73 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:19.480 very formidable opponents to be on their guard. As it is, 74 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:21.800 I have been able to get about as I could 75 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.160 not possibly have done had I been living in the hall. 76 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:28.439 And I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready 77 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.000 to throw in all my weight at a critical moment. 78 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.519 But why keep me in the dark for you to 79 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:37.399 know could not have helped us and might possibly have 80 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.199 led to my discovery. You would have wished to tell 81 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.920 me something, or in your kindness, you would have brought 82 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.279 me out some comfort or other, And so an unnecessary 83 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.759 risk would be run. I brought Cartwright down with me. 84 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.040 You remember the little chap at the express office, and 85 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.839 he has seen after my simple wants a loaf of 86 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.959 bread and a clean collar. What does man want more? 87 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.839 He has given me an extra pair of eyes upon 88 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.720 a very active pair of feet, and both have been invaluable. 89 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.560 Then my reports have all been wasted. My voice trembled 90 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:11.879 as I recalled the pains and the pride with which 91 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.360 I had composed them. Holmes took a bundle of papers 92 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.279 from his pocket. Here are your reports, my dear fellow, 93 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:22.920 and very well thumbed. I assure you I made excellent arrangements, 94 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.800 and they are only delayed one day. Upon their way. 95 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.399 I must compliment you exceedingly upon the zeal and the 96 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.720 intelligence which you have shown over an extraordinarily difficult case. 97 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.240 I was still rather raw over the deception which had 98 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:40.800 been practiced upon me, but the warmth of Holmes's praise 99 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.240 drove my anger from my mind. I felt also in 100 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:46.120 my heart that he was right in what he said, 101 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.120 and that it was really best for our purpose that 102 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.319 I should not have known that he was upon the moor. 103 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:56.079 That's better, said he seeing the shadow rise from my face, 104 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.199 and now tell me the result of your visit to 105 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.720 missus Laura Irons. It was not difficult for me to 106 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.160 guess that it was to see her that you had gone, 107 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:07.879 for I am already aware that she is the one 108 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.319 person in Combe Tracy who might be of service to 109 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.800 us in the matter. In fact, if you had not 110 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.879 gone to day, it is exceedingly probable that I should 111 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:21.120 have gone tomorrow. The sun had set and dusk was 112 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.680 settling over the moor. The air had turned chill, and 113 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:30.600 we withdrew into the hut for warmth. There, sitting together 114 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.480 in the twilight, I told Holmes of my conversation with 115 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.199 the lady. So interested was he that I had to 116 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.000 repeat some of it twice before he was satisfied. This 117 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.399 is most important, said he, when I had concluded. It 118 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.120 fills up a gap which I had been unable to 119 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.759 bridge in this most complex affair. You are aware, perhaps 120 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.439 that a close intimacy exists between this lady and the 121 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:01.600 man Stapleton. I did not know of a close intimacy. 122 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:04.000 There can be no doubt about the matter. They meet, 123 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:07.120 they write, there is a complete understanding between them. Now 124 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:10.560 this puts a very powerful weapon into our hands if 125 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:16.000 I could only use it to detach his wife. His wife. 126 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.319 I am giving you some information now in return for 127 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.480 all that you have given me. The lady who has 128 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:26.759 passed here as Miss Stapleton, is in reality his wife. 129 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:29.879 Good Heavens, Holmes, are you sure of what you say? 130 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.800 How could he have permitted Sir Henry to fall in 131 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.920 love with her? Sir Henry's falling in love could do 132 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.399 no harm to anyone except Sir Henry. He took particular 133 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.680 care that Sir Henry did not make love to her, 134 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.560 as you have yourself observed. I repeat that the lady 135 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.000 is his wife and not his sister. But why this 136 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.759 elaborate deception? Because he foresaw that she would be very 137 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.160 much more useful to him in the character of a 138 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:01.160 free woman. All my unspoken instincts, my vague suspicion suddenly 139 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:05.680 took shape and centered upon the naturalist. In that impassive, 140 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.079 colorless man with his straw hat and his butterfly net, 141 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.480 I seem to see something terrible, a creature of infinite 142 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.279 patience and craft, with a smiling face and a murderous heart. 143 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.680 It is he, then, who is our enemy. It is 144 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.959 he who dogged us in London. So I read the 145 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.240 riddle and the warning. It must have come from her, 146 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:34.840 exactly the shape of some monstrous villany, half seen, half guessed, 147 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.360 loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long. 148 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.639 But are you sure of this, Holmes? How do you 149 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.960 know that the woman is his wife? Because he so 150 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.279 far forgot himself as to tell you a true piece 151 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.320 of autobiography upon the occasion when he first met you, 152 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.720 and I dare say he has many a time regretted it, 153 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:59.279 since he was once a schoolmaster in the north of England. 154 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.200 Now there is no one more easy to trace than 155 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.879 a schoolmaster. There are scholastic agencies by which one may 156 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.399 identify any man who has been in the profession. A 157 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.000 little investigation showed me that a school had come to 158 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:15.360 grief under atrocious circumstances, and that the man who had 159 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:19.440 owned it the name was different, had disappeared with his wife. 160 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.559 The descriptions agreed. When I learned that the missing man 161 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:30.279 was devoted to entomology, the identification was complete. The darkness 162 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:34.000 was rising, but much was still hidden by the shadows. 163 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.320 If this woman is in truth his wife, where does 164 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.440 missus Laura Lyons come in, I asked, that is one 165 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.039 of the points upon which your own researches have shed 166 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.120 a light. Your interview with the lady has cleared the 167 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.720 situation very much. I did not know about a projected 168 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:57.200 divorce between herself and her husband. In that case, regarding 169 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:01.480 Stapleton as an unmarried man, she counted no doubt upon 170 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:06.519 becoming his wife. And when she is undeceived, why then 171 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.480 we may find the lady of service. It must be 172 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.080 our duty to see her, both of us to morrow. 173 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.360 Don't you think, Watson, that you are away from your 174 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.519 charge rather long? Your place should be at Baskerville Hall. 175 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:24.000 The last red streaks had faded away in the west, 176 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:29.039 and night had settled upon the moor. A few faint 177 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.440 stars were gleaming in a violent sky. One last question, Holmes, 178 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.080 I said, as I rose, surely there is no need 179 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:42.080 of secrecy between you and me. What is the meaning 180 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:47.679 of it all? What is he after? Holmes's voice sank 181 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:53.840 as he answered, it is murder, Watson refined, cold blooded, 182 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.799 deliberate murder. Do not ask me for particulars. My nets 183 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.720 are closing upon him, even as his are upon Sir Henry, 184 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.759 and with your help he is already almost at my mercy. 185 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.360 There is but one danger which can threaten us. It 186 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.440 is that he should strike before we are ready to 187 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.799 do so. Another day, two at the most, and I 188 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.080 have my case complete. But until then, guard your charge 189 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.960 as closely as ever a fond mother watched her ailing child. 190 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.639 Your mission to day has justified itself, and yet I 191 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.519 could almost wish that you had not left his side. Hark, 192 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:44.600 A terrible scream, a prolonged yell of horror and anguish, 193 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.919 burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful 194 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:53.720 cry turned the blood to ice in my veins. Oh 195 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.519 my god, I gasped, What is it? What does it mean? 196 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.879 Holmes had sprung to his feet. I saw his dark 197 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.720 athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, 198 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.360 his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness. Hush, 199 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.639 he whispered. Hush. The cry had been loud on account 200 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:17.240 of its vehemence, but it had peeled out from somewhere 201 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:21.000 far off on the shadowy plain. Now it burst upon 202 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:26.159 our ears, nearer, louder, more urgent than before. Where is it? 203 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.200 Holmes whispered? And I knew from the thrill of his 204 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:32.600 voice that he the man of Iron, was shaken to 205 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:37.879 the soul. Where is it, Watson, There, I think, I 206 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.200 pointed into the darkness. No, there again, the agonized cry 207 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.639 swept through the silent night, louder and much nearer than ever, 208 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:52.399 and a new sound mingled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, 209 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:58.960 musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low 210 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:04.559 concert and murmur of the sea. The hound cried, Holmes, come, Whatson, 211 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:09.000 come grit. Heavens if we are too late. He had 212 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.600 started running swiftly over the moor, and I had followed 213 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.799 at his heels. But now, from somewhere among the broken ground, 214 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.600 immediately in front of us, there came one last, despairing yell, 215 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:26.120 and then a dull, heavy thud. We halted and listened. 216 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.679 Not another sound broke the heavy silence of the windless night. 217 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.200 I saw Holmes put his hand to his forehead like 218 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.759 a man distracted. He stamped his feet upon the ground. 219 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.279 He has beaten us, Watson, we are too late. No, no, 220 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.320 surely not fool that I was to hold my hand 221 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.679 and you, Watson, see what comes of abandoning your charge. 222 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:54.279 But by heaven, if the worst has happened. We'll avenge him. Blindly, 223 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:59.000 we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our 224 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.879 way through gorse bushes, panting up hills, and rushing down slopes, 225 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.399 heading always in the direction whence those dreadful sounds had 226 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:10.480 come at every rise. Holmes looked eagerly round him that 227 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.440 the shadows were thick upon the moor, and nothing moved 228 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:18.000 upon its dreary face. Can you see anything? Nothing but hark? 229 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:23.120 What is that? A low moan had fallen upon our ears? 230 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.080 There it was again upon our left. On that side 231 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.559 a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff, which 232 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.759 overlooked a stone strewn slope. On its jagged face was 233 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:38.200 spread eagled some dark, irregular object. As we ran toward it, 234 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.639 the vague outline hardened into a definite shape. It was 235 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:46.080 a prostrate man, face downward upon the ground, the head 236 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.919 doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded, 237 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.000 and the body hunched together, as if in the act 238 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:59.120 of throwing a somersault. So grotesque was the attitude that 239 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.360 I could not for the inn, and realized that that 240 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.799 moan had been the passing of his soul. Not a whisper, 241 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:09.440 not a rustle, rose now from the dark figure over 242 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.720 which we stooped. Holmes laid his hand upon him, and 243 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.519 held it up again with an exclamation of horror. The 244 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.360 gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his 245 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.879 clotted fingers, and upon the ghastly pool which widened slowly 246 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.200 from the crushed skull of the victim. And it shone 247 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.399 upon something else which turned our hearts sick and faint 248 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:38.919 within us, the body of Sir Henry Baskerville. There was 249 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.120 no chance of either of us forgetting that peculiar ruddy 250 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:45.639 tweed suit, the very one which he had worn on 251 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.240 the first morning that we had seen him in Baker Street. 252 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.240 We caught the one clear glimpse of it. And then 253 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.000 the match flickered and went out, even as the hope 254 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.320 had gone out of our souls. Holmes groaned, and his 255 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:05.720 face glimmered white through the darkness. The brute, the brute, 256 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.120 I cried, with clenched hands, Oh Holmes, I shall never 257 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.279 forgive myself for having left him to his fate. I 258 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.679 am more to blame than you, Watson. In order to 259 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.200 have my case well rounded and complete, I have thrown 260 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.440 away the life of my client. It is the greatest 261 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:25.559 blow which has befallen me in my career. But how 262 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.600 could I know? How could I know that he would 263 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.960 risk his life alone upon the moor, in the face 264 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.759 of all my warnings, that we should have heard his screams, 265 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.200 My God, those screams, and yet have been unable to 266 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.559 save him. Where is this brute of a hound which 267 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.879 drove him to his death? It may be lurking among 268 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.879 these rocks at this instant, and Stapleton, where is he? 269 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.320 He shall answer for this deed. He shall. I will 270 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.480 see to that uncle and nephew have been murdered, the 271 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.120 one frightened to death by the very sight of a 272 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.320 beast which he thought to be supernatural, the other driven 273 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.119 to his end in his wild flight to escape from it. 274 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.480 But now we have to prove the connection between the 275 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:13.079 man and the beast. Save from what we heard, we 276 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:16.519 cannot even swear to the existence of the latter, since 277 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:20.880 Sir Henry has evidently died from the fall. But by Heavens, 278 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.759 cunning as he is, the fellow shall be in my 279 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:28.039 power before another day is pasted. We stood with bitter 280 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:32.640 hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by 281 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:36.160 this sudden and irrevocable disaster which had brought all our 282 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:40.640 long and weary labors to so piteous an end. Then, 283 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.400 as the moon rose, we climbed to the top of 284 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.119 the rocks over which our poor friend had fallen, and 285 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.759 from the summit we gazed out over the shadowy moor, 286 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:56.119 half silver and half gloom. Far away, miles off in 287 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.200 the direction of Grimpen, a single, steady yellow light light 288 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.920 was shining. It could only come from the lonely abode 289 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:09.119 of the Stapletons. With a bitter curse, I shook my 290 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.079 fist at it as I gazed. Why should we not 291 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.839 seize him at once? Our case is not complete. The 292 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.319 fellow is weary and cunning to the last degree. It 293 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.920 is not what we know, but what we can prove. 294 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.039 If we make one false move, the villain may escape us. 295 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:29.519 Yet what can we do? There will be plenty for 296 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:31.839 us to do to morrow to night. We can only 297 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:36.599 perform the last offices to our poor friend. Together we 298 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.960 made our way down the precipitous slope and approached the body, 299 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.680 black and clear against the silvered stones. The agony of 300 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.799 those contorted limbs struck me with a spasm of pain 301 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.720 and blurred my eyes with tears. We must send for 302 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:56.680 help homes. We cannot carry him all the way to 303 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.759 the hall. Good heavens, are you mad? He had uttered 304 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.599 a cry and bent over the body. Now he was 305 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.599 dancing and laughing and wringing my hand. Could this be 306 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:13.400 my stern self contained friend? These were hidden fires? Indeed, 307 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:17.279 a beard a beard. The man has a beard. A beard. 308 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.559 It is not the baronet, it is why it is 309 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.920 my neighbor, the convict. With feverish haste. We had turned 310 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:29.640 the body over, and that dripping beard was pointing up 311 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.279 to the cold, clear moon. There could be no doubt 312 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:38.720 about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes. It was 313 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.279 indeed the same face which had glared upon me in 314 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.880 the light of the candle from over the rock, the 315 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:49.880 face of Selden the criminal. Then, in an instant it 316 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.480 was all clear to me. I remembered how the baronet 317 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.200 had told me that he had handed his old wardrobe 318 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.799 to Barrymore. Barrymore had passed it on in order to 319 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:05.279 help Selden in his escape. Boot's shirt cap. It was 320 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:09.079 all Sir Henry's. The tragedy was still black enough. But 321 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:11.960 this man had at least deserved death by the laws 322 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.680 of his country. I told Holmes how the matter stood, 323 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.960 my heart bubbling over with thankfulness and joy. Then the 324 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.400 clothes have been the poor devil's death, said he. It 325 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:25.599 is clear enough that the hound has been laid on 326 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:29.599 from some article of Sir Henry's, the boot which was 327 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.440 abstracted in the hotel in all probability, and so ran 328 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.240 this man down. There is one very singular thing, however, 329 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.160 how came Selden in the darkness to know that the 330 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.720 hound was on his trail? He hurt him. To hear 331 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:46.880 a hound upon the moor would not work a hard 332 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:50.079 man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror 333 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:53.720 that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help. 334 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:56.200 By his cries, he must have run a long way 335 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.759 after he knew the animal was on his track. How 336 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.880 did he know? A greater mystery to me is why 337 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:06.119 this hound? Presuming that all our conjectures are correct, I 338 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:10.200 presume nothing. Well, then why this hound should be loose 339 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.599 to night? I suppose that it does not always run 340 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.039 loose upon the moor? Stapleton would not let it go 341 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.559 unless he had reason to think that Sir Henry would 342 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:23.119 be there. My difficulty is the more formidable of the two, 343 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.559 for I think that we shall very shortly get an 344 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.880 explanation of yours, while mine may remain forever a mystery. 345 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:34.079 The question now is what shall we do with this 346 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.359 poor wretch's body. We cannot leave it here to the 347 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.279 foxes and the ravens. I suggest that we put it 348 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:44.119 in one of the huts until we can communicate with 349 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.400 the police. Exactly, I have no doubt that you and 350 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:50.799 I could carry it so far. Hello Watson, what's this? 351 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.599 It's the man himself? By all, that's wonderful and audacious. 352 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:58.839 Not a word to show your suspicions. Not a word, 353 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.880 or my plans trumble to the ground. A figure was 354 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.680 approaching us over the moor, and I saw the dull 355 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:09.599 red glow of a cigar. The moon shone upon him, 356 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:13.400 and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk 357 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:17.119 of the naturalist. He stopped when he saw us, and 358 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.279 then came on again. Why, doctor Watson, that's not you, 359 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.000 is it? You are the last man that I should 360 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:26.000 have expected to see out on the moor. At this 361 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:31.079 time of night. But dear me, what's this? Somebody hurt? 362 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.720 Not tell me that it is our friend, Sir Henry. 363 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.519 He hurried past me and stooped over the dead man. 364 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.039 I heard a sharp intake of his breath, and the 365 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:49.240 cigar fell from his fingers. Who Who's this, he stammered, 366 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:55.440 It is seldom the man who escaped from Princetown. Stapleton 367 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:58.960 turned a ghastly face upon us, But by a supreme 368 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:03.119 effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappointment. He 369 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:07.640 looked sharply from Holmes to me. Dear me, what a 370 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:12.440 very shocking affair. How did he die? He appears to 371 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.759 have broken his neck by falling over these rocks. My 372 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.039 friend and I were strolling on the moor when we 373 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.079 heard a cry. I heard a cry also. That was 374 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:25.680 what brought me out. I was uneasy about Sir Henry. 375 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:30.240 Why about Sir Henry in particular? I could not help asking, 376 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.480 because I had suggested that he should come over. When 377 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.640 he did not come, I was surprised, and I naturally 378 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.440 became alarmed for his safety. When I heard cries upon 379 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.960 the moor by the way, his eyes darted again from 380 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:48.039 my face to Holmes's Did you hear anything else besides 381 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.440 a cry? No? Said Holmes, Did you no? What do 382 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:55.440 you mean then? Oh? You know the stories that the 383 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:58.839 peasants tell about the phantom hound and so on. It 384 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:00.839 is said to be heard at night upon the moor. 385 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:04.200 I was wondering if there were any evidence of such 386 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:06.799 a sound to night. We heard nothing of the kind, 387 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.279 said I. And what is your theory of this poor 388 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:14.559 fellow's death? I have no doubt that anxiety and exposure 389 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.400 have driven him off his head. He has rushed about 390 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:21.119 the moor in a crazy state and eventually fallen over 391 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:25.880 here and broken his neck. That seems the most reasonable theory, 392 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.480 said Stapleton, and he gave a sigh, which I took 393 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:33.240 to indicate his relief. What do you think about it, 394 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:38.400 mister Sherlock Holmes? My friend bowed his compliments. You are 395 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:42.839 quick at identification, said he. We have been expecting you 396 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:46.400 in these parts since doctor Watson came down. You are 397 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:50.279 in time to see a tragedy. Yes, indeed, I have 398 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:53.160 no doubt that my friend's explanation will cover the facts. 399 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:56.480 I will take an unpleasant remembrance back to London with 400 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.400 me to morrow. Oh, you return to morrow. That is 401 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:04.480