WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:08.599 Chapter ten, extract from the Diary of Doctor Watson. So 2 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.480 far I have been able to quote from the reports 3 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:16.600 which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.760 I have arrived at a point in my narrative where 5 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.079 I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust 6 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.120 once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which 7 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.600 I kept at the time. A few extracts from the 8 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:32.640 latter will carry me on to those scenes which are 9 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:37.399 indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory. I proceed 10 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:41.079 then from the morning which followed our abortive chase of 11 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:45.280 the convict, and our other strange experiences upon the moor. 12 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.560 October sixteenth, a dull and foggy day with a drizzle 13 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.159 of rain. The house is banked in with rolling clouds, 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.759 which rise now and then to show the dreary curves 15 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:02.240 of the moor, with thin silver veins. Upon the sides 16 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.719 of the hills, the distant boulders gleaming where the light 17 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:12.040 strikes upon their wet faces. It is melancholy outside and 18 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:16.959 in the baronet is in a black reaction. After the 19 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.760 excitements of the night, I am conscious myself of a 20 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.040 weight at my heart, and a feeling of impending danger, 21 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.239 of a present danger which is the more terrible because 22 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.319 I am unable to define it, and have I not 23 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.200 caused for such a feeling. Consider the long sequence of 24 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.879 incidents which have all pointed to some sinister influence which 25 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.359 is at work around us. There is the death of 26 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.200 the last occupant of the hall fulfilling so exactly the 27 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.760 conditions of the family legend. There are the repeated reports 28 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.840 from peasants of the appearance of a strange creature upon 29 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.560 the moor. Twice I have with my own ears heard 30 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.760 the sound which resembled the distant baying of a hound. 31 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:08.240 It is incredible, impossible that it should really be outside 32 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.439 the ordinary laws of nature. A spectral hound, which leaves 33 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:18.000 material footmarks and fills the air with its howling, is 34 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:22.120 surely not to be thought of. Stapleton may fall in 35 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.080 with such a superstition, and Mortimer also. But if I 36 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:31.159 have one quality upon Earth, it is common sense, and 37 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.879 nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing. 38 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:37.639 To do so would be to dissent to the level 39 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.879 of these poor peasants, who are not content with the 40 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:45.840 mere fiend dog, but must needs describe him with hell 41 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.360 fire shooting from his mouth and eyes. Holmes would not 42 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:55.719 listen to such fancies, and I am his agent. But 43 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.960 facts are facts, and I have twice heard this cry 44 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.599 upon the More. Suppose that there were really some huge 45 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:06.039 hound loose upon it, that would go far to explain everything. 46 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:12.240 But where could such a hound lie concealed? Where did 47 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:16.280 it get its food? Where did it come from? How 48 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:21.560 was it that no one saw it by day? It 49 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.680 must be confessed that the natural explanation offers almost as 50 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.960 many difficulties as the other. And always apart from the hound, 51 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.319 there is the fact of the human agency in London, 52 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:37.120 the man in the cab, and the letter which warned 53 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.400 Sir Henry against the More. This at least was real, 54 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.719 But it might have been the work of a protecting 55 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.000 friend as easily as of an enemy. Where is that 56 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:53.479 friend or enemy? Now? Has he remained in London? Or 57 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.159 has he followed us down here? Could he? Could he 58 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.840 be the stranger whom I saw upon the tour? It 59 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:03.879 is true that I have had only the one glance 60 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:07.199 at him, and yet there are some things to which 61 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.680 I am ready to swear. He is no one whom 62 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.479 I have seen down here, and I have now met 63 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.879 all the neighbors. The figure was far taller than that 64 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:23.519 of Stapleton, far thinner than that of Franklin barry More. 65 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.319 It might possibly have been, but we had left him 66 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.079 behind us, and I'm certain that he could not have 67 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:35.959 followed us. A stranger, then is still dogging us, just 68 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.519 as a stranger dogged us in London. We have never 69 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.920 shaken him off. If I could lay my hands upon 70 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.639 that man, then at last we might find ourselves at 71 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.639 the end of all our difficulties. To this one purpose. 72 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:55.439 I must now devote all my energies. My first impulse 73 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.920 was to tell Sir Henry all my plans. My second 74 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.319 and wisest one is to play my own game and 75 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.160 speak as little as possible to anyone. He is silent 76 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:09.759 and distray. His nerves have been strangely shaken by that 77 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.439 sound upon them, Moor. I will say nothing to add 78 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.319 to his anxieties, but I will take my own steps 79 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:21.800 to attain my own end. We had a small scene 80 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.759 this morning. After breakfast. Barrymore asked leave to speak with 81 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.600 Sir Henry, and they were closeted in his study some 82 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.439 little time, sitting in the billiard room. I more than 83 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:37.000 once heard the sound of voices raised, and I had 84 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.160 a pretty good idea what the point was, which was 85 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.839 under discussion. After a time, the baronet opened his door 86 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:48.199 and called for me. Barrymore considers that he has a grievance. 87 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:52.399 He said. He thinks that it was unfair on our 88 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.959 part to hunt his brother in law down when he, 89 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:58.120 of his own free will, had told us the secret. 90 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.920 The butler, standing very pale but collected before us. I 91 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.360 may have spoken too warmly, sir, said he, And if 92 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.199 I have, I am sure that I beg your pardon. 93 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.360 At the same time, I was very much surprised when 94 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.639 I heard you two gentlemen come back this morning and 95 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:20.000 learned that you had been chasing Selden. The poor fellow 96 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.480 has enough to fight against without my putting more upon 97 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.319 his track. If you had told us, if your own 98 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.800 free will, it would have been a different thing, said 99 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.519 the baronet. You only told us, or rather your wife 100 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.399 only told us, when it was forced from you and 101 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.199 you could not help yourself. I didn't think you would 102 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.360 have taken advantage of it, Sir Henry. Indeed I didn't. 103 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.600 The man is a public danger. There are lonely houses 104 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.360 scattered over the moor, and he is a fellow who 105 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.240 would stick at nothing. You only want to get a 106 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.600 glimpse of his face to see that. Look at mister 107 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.759 Stapleton's house, for example, with no one but himself to 108 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.079 defend it. There's no safety for anyone until he is 109 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.519 under lock and key. He'll break into no house, Sir. 110 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.160 I give you my solemn word upon that. But he 111 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:12.000 will never trouble anyone in this country again, I assure you, sir, 112 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.439 Henry there in a very few days, the necessary arrangements 113 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.360 will have been made and he will be on his 114 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:20.519 way to South America. For God's sake, Sir, I beg 115 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.480 of you not to let the police know that he's 116 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.360 still on the moor. They have given up the chase 117 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.199 there and he can lie quiet until the ship is 118 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.480 ready for him. You can't tell on him without getting 119 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.639 my wife and me into trouble. I beg you, sir, 120 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.800 to say nothing to the police. What do you say, Watson? 121 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.680 I shrugged my shoulders. If he were safely out of 122 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.199 the country, it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden. 123 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.079 But how bad the chance of his holding someone up 124 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.240 before he goes, he would not do anything, so mad Sir. 125 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:53.879 We have provided him with all that he can want 126 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.560 to commit. A crime would be to show where he 127 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:01.000 was hiding, That is true, said Sir Henry. Well, Barrymore, 128 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.040 God bless you, sir, and thank you from my heart. 129 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.279 It would have killed my poor wife had he been 130 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.959 taken again. I guess we are aiding in the bedding 131 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.759 of Felony Watson. But after what we have heard, I 132 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.759 don't feel as if I could give the man up. 133 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.560 So there is an end of it, all right, Barrymore, 134 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.279 you can go with a few broken words of gratitude. 135 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.879 The man turned, but he hesitated and then came back. 136 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.720 You've been so kind of us, Sir, that I should 137 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:32.879 like to do the best I can for you in return. 138 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.120 I know something, Sir Henry, and perhaps I should have 139 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.600 said it before, but it was long after the inquest 140 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.919 that I've found it out. I've never breathed a word 141 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:46.679 about it yet a mortal man. It's about or Sir 142 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.919 Charles's death. The baronet and I were both upon our feet. 143 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.919 Do you know how he died? No, Sir, I don't 144 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.519 know that. What then I know why he was at 145 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.519 the gate at that hour that was to me woman 146 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:06.279 to meet a woman. He yes, sir, and the woman's name. 147 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.399 I can't give you the name, sir, but I can 148 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:14.600 give you the initials. Her initials were l L. How 149 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:18.519 do you know this Barrymore? Well, sir, Henry, your uncle 150 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.799 had a letter that morning. He had usually a great 151 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.480 many letters, for he was a public man and well 152 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.639 known for his kind heart, so that everyone who was 153 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.600 in trouble was glad to turn to him. But that morning, 154 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.799 as it chanced, there was only this one letter, so 155 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.600 I took the more notice of it. It was from 156 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:40.240 Coombe Tracy, and it was addressed in a woman's hand. 157 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.720 Well well, sir, I thought no more of the matter, 158 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:45.879 and never would have done had it not been for 159 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.720 my wife. Only a few weeks ago, she was cleaning 160 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:53.360 out Sir Charles's study. It had never been touched since 161 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.679 his death, and she found the ashes of a burned 162 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.720 letter in the back of the grate. The greater part 163 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.480 of it was chaed to pieces, but one little slip 164 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.360 the end of a page hung together, and the writing 165 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:07.879 could still be read. Though it was gray on a 166 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.320 black ground. It seemed to us to be a PostScript 167 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.440 at the end of the letter, and it said, please, please, 168 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.759 as you are gentleman, burn this letter and be at 169 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.600 the gate by ten o'clock. Beneath it were as signed 170 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.240 the initials l L. Have you got that slip? No, Sir, 171 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.080 it crumbled old to bits after we moved it. Had 172 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.720 Sir Charles received any other letters in the same writing, Well, Sir, 173 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.879 I took no particular notice of his letters. I should 174 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.519 not have noticed this one. Only it happened to come alone. 175 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.559 And you have no idea who l L is, No, Sir, 176 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.279 no more than you have. But I expect if we 177 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.159 could lay our hands upon that lady, we should know 178 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:51.559 more about Sir Charles's death. I cannot understand, barrymore, how 179 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.000 you came to conceal this important information, while Sir, it 180 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:58.240 was immediately after that our own trouble came to us. 181 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.759 And then again, Sir, we were both of us very 182 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.200 fond of Sir Charles, as we well might be, considering 183 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.559 all that he has done for us. To rake this 184 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.679 up couldn't help our poor master. And it's well to 185 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.720 go carefully when there's a lady in the case. Even 186 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:17.240 the best of us, you thought it might injure his reputation. Well, Sir, 187 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.080 I thought no good could come of it, but now 188 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.240 you've been kind to us, and I feel as if 189 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.399 it would be treating you unfairly not to tell you 190 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.600 all that I know about the matter. Very good, barrymore, 191 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.399 you can go. When the butler had left us, Sir 192 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.240 Henry turned to me, Well, Watson, what do you think 193 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:37.600 of this new light? It seems to leave the darkness 194 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.600 rather blacker than before, so I think. But if we 195 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.759 can only trace LLL, it should clear up the whole business. 196 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.720 We have gained that much. We know that there is 197 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.799 someone who has the facts, if we can only find her. 198 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.320 What do you think we should do? Let Holmes know 199 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.720 all about it at once. It will give him the 200 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.960 clue for which he has been seeking. I'm much mistaken, 201 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.360 and if it does not bring him down. I went 202 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.360 at once to my room and drew up my report 203 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.000 of the morning's conversation for Holmes. It was evident to 204 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.720 me that he had been very busy of late. For 205 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.879 the notes which I had from Baker Street to a 206 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.559 few and short, with no comments upon the information which 207 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.879 I had supplied, and hardly any reference to my mission. 208 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.399 No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties. 209 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:29.480 And yet this new factor must surely arrest his attention 210 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.840 and renew his interest. I wish that he were here. 211 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.960 October seventeenth, All day to day, the rain poured down, 212 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.320 rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves. I 213 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.759 thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold shelterless more, 214 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.960 poor devil, whatever his crimes, he has suffered something to 215 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.960 atone for them. And then I thought of that other one, 216 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:57.039 the face in the cab, the figure against the moon. 217 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:02.360 Was he also out in that luged the unseen Watcher, 218 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.559 the man of darkness. In the evening, I put on 219 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.320 my waterproof and I walked far upon the sodden moor, 220 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:12.440 full of dark imaginings, the rain beating upon my face, 221 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.320 and the wind whistling about my ears. God help those 222 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.799 who wander into the great mire now, for even the 223 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:24.559 firm uplands are becoming a morass. I found the black 224 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.919 tor upon which I had seen the solitary Watcher, and 225 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.240 from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the 226 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:37.519 melancholy downs. Rain squalls drifted across their russet face and 227 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.240 the heavy slate colored clouds hung low over the landscape, 228 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.679 trailing in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills. 229 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:50.440 In the distant hollow on the left, half hidden by 230 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.519 the mist, the two thin towers of Baskerville Hall rose 231 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.519 above the trees. They were the only signs of human 232 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.720 life which I could see, save only those prehistoric huts 233 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.759 which lay thickly upon the slopes of the hills. Nowhere 234 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.440 was there any trace of that lonely man whom I 235 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:14.799 had seen on the same spot two nights before. As 236 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.919 I walked back, I was overtaken by Doctor Mortimer, driving 237 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.960 in his dog cart over a rough moorland track which 238 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.360 led from the outlying farm house of fowl Mere. He 239 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.519 has been very attentive to us, and hardly a dairs 240 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.639 passed that he has not called at the hall to 241 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.759 see how we were getting on. He insisted upon my 242 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.519 climbing into his dog cart, and he gave me a 243 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.879 lift homeward. I found him much troubled over the disappearance 244 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.200 of his little spaniel. It had wandered on to the 245 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:49.480 moor and had never come back. I gave him such 246 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.159 consolation as I might. But I thought of the pony 247 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.120 on the grimp and mire, and I do not fancy 248 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.759 that he will see his little dog again. By the way, 249 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.519 Mortimer said, I as jolted along the rough road. I 250 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:05.320 suppose there are a few people living within driving distance 251 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.960 of this whom you do not know hardly any I think. 252 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.960 Can you then tell me the name of any woman 253 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.840 whose initials are l L? He thought for a few moments, No, 254 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.519 said he. There are a few gypsies and laboring folk 255 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.720 for whom I can't answer. But among the farmers or gentry, 256 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.799 there is no one whose initials are those. Wait a bit, though, 257 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:32.120 he added, after a pause, there is Laura Lyons. Her 258 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.279 initials are l L, but she lives in Coombe. Tracy. 259 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:42.320 Who is she? I asked? She is Franklin's daughter. What 260 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:46.720 old Franklin the crank? Exactly? She married an artist named 261 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.879 Lions who came sketching on them more he proved to 262 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.440 be a blackguard and a desertedor The fault, from what 263 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.039 I hear, may not have been entirely on one side. 264 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.679 Her father refused to have anything to do with her 265 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.120 because she had married without his consent, and perhaps for 266 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.159 one or two other reasons as well. So between the 267 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.440 old sinner and the young one, the girl has had 268 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.200 a pretty bad time. How does she live? I fancy 269 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.720 Eld Franklin allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, 270 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.240 for his own affairs are considerably involved. Whatever she may 271 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.000 have deserved, one could not allow her to go hopelessly 272 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.200 to the bad Her story got about, and several of 273 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.639 the people here did something to enable her to earn 274 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:31.240 an honest living. Stapleton did for one, and Sir Charles 275 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:35.000 for another. I gave a trifle myself. It was to 276 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.320 set her up in a typewriting business. He wanted to 277 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.480 know the object of my inquiries, but I managed to 278 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.320 satisfy his curiosity without telling him too much. For there 279 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.200 is no reason why we should take anyone into our confidence. 280 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.039 Tomorrow I shall find my way to coomb Tracy. And 281 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:56.720 if I can see this, missus Laura Lyons of equivocal reputation, 282 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.799 a long step will have been made towards clearing one 283 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.319 incident in this chain of mysteries. I'm certainly developing the 284 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:08.200 wisdom of the serpent. For when Mortimer pressed his questions 285 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.559 to an inconvenient extent. I asked him casually to what 286 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.680 type Franklin's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology 287 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.720 for the rest of our drive. I've not lived for 288 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:25.000 years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing. I have only one 289 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:28.839 other incident to record upon this tempestuous and melancholy day. 290 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.640 This was my conversation with Barrymore just now, which gives 291 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.279 me one more strong card, which I can play in 292 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.880 due time. Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and 293 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.559 the baronet played a cart Afterwards. The butler brought me 294 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.519 my coffee into the library, and I took the chance 295 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.200 to ask him a few questions. Well said, I, has 296 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.880 this precious relation of yours departed? Or is he still 297 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.640 lurking out yonder? I don't know her. I hope to 298 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.039 Heaven that he is gone, for he has brought nothing 299 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:05.799 but trouble here. I've not heard of him since I 300 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.640 left out food for him last, and that was three 301 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.000 days ago. Did you see him then, no, sir, But 302 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:14.440 the food was gone When next I went that way, 303 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.279 then he was certainly there, so you would think, sir, 304 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.880 unless it was the other man who took it. I 305 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.680 sat with my coffee cup halfway to my lips, and 306 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:29.359 stared at Barrymore. You know that there is another man? Then, yes, sir, 307 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.599 there is another man upon the moor. Have you seen him? No, sir, 308 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.200 how do you know of him? Then? Selden told me 309 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.480 of him, Sir, a week ago or more. He's in 310 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.680 hiding too, but he's not a convict, as far as 311 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.559 I can make out, I don't like it, Doctor Watson. 312 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:47.880 I tell you straight, sir, that I don't like it. 313 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.039 He spoke, with a sudden passion of earnestness. Now listen 314 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.440 to me, Barrymore. I have no interest in this matter 315 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.000 but that of your master. I've come here with no 316 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.440 object except to help him. Tell me, frankly, what it 317 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.279 is that you don't like. Barrymore hesitated for a moment, 318 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.440 as if he regretted his outburst or found it difficult 319 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.519 to express his own feelings in words. As all these 320 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:14.400 goings answer, he cried at last, waving his hand towards 321 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.799 the rain lashed window which faced the More. There's foul 322 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:21.079 play somewhere, and there's black villainy brewing to that. I'll 323 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.079 swear very glad I should be, sir, to see Sir 324 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.079 Henry on his way back to London again. But what 325 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.160 is it that alarms you? Look at Sir Charles's death. 326 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.559 That was bad enough for all that, the coroner said, 327 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.640 Look at the noises on the moor at night. There's 328 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:39.119 not a man would cross it after sundown if he 329 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.839 was paid for it. Look at this stranger hiding out 330 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.240 yonder and watching and waiting. What's he waiting for? What 331 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.119 does it mean? It means no good to anyone of 332 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:50.640 the name of Baskerville. I'm very glad I shall be 333 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:52.920 to be quit of it all on the day that 334 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.000 Sir Henry's new servants are ready to take over the hall. 335 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.559 But about this stranger, said, I can you tell me 336 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.319 anything about him? What did Selden say? Did he find 337 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.880 out where he hid or what he was doing? He 338 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.160 saw him once or twice, but he is a deep 339 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:11.559 one and gives nothing away. At first he thought that 340 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.720 he was the police ba Zoon. He found that he 341 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.440 had some lay of his own, a kind of gentleman. 342 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.759 He was as far as he could see. But what 343 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.720 he was doing he could not make out. And where 344 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:26.279 did you say that? He lived? Among the old houses 345 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.599 on the hillside, the stone nuts, where the old folk 346 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:33.559 used to live, But how about his food? Zelden found 347 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:35.440 out that he has got a lad who works for 348 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.640 him and brings him all he needs. I dare say 349 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.920 he goes to Coombe Tracy for what he was very 350 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.119 good Barrymore. We may talk further of this some other time. 351 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.559 When the butler had gone, I walked over to the 352 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:51.839 black window, and I looked through a blurred pane at 353 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.880 the driving clouds and at the tossing outline of the 354 00:20:54.880 --> 00:21:00.400 windswept trees. It is a wild night indoors. Must it 355 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.559 be in a stone hut upon the moor? What passion 356 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.279 of hatred can it be which leads a man to 357 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:09.759 lurk in such a place at such a time, And 358 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:12.519 what deep and earnest purpose can he have which calls 359 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:16.200 for such a trial? There In that hut upon the 360 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:18.960 moor seems to lie the very center of that problem 361 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:23.160 which has vexed me so sorely. I swear that another 362 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.240 day shall not have passed before I have done all 363 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:28.480 that a man can do to reach the heart of 364 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:36.000 the mystery.