WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:08.960 Chapter eight, first Report of Doctor Watson. From this point onward, 2 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.720 I will follow the course of events by transcribing my 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.199 own letters to mister Sherlock Holmes, which lie before me 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:20.000 on the table. One page is missing, but otherwise they 5 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.480 are exactly as written, and show my feelings and suspicions 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.039 of the moment more accurately than my memory, clear as 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:33.000 it is upon these tragic events, can possibly do. Baskerville Hall, 8 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:39.759 October thirteenth, My dear Holmes, my previous letters and telegrams 9 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:41.719 have kept you pretty well up to date as to 10 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:44.960 all that has occurred in this most god forsaken corner 11 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.039 of the world. The longer one stays here, the more 12 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.560 does the spirit of the more sink into one's soul, 13 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.000 its vastness and also its grim charm. When you are 14 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.679 once out upon its bosom, you have left all traces 15 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:02.600 of modern England behind you. But on the other hand, 16 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.040 you were conscious everywhere of the homes and the work 17 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:09.040 of the prehistoric people. On all sides of you as 18 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:13.319 you walk are the houses of these forgotten folk, with 19 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:17.319 their graves and the huge monoliths which are supposed to 20 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.480 have marked their temples. As you look at their graystone 21 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.480 huts against the scarred hillsides. You leave your own age 22 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.400 behind you, and if you were to see a skin 23 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:32.120 clad hairy man crawl out from the low door, fitting 24 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.439 a flint tipped arrow onto the string of his bow, 25 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.200 you would feel that his presence there was more natural 26 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.200 than your own. The strange thing is that they should 27 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:44.519 have lived so thickly on what must always have been 28 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.480 most unfruitful soil. I am no antiquarian, but I could 29 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:54.040 imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who 30 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.280 were forced to accept that which none other would occupy. 31 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.480 All this, however, foreign to the mission on which you 32 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.079 sent me, and will probably be very uninteresting to your 33 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.840 severely practical mind. I could still remember your complete indifference 34 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.240 as to whether the Sun moved round the Earth or 35 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.199 the Earth round the Sun. Let me therefore return to 36 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.879 the facts concerning Sir Henry Baskerville. If you have not 37 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.439 had any report within the last few days, it is 38 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.080 because up to today there was nothing of importance to relate. 39 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.759 Then a very surprising circumstance occurred, which I shall tell 40 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.000 you in due course. But first of all I must 41 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.639 keep you in touch with some of the other factors 42 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.400 in the situation. One of these, concerning which I have 43 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:46.800 said little, is the escaped convict upon the moor. There 44 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.360 is strong reason now to believe that he has got 45 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.639 right away, which is a considerable relief to the lonely 46 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.639 householders of this district. The fortnight has passed since his flight, 47 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.680 during which he has not been seen, and nothing has 48 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:05.120 been heard of him. It is surely inconceivable that he 49 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.800 could have held out upon the moor during all that time. 50 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.039 Of course, so far as his concealment goes, there is 51 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:16.360 no difficulty at all. Any one of these stone huts 52 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.080 would give him a hiding place, but there is nothing 53 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:21.719 to eat unless he were to catch and slaughter one 54 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.759 of the more sheep. We think, therefore that he has gone, 55 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:30.680 and the outlying farmers sleep the better. In consequence, we 56 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.879 are for able bodied men in this household, so that 57 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.520 we could take good care of ourselves. But I confess 58 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.039 that I have had uneasy moments when I have thought 59 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.840 of the Stapletons. They live miles from any help. There 60 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.000 are one maid, an old man servant, the sister, and 61 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.280 the brother, the latter not a very strong man. They 62 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.639 would be helpless in the hands of a desperate fellow 63 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.680 like this notting Hill criminal, if he could once effect 64 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:00.360 an entrance. Both Sir Henry and I were concern at 65 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.439 their situation, and it was suggested that Perkins the Groom 66 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:07.879 should go over to sleep there, but Stapleton would not 67 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.080 hear of it. The fact is that our friend the 68 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.439 Baronet begins to display a considerable interest in our fair neighbor. 69 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.480 It is not to be wondered at, for time hangs 70 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.279 heavily in this lonely spot to an active man like him, 71 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:26.639 and she is a very fascinating and beautiful woman. There 72 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:31.079 is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a 73 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:35.600 singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother. Yet he 74 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.720 also gives the idea of hidden fires. He has certainly 75 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.279 a very marked influence over her, for I have seen 76 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.639 her continually glance at him as she talked, as if 77 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.240 seeking approbation for what she said. I trust that he 78 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.639 is kind to her. There is a dry glitter in 79 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.959 his eyes and a firm set of his thin lips, 80 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.439 which goes with a positive and possibly a harsh nature. 81 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.800 You would find him an interesting study. He came over 82 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:06.680 to call upon Baskerville on that first day and the 83 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.279 very next morning he took us both to show us 84 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.160 the spot where the legend of the Wicked Hugo is 85 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.720 supposed to have had its origin. It was an excursion 86 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.439 of some miles across the moor to a place which 87 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.600 is so dismal that it might have suggested the story. 88 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:26.319 We found a short valley between rugged tours, which led 89 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.959 to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white 90 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:34.199 cotton grass. In the middle of it rose two great stones, 91 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.879 worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked 92 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.399 like the huge, corroding fangs of some monstrous beast. In 93 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.480 every way it corresponded with the scene of the old tragedy. 94 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.959 Sir Henry was much interested, and asked Stapleton more than 95 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.120 once whether he did really believe in the possibility of 96 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.600 the interference of the supernatural in the affairs of men. 97 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.040 He spoke lightly, but it was evident that he was 98 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:06.000 very much in earnest. Stapleton was guarded in his replies, 99 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.199 but it was easy to see that he said less 100 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:12.160 than he might, and that he would not express his 101 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.519 whole opinion out of considerations for the feelings of the baronet. 102 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.639 He told us of similar cases where families had suffered 103 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.959 from some evil influence, and he left us with the 104 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.160 impression that he shared the popular view upon the matter. 105 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.040 On our way back, we stayed for lunch at Mary 106 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.000 Pitt House, and it was there that Sir Henry made 107 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.000 the acquaintance of Miss Stapleton. From the first moment that 108 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.360 he saw her, he appeared to be strongly attracted by her, 109 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.639 and I'm much mistaken if the feeling was not mutual. 110 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.560 He referred to her again and again on our walk home, 111 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.759 and since then, hardly a day has passed that we 112 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.040 have not seen something of the brother and sister. They 113 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.839 dine here tonight, and there is some talk of our 114 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.600 going to them next week. One would imagine that such 115 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.720 a match would be very welcome to Stapleton, And yet 116 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.600 I have more than once caught a look of the 117 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:10.680 strongest disapprobation in his face when Sir Henry has been 118 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.879 paying some attention to his sister. He is much attached 119 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.720 to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life 120 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:21.160 without her. But it would seem the height of selfishness 121 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:22.879 if he were to stand in the way of her 122 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:26.319 making so brilliant a marriage. Yet I am certain that 123 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:28.920 he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love, 124 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.519 and I have several times observed that he has taken 125 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.720 pains to prevent them from being tete a tete. By 126 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.519 the way, your instructions to me never to allow Sir 127 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.800 Henry to go out alone, will become very much more 128 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.360 onerous if a love affair were to be added to 129 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:50.160 our other difficulties. My popularity would soon suffer if I 130 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.560 were to carry out your orders to the letter. The 131 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.040 other day, Thursday, to be more exact, Doctor Mortimer lunched 132 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.560 with us. He has been ex excavating a barrow at 133 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.399 Long Down and has got a prehistoric skull, which fills 134 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.680 him with great joy. Never was there such a single 135 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.800 minded enthusiast as he. The Stapletons came in afterwards, and 136 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.240 the good Doctor took us all to the U Alley 137 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.519 at Sir Henry's request, to show us exactly how everything 138 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:25.040 occurred upon that fatal night. It is a long dismal 139 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:29.120 walk the U Alley, between two high walls of clipped 140 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.799 hedge with a narrow band of grass upon either side. 141 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.159 At the far end is an old tumble down summer 142 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:39.879 house Halfway down is the moor gate where the old 143 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:44.039 gentleman left his cigar ash. It is a white wooden 144 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:48.200 gate with a latch. Beyond it lies the wide moor. 145 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.440 I remember your theory of the affair and tried to 146 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:57.080 picture all that had occurred. As the old man stood there, 147 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:02.759 he saw something coming across the moor, something which terrified 148 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:06.159 him so that he lost his wits and ran, and 149 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:11.600 ran until he died of sheer horror and exhaustion. There 150 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.879 was the long, gloomy tunnel which he fled. And from 151 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:22.120 what a sheep dog of the moor or a spectral hound, black, 152 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:27.600 silent and monstrous? Was there a human agency in the matter? 153 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.799 Did the pale, watchful barrymore know more than he cared 154 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:37.120 to say? It was all dim and vague, but always 155 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:42.720 there is the dark shadow of crime behind it. One 156 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.120 other neighbor I have met since I wrote last. This 157 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.879 is mister Franklin of Laughter Hall, who lived some four 158 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.039 miles to the south of us. He is an elderly man, 159 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:00.159 red faced, white haired, and choleric. His passion is for 160 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.279 the British law, and he has spent a large fortune 161 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.519 in litigation. He fights for the mere pleasure of fighting, 162 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.840 and is equally ready to take up either side of 163 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.039 a question, so that it is no wonder that he 164 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.720 has found it a costly amusement. Sometimes he will shut 165 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.200 up a right of way and defy the parish to 166 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.159 make him open it. At others he will with his 167 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:27.360 own hands tear down some other man's gait and declare 168 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:31.120 that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying 169 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.120 the owner to prosecute him for trespass. He is learned 170 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.720 in old memorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge, 171 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.519 sometimes in favor of the villagers of Fernworthy, and sometimes 172 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:47.080 against them, so that he is periodically either carried in 173 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:51.279 triumph down the village street, or else burned in effigy. 174 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:55.000 According to his latest exploit, he is said to have 175 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.600 about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will 176 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:02.080 probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune, and so 177 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.399 draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future. 178 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.320 Apart from the law he seems a kindly good natured person, 179 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:14.200 and I only mention him because you were particular that 180 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.600 I should send some description of the people who surround us. 181 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:23.240 He is curiously employed at present for being an amateur astronomer. 182 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.879 He has an excellent telescope with which he lies upon 183 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.519 the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor 184 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.320 all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of 185 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:36.399 the escaped convict. If he would confine his energies to this, 186 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.240 all would be well. But there are rumors that he 187 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.720 intends to prosecute Doctor Mortimer for opening a grave without 188 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.759 the consent of the next of kin because he dug 189 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.039 up the neolithic skull in the barrow on long Down. 190 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.039 He helps to keep our lives from being monotonous and 191 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.039 gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed. 192 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.480 And now, having brought you up to date in the 193 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:04.600 Escaped Convict, the Stapletons, Doctor Mortimer, and Franklin of Laughter Hall, 194 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.039 let me end on that which is most important, and 195 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:11.960 tell you more about the Barrymore's and especially about the 196 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:16.720 surprising development of last night. First of all, about the 197 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.720 test telegram which you sent from London in order to 198 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:25.039 make sure that Barrymore was really here. I've already explained 199 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.399 that the testimony of the postmaster shows that the test 200 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.799 was worthless, that we have no proof one way or 201 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.559 the other. I told Sir Henry how the matter stood, 202 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.240 and he, at once, in his downright fashion, had Barrymore 203 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.879 up and asked him whether he had received the telegram himself. 204 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.600 Barrymore said that he had. Did the boy deliver it 205 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:53.000 into your own hands? Asked Sir Henry. Barrymore looked surprised 206 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:57.240 and considered for a little time. No, said he. I 207 00:12:57.399 --> 00:12:59.519 was in the box room at the time, and my 208 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:04.399 wife brought it up to me. Did you answer it yourself? No? 209 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.080 I told my wife what to answer, and she went 210 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:11.480 down to write it in the evening, he recurred to 211 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.799 the subject of his own accord. I could not quite 212 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:19.399 understand the object of your questions this morning, Sir Henry said, he. 213 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:22.120 I trust that they do not mean that I have 214 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.759 done anything to forfeit your confidence. Sir Henry had to 215 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.159 assure him that it was not so, and pacify him 216 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.159 by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe. 217 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:39.679 The London outfit having now all arrived, Missus Barrymore is 218 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.080 of interest to me. She's a heavy, solid person, very limited, 219 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.960 intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical. You could hardly 220 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.240 conceive a less emotional subject. Yet I have told you 221 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:59.600 how on the first night here I heard her sobbing bitterly, 222 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.639 and since then I have more than once observed traces 223 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.879 of tears upon her face. Some deep sorrow gnaws ever 224 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.600 at her heart. Sometimes I wonder if she has a 225 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:17.360 guilty memory which haunts her. And sometimes I suspect Barrymore 226 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.519 of being a domestic tyrant. I've always felt that there 227 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:26.320 was something singular and questionable in this man's character. That 228 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.279 the adventure of last night brings all my suspicions to 229 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.600 a head. And yet it may seem a small matter 230 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:36.519 in itself. You are aware that I am not a 231 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:40.279 very sound sleeper, and since I have been on guard 232 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.799 in this house, my slumbers have been lighter than ever. 233 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.279 Last night, about two in the morning, I was aroused 234 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.639 by a stealthy step passing my room. I rose opened 235 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.759 my door and peeped out. A long, black shadow was 236 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.840 trailing down the corridor. It was thrown by a man 237 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.720 who walked softly down the passage with a candle held 238 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.960 in his hand. He was in shirt and trousers, with 239 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.320 no covering to his feet. I could merely see the outline, 240 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.279 but his height told me that it was Barrymore. He 241 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:18.000 walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably 242 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:23.320 guilty and furtive in his whole appearance. I have told 243 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.080 you that the corridor is broken by the balcony which 244 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.919 runs round the hall, but that it is resumed upon 245 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:34.240 the farther side. I waited until he had passed out 246 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.000 of sight, and then I followed him. When I came 247 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.440 round the balcony, he had reached the end of the 248 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.559 farther corridor, and I could see from the glimmer of 249 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.279 the light through an open door that he had entered 250 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.200 one of the rooms. Now, all these rooms are unfurnished 251 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.279 and unoccupied, so that his expedition became more mysterious than ever. 252 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.399 The light shone steadily, as if he were standing motionless 253 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:04.360 down the passage as noiselessly as I could, and peeped 254 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.720 around the corner of the door. Barrymore was crouching at 255 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:13.480 the window with the candle held against the glass. His 256 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:16.720 profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed 257 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.000 to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into 258 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.600 the blackness of the moor. For some minutes he stood, 259 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:28.480 watching intently then he gave a deep groan, and with 260 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:33.000 an impatient gesture, he put out the light. Instantly, I 261 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.480 made my way back to my room, and very shortly 262 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.240 came the stealthy steps, passing once more upon their return journey. 263 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.960 Long afterwards, when I had fallen into a light sleep, 264 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.919 I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but 265 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.759 I could not tell whence the sound came. What it 266 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.720 all means I cannot get. But there is some secret 267 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:58.519 business going on in this house of Gloom, which, sooner 268 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.600 or later, we shall get to the bottom. I do 269 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.440 not trouble you with my theories, for you asked me 270 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.839 to furnish you only with facts. I have had a 271 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.720 long talk with Sir Henry this morning, and we have 272 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.799 made a plan of campaign founded upon my observations of 273 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.359 last night. I will not speak about it just now, 274 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.519 but it should make my next report interesting reading.