The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 5 (1/2)
Here is Lafter Hall, which was mentioned in the narrative There is a house indicated here which may be the residence of the naturalist--Stapleton, if I reht, was his nah Tor and Foulreat convict prison of Princetown Between and around these scattered points extends the desolate, lifeless edy has been played, and upon which we ain”
”Itis a worthy one If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs ofto the supernatural explanation”
”The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood,for us at the outset The one is whether any crime has been committed at all; the second is, what is the crime and hoas it committed? Of course, if Dr Morti with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one I think we'll shut thatagain, if you don't , but I find that a concentrated atht I have not pushed it to the length of getting into a box to think, but that is the logical outcome of my convictions Have you turned the case over in your ood deal of it in the course of the day”
”What do you ”
”It has certainly a character of its own There are points of distinction about it That change in the footprints, for example What do you make of that?”
”Mortimer said that the man had walked on tiptoe down that portion of the alley”
”He only repeated what some fool had said at the inquest Why should a man walk on tiptoe down the alley?”
”What then?”
”He was running, Watson--running desperately, running for his life, running until he burst his heart--and fell dead upon his face”
”Running from what?”
”There lies our problem There are indications that the an to run”
”How can you say that?”
”I a that the cause of his fears came to him across the moor
If that were so, and it seems most probable, only a man who had lost his ould have run froipsy's evidence may be taken as true, he ran with cries for help in the direction where help was least likely to be Then, again, as he waiting for that night, and as he waiting for him in the yew alley rather than in his own house?”
”You think that he aiting for someone?”
”Thean evening stroll, but the ground was daht inclement Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr Mortiiven hiar ash?”
”But he went out every evening”
”I think it unlikely that he waited at theOn the contrary, the evidence is that he avoided the ht before hetakes shape, Watson It becoht I ask you to hand ht upon this business until we have had the advantage of ”
Chapter 4 Sir Henry Baskerville