The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 7 (1/2)
”Your request is a very reasonable one,” Holmes answered ”Dr Mortimer, I think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us”
Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon thebefore
Sir Henry Baskerville listened with the deepest attention and with an occasional exclamation of surprise
”Well, I seeeance,” said he when the long narrative was finished ”Of course, I've heard of the hound ever since I was in the nursery It's the pet story of the fa it seriously before But as toup in et it clear yet You don't seem quite to have made up your yman”
”Precisely”
”And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel I suppose that fits into its place”
”It seeoes on upon the moor,” said Dr Mortimer
”And also,” said Holmes, ”that someone is not ill-disposed towards you, since they warn you of danger”
”Or it may be that they wish, for their own purposes, to scare me away”
”Well, of course, that is possible also I aalternatives But the practical point whichhave to decide, Sir Henry, is whether it is or is not advisable for you to go to Baskerville Hall”
”Why should I not go?”
”There seeer fros?”
”Well, that is e have to find out”
”Whichever it is, my answer is fixed There is no devil in hell, Mr
Holoing to the home of my own people, and you may take that to be my final answer”
His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke
It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative ”Meanwhile,” said he, ”I have hardly had ti for aI should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind Now, look here, Mr
Holht away to my hotel Suppose you and your friend, Dr Watson, come round and lunch with us at two I'll be able to tell youstrikes me”
”Is that convenient to you, Watson?”
”Perfectly”
”Then you may expect us Shall I have a cab called?”
”I'd prefer to walk, for this affair has flurried me rather”
”I'll join you in a walk, with pleasure,” said his coain at two o'clock Au revoir, and good-!”