The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 10 (1/2)
”Whom would you recommend, then?”
Holmes laid his hand upon my arm ”If my friend would undertake it there is noat your side when you are in a tight place No one can say so more confidently than I”
The proposition took me completely by surprise, but before I had ti it heartily
”Well, now, that is real kind of you, Dr Watson,” said he ”You see how it is with me, and you know just as much about the matter as I do If you will coet it”
The promise of adventure had always a fascination for me, and I was coerness hich the baronet hailed me as a companion
”I will come, with pleasure,” said I ”I do not kno I could employ my time better”
”And you will report very carefully to me,” said Holmes ”When a crisis comes, as it will do, I will direct how you shall act I suppose that by Saturday all ht be ready?”
”Would that suit Dr Watson?”
”Perfectly”
”Then on Saturday, unless you hear to the contrary, we shall ton”
We had risen to depart when Baskerville gave a cry, of triu into one of the corners of the roo boot!” he cried
”May all our difficulties vanish as easily!” said Sherlock Hol,” Dr Mortimer remarked ”I searched this room carefully before lunch”
”And so did I,” said Baskerville ”Every inch of it”
”There was certainly no boot in it then”
”In that case the waiter ”
The Ger of the matter, nor could any inquiry clear it up Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of smallaside the whole grim story of Sir Charles's death, we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the nen boot, the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the nen boot Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that histo frae and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted
All afternoon and late into the evening he sat lost in tobacco and thought
Just before dinner two telegrams were handed in The first ran:
Have just heard that Barrymore is at the Hall BASKERVILLE
The second: