The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 11 (2/2)
”I will do my best”
”You have arht it as well to take theht and day, and never relax your precautions”
Our friends had already secured a first-class carriage and aiting for us upon the platform
”No, we have no news of any kind,” said Dr Mortimer in answer to , and that is that we have not been shadowed during the last two days We have never gone out without keeping a sharp watch, and no one could have escaped our notice”
”You have always kept together, I presuive up one day to pure amusement when I coeons”
”And I went to look at the folk in the park,” said Baskerville
”But we had no trouble of any kind”
”It was i his head and looking very grave ”I beg, Sir Henry, that you will not go about alone
Soet your other boot?”
”No, sir, it is gone forever”
”Indeed That is very interesting Well, good-bye,” he added as the train began to glide down the platform ”Bear in end which Dr Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted”
I looked back at the platforure of Hol after us
The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it inthewith Dr Mortimer's spaniel In a very few hours the brown earth had becorazed in well-hedged fields where the lush grasses and etation spoke of a richer, if a daerly out of theand cried aloud with delight as he recognized the familiar features of the Devon scenery
”I've been over a good part of the world since I left it, Dr Watson,”
said he; ”but I have never seen a place to compare with it”
”I never saw a Devonshi+re man who did not swear by his county,” I remarked
”It depends upon the breed of lance at our friend here reveals the rounded head of the Celt, which carries inside it the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Ivernian in its characteristics But you were very young when you last saw Baskerville Hall, were you not?”
”I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father's death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast
Thence I went straight to a friend in America I tell you it is all as new to me as it is to Dr Watson, and I'm as keen as possible to see the ranted, for there is your first sight of the e