The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 28 (1/2)
I looked at the broad plu love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye
”Is it like anyone you know?”
”There is soestion, perhaps But wait an instant!” He stood upon a chair, and, holding up the light in his left hand, he curved his right arlets
”Good heavens!” I cried in a out of the canvas
”Ha, you see it now My eyes have been trained to exas It is the first quality of a criuise”
”But this is ht be his portrait”
”Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual A study of fah to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation The fellow is a Baskerville--that is evident”
”With designs upon the succession”
”Exactly This chance of the picture has supplied us with one of ourlinks We have him, Watson, we have hiht he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!” He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away froh often, and it has always boded ill to so, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw hi up the drive
”Yes, we should have a full day today,” he remarked, and he rubbed his hands with the joy of action ”The nets are all in place, and the drag is about to begin We'll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big, leanjawed pike, or whether he has got through the meshes”
”Have you been on the moor already?”
”I have sent a report from Grimpen to Princetown as to the death of Selden I think I can promise that none of you will be troubled in the ht, ould certainly have pined away at the door of rave, if I had not set his mind at rest about my safety”
”What is the next move?”
”To see Sir Henry Ah, here he is!”
”Good-eneral who is planning a battle with his chief of the staff”
”That is the exact situation Watson was asking for orders”
”And so do I”
”Very good You are engaged, as I understand, to dine with our friends the Stapletons tonight”
”I hope that you will come also They are very hospitable people, and I alad to see you”
”I fear that Watson and I o to London”
”To London?”