By Arthur Conan Doyle
Overview
Could the surprising demise of Sir Charles Baskerville were attributable to the large ghostly hound that is acknowledged to have haunted his kin for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes routinely dismisses the idea as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in one other case, he sends Watson to Devon to guard the Baskerville inheritor and to monitor the suspects at shut hand.
When a moment member of the Baskerville family members dies, Sherlock Holmes investigates and reveals murderous greed in the back of the intended curse.
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The admiral released one hand from behind his back and gestured out at the woods. Like a dog, John looked at the hand, not at the direction indicated. He’d forgotten how twisted and swollen the admiral’s hands were, fingers like lengths of ginger root. John wondered that he didn’t wear gloves, but perhaps he couldn’t get them on. ‘Yes,’ the admiral said, ‘it’s the fine sort of autumn weather. I have an invitation in town,’ he announced. John bowed at the fact. ’ The admiral smiled. John also smiled.
When he saw John he started towards him, his face raw with rage, but two attendants were with him. One sprang up from a log on which they were playing with a pack of old, bent cards, and raised his arms. The lunatic pretended not to see him, but stopped where he was. ‘Move on there,’ the attendant told John. It was Stockdale. ‘Move on. No harm done. Had a bit of a morning, that one. ’ The other attendant, whom John didn’t quite recognise, smiled through his pipe smoke. John hurried on, removing his hat, wiping out the brim dampened by sudden fear, and setting it firmly back on his head.
Well, no doubt you’ll be a great addition to Epping society, such as it is. ’ Tennyson inclined his head at the mention of his suffering brother. The blush of enthusiasm left him, dwindling down painfully to a small heat of embarrassment. That often came after too intense a disclosure of self with somebody; now it was made the more intense by the thought of Septimus. The wide line of his mouth hardened. Allen saw and sought to reassure him. ‘I’ve no doubt that Septimus has very fine prospects of recovery.