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- 0:01Speaker 1: Chapter ten, extract from the Diary of Doctor Watson. So
- 0:08Speaker 1: far I have been able to quote from the reports
- 0:11Speaker 1: which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however,
- 0:17Speaker 1: I have arrived at a point in my narrative where
- 0:19Speaker 1: I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust
- 0:23Speaker 1: once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which
- 0:26Speaker 1: I kept at the time. A few extracts from the
- 0:29Speaker 1: latter will carry me on to those scenes which are
- 0:32Speaker 1: indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory. I proceed
- 0:37Speaker 1: then from the morning which followed our abortive chase of
- 0:41Speaker 1: the convict, and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
- 0:46Speaker 1: October sixteenth, a dull and foggy day with a drizzle
- 0:50Speaker 1: of rain. The house is banked in with rolling clouds,
- 0:54Speaker 1: which rise now and then to show the dreary curves
- 0:57Speaker 1: of the moor, with thin silver veins. Upon the sides
- 1:02Speaker 1: of the hills, the distant boulders gleaming where the light
- 1:06Speaker 1: strikes upon their wet faces. It is melancholy outside and
- 1:12Speaker 1: in the baronet is in a black reaction. After the
- 1:17Speaker 1: excitements of the night, I am conscious myself of a
- 1:20Speaker 1: weight at my heart, and a feeling of impending danger,
- 1:24Speaker 1: of a present danger which is the more terrible because
- 1:28Speaker 1: I am unable to define it, and have I not
- 1:31Speaker 1: caused for such a feeling. Consider the long sequence of
- 1:35Speaker 1: incidents which have all pointed to some sinister influence which
- 1:38Speaker 1: is at work around us. There is the death of
- 1:42Speaker 1: the last occupant of the hall fulfilling so exactly the
- 1:46Speaker 1: conditions of the family legend. There are the repeated reports
- 1:50Speaker 1: from peasants of the appearance of a strange creature upon
- 1:53Speaker 1: the moor. Twice I have with my own ears heard
- 1:57Speaker 1: the sound which resembled the distant baying of a hound.
- 2:01Speaker 1: It is incredible, impossible that it should really be outside
- 2:08Speaker 1: the ordinary laws of nature. A spectral hound, which leaves
- 2:13Speaker 1: material footmarks and fills the air with its howling, is
- 2:18Speaker 1: surely not to be thought of. Stapleton may fall in
- 2:22Speaker 1: with such a superstition, and Mortimer also. But if I
- 2:27Speaker 1: have one quality upon Earth, it is common sense, and
- 2:31Speaker 1: nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
- 2:35Speaker 1: To do so would be to dissent to the level
- 2:37Speaker 1: of these poor peasants, who are not content with the
- 2:40Speaker 1: mere fiend dog, but must needs describe him with hell
- 2:46Speaker 1: fire shooting from his mouth and eyes. Holmes would not
- 2:50Speaker 1: listen to such fancies, and I am his agent. But
- 2:55Speaker 1: facts are facts, and I have twice heard this cry
- 2:58Speaker 1: upon the More. Suppose that there were really some huge
- 3:01Speaker 1: hound loose upon it, that would go far to explain everything.
- 3:07Speaker 1: But where could such a hound lie concealed? Where did
- 3:12Speaker 1: it get its food? Where did it come from? How
- 3:16Speaker 1: was it that no one saw it by day? It
- 3:21Speaker 1: must be confessed that the natural explanation offers almost as
- 3:24Speaker 1: many difficulties as the other. And always apart from the hound,
- 3:29Speaker 1: there is the fact of the human agency in London,
- 3:33Speaker 1: the man in the cab, and the letter which warned
- 3:37Speaker 1: Sir Henry against the More. This at least was real,
- 3:42Speaker 1: But it might have been the work of a protecting
- 3:44Speaker 1: friend as easily as of an enemy. Where is that
- 3:48Speaker 1: friend or enemy? Now? Has he remained in London? Or
- 3:53Speaker 1: has he followed us down here? Could he? Could he
- 3:58Speaker 1: be the stranger whom I saw upon the tour? It
- 4:01Speaker 1: is true that I have had only the one glance
- 4:03Speaker 1: at him, and yet there are some things to which
- 4:07Speaker 1: I am ready to swear. He is no one whom
- 4:10Speaker 1: I have seen down here, and I have now met
- 4:13Speaker 1: all the neighbors. The figure was far taller than that
- 4:16Speaker 1: of Stapleton, far thinner than that of Franklin barry More.
- 4:23Speaker 1: It might possibly have been, but we had left him
- 4:27Speaker 1: behind us, and I'm certain that he could not have
- 4:30Speaker 1: followed us. A stranger, then is still dogging us, just
- 4:36Speaker 1: as a stranger dogged us in London. We have never
- 4:39Speaker 1: shaken him off. If I could lay my hands upon
- 4:44Speaker 1: that man, then at last we might find ourselves at
- 4:46Speaker 1: the end of all our difficulties. To this one purpose.
- 4:50Speaker 1: I must now devote all my energies. My first impulse
- 4:55Speaker 1: was to tell Sir Henry all my plans. My second
- 4:59Speaker 1: and wisest one is to play my own game and
- 5:01Speaker 1: speak as little as possible to anyone. He is silent
- 5:05Speaker 1: and distray. His nerves have been strangely shaken by that
- 5:09Speaker 1: sound upon them, Moor. I will say nothing to add
- 5:13Speaker 1: to his anxieties, but I will take my own steps
- 5:17Speaker 1: to attain my own end. We had a small scene
- 5:21Speaker 1: this morning. After breakfast. Barrymore asked leave to speak with
- 5:26Speaker 1: Sir Henry, and they were closeted in his study some
- 5:29Speaker 1: little time, sitting in the billiard room. I more than
- 5:33Speaker 1: once heard the sound of voices raised, and I had
- 5:37Speaker 1: a pretty good idea what the point was, which was
- 5:39Speaker 1: under discussion. After a time, the baronet opened his door
- 5:43Speaker 1: and called for me. Barrymore considers that he has a grievance.
- 5:48Speaker 1: He said. He thinks that it was unfair on our
- 5:52Speaker 1: part to hunt his brother in law down when he,
- 5:55Speaker 1: of his own free will, had told us the secret.
- 5:59Speaker 1: The butler, standing very pale but collected before us. I
- 6:04Speaker 1: may have spoken too warmly, sir, said he, And if
- 6:07Speaker 1: I have, I am sure that I beg your pardon.
- 6:10Speaker 1: At the same time, I was very much surprised when
- 6:13Speaker 1: I heard you two gentlemen come back this morning and
- 6:16Speaker 1: learned that you had been chasing Selden. The poor fellow
- 6:20Speaker 1: has enough to fight against without my putting more upon
- 6:22Speaker 1: his track. If you had told us, if your own
- 6:25Speaker 1: free will, it would have been a different thing, said
- 6:27Speaker 1: the baronet. You only told us, or rather your wife
- 6:31Speaker 1: only told us, when it was forced from you and
- 6:34Speaker 1: you could not help yourself. I didn't think you would
- 6:37Speaker 1: have taken advantage of it, Sir Henry. Indeed I didn't.
- 6:41Speaker 1: The man is a public danger. There are lonely houses
- 6:44Speaker 1: scattered over the moor, and he is a fellow who
- 6:47Speaker 1: would stick at nothing. You only want to get a
- 6:50Speaker 1: glimpse of his face to see that. Look at mister
- 6:53Speaker 1: Stapleton's house, for example, with no one but himself to
- 6:56Speaker 1: defend it. There's no safety for anyone until he is
- 7:00Speaker 1: under lock and key. He'll break into no house, Sir.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I give you my solemn word upon that. But he
- 7:07Speaker 1: will never trouble anyone in this country again, I assure you, sir,
- 7:12Speaker 1: Henry there in a very few days, the necessary arrangements
- 7:15Speaker 1: will have been made and he will be on his
- 7:17Speaker 1: way to South America. For God's sake, Sir, I beg
- 7:20Speaker 1: of you not to let the police know that he's
- 7:22Speaker 1: still on the moor. They have given up the chase
- 7:25Speaker 1: there and he can lie quiet until the ship is
- 7:28Speaker 1: ready for him. You can't tell on him without getting
- 7:31Speaker 1: my wife and me into trouble. I beg you, sir,
- 7:34Speaker 1: to say nothing to the police. What do you say, Watson?
- 7:38Speaker 1: I shrugged my shoulders. If he were safely out of
- 7:41Speaker 1: the country, it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden.
- 7:45Speaker 1: But how bad the chance of his holding someone up
- 7:48Speaker 1: before he goes, he would not do anything, so mad Sir.
- 7:51Speaker 1: We have provided him with all that he can want
- 7:54Speaker 1: to commit. A crime would be to show where he
- 7:56Speaker 1: was hiding, That is true, said Sir Henry. Well, Barrymore,
- 8:01Speaker 1: God bless you, sir, and thank you from my heart.
- 8:05Speaker 1: It would have killed my poor wife had he been
- 8:07Speaker 1: taken again. I guess we are aiding in the bedding
- 8:10Speaker 1: of Felony Watson. But after what we have heard, I
- 8:14Speaker 1: don't feel as if I could give the man up.
- 8:17Speaker 1: So there is an end of it, all right, Barrymore,
- 8:20Speaker 1: you can go with a few broken words of gratitude.
- 8:24Speaker 1: The man turned, but he hesitated and then came back.
- 8:28Speaker 1: You've been so kind of us, Sir, that I should
- 8:30Speaker 1: like to do the best I can for you in return.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I know something, Sir Henry, and perhaps I should have
- 8:37Speaker 1: said it before, but it was long after the inquest
- 8:39Speaker 1: that I've found it out. I've never breathed a word
- 8:42Speaker 1: about it yet a mortal man. It's about or Sir
- 8:46Speaker 1: Charles's death. The baronet and I were both upon our feet.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Do you know how he died? No, Sir, I don't
- 8:53Speaker 1: know that. What then I know why he was at
- 8:57Speaker 1: the gate at that hour that was to me woman
- 9:01Speaker 1: to meet a woman. He yes, sir, and the woman's name.
- 9:07Speaker 1: I can't give you the name, sir, but I can
- 9:09Speaker 1: give you the initials. Her initials were l L. How
- 9:14Speaker 1: do you know this Barrymore? Well, sir, Henry, your uncle
- 9:18Speaker 1: had a letter that morning. He had usually a great
- 9:21Speaker 1: many letters, for he was a public man and well
- 9:24Speaker 1: known for his kind heart, so that everyone who was
- 9:27Speaker 1: in trouble was glad to turn to him. But that morning,
- 9:30Speaker 1: as it chanced, there was only this one letter, so
- 9:33Speaker 1: I took the more notice of it. It was from
- 9:36Speaker 1: Coombe Tracy, and it was addressed in a woman's hand.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Well well, sir, I thought no more of the matter,
- 9:43Speaker 1: and never would have done had it not been for
- 9:45Speaker 1: my wife. Only a few weeks ago, she was cleaning
- 9:49Speaker 1: out Sir Charles's study. It had never been touched since
- 9:53Speaker 1: his death, and she found the ashes of a burned
- 9:56Speaker 1: letter in the back of the grate. The greater part
- 9:59Speaker 1: of it was chaed to pieces, but one little slip
- 10:02Speaker 1: the end of a page hung together, and the writing
- 10:05Speaker 1: could still be read. Though it was gray on a
- 10:07Speaker 1: black ground. It seemed to us to be a PostScript
- 10:11Speaker 1: at the end of the letter, and it said, please, please,
- 10:14Speaker 1: as you are gentleman, burn this letter and be at
- 10:17Speaker 1: the gate by ten o'clock. Beneath it were as signed
- 10:20Speaker 1: the initials l L. Have you got that slip? No, Sir,
- 10:25Speaker 1: it crumbled old to bits after we moved it. Had
- 10:28Speaker 1: Sir Charles received any other letters in the same writing, Well, Sir,
- 10:31Speaker 1: I took no particular notice of his letters. I should
- 10:34Speaker 1: not have noticed this one. Only it happened to come alone.
- 10:38Speaker 1: And you have no idea who l L is, No, Sir,
- 10:41Speaker 1: no more than you have. But I expect if we
- 10:44Speaker 1: could lay our hands upon that lady, we should know
- 10:47Speaker 1: more about Sir Charles's death. I cannot understand, barrymore, how
- 10:51Speaker 1: you came to conceal this important information, while Sir, it
- 10:55Speaker 1: was immediately after that our own trouble came to us.
- 10:58Speaker 1: And then again, Sir, we were both of us very
- 11:00Speaker 1: fond of Sir Charles, as we well might be, considering
- 11:04Speaker 1: all that he has done for us. To rake this
- 11:06Speaker 1: up couldn't help our poor master. And it's well to
- 11:09Speaker 1: go carefully when there's a lady in the case. Even
- 11:12Speaker 1: the best of us, you thought it might injure his reputation. Well, Sir,
- 11:17Speaker 1: I thought no good could come of it, but now
- 11:20Speaker 1: you've been kind to us, and I feel as if
- 11:22Speaker 1: it would be treating you unfairly not to tell you
- 11:24Speaker 1: all that I know about the matter. Very good, barrymore,
- 11:28Speaker 1: you can go. When the butler had left us, Sir
- 11:31Speaker 1: Henry turned to me, Well, Watson, what do you think
- 11:34Speaker 1: of this new light? It seems to leave the darkness
- 11:37Speaker 1: rather blacker than before, so I think. But if we
- 11:41Speaker 1: can only trace LLL, it should clear up the whole business.
- 11:45Speaker 1: We have gained that much. We know that there is
- 11:47Speaker 1: someone who has the facts, if we can only find her.
- 11:51Speaker 1: What do you think we should do? Let Holmes know
- 11:54Speaker 1: all about it at once. It will give him the
- 11:56Speaker 1: clue for which he has been seeking. I'm much mistaken,
- 12:00Speaker 1: and if it does not bring him down. I went
- 12:03Speaker 1: at once to my room and drew up my report
- 12:05Speaker 1: of the morning's conversation for Holmes. It was evident to
- 12:09Speaker 1: me that he had been very busy of late. For
- 12:11Speaker 1: the notes which I had from Baker Street to a
- 12:13Speaker 1: few and short, with no comments upon the information which
- 12:17Speaker 1: I had supplied, and hardly any reference to my mission.
- 12:22Speaker 1: No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties.
- 12:26Speaker 1: And yet this new factor must surely arrest his attention
- 12:29Speaker 1: and renew his interest. I wish that he were here.
- 12:34Speaker 1: October seventeenth, All day to day, the rain poured down,
- 12:38Speaker 1: rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves. I
- 12:41Speaker 1: thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold shelterless more,
- 12:45Speaker 1: poor devil, whatever his crimes, he has suffered something to
- 12:49Speaker 1: atone for them. And then I thought of that other one,
- 12:53Speaker 1: the face in the cab, the figure against the moon.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Was he also out in that luged the unseen Watcher,
- 13:02Speaker 1: the man of darkness. In the evening, I put on
- 13:05Speaker 1: my waterproof and I walked far upon the sodden moor,
- 13:08Speaker 1: full of dark imaginings, the rain beating upon my face,
- 13:12Speaker 1: and the wind whistling about my ears. God help those
- 13:16Speaker 1: who wander into the great mire now, for even the
- 13:19Speaker 1: firm uplands are becoming a morass. I found the black
- 13:24Speaker 1: tor upon which I had seen the solitary Watcher, and
- 13:27Speaker 1: from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the
- 13:31Speaker 1: melancholy downs. Rain squalls drifted across their russet face and
- 13:37Speaker 1: the heavy slate colored clouds hung low over the landscape,
- 13:41Speaker 1: trailing in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.
- 13:47Speaker 1: In the distant hollow on the left, half hidden by
- 13:50Speaker 1: the mist, the two thin towers of Baskerville Hall rose
- 13:54Speaker 1: above the trees. They were the only signs of human
- 13:58Speaker 1: life which I could see, save only those prehistoric huts
- 14:02Speaker 1: which lay thickly upon the slopes of the hills. Nowhere
- 14:06Speaker 1: was there any trace of that lonely man whom I
- 14:09Speaker 1: had seen on the same spot two nights before. As
- 14:14Speaker 1: I walked back, I was overtaken by Doctor Mortimer, driving
- 14:17Speaker 1: in his dog cart over a rough moorland track which
- 14:22Speaker 1: led from the outlying farm house of fowl Mere. He
- 14:26Speaker 1: has been very attentive to us, and hardly a dairs
- 14:29Speaker 1: passed that he has not called at the hall to
- 14:31Speaker 1: see how we were getting on. He insisted upon my
- 14:34Speaker 1: climbing into his dog cart, and he gave me a
- 14:37Speaker 1: lift homeward. I found him much troubled over the disappearance
- 14:41Speaker 1: of his little spaniel. It had wandered on to the
- 14:45Speaker 1: moor and had never come back. I gave him such
- 14:49Speaker 1: consolation as I might. But I thought of the pony
- 14:52Speaker 1: on the grimp and mire, and I do not fancy
- 14:55Speaker 1: that he will see his little dog again. By the way,
- 14:58Speaker 1: Mortimer said, I as jolted along the rough road. I
- 15:02Speaker 1: suppose there are a few people living within driving distance
- 15:05Speaker 1: of this whom you do not know hardly any I think.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Can you then tell me the name of any woman
- 15:12Speaker 1: whose initials are l L? He thought for a few moments, No,
- 15:17Speaker 1: said he. There are a few gypsies and laboring folk
- 15:20Speaker 1: for whom I can't answer. But among the farmers or gentry,
- 15:23Speaker 1: there is no one whose initials are those. Wait a bit, though,
- 15:27Speaker 1: he added, after a pause, there is Laura Lyons. Her
- 15:32Speaker 1: initials are l L, but she lives in Coombe. Tracy.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Who is she? I asked? She is Franklin's daughter. What
- 15:42Speaker 1: old Franklin the crank? Exactly? She married an artist named
- 15:46Speaker 1: Lions who came sketching on them more he proved to
- 15:50Speaker 1: be a blackguard and a desertedor The fault, from what
- 15:54Speaker 1: I hear, may not have been entirely on one side.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Her father refused to have anything to do with her
- 15:59Speaker 1: because she had married without his consent, and perhaps for
- 16:03Speaker 1: one or two other reasons as well. So between the
- 16:06Speaker 1: old sinner and the young one, the girl has had
- 16:08Speaker 1: a pretty bad time. How does she live? I fancy
- 16:12Speaker 1: Eld Franklin allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more,
- 16:15Speaker 1: for his own affairs are considerably involved. Whatever she may
- 16:19Speaker 1: have deserved, one could not allow her to go hopelessly
- 16:22Speaker 1: to the bad Her story got about, and several of
- 16:25Speaker 1: the people here did something to enable her to earn
- 16:27Speaker 1: an honest living. Stapleton did for one, and Sir Charles
- 16:31Speaker 1: for another. I gave a trifle myself. It was to
- 16:35Speaker 1: set her up in a typewriting business. He wanted to
- 16:38Speaker 1: know the object of my inquiries, but I managed to
- 16:41Speaker 1: satisfy his curiosity without telling him too much. For there
- 16:45Speaker 1: is no reason why we should take anyone into our confidence.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Tomorrow I shall find my way to coomb Tracy. And
- 16:53Speaker 1: if I can see this, missus Laura Lyons of equivocal reputation,
- 16:57Speaker 1: a long step will have been made towards clearing one
- 17:00Speaker 1: incident in this chain of mysteries. I'm certainly developing the
- 17:04Speaker 1: wisdom of the serpent. For when Mortimer pressed his questions
- 17:08Speaker 1: to an inconvenient extent. I asked him casually to what
- 17:12Speaker 1: type Franklin's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology
- 17:17Speaker 1: for the rest of our drive. I've not lived for
- 17:20Speaker 1: years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing. I have only one
- 17:25Speaker 1: other incident to record upon this tempestuous and melancholy day.
- 17:29Speaker 1: This was my conversation with Barrymore just now, which gives
- 17:33Speaker 1: me one more strong card, which I can play in
- 17:36Speaker 1: due time. Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and
- 17:41Speaker 1: the baronet played a cart Afterwards. The butler brought me
- 17:45Speaker 1: my coffee into the library, and I took the chance
- 17:48Speaker 1: to ask him a few questions. Well said, I, has
- 17:52Speaker 1: this precious relation of yours departed? Or is he still
- 17:55Speaker 1: lurking out yonder? I don't know her. I hope to
- 18:00Speaker 1: Heaven that he is gone, for he has brought nothing
- 18:03Speaker 1: but trouble here. I've not heard of him since I
- 18:05Speaker 1: left out food for him last, and that was three
- 18:08Speaker 1: days ago. Did you see him then, no, sir, But
- 18:12Speaker 1: the food was gone When next I went that way,
- 18:15Speaker 1: then he was certainly there, so you would think, sir,
- 18:18Speaker 1: unless it was the other man who took it. I
- 18:21Speaker 1: sat with my coffee cup halfway to my lips, and
- 18:24Speaker 1: stared at Barrymore. You know that there is another man? Then, yes, sir,
- 18:29Speaker 1: there is another man upon the moor. Have you seen him? No, sir,
- 18:34Speaker 1: how do you know of him? Then? Selden told me
- 18:37Speaker 1: of him, Sir, a week ago or more. He's in
- 18:39Speaker 1: hiding too, but he's not a convict, as far as
- 18:42Speaker 1: I can make out, I don't like it, Doctor Watson.
- 18:45Speaker 1: I tell you straight, sir, that I don't like it.
- 18:48Speaker 1: He spoke, with a sudden passion of earnestness. Now listen
- 18:52Speaker 1: to me, Barrymore. I have no interest in this matter
- 18:54Speaker 1: but that of your master. I've come here with no
- 18:57Speaker 1: object except to help him. Tell me, frankly, what it
- 19:00Speaker 1: is that you don't like. Barrymore hesitated for a moment,
- 19:04Speaker 1: as if he regretted his outburst or found it difficult
- 19:07Speaker 1: to express his own feelings in words. As all these
- 19:10Speaker 1: goings answer, he cried at last, waving his hand towards
- 19:14Speaker 1: the rain lashed window which faced the More. There's foul
- 19:17Speaker 1: play somewhere, and there's black villainy brewing to that. I'll
- 19:21Speaker 1: swear very glad I should be, sir, to see Sir
- 19:24Speaker 1: Henry on his way back to London again. But what
- 19:27Speaker 1: is it that alarms you? Look at Sir Charles's death.
- 19:30Speaker 1: That was bad enough for all that, the coroner said,
- 19:34Speaker 1: Look at the noises on the moor at night. There's
- 19:36Speaker 1: not a man would cross it after sundown if he
- 19:39Speaker 1: was paid for it. Look at this stranger hiding out
- 19:41Speaker 1: yonder and watching and waiting. What's he waiting for? What
- 19:45Speaker 1: does it mean? It means no good to anyone of
- 19:48Speaker 1: the name of Baskerville. I'm very glad I shall be
- 19:50Speaker 1: to be quit of it all on the day that
- 19:52Speaker 1: Sir Henry's new servants are ready to take over the hall.
- 19:56Speaker 1: But about this stranger, said, I can you tell me
- 19:59Speaker 1: anything about him? What did Selden say? Did he find
- 20:03Speaker 1: out where he hid or what he was doing? He
- 20:05Speaker 1: saw him once or twice, but he is a deep
- 20:08Speaker 1: one and gives nothing away. At first he thought that
- 20:11Speaker 1: he was the police ba Zoon. He found that he
- 20:14Speaker 1: had some lay of his own, a kind of gentleman.
- 20:18Speaker 1: He was as far as he could see. But what
- 20:20Speaker 1: he was doing he could not make out. And where
- 20:23Speaker 1: did you say that? He lived? Among the old houses
- 20:26Speaker 1: on the hillside, the stone nuts, where the old folk
- 20:29Speaker 1: used to live, But how about his food? Zelden found
- 20:33Speaker 1: out that he has got a lad who works for
- 20:35Speaker 1: him and brings him all he needs. I dare say
- 20:38Speaker 1: he goes to Coombe Tracy for what he was very
- 20:41Speaker 1: good Barrymore. We may talk further of this some other time.
- 20:46Speaker 1: When the butler had gone, I walked over to the
- 20:48Speaker 1: black window, and I looked through a blurred pane at
- 20:51Speaker 1: the driving clouds and at the tossing outline of the
- 20:54Speaker 1: windswept trees. It is a wild night indoors. Must it
- 21:00Speaker 1: be in a stone hut upon the moor? What passion
- 21:03Speaker 1: of hatred can it be which leads a man to
- 21:06Speaker 1: lurk in such a place at such a time, And
- 21:09Speaker 1: what deep and earnest purpose can he have which calls
- 21:12Speaker 1: for such a trial? There In that hut upon the
- 21:16Speaker 1: moor seems to lie the very center of that problem
- 21:19Speaker 1: which has vexed me so sorely. I swear that another
- 21:23Speaker 1: day shall not have passed before I have done all
- 21:26Speaker 1: that a man can do to reach the heart of
- 21:28Speaker 1: the mystery.