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The Hound of the Baskervilles

CHAPTER 10
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A spectral hound which leaves material footmarks and fills the air with its howling is surely not to be thought of.

Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also; but if I have one quality upon earth it is common-sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.

To do so would be to descend to the level of these poor peasants, who are not content with a mere fiend dog but must needs describe him with hell-fire shooting from his mouth and eyes.

Holmes would not listen to such fancies, and I am his agent.

But facts are facts, and I have twice heard this crying upon the moor.


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