[The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hound of the Baskervilles CHAPTER 3 9/19
He comes in fifty minutes.
What would you recommend ?" "I recommend, sir, that you take a cab, call off your spaniel who is scratching at my front door, and proceed to Waterloo to meet Sir Henry Baskerville." "And then ?" "And then you will say nothing to him at all until I have made up my mind about the matter." "How long will it take you to make up your mind ?" "Twenty-four hours.
At ten o'clock to-morrow, Dr.Mortimer, I will be much obliged to you if you will call upon me here, and it will be of help to me in my plans for the future if you will bring Sir Henry Baskerville with you." "I will do so, Mr.Holmes." He scribbled the appointment on his shirtcuff and hurried off in his strange, peering, absent-minded fashion.
Holmes stopped him at the head of the stair. "Only one more question, Dr.Mortimer.You say that before Sir Charles Baskerville's death several people saw this apparition upon the moor ?" "Three people did." "Did any see it after ?" "I have not heard of any." "Thank you.
Good morning." Holmes returned to his seat with that quiet look of inward satisfaction which meant that he had a congenial task before him. "Going out, Watson ?" "Unless I can help you." "No, my dear fellow, it is at the hour of action that I turn to you for aid.
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