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The Hound of the Baskervilles

CHAPTER 10
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I don't like it, Dr.
Watson--I tell you straight, sir, that I don't like it." He spoke with a sudden passion of earnestness.
"Now, listen to me, Barrymore! I have no interest in this matter but that of your master.

I have come here with no object except to help him.
Tell me, frankly, what it is that you don't like." Barrymore hesitated for a moment, as if he regretted his outburst or found it difficult to express his own feelings in words.
"It's all these goings-on, sir," he cried at last, waving his hand towards the rain-lashed window which faced the moor.

"There's foul play somewhere, and there's black villainy brewing, to that I'll swear! Very glad I should be, sir, to see Sir Henry on his way back to London again!" "But what is it that alarms you ?" "Look at Sir Charles's death! That was bad enough, for all that the coroner said.

Look at the noises on the moor at night.

There's not a man would cross it after sundown if he was paid for it.


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