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The Hound of the Baskervilles

CHAPTER 10
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Look at this stranger hiding out yonder, and watching and waiting! What's he waiting for?
What does it mean?
It means no good to anyone of the name of Baskerville, and very glad I shall be to be quit of it all on the day that Sir Henry's new servants are ready to take over the Hall." "But about this stranger," said I."Can you tell me anything about him?
What did Selden say?
Did he find out where he hid, or what he was doing ?" "He saw him once or twice, but he is a deep one and gives nothing away.
At first he thought that he was the police, but soon he found that he had some lay of his own.

A kind of gentleman he was, as far as he could see, but what he was doing he could not make out." "And where did he say that he lived ?" "Among the old houses on the hillside--the stone huts where the old folk used to live." "But how about his food ?" "Selden found out that he has got a lad who works for him and brings all he needs.

I dare say he goes to Coombe Tracey for what he wants." "Very good, Barrymore.

We may talk further of this some other time." When the butler had gone I walked over to the black window, and I looked through a blurred pane at the driving clouds and at the tossing outline of the wind-swept trees.

It is a wild night indoors, and what must it be in a stone hut upon the moor.


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