"Dr.Mortimer, I think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us." Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon the morning before.
Sir Henry Baskerville listened with the deepest attention and with an occasional exclamation of surprise.
"Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a vengeance," said he when the long narrative was finished.

"Of course, I've heard of the hound ever since I was in the nursery.

It's the pet story of the family, though I never thought of taking it seriously before.

But as to my uncle's death--well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can't get it clear yet.

You don't seem quite to have made up your mind whether it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman." "Precisely." "And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel.