And Holmes had expressly said that I should study the neighbours upon the moor.

I accepted Stapleton's invitation, and we turned together down the path.
"It is a wonderful place, the moor," said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges.

"You never tire of the moor.

You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains.

It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious." "You know it well, then ?" "I have only been here two years.