Let me, therefore, return to the facts concerning Sir Henry Baskerville.
If you have not had any report within the last few days it is because up to today there was nothing of importance to relate.

Then a very surprising circumstance occurred, which I shall tell you in due course.
But, first of all, I must keep you in touch with some of the other factors in the situation.
One of these, concerning which I have said little, is the escaped convict upon the moor.

There is strong reason now to believe that he has got right away, which is a considerable relief to the lonely householders of this district.

A fortnight has passed since his flight, during which he has not been seen and nothing has been heard of him.

It is surely inconceivable that he could have held out upon the moor during all that time.