What do you advise that we do now ?" "Shall we turn back ?" "No, by thunder; we have come out to get our man, and we will do it.

We after the convict, and a hell-hound, as likely as not, after us.

Come on! We'll see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor." We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.

There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
But at last we could see whence it came, and then we knew that we were indeed very close.

A guttering candle was stuck in a crevice of the rocks which flanked it on each side so as to keep the wind from it and also to prevent it from being visible, save in the direction of Baskerville Hall.