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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




CONTENTS

  Chapter 1--Mr. Sherlock Holmes
  Chapter 2--The Curse of the Baskervilles
  Chapter 3--The Problem
  Chapter 4--Sir Henry Baskerville
  Chapter 5--Three Broken Threads
  Chapter 6--Baskerville Hall
  Chapter 7--The Stapletons of Merripit House
  Chapter 8--First Report of Dr. Watson
  Chapter 9--The Light Upon The Moor
  Chapter 10--Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
  Chapter 11--The Man on the Tor
  Chapter 12--Death on the Moor
  Chapter 13--Fixing the Nets
  Chapter 14--The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Chapter 15--A Retrospection




Chapter 1

Mr. Sherlock Holmes


Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings,
save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all
night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the
hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left
behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood,
bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer."
Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch
across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the
C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just
such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to
carry--dignified, solid, and reassuring.

"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?"

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no
sign of my occupation.

"How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in
the back of your head."

"I have, at least, a well-pol