The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-21

unless you can give me some more
definite information than this it would
be impossible TO get him to move"
Il cannot say anything definite, for
I do not know anything definite"
Il would ask you one more question.
Miss Stapleton. If you meant no more
than this when you first spoke TO me.
why should you not wish your brother
10 overhear what you said? There is
nothing to which he. or anyone else
could object"
MY brother is very anxious TO have
the hall inhabited. for he thinks that
il is for the good of the poor folk upon
the moor He would be very angry II
he knew that I had said anything
which might induce Sir Henry TO go
away. But have. done my duty now
and / will say no more. l must gel
back, or he will miss me and suspect
that I have seen you. Good-bye'' She
turned. and had disappeared in few
minutes among the scattered boulders'
while 1, with my soul full OF vasae
fears. pursued my way to Baskerville
hall.
First Report of DIR. Watson.
From this point EDWARDS l win fol-
low the course of events by TRANSCRIPT
ing my own letters TO Mr. SherINk
Holmes, which lie before me on the
table. One page is missing, but other
wise they are exactly as written, ana
show my feelings and suspicious OF the
moment more accurately than my
memory. clear as it is upon these tragic
events, can possibly do.
Baskerville Hall, Oct. Is.
NV Dear Honestly previous let
ters and kilograms have kept you pref
ty well up-to-date as to all that has
occurred in this most God-forsaken
corner Of the world. The longer one
stays here the more does the spirit OF
the moor sink into ones soul, its vast
ness and also its grim charm. When
you are once out upon its bosom you
have left all traces OF modern England
behind you, but, on the other hand,
you are conscious everywhere of the
homes and the work of the prehistoric
people. On all sides of you as you walk
are the houses of these forgotten folk,
with their graves and the huge mono
liths which are supposed TO have
marked their temples. AS you look at
they gray stone huts against the
SCARED hillsides, you leave your own
age behind you, and if you were TO see
a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from
the low door, fitting a fiint-tipped ar
row on 70 the string Of his bow, you
would feel that his presence there was
more natural than your own. The
strange thing is that they should have
lived so thickly on what must always
have been most unfruitfui soil. 1 am
no antiquarian, but 1 could imagine
that they were some unwarlike and
harried race, who were forced to &C
cept that which none other would oc-
cupy.
All this. however, is foreign 20 the
mission on which you sent me, and
will probably be very uninteresting TO
your severely practical mind. I can
still remember your complete ind9ffer-
ence as TO whether the sun moved
round the earth or the earth rOund the
sun. Let me. therefore. return to the
facts concerning Sir Henry Basker-
vile.
II you have not had any report with
in the last few days, it is because up TO
today there was nothing Of Importance
to relate. Then a very surprising cir
cumstance occurred, which l shall tell
you in due course. But, first Of all,
must keep you in touch with some of
.
One Of these, concerning which 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. 1t is
surely incOnceivable that he could have
held out upon the moor during all that
/ time. OF course. so far as his conceal
ment goes there is no difficulty at all.
Any one Of these stone huts would give
him a hiding place. But there is moth
ing TO eat unless he were 10 catch and
slaughter one Of the moor sheep. We
think, therefore. that he has gone, and
the outlying farmers sleep the better
in consequence.
We are four able bodied men in this
household, so that we could take good
care Of ourselves, but I confess that ]
! have had uneasy moments when / have
| thought of the Stapletons They live
miles from any help. There are one
maid. an old man servant. the sister
and the brother. the latter not a very
strong man. They would be helpless in
/ the hands of a desperate fellow like
/ this Noting hill criminal. if he could
| once effect an entrance. Both Sir Hen
| ~ and ! were concerned at their stu
| alton, and Ii was suggested that Per
kins. the groom. should go over To
sleep there. but Stapleton would not
/ hear of it.
The fact is hat our friend the bar
onet begins 10 display a considerable
/ interest in our fair neighbor. 1t is not
! TO be wondered at. for time hangs heav-
| lily in this lonely spot to an active man
like him. and she is very fascinating
J and beautiful woman There is some