The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-27
DR.. JOSEPH BELL.

two other neighbors. These are the folE
who must be your very special study"
II will do my best"
You have arms. 1 SUPPOSE"
Yes: l thought it as well to taks
them.''
Most certainly Keep your revolvee
near you night and day. and never reiaB
Your precautions.
Our friends had already secured a first
class carriage. and were waiting for ur
upon the platform.
No: we have news of any kind
said DR.. Niorumer in answer to my
friends questions II can swear TO ono
thing, and that is that we have not BEEN
sEadowed during the last two days. We
have never gone cut without keeping a
sharp watch. and no one could have ESQ
capped our notice.
You have always kept together. I pre-
sune?''
Except yesterday afternoon. us,,aIlp
give up one day TO pure amusement when
come 70 town. so 1 spent it at the SIu,
scum OF the College OF Surgeons"
And | went to look at the. folk In ths
park. said Baskerville But we had
no trouble of any kind
IT was imprudent. all the same said
very grave Il beg. Sir Henry that you
viii not go about alone. Some great mis-
fortune will hefall you if you do. DID
you get your other boot7''
indeed That is very interesting Welt
Sood-bye he added, the train began
to glide down the platform. Bear in
mind Sir Henry one of the phrases in
that queer old legend which DR. Mortimer
has read to us and avoid the moor in
those hours of darkness when the powers
Of evil are exalted
[ looked back a the platform when we
had left it far behind, and saw the TALL
austere figure of Holmes standing mo-
tionless and gazing after us.
The Journey was a swift and pleasant
one and | spent it IN making the more
intimate acquaintance of my two com
panions and in playing with DR.. Morti-
mer.s spaniel In Very few hours tho
brown earth had become rudy, the brick
had changed to granite and red cows
craSed i'll wel-hedged fields where the lush
grasses and more iuxuriant vegetation
spoke OF a richer. If a damper. climate
Young Baskerville stared eagerly out of
the window. and cried aloud with delight
as he recognized the familiar features of
the Devon scenery.
I've been over a good part of the world
since left it. DR. Watson. said he: but
I have never seen place to compare
with it,
It never say a Devoushire man who ditt
not swear by his country I remarked
1t depends upon the breed of men
quite as much as on the county,. said
DR. Mortimer "A glance at our friend
here reveals the rounded head of the Celt
which carries inside it the Celtic eutht-
siasm and power of attachment. Poor Sir
Charles head was of a very rare type !
half Gaelic. half Ivernian In it's charnc-
terfstics But YOU We're very Young when
you last saw Baskerville Hall. We're you
not2"
II was a boy in my teens at the time
of nv fathers death and had never seen
the Hall. for he lived In n little cottage
on the south coast Thence I went
straight to a friend in America [ tell
YOU it IS all as new to me as it is to DR..
Watson and I'm as keen as possible to
see the moor. /.
Are you? Then your wish is easily
granted, for there is your first sight OF
the moor said DR.. Mortimer pointing
out of the carriage window,
over the green squares of the fields and
the low curve OF a wood there rose In the
distance a grey, melancholy hill. with a
strange Jagged summit. dim and vague
IN the distance, like some fantastic land
scape in a dream. Baskerville sat for {.
long time. his eyes fixed upon it. and I
read upon his eager face how much It
strange spot where the men of his blood
had held sway so long and had left their
mark so deep.
There he sat with his tweed suit and
his American accent. in the corner OF
prosaic ra1iwav-carrage. and yet as
looked at his dark and expressive face !
felt more than ever how true a. descend
ant he was of that long line of high-blood-
ed. fiery and maSterful men. There were
pride. valour and strength in his thiCst
hrows. his sensitive nostrils and his large
haZet eyes If on that forhiddnc moor
a d1fflcuit and dangerous quest silo,,ld
lie before us. this was at least n com,
rade FOR whom one might venture to take
= RISK with the certainty that he would
bravely share it
tro be Continuedo