Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee. “You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short. It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date.” At the head was written: “Baskerville Hall,” and below in large, scrawling figures: “1742.”
“It appears to be a statement of some sort.”
“Yes—it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.”
Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father…
When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
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