But the manuscript is short and is intimately connected with the affair. A most practical, pressing matter, which must be decided within twenty-four hours. "But I understand that it is something more modern and practical upon which you wish to consult me?" "Yes, it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family." "It appears to be a statement of some sort." At the head was written: "Baskerville Hall," and below in large, scrawling figures: "1742." I looked over his shoulder at the yellow paper and the faded script. It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date." "You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short. Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee. Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him." He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself. I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant. "This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire. You may possibly have read my little monograph upon the subject. It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
"You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking. "Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery." "I observed it as you entered the room," said Holmes. Gil Walker's exciting illustrations were done especially for this edition."I have in my pocket a manuscript," said Dr. Those reading The Hound of the Baskervilles Ior the first time will soon understand why it has become a classic-why it remains one of the most enthralling adventures in crime detection ever written.
Looking Glass Library is proud to present this new edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated story of the demon-hound whose un- earthly cry meant the fulfillmcnt of an ancient supernatural legend. villes suddenly assumed a sinister and dreadful reality.on the desolate windswept moors of Devonshire, the curse of the Hound of the Basker they might well bc dismissed as superstitious nonsense but later. lenging and baffing case of his ca- reer.These were the words that plunged Sherlock Holmes into the most chal Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered "Mr.
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