"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a crime novel serialized from August 1901 to April 1902. Set on the eerie moors of Dartmoor, the story follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate a terrifying legend: a demonic hound that has cursed the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances and his heir arrives from Canada, strange events begin to unfold. Is the hound supernatural, or is something more sinister at play? (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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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-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in
front of me," said he. "But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of
our visitor's stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss
him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir
becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an
examination of it."
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