en he got there. He went to the hotel and dined alone. "What's all this that's up

up a little strength in idleness, or, as Mr. Baskerville called it, getting into condition. In the mean time Mr. Baskerville amused himself as well as he could by lying in bed and playing lawn-tennis. He sometimes dined at the hotel, in order that the club might think that he was entertained at friends' houses; but the two places were nearly the same to him, as he could achieve a dinner and hal

has vanished

Everybody knows that-he vanished e

in Scotland Yard they

m? Dear me! Forty thousand a year! This is a

y, and therefore can hardly sa

o have half, on conditions that he keeps out of the way. But I am sure that you know more about it. You used to be intimate with both the brothers. I have seen you down here with the captain. Wh

ley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire. The kind of ways these fellows put on now are

old Prosper, o

uston Hall worth?" Then Mr. Baskerville made up his mind to

n such a subject was in itself held to be abominable. He was ashamed of himself, and the more so because there was no one to whom he could talk openly on the matter. And it seemed to him as though all whom he met questioned him as to the man's disappearance, as if they suspected him. What was the man to him, or the man's guilt, or his father, that he should be made miserable? The man's attack upon him had been ferocious in its nature,-so brutal that when he had escaped from Mountjoy Scarbo

ut, and Harry at once inquired for Florence. The servant at first seemed to hesitate, but at last showed Harry into the dining-room. There he waite

think she will be back so

that she should be out. Florence, I

that you mu

ame, which was always in his mind, had come to him naturally, as though he had no time to pick and choose about names in the impo

eauty. He had fair, wavy hair, which he was always submitting to some barber, very much to the unexpressed disgust of poor Florence; because

ls; the front o

rs, to threate

to interpret. But yet, without knowing why it was so, she was accustomed to expect from him doubtful words, half expressed words, which would not declare to her his perfected thoughts-as she would have them declared. He was six feet high, but neither broad nor narrow, nor fat nor thin, but a very Apollo in Florence's eye. To the elders who knew him the quintessence of his beauty lay in the fact that he was

he said, in answer t

t such a moment as this. I never should have given him up because of the gross injustice done to him about the property. But his

Harry. "Have you any idea wh

he least.

at all

t w

ast person w

aw him

ow no one who s

ou told

I have come down here to Chel

ugh struck with fear at su

trust. Were I to go to these men, who are only looking after their money, I should be communicating with his enemies. Your mother already rega

y m

d me he was intoxicated. He took me suddenly by the collar and shook me violently, and did his best to maltreat me. What words were spoken I cannot remember; but his conduct to me was as that of a savage beast. I struggled with him in the street as a man would

it?" Flor

ht that I had ven

lorence; "he could n

at any rate to say it now." He paused for a moment, but she made him no answer. "In

el

f his disappearance. I neither knew of it nor suspected it. The question is, when others were searching for him, was I bound to go to

not tel

Ought I to have pretended that there was no cause? I did know, and there was a cause. It was beca

given him up for t

e would appear to seek shelter from his silence as to her name. He was aware how anxious he was on his own behalf not to mention the occurrence in the street, and it seemed that he was attempting to escape under the pretence of a fear that her name would be dragged in. "But independ

ou ought to have

explain it all to you. It was necessary that I should tell some one.

not; I hop

himself has run so overhead into debt as to make the payment of his creditors impossible by anything short of the immediate surrender of the whole property. Some month or two since they all thought that the squire was dying, and that there would be nothing to do bu

ishonest," s

her the inheritance must belong to Mountjoy still, or it could

entailed upon him. Of course it is nothing

t I think it is so. But why he should have attacked me just at the moment of his going, or why, rather, he should have gone immediately after he had attacked me, I cannot say.

t awhile considering what she would say res

this a secret?" sh

int against you. Of course for my own sake I do not wish it to be told. A great injury was done me, and I do not desire to be dragged into this, which would be another injury. I sus

Mrs. Mountjoy entered, with a frown upon her brow. She had not yet given up all hope that M

. Annesley

rceive,

r to tell her how dearly I l

d have come to me before

dn't have see

a proper thing that a young gentleman should come and addr

I did not know that yo

y the family is cut up by this great misfortune to our cousin Mo

mma; no

d that knowledge ought to have kept him away at t

iated his love, which she certainly would have done had she not loved him in return. She had spoken no wo