It is the greatest blow which has befallen me in my career.

But how could I know--how could l know--that he would risk his life alone upon the moor in the face of all my warnings ?" "That we should have heard his screams--my God, those screams!--and yet have been unable to save him! Where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death?
It may be lurking among these rocks at this instant.

And Stapleton, where is he?
He shall answer for this deed." "He shall.

I will see to that.

Uncle and nephew have been murdered--the one frightened to death by the very sight of a beast which he thought to be supernatural, the other driven to his end in his wild flight to escape from it.