[The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hound of the Baskervilles CHAPTER 12 24/27
But, dear me, what's this? Somebody hurt? Not--don't tell me that it is our friend Sir Henry!" He hurried past me and stooped over the dead man.
I heard a sharp intake of his breath and the cigar fell from his fingers. "Who--who's this ?" he stammered. "It is Selden, the man who escaped from Princetown." Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us, but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappointment.
He looked sharply from Holmes to me. "Dear me! What a very shocking affair! How did he die ?" "He appears to have broken his neck by falling over these rocks. My friend and I were strolling on the moor when we heard a cry." "I heard a cry also.
That was what brought me out.
I was uneasy about Sir Henry." "Why about Sir Henry in particular ?" I could not help asking. "Because I had suggested that he should come over.
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