[The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hound of the Baskervilles CHAPTER 7 23/34
Her eyes blazed at me, and she tapped the ground impatiently with her foot. "Why should I go back ?" I asked. "I cannot explain." She spoke in a low, eager voice, with a curious lisp in her utterance.
"But for God's sake do what I ask you.
Go back and never set foot upon the moor again." "But I have only just come." "Man, man!" she cried.
"Can you not tell when a warning is for your own good? Go back to London! Start to-night! Get away from this place at all costs! Hush, my brother is coming! Not a word of what I have said.
Would you mind getting that orchid for me among the mares-tails yonder? We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late to see the beauties of the place." Stapleton had abandoned the chase and came back to us breathing hard and flushed with his exertions. "Halloa, Beryl!" said he, and it seemed to me that the tone of his greeting was not altogether a cordial one. "Well, Jack, you are very hot." "Yes, I was chasing a Cyclopides.
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