49322 A skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to it lay among the débris.
49323 'A dog!' said Holmes.
49324 'By Jove, a curly-haired spaniel.
49325 Poor Mortimer will never see his pet again.
49326 Well, I do not know that this place contains any secret which we have not already fathomed.
49327 He could hide his hound, but he could not hush its voice, and hence came those cries which even in daylight were not pleasant to hear.
49328 On an emergency he could keep the hound in the outhouse at Merripit, but it was always a risk, and it was only on the supreme day, which he regarded as the end of all his efforts, that he dared do it.
49329 This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
49330 It was suggested, of course, by the story of the family hell-hound, and by the desire to frighten old Sir Charles to death.
49331 No wonder the poor devil of a convict ran and screamed, even as our friend did, and as we ourselves might have done, when he saw such a creature bounding through the darkness of the moor upon his track.
49332 It was a cunning device, for, apart from the chance of driving your victim to his death, what peasant would venture to inquire too closely into such a creature should he get sight of it, as many have done, upon the moor?
49333 I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never yet have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder' - he swept his long arm towards the huge mottled expanse of green-splotched bog which stretched away until it merged into the russet slopes of the moor.
49334 CHAPTER 15 : A Retrospection
49335 It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street.
49336 Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme Montpensier from the charge of murder, which hung over her in connection with the death of her step-daughter, Mlle Carère, the young lady who, as it will be remembered, was found six months later alive and married in New York.