49345    'Certainly, though I cannot guarantee that I carry all the facts in my mind.

49346    Intense mental concentration has a curious way of blotting out what has passed.

49347    The barrister who has his case at his fingers' end, and is able to argue with an expert upon his own subject, finds that a week or two of the courts will drive it all out of his head once more.

49348    So each of my cases displaces the last, and Mlle Carère has blurred my recollection of Baskerville Hall.

49349    To-morrow some other little problem may be submitted to my notice, which will in turn disposses the fair French lady and the infamous Upwood.

49350    So far as the case of the Hound goes, however, I will give you the course of events as nearly as I can, and you will suggest anything which I may have forgotten.

49351    'My inquiries show beyond all question that the family portrait did not lie, and that this fellow was indeed a Baskerville.

49352    He was a son of that Rodger Baskerville, the younger brother of Sir Charles, who fled with a sinister reputation to South America, where he was said to have died unmarried.

49353    He did, as a matter of fact, marry, and had one child, this fellow, whose real name is the same as his father.

49354    He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.

49355    His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tutor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man's ability to make the undertaking a success.

49356    Fraser, the tutor, died, however, and the school which had begun well, sank from disrepute into infamy.

49357    The Vandeleurs found it convenient to change their name to Stapleton, and he brought the remains of his fortune, his schemes for the future, and his taste for entomology to the south of England.

49358    I learn at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.

49359    'We now come to that portion of his life which has proved to be of such intense interest to us.