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.

49360    The fellow had evidently made inquiry, and found that only two lives intervened between him and a valuable estate.

49361    When he went to Devonshire his plans were, I believe, exceedingly hazy, but that he meant mischief from the first is evident from the way in which he took his wife with him in the character of his sister.

49362    The idea of using her as a decoy was clearly already in his mind, though he may not have been certain how the details of his plot were to be arranged.

49363    He meant in the end to have the estate, and he was ready to use any tool or run any risk for that end.

49364    His first act was to establish himself as near to his ancestral home as he could, and his second was to cultivate a friendship with Sir Charles Baskerville and with the neighbours.