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sherlock60This week we are reading The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapters 9 through 12. It carries the theme of shadows.
So we have now another report to Holmes and a journal entry -- and the reappearance of Holmes.
Not much has changed since the last updates however. We do have a new lead -- a woman who wrote to Charles Baskerville. An LL who lives in a nearby village and who was looked upon unfavorably by Grimpon villagers though some of them helped her to make a living when her husband didn't support her. She wrote to Charles asking for a meeting to raise funds for a divorce, planning to meet with him on the night of his death -- explaining why he waited by the gate for so long. She didn't meet him because she says she came up with the funds from another source.
Sir Henry's romance has not progressed -- though he continues to ask after Miss Stapleton, she refuses and her brother flies into a rage one day upon seeing them. He apologies later, but Watson has doubts.
Barrymore's activities continue to be suspicious -- suspicious enough that Watson acts with Henry to find out why. They wait up one night to no avail, but catch him on the second night. He was signaling someone -- his brother in law, the escaped convict. He and his wife were supplying the convict with food and clothes so he could survive without running into the police. And though Watson and Henry go to catch the convict, but fail to. On their trip however, they hear again the cry of a hound and more, see another figure.
The figure Watson discovers to be Holmes in disguise! Living in some of the ruins and chasing down leads the same as Watson. And though Holmes admits to knowing almost everything Watson does, he didn't know why the woman, LL, had not met up with Charles Baskerville.
And then, a final clue Holmes drops: the Stapletons are not brother and sister, but married!
Our chapters this week end with the death of the convict -- at first assumed to be Henry Baskerville, but alas, the man was wearing Henry's clothes. A clue? Or can hell hounds be confused?
So we have now another report to Holmes and a journal entry -- and the reappearance of Holmes.
Not much has changed since the last updates however. We do have a new lead -- a woman who wrote to Charles Baskerville. An LL who lives in a nearby village and who was looked upon unfavorably by Grimpon villagers though some of them helped her to make a living when her husband didn't support her. She wrote to Charles asking for a meeting to raise funds for a divorce, planning to meet with him on the night of his death -- explaining why he waited by the gate for so long. She didn't meet him because she says she came up with the funds from another source.
Sir Henry's romance has not progressed -- though he continues to ask after Miss Stapleton, she refuses and her brother flies into a rage one day upon seeing them. He apologies later, but Watson has doubts.
Barrymore's activities continue to be suspicious -- suspicious enough that Watson acts with Henry to find out why. They wait up one night to no avail, but catch him on the second night. He was signaling someone -- his brother in law, the escaped convict. He and his wife were supplying the convict with food and clothes so he could survive without running into the police. And though Watson and Henry go to catch the convict, but fail to. On their trip however, they hear again the cry of a hound and more, see another figure.
The figure Watson discovers to be Holmes in disguise! Living in some of the ruins and chasing down leads the same as Watson. And though Holmes admits to knowing almost everything Watson does, he didn't know why the woman, LL, had not met up with Charles Baskerville.
And then, a final clue Holmes drops: the Stapletons are not brother and sister, but married!
Our chapters this week end with the death of the convict -- at first assumed to be Henry Baskerville, but alas, the man was wearing Henry's clothes. A clue? Or can hell hounds be confused?
