Extract from Diary of Dr. Watson
The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions.
“Well,” said I, “has this precious relation of yours departed, or is he still lurking out yonder?”
“I don’t know, sir. I hope to Heaven that he has gone, for he has brought nothing but trouble here! I’ve not heard of him since I left out food for him last, and that was three days ago.”
“Did you see him then?”
“No, sir; but the food was gone when next I went that way.”
“Then he was certainly there?”
“So you would think, sir, unless it was the other man who took it.”
I sat with my coffee-cup halfway to my lips, and stared at Barrymore.
“You know that there is another man, then?”
“Yes, sir; there is another man upon the moor.”
“Have you seen him?”
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