? ? ? ? Dr. Mortimer refolded his paper and replaced it in his pocket.
? ? ? ? "Those are the public facts, Mr. Holmes, in connection with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville."
? ? ? ? "I must thank you," said Sherlock Holmes, "for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases. This article, you say, contains all the public facts?"
? ? ? ? "It does."
? ? ? ? "Then let me have the private ones." He leaned back, put his finger-tips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.
? ? ? ? "In doing so," said Dr. Mortimer, who had begun to show signs of some strong emotion, "I am telling that which I have not confided to anyone. My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
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