? ? ? ? Holmes considered for a little time.
? ? ? ? "Put into plain words, the matter is this," said he. "In your opinion there is a diabolical agency which makes Dartmoor an unsafe abode for a Baskerville -- that is your opinion?"
? ? ? ? "At least I might go the length of saying that there is some evidence that this may be so."
? ? ? ? "Exactly. But surely, if your supernatural theory be correct, it could work the young man evil in London as easily as in Devonshire. A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing."
? ? ? ? "You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things. Your advice, then, as I understand it, is that the young man will be as safe in Devonshire as in London. He comes in fifty minutes. What would you recommend?"
? ? ? ? "I recommend, sir, that you take a cab, call off your spaniel who is scratching at my front door, and proceed to Waterloo to meet Sir Henry Baskerville."
? ? ? ? "And then?"
? ? ? ? "And then you will say nothing to him at all until I have made up my mind about the matter."
? ? ? ? "How long will it take you to make up your mind?"
? ? ? ? "Twenty-four hours.
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