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Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Hound Of The Baskervilles"

Only a few weeks ago she was cleaning out Sir Charles's study -- it had never been touched since his death -- and she found the ashes of a burned letter in the back of the grate. The greater part of it was charred to pieces, but one little slip, the end of a page, hung together, and the writing could still be read, though it was gray on a black ground. It seemed to us to be a postscript at the end of the letter and it said: 'Please, please, as you are a gentleman, burn this letter, and be at the gate by ten o clock. Beneath it were signed the initials L. L."


? ? ? ? "Have you got that slip?"


? ? ? ? "No, sir, it crumbled all to bits after we moved it."


? ? ? ? "Had Sir Charles received any other lettefs in the same writting?"


? ? ? ? "Well, sir, I took no particular notice of his letters. I should not have noticed this one, only it happened to come alone."


? ? ? ? "And you have no idea who L. L. is?"


? ? ? ? "No, sir. No more than you have. But I expect if we could lay our hands upon that lady we should know more about Sir Charles's death."


? ? ? ? "I cannot understand, Barrymore, how you came to conceal this important information."


? ? ? ? "Well, sir, it was immediately after that our own trouble came to us.


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