The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 7

The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 7

1.   It is a beautiful sunny morning that makes Dr. Watson and Sir Henry forget something about the sad experiences of the previous day. Both of them were at the breakfast table.

2.   Dr. Watson could not help talking about the sobbing of a woman heard by them the previous night.

3.   Barrymore was called for explain about the woman’s sobbing at night. But he said there were only two women there. One was his wife and he told them that it was not his wife who could have sobbed at night.

4.   But Dr. Watson happened to meet Mrs. Barrymore after breakfast. He found that the lids of her eyes were red and swollen. It proved that Barrymore had told a lie.

5.   Now Watson was thinking about the reason that made Barrymore tell a lie. Why did his wife keep weeping? Several doubts come in Watson’s mind. It was Barrymore who had first to discover the dead body of Sir Charles. He compared the man in the cab with Barrymore. His face and dark beard were giving the impression of the man in the cab tracking Sir Henry.

6.   Then Dr. Watson went to meet the Grimpen postmaster to ascertain whether the test telegramme was received by Barrymore himself or by someone else. The postmaster told Dr. Watson that the telegramme was received by his wife, not by Barrymore. She told the postmaster’s boy that he was upstairs.

7.   Thus Dr. Watson could not reach the point as to where Barrymore was on the day when Sir Henry was being tracked. It was the postmaster’s fault who could not ensure the delivery of the telegramme in the right person’s hands.

8.   Several other burdensome thoughts about the case kept hovering Watson’s mind. So he yearned for the return of Sherlock Holmes so that he could handle that complex case in his own way. Page 79

9.   As Dr Watson was praying for the presence of Sherlock Holmes, his thoughts were interupted by the sound of running feet which he heard coming from behind. He had expected to see Dr. Mortimer, but he saw a man of between 30 to 40 years of age having a small and slim staure with careful and clean shaven face. He was dressed in gray suit and putting on a straw hat on his head.

10.                     He introduced himself as Stapleton of Meripit House and a mutual friend of Sir Charles and Dr. Mortimer. He was carrying a box hung over his shoulder and a green buterfly net in one of his hands. It may tell about the nature of his job.