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The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend assistant Dr. Watson examine a cane left in the apartment on Baker Street by a visitor who came in their absence. Soon the owner of the cane appears, physician James Mortimer, a tall young man with close-set gray eyes and a long, protruding nose. Mortimer reads to Holmes and Watson an old manuscript - a legend about the terrible curse of the Baskerville family - entrusted to him not so long ago by his patient and friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, who died suddenly. Domineering and intelligent, not at all inclined to fantasies, Sir Charles took this legend seriously and was ready for the end that fate had in store for him.
IN old times one of the ancestors of Charles Baskerville, the owner of the Hugo estate, was distinguished by an unbridled and cruel disposition. Inflamed with an unholy passion for the daughter of a farmer, Hugo kidnapped her. Having locked the girl in the upper chambers, Hugo and his friends sat down to feast. The unfortunate woman decided on a desperate act: she went down from the window of the castle along the ivy and ran home through the swamps. Hugo rushed after her in pursuit, setting the dogs on the trail, his comrades after him. On a wide lawn among the marshes, they saw the body of a fugitive who died of fear. Nearby lay the corpse of Hugo, and above him stood a vile monster that looked like a dog, but much larger. The monster tormented the throat of Hugo Baskerville and sparkled with fiery eyes. And, although the writer of the legend hoped that Providence would not punish the innocent, he nevertheless warned his descendants to beware of "going out into the swamps at night, when the forces of evil reign supreme",
James Mortimer relates that Sir Charles was found dead in an avenue of yews, not far from the gate leading to the marshes. And nearby, the doctor noticed fresh and clear footprints ... of a huge dog. Mortimer asks Holmes for advice, as the heir to the estate, Sir Henry Baskerville, is coming from America. The day after his arrival, Henry Baskerville, accompanied by Mortimer, visits Holmes. Sir Henry's adventures began immediately upon arrival: firstly, his shoe was missing in the hotel, and secondly, he received an anonymous message with a warning to "keep away from the peat bogs." Nevertheless, he is determined to go to Baskerville Hall, and Holmes sends Dr. Watson with him. Holmes himself remains on business in London. Dr. Watson sends Holmes detailed accounts of life on the estate and tries not to leave Sir Henry alone, which soon becomes difficult as Baskerville falls in love with nearby Miss Stapleton. Miss Stapleton lives in a house in the marshes with her entomologist brother and two servants, and her brother jealously protects her from Sir Henry's advances. Having made a scandal about this, Stapleton then comes to Baskerville Hall with an apology and promises not to interfere with the love of Sir Henry and his sister, if he agrees to be content with her friendship within the next three months.
At night in the castle, Watson hears women's sobs, and in the morning the butler's wife Barrymore is crying. He and Sir Henry manage to catch Barrymore himself on the fact that he gives signs at the window with a candle at night, and from the swamps he is answered in the same way. It turns out that a fugitive convict is hiding in the swamps - this is the younger brother of Barrymore's wife, who for her remained only a mischievous boy. One of these days he must go to South America. Sir Henry promises not to betray Barrymore and even gives him some of his clothes. As if in gratitude, Barrymore says that a piece of a half-burned letter to Sir Charles with a request to be "at the gate at ten o'clock in the evening" has survived in the fireplace. The letter was signed "L. L." Next door, in Coombe Tracy, lives a lady with those initials - Laura Lyons. Watson goes to her the next day. Laura Lyons admits that she wanted to ask Sir Charles for money to divorce her husband, but at the last moment she received help "from other sources." She was going to explain everything to Sir Charles the next day, but she learned from the newspapers about his death.
On the way back, Watson decides to go to the swamps: even earlier, he noticed some person (not a convict) there. Stealthily, he approaches the supposed dwelling of the stranger. Much to his surprise, he finds in an empty hut a note scrawled in pencil: "Doctor Watson has gone to Coombe Tracy." Watson decides to wait for the occupant of the hut. Finally he hears approaching footsteps and cocks his revolver. Suddenly a familiar voice is heard: “Today is such a wonderful evening, dear Watson. Why sit in the heat? It's much nicer out in the air." As soon as the friends exchange information (Holmes knows that the woman whom Stapleton passes off as his sister is his wife, moreover, he is sure that Stapleton is his opponent), they hear a terrible scream. The cry is repeated, Holmes and Watson rush to help and see the body ... of an escaped convict dressed in Sir Henry's costume. Stapleton appears. According to the clothes, he also takes the deceased for Sir Henry, then great effort Will hides his disappointment.
The next day, Sir Henry goes alone to visit Stapleton, and Holmes, Watson and the detective Lestrade, who arrived from London, are hiding in the swamps near the house. Holmes' plans are almost knocked down by the fog creeping from the side of the bog. Sir Henry leaves Stapleton and heads home. Stapleton starts a dog in his wake: a huge, black, with a burning mouth and eyes (they were smeared with a phosphorescent composition). Holmes manages to shoot the dog, although Sir Henry still survived the nervous shock. Perhaps even more shocking for him is the news that the woman he loves is Stapleton's wife. Holmes finds her tied up in a back room - finally she rebelled and refused to help her husband in the hunt for Sir Henry. She also escorts the detectives deep into the bog where Stapleton hid the dog, but no trace of him can be found. Obviously, the swamp swallowed the villain.
To improve his health, Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer go to trip around the world, and before sailing they visit Holmes. After they left, Holmes tells Watson the details of this case: Stapleton, a descendant of one of the branches of the Baskervilles (Holmes guessed this by his resemblance to the portrait of the wicked Hugo), was repeatedly seen in fraud, but he managed to safely hide from justice. It was he who suggested that Laura Lyons first write to Sir Charles, and then forced her to refuse a date. Both she and Stapleton's wife were entirely at his mercy. But at the decisive moment, Stapleton's wife ceased to obey him.
Having finished the story, Holmes invites Watson to go to the opera - to the "Huguenots".
Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice following the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall. Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed "the footprints of a gigantic hound" nearby. The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently fleeing from something in fright when he died.
Intrigued, Holmes meets with Sir Henry, newly arrived from Canada. Sir Henry has received an anonymous note, cut and pasted from newsprint, warning him away from the Baskerville moors, and one of his new boots is inexplicably missing from his London hotel room. The Baskerville family is discussed: Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers; the youngest, black sheep. Rodger, is believed to have died childless in South America, while Sir Henry is the only child of the middle brother. Sir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message. Holmes and Dr Watson follow him from Holmes's Baker Street apartment back to his hotel and notice a bearded man following him in a cab; they pursue the man, but he escapes. Mortimer tells them that Mr Barrymore, the butler at Baskerville Hall, has a beard like the one on the stranger. Sir Henry"s boot reappears, but an older one vanishes.
Holmes sends for the cab driver who shuttled the bearded man after Sir Henry and is both astounded and amused to learn that the stranger had made a point of giving his name as "Sherlock Holmes" to the cabbie. Holmes, now even more interested in the Baskerville affair but held up with other cases, dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall with instructions to send him frequent reports about the house, grounds, and neighbours. Upon arrival at the grand but austere Baskerville estate, Watson and Sir Henry learn that an escaped murderer named Selden is believed to be in the area.
Barrymore and his wife, who also works at Baskerville Hall, wish to leave the estate soon. Watson hears a woman crying in the night; it is obvious to him that it was Mrs Barrymore, but her husband denies it. Watson can find no proof that Barrymore was in Devon on the day of the chase in London. He meets a brother and sister who live nearby: Mr Stapleton, a naturalist, and the beautiful Miss Stapleton. When an animal sound is heard, Stapleton is quick to dismiss it as unrelated to the legendary hound. When her brother is out of earshot, Miss Stapleton mistakes Watson for Sir Henry and warns him to leave. She and Sir Henry later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton's anger; he later apologises and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later.
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Dr. Mortimer comes to Holmes, tells the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the story of the death of his friend Charles Baskerville and asks for advice on what to do with Sir Charles' heir, Henry, who was removed from Canada in order to give him his uncle's inheritance. Holmes, interested, gets involved in the investigation of the Dog case, but SUDDENLY sends Watson with Henry and Mortimer to the Baskerville family castle, while he himself remains in London. And he says that Watson writes reports. The butler Barrymore and his wife still live in the castle, and nearby, in the village of Grimpen, is a family friend, the naturalist Stapleton, with his sister (actually his wife) and several other comrades like Laura Lyons and crazy old Franklin, her dad. And in the swamps - a hellish dog. Here and there, getting drunk every day and trembling with horror, Henry and Watson hang out there for the very same time, until Watson finds out that Holmes also settled in the swamps. He, it turns out, worked undercover.
As a result, it turns out that Stapleton set the hellish Dog, because, oddly enough, he is also Baskerville and he also wants money, but he no longer has the strength to wait until the money and the castle go to him. First, he ruined Sir Charles, luring him out one night with the help of his girlfriend Laura Lyons, and then he intended to commit a similar lewdness to Sir Henry. But the Great Detective intervened in time, declassified everything, called Lestrade from London to help, and with the whole crowd they drove Stapleton to the swamps, where he accidentally drowned. And Lestrade shot the dog. Her Stapleton, for greater resemblance to the devilish beast, smeared with some mixture of phosphorus, so that she shone like a ghost.
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Dr. Mortimer comes to Holmes, tells the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the story of the death of his friend Charles Baskerville and asks for advice on what to do with Sir Charles' heir, Henry, who was removed from Canada in order to give him his uncle's inheritance. Holmes, interested, gets involved in the investigation of the Dog case, but SUDDENLY sends Watson with Henry and Mortimer to the Baskerville family castle, while he himself remains in London. And he says that Watson writes reports. The butler Barrymore and his wife still live in the castle, and nearby, in the village of Grimpen, is a family friend, the naturalist Stapleton, with his sister (actually his wife) and several other comrades like Laura Lyons and crazy old Franklin, her dad. And in the swamps - a hellish dog. Here and there, getting drunk every day and trembling with horror, Henry and Watson hang out there for the very same time, until Watson finds out that Holmes also settled in the swamps. He, it turns out, worked undercover.
As a result, it turns out that Stapleton set the hellish Dog, because, oddly enough, he is also Baskerville and he also wants money, but he no longer has the strength to wait until the money and the castle go to him. First, he ruined Sir Charles, luring him out one night with the help of his girlfriend Laura Lyons, and then he intended to commit a similar lewdness to Sir Henry. But the Great Detective intervened in time, declassified everything, called Lestrade from London to help, and with the whole crowd they drove Stapleton to the swamps, where he accidentally drowned. And Lestrade shot the dog. Her Stapleton, for greater resemblance to the devilish beast, smeared with some mixture of phosphorus, so that she shone like a ghost.
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Dr. James Mortimer, a village doctor, turns to Sherlock Holmes for help. His friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, died under mysterious circumstances at his family estate, located in the English county of Devonshire near the Grimpen bog. Everything pointed to natural death, if not for the expression of inhuman horror on the face of the deceased.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson learn that the Baskervilles have a creepy family legend that they pass on from generation to generation. This legend tells of a ghost dog that haunts all the Baskervilles at night in the swamps of the Grimpen bog. According to legend, for the first time a ghost appeared in order to punish one of the Baskervilles - the dissolute rogue Hugh, who lived in the 17th century. Since then, the dog has occasionally reappeared to take the lives of Hugo's descendants. The devilish ghost is described in the legend as a huge black dog with glowing eyes and a huge mouth.
Dr. Mortimer asks the detective for help, because the last descendant of the Baskerville family, Baronet Henry Baskerville, who is also in danger, arrives from America to the family "nest". Holmes decides to instruct Watson to accompany Sir Henry to his estate and remain there with young Baskerville until further notice.
In the end, the killer turns out to be one of Baskerville's neighbors, Jack Stapleton, who was actually Sir Charles' nephew and Sir Henry's cousin. After hearing the translation of the terrible legend from Charles Baskerville himself, Stapleton decided to use it for his own purposes. Knowing that Sir Charles was ill and might die of great fright, he acquired huge dog, which he hid in the swamp. At the right moment, Stapleton painted the animal with phosphorus, which had no smell and glowed in the dark, and set it on Sir Charles. He, frightened, ran and died from heart attack. The second time Stapleton decided to repeat this story with Henry Baskerville. But at the last moment, when the dog rushed at the baronet, Holmes shot her. Stapleton, trying to escape from justice, is buried in a swamp.
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Dr. Mortimer comes to Holmes, tells the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the story of the death of his friend Charles Baskerville and asks for advice on what to do with Sir Charles' heir, Henry, who was removed from Canada in order to give him his uncle's inheritance. Holmes, interested, gets involved in the investigation of the Dog case, but SUDDENLY sends Watson with Henry and Mortimer to the Baskerville family castle, while he himself remains in London. And he says that Watson writes reports. The butler Barrymore and his wife still live in the castle, and nearby, in the village of Grimpen, is a family friend, the naturalist Stapleton, with his sister (actually his wife) and several other comrades like Laura Lyons and crazy old Franklin, her dad. And in the swamps - a hellish dog. Here and there, getting drunk every day and trembling with horror, Henry and Watson hang out there for the very same time, until Watson finds out that Holmes also settled in the swamps. He, it turns out, worked undercover.
As a result, it turns out that Stapleton set the hellish Dog, because, oddly enough, he is also Baskerville and he also wants money, but he no longer has the strength to wait until the money and the castle go to him. First, he ruined Sir Charles, luring him out one night with the help of his girlfriend Laura Lyons, and then he intended to commit a similar lewdness to Sir Henry. But the Great Detective intervened in time, declassified everything, called Lestrade from London to help, and with the whole crowd they drove Stapleton to the swamps, where he accidentally drowned. And Lestrade shot the dog. Her Stapleton, for greater resemblance to the devilish beast, smeared with some mixture of phosphorus, so that she shone like a ghost.
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The story begins with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson examining a cane left behind by a man who came to the Baker Street apartment during their absence. After a while the visitor returns. It turns out to be James Mortimer, a young doctor. He reads to the detectives an old legend about the curse of the Baskerville family. The manuscript on which it is written was given to James by his friend Charles Baskerville (he died unexpectedly shortly thereafter).
According to legend, many years ago, Hugh Baskerville kidnapped the daughter of a farmer, for whom he had a strong passion. He locked the girl in the upper floors of the house and left to have fun with friends. But the frightened beauty got out of the castle through the window and ran home. Soon Hugo went after her, setting the dogs on the trail. Some time later, Baskerville's friends arrived in time to find the girl's corpse in a swampy area; not far from him lay the dead Hugo, whose throat was tormented by a huge dog with bright sparkling eyes. The one who recorded this story asked the descendants of the Baskervilles not to go to the swamps at night.
Mortimer says that the dead body of Charles was found near the gate that leads to the swamps. Large and distinct dog tracks were clearly visible not far from the corpse. Soon, the heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, should arrive at the family estate; Concerned about his fate and the fate of his late friend, Mortimer asks for help from the famous detective.
Immediately upon arrival from America, Henry, along with Mortimer, comes to an apartment on Baker Street. Strange things began to happen to the heir from the first minute of his stay in England: his shoe disappeared from the hotel, after which he received an anonymous warning "to stay away from peat bogs." However, Henry is not afraid to go to his estate; Sherlock Holmes decides that Watson should keep young Baskerville company.
Sherlock Holmes gets detailed letters everything going on at Baskerville Hall. Dr. Watson reports that he is trying to the best of his ability not to leave the heir alone, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do this: he falls in love with a neighbor, Miss Stapleton. She lives with her entomologist brother in a house in the swamps; her brother is dissatisfied with young Baskerville's attention to her. Between Stapleton and Henry there is a scandal. After some time, the ethnomologist comes to Sir Henry, apologizes to him and says that he will not interfere with the love between him and his sister if in the next three months he agrees to be only a friend to her.
At night, Dr. Watson hears a woman crying, and in the morning he sees that the butler Barrymore's wife has a tear-stained face. The Doctor, along with Sir Henry, learns that at night Barrymore gives strange signs through the window with a candle, receiving an answer from the swamps. Subsequently, it turns out that the brother of the butler's wife is hiding in the swamps, who escaped from hard labor and should soon leave for South America. The owner of the estate promises not to tell anyone about the runaway convict and even gives him some clothes. Barrymore says he found the remains of a burnt letter addressed to Charles Baskerville in the fireplace. In it, someone signed L.L. asks Charles to come to the gate at ten o'clock in the evening. Nearby lives a lady whose initials match those on the letter; her name is Laura Lyons. The next day, Dr. Watson visits her, and the woman says that she made an appointment with Charles to ask for some money to arrange a divorce from her husband, but received it at the last moment from another person. Laura wanted to explain everything to Sir Baskerville later, but she read in the newspaper about his death.
On the way to Baskerville Hall, Watson enters the swamps; he is convinced that he saw someone there besides the butler's wife's brother. He quietly sneaks up to the hut standing there. The dwelling turns out to be empty, but inside it is a note: "Doctor Watson has left for Coombe Tracy." Watson awaits the return of the occupant of the hut; when footsteps are heard, he cocks his revolver. Suddenly he hears a familiar voice: "Today is such a wonderful evening, dear Watson." Of course, the owner of the voice is Sherlock Holmes. He tells the doctor that, in fact, Miss and Mr. Stapleton are not brother and sister, but spouses. Here the men hear a scream; when it repeats, they run to the rescue and discover the dead body of an escaped convict dressed in one of Sir Henry's costumes. Stapleton immediately approaches, who, because of the costume, mistook the deceased for the owner of Baskerville Hall; Disappointment is clearly visible on his face.
The next day, young Baskerville goes to Stapleton. He is secretly followed by Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, who has come from London. A few hours later, Sir Henry leaves the Stapleton house and goes to his estate. Stapleton sets out on his trail a colossal dog, whose mouth and eyes sparkle brightly due to the fact that they are lubricated with a potent composition. Holmes shoots the dog, but the young Baskerville still experienced a strong fright. He was also shocked by the news that his beloved turned out to be Stapleton's wife. The girl was found tied up - at the last minute she refused to assist her husband in the hunt for Baskerville. She helps the men go deep into the swamps, where Stapleton kept the dog, but no trace of her husband could be found. Most likely, he was swallowed by a quagmire.
In order to restore his health, Sir Henry and Mortimer go on a round-the-world voyage, but before leaving they go into an apartment on Baker Street. After they leave, Sherlock Holmes reveals the details of the investigation to Watson. It turns out that Stapleton also belongs to the Baskerville family, which is confirmed by his external resemblance to the one depicted in the portrait of Hugo. He was repeatedly seen in fraud, but he always managed to escape from justice. It was Stapleton who advised Laura Lyons to ask Charles for money, and then forced him to abandon this idea. He had a very strong influence both on this woman and on his wife; but at the decisive moment his wife rebelled and stopped helping him.
After this story, the famous detective invites Dr. Watson to go to the opera.
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Hound of the Baskervilles"
The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend assistant Dr. Watson examine a cane left in the apartment on Baker Street by a visitor who came in their absence. Soon the owner of the cane appears, physician James Mortimer, a tall young man with close-set gray eyes and a long, protruding nose. Mortimer reads to Holmes and Watson an old manuscript - a legend about the terrible curse of the Baskerville family - entrusted to him not so long ago by his patient and friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, who died suddenly. Domineering and intelligent, not at all prone to fantasies, Sir Charles took this legend seriously and was ready for the end that fate had in store for him.
In ancient times, one of the ancestors of Charles Baskerville, the owner of the Hugo estate, was distinguished by an unbridled and cruel disposition. Inflamed with an unholy passion for the daughter of a farmer, Hugo kidnapped her. Having locked the girl in the upper chambers, Hugo and his friends sat down to feast. The unfortunate woman decided on a desperate act: she went down from the window of the castle along the ivy and ran home through the swamps. Hugh rushed after her in pursuit, setting the dogs on the trail, his comrades after him. On a wide lawn among the marshes, they saw the body of a fugitive who died of fear. Nearby lay the corpse of Hugo, and above him stood a vile monster that looked like a dog, but much larger. The monster tormented the throat of Hugo Baskerville and sparkled with fiery eyes. And, although the writer of the legend hoped that Providence would not punish the innocent, he nevertheless warned his descendants to beware of "going out into the swamps at night, when the forces of evil reign supreme",
James Mortimer relates that Sir Charles was found dead in an avenue of yews, not far from the gate leading to the swamps. And nearby, the doctor noticed fresh and clear footprints ... of a huge dog. Mortimer asks Holmes for advice, as the heir to the estate, Sir Henry Baskerville, is coming from America. The day after his arrival, Henry Baskerville, accompanied by Mortimer, visits Holmes. Sir Henry's adventures began immediately upon arrival: firstly, his shoe was missing in the hotel, and secondly, he received an anonymous message with a warning to "keep away from the peat bogs." Nevertheless, he is determined to go to Baskerville Hall, and Holmes sends Dr. Watson with him. Holmes himself remains on business in London. Dr. Watson sends Holmes detailed reports on life on the estate and tries not to leave Sir Henry alone, which soon becomes difficult as Baskerville falls in love with nearby Miss Stapleton. Miss Stapleton lives in a house in the marshes with her entomologist brother and two servants, and her brother jealously protects her from Sir Henry's advances. Having made a scandal about this, Stapleton then comes to Baskerville Hall with an apology and promises not to interfere with the love of Sir Henry and his sister, if within the next three months he agrees to be content with her friendship.
At night in the castle, Watson hears women's sobs, and in the morning he finds the butler's wife, Barrymore, in tears. He and Sir Henry manage to catch Barrymore himself on the fact that he gives signs at the window with a candle at night, and from the swamps he is answered in the same way. It turns out that a fugitive convict is hiding in the swamps - this is the younger brother of Barrymore's wife, who for her remained only a mischievous boy. One of these days he must leave for South America. Sir Henry promises not to betray Barrymore and even gives him some of his clothes. As if in gratitude, Barrymore says that a piece of a half-burned letter to Sir Charles with a request to be "at the gate at ten o'clock in the evening" has survived in the fireplace. The letter was signed "L. L." Next door, in Coombe Tracy, lives a lady with those initials - Laura Lyons. Watson goes to her the next day. Laura Lyons admits that she wanted to ask Sir Charles for money to divorce her husband, but at the last moment she received help "from other sources." She was going to explain everything to Sir Charles the next day, but she learned from the newspapers about his death.
On the way back, Watson decides to go to the swamps: even earlier, he noticed some kind of person (not a convict) there. Stealthily, he approaches the supposed dwelling of the stranger. Much to his surprise, he finds in an empty hut a note scrawled in pencil: "Doctor Watson has gone to Coombe Tracy." Watson decides to wait for the occupant of the hut. Finally he hears approaching footsteps and cocks his revolver. Suddenly a familiar voice is heard: “Today is such a wonderful evening, dear Watson. Why sit in the heat? It's much nicer out in the air." The friends hardly have time to exchange information (Holmes knows that the woman whom Stapleton passes off as his sister is his wife, moreover, he is sure that Stapleton is his opponent), when they hear a terrible scream. The cry is repeated, Holmes and Watson rush to help and see the body ... of an escaped convict dressed in Sir Henry's costume. Stapleton appears. By clothes, he also takes the deceased for Sir Henry, then with a great effort of will hides his disappointment.
The next day, Sir Henry goes alone to visit Stapleton, and Holmes, Watson and the detective Lestrade, who arrived from London, are hiding in the swamps near the house. Holmes' plans are almost knocked down by the fog creeping from the side of the bog. Sir Henry leaves Stapleton and heads home. Stapleton starts a dog in his wake: a huge, black dog with a burning mouth and eyes (they were smeared with a phosphorescent composition). Holmes manages to shoot the dog, although Sir Henry still survived the nervous shock. Perhaps even more shocking for him is the news that the woman he loves is Stapleton's wife. Holmes finds her bound in a back room - finally she rebelled and refused to help her husband in the hunt for Sir Henry. She also escorts the detectives deep into the bog where Stapleton hid the dog, but no trace of him can be found. Obviously, the swamp swallowed the villain.
To improve his health, Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer go on a trip around the world, and before sailing they visit Holmes. After they left, Holmes tells Watson the details of this case: Stapleton, a descendant of one of the branches of the Baskervilles (Holmes guessed this by his resemblance to the portrait of the impious Hugo), was repeatedly seen in fraud, but he managed to safely hide from justice. It was he who suggested that Laura Lyons first write to Sir Charles, and then forced her to refuse a date. Both she and Stapleton's wife were entirely at his mercy. But at the decisive moment, Stapleton's wife ceased to obey him.
After finishing the story, Holmes invites Watson to go to the opera - to the "Huguenots".
Doctor James Mortimer turns to the famous Sherlock Holmes for help. He tells the detective and his assistant Dr. Watson about strange death his friend and Sir Charles Baskerville and reads an ancient manuscript describing the legend of a terrible curse that weighs on the family of a comrade.
One of the ancestors of Charles Baskerville - Hugo was famous for his tough temper. A noble descendant of an ancient family was inflamed with passion for the daughter of a simple farmer, stole the girl from his father's house and locked him in the upper chambers of his castle. The girl was not at a loss and fled, going down the ivy while Googoping with friends. The girl went home through the swamps, and the young Baskerville and his comrades began to pursue the fugitive and set the dogs on her trail. Hugo rushed forward, leaving his friends far behind. They found his torn body on a large lawn in the middle of a swamp, along with a beautiful woman who died of fear. The fearsome monster resembling a dog continued to tear open the corpse of Baskerville, sparkling with fiery eyes. After this tragic incident, a warning was written in the legend "not to go out into the swamps at night, when the forces of evil reign supreme."
It seemed that the curse of the Baskervilles really existed. James Mortimer reported that Sir Charles was found dead just near the gate to the swamps, and next to him were clearly visible traces of a very large dog.
The heir to the estate, Sir Henry Baskerville, arrives from America. Immediately after his arrival, strange things begin to happen: first, Henry's shoe disappears in the hotel, then he receives a mysterious letter with a warning to "stay away from the peat bogs." Despite everything, the heir to the estate is going to inspect his property and wants to go to Baskerville Hall. Sherlock Holmes sends Dr. Watson along with him, while he himself remains in London.
Despite the constant care of Dr. Watson, Henry Baskerville manages to meet Miss Stapleton, who lives with her brother in a house in the swamps, and falls in love with her. Mr. Stapleton tries to protect his sister from Sir Henry's courtship, at first he arranges a scandal because of this, then he apologizes to Baskerville.
Meanwhile, Watson studies the life of the inhabitants of the estate and learns that a fugitive convict is hiding in the swamps, who is the younger brother of the wife of the butler Barrymore. Dr. Watson promises to keep it a secret, and a grateful butler reports a half-burnt letter addressed to Sir Charles that he found in the fireplace. The message contained a request to come to the gate in the evening and was signed "L.L." The lady with the same initials - Laura Lyons, just lives next door. The next day, Watson pays her a visit. Laura tells the doctor that she wanted to borrow money, but she received help from other hands and did not come. On the way back to the estate, Watson finds an empty hut in the swamps, the occupant of which later turns out to be Holmes. The detective learned that Mr. Stapleton's sister was in fact his wife. As the friends share information, a desperate cry is suddenly heard. They rush to the rescue and find the corpse of an escaped convict in Sir Henry's old clothes. Immediately, Mr. Stapleton appears, mistaking the tramp for Baskerville and trying to hide his disappointment.
The next day, the secret is revealed when Stapleton tries to unleash a huge scary dog with luminous (due to the phosphorescent composition) eyes and mouth. Holmes manages to shoot the animal, and Baskerville experiences a huge shock when he learns that the woman he loves is Stapleton's wife.
