But for this ornament, and a copy of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" which lay beside it, the room showed no traces of human use, and Mrs. Spragg herself wore as complete an air of detachment as if she had been a wax figure in a show-window.

Through her thick veil the clusters of lights in the Spragg drawing-room dilated and flowed together in a yellow blur, from which, as she entered, a figure detached itself; and with a start of annoyance she saw Ralph Marvell rise from the perusal of the "fiction number" of a magazine which had replaced "The Hound of the Baskervilles" on the onyx table.

CONAN DOYLE The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Hound of the Baskervilles The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear Sir Nigel The White Company Micah Clarke

The hound of the Baskervilles.

The hound of the Baskervilles.

The hound of the Baskervilles.

The hound of the Baskervilles.

By B. Edward Noyes Westcott The Hound of the Baskervilles ...... A. Conan Doyle When Knighthood was in Flower ......