Собака Баскервилей / The Hound of the Baskervilles

Собака Баскервилей / The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Артур Конан Дойл / Arthur Conan Doyle

Собака Баскервилей / The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Харвест, 2006

Chapter 1

Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug[1 - hearth-rug – коврик перед камином] and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

It was a fine, thick piece of wood. Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry— dignified, solid, and reassuring.

“Well, Watson, what do you make of it?”

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.

“How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.”

“I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated[2 - silver-plated – посеребренный] coffee-pot in front of me,” said he. “But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor’s stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.