I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to the Hound of the Baskervilles Part 4.

In the last episode, Holmes dispatched Watson to Baskerville Hall, along with his trusty revolver.

He and Sir Henry arrived to find the already gloomy house in morning, and head butler Barrymore

on the point of quitting his job for a cheerier position elsewhere. After a somber dinner, the two

new arrivals retired to bed. But in the dead of night, an insomniac Watson was startled by a terrible

sound, the strangled sobs of a clearly distraught woman. An insomniac Watson was startled by a terrible sound.

The strangled sobs of a clearly distraught woman.

From the Noyser podcast network, this is The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part Four. The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression,

which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.

As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast, the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows,

throwing watery patches of colour from the coats of arms which covered them.

The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays,

and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.

"'I guess it is ourselves, and not the house, that we have to blame,' said the Baronet.

"'We were tired with our journey, and chilled by our drive, so we took a grey view of the place.

"'Now we are fresh and well, "'so it is all cheerful once more.'

"'And yet it was not entirely a question of imagination,' I answered.

"'Did you, for example, happened to hear someone,

"'a woman, I think, sobbing in the night?

"'That is curious, for I did, "'when I was half asleep, fancy that I heard something of the sort.

"'I waited quite a time, but there was no more of it, so I concluded that it was all a dream.

"'I heard it distinctly, and I am sure that it was really the sob of a woman.

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