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The Hound of the Baskervilles

ground round the body. He did not observe any. But I did—some little distance off, but fresh and clear.”

“Footprints?”

“Footprints.”

“A man’s or a woman’s?”

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered:—

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”

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