The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 10 summary

What happens

1. Watson rejects a supernatural explanation for the hound and privately resolves to find the stranger he sees on the moor.
2. Sir Henry agrees not to report Selden after Barrymore promises that the convict is preparing to leave for South America.
3. Barrymore describes a burned letter signed L. L. that asks Sir Charles to meet its writer at the gate at ten.
4. Watson sends Holmes the new information, then searches the moor without finding the watcher.
5. Mortimer names Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey and explains that Sir Charles helps establish her typing business.
6. Barrymore reports that the stranger occupies an ancient stone hut and receives supplies from a boy.

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What to notice

Barrymore supplies a concrete reason for Sir Charles’s presence at the gate. The disclosure shifts Watson’s attention toward identifying the letter’s writer.

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