The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”

There was a thrill in the doctor’s voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by that which he told us.

“Because the ash had twice dropped from his cigar.”

“In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit that the footmark is material.”

Oxford Street and so down Regent Street.