The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

It 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.”

When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.

A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”