Event
Death on the Moor
A terrible scream and the deep roar of a beast burst out of the night as Holmes and Watson sit in the moor hut. Running toward the sound, they find a man lying dead at the foot of the rocks, his skull crushed, clad in a ruddy tweed suit they know for Sir Henry's, and for one anguished moment they believe their client destroyed. Then a beard turns up to the moon: the dead man is the convict Selden, run to his death in the baronet's cast-off clothes.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
The death serves Holmes's hand. He wires its report to Princetown so the household will be left untroubled, lets Sir Henry accept Stapleton's harmless theory that exposure had driven the convict mad, and keeps the truth of the hound from him to steady his nerve for the ordeal ahead.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
Holmes explains it as Stapleton's first stroke against Sir Henry, the hound laid on from the stolen boot and running down the wrong man in his borrowed clothes; even so, it gave no proof that could go before a jury.
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