Event
The Sobbing in the Night
On his first night at Baskerville Hall, Watson lies wakeful and hears, in the very dead of the night, the unmistakable sob of a woman somewhere within the house, the muffled gasp of one torn by an uncontrollable sorrow. Half an hour of listening brings no other sound but the chiming clock and the rustle of the ivy on the wall.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
When Watson asks about it, Barrymore insists that neither woman in the house could have wept, yet Mrs. Barrymore's red and swollen eyes betray that it was she. Watson marks the traces of tears on her face more than once and wonders what deep sorrow gnaws at her.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
The riddle is solved on the night of the convict hunt: Mrs. Barrymore confesses that she wept for her brother, the escaped convict Selden, starving in hiding upon the moor.
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