Holmes and I were surprised. This was a very strange story. I did not believe that Sir Charles Baskerville had been killed by a gigantic dog. But I wanted to know the truth.
'Who else saw these footprints?' asked Sherlock Holmes. His bight eyes shone and he leant forward in his chair.
'No one else saw the footprints,' answered Dr Mortimer.
'There was a lot of rain in the night. By morning, the footprints had been washed away.'
'How large were the footprints? Were they larger than the footprints of a sheepdog?'