The Grimswell Curse
“Lord Frederick raised his hand in a grudging farewell. Stern words from Holmes and his threatening to abandon the case (something I knew he would never do) had persuaded Digby to remain behind at the Grimpen inn for one night. Holmes had also argued that it was unclear how the lady would receive us—her servants might not admit us—but two would be less overwhelming than three. Shrewdly, he also suggested he would help prepare the way for Digby’s triumphal arrival the next day.
After several hour...s on the train enduring Digby’s incessant chatter, Holmes and I were only too glad to sit in silence and enjoy the ride. A cold dreary rain had been falling in London, but shortly before we reached Grimpen, the sun had broken through the clouds. Now its golden light gleamed along the desolate length of the moor, the autumnal heath and bracken a radiant brown along the rolling earth.
I had not been to Dartmoor before, but it reminded me of the moors of northern Yorkshire. One had the same sense of the sky somehow opening up, becoming more vast, yet somehow nearer; the sky joined with the land to form a single mute presence, a great slumbering creature, brown and gray and cavernous, a dormant behemoth with a cold misty aura.MoreLess
After several hour...s on the train enduring Digby’s incessant chatter, Holmes and I were only too glad to sit in silence and enjoy the ride. A cold dreary rain had been falling in London, but shortly before we reached Grimpen, the sun had broken through the clouds. Now its golden light gleamed along the desolate length of the moor, the autumnal heath and bracken a radiant brown along the rolling earth.
I had not been to Dartmoor before, but it reminded me of the moors of northern Yorkshire. One had the same sense of the sky somehow opening up, becoming more vast, yet somehow nearer; the sky joined with the land to form a single mute presence, a great slumbering creature, brown and gray and cavernous, a dormant behemoth with a cold misty aura.MoreLess
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