a huge creature on the moor that corresponded with the Baskerville
demon, luminous, ghastly & spectral. A hard-headed countryman, a
farrier & a moorland farmer all told the same story of this dreadful
apparition, and only a hardy man would now cross the moor at night. *
Holmes simply teased Mortimer that, as a trained man of science,
he had quite gone over to the supernaturalists, despite the material
evidence of the footmark.  He asked Mortimer why, if he held such a
view, he had bothered to consult him.  The answer was that Henry
Baskerville was about to arrive at Waterloo Station and Mortimer
wanted Holmes to advise him what to do with him.  Mortimer was a
trustee & executor of Sir Charles's will.  He had summoned the young
heir from his Canadian farm, there being no other claimant. The only
other kinsman whom Mortimer had traced was Roger Baskerville,
