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[Assistant] Candles were used, and hearth fires shone as brightly as on a moonless evening in autumn. Fowls retired to their roosts and went to sleep, cattle gathered at the pasture bars and lowed, frogs peeped, birds sang their evening song, and bats flew about. But the human knew that night had not come. Dr. Nathaniel Whitaker, pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, held religious services in the meeting house.


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[Assistant] For the extemporaneous sermons were invariably those that seemed to indicate that the darkness was consonant with scriptural prophecy.


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[Assistant] In most parts of the country, it was so great in the daytime.


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[Assistant] That the people could not tell the hour by either watch or clock.


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[Assistant] The intense darkness of the day was succeeded an hour or two before evening by a partially clear sky.


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[Assistant] And the sun appeared though it was still obscured by the black heavy mist.


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[Assistant] After sundown the clouds came again overhead and it grew dark very fast.


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[Assistant] Nor was the darkness of the night less uncommon and terrifying than that of the day. Notwithstanding, there was almost a full moon.


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[Assistant] No object was discernible but by the help of some artificial light.


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[Assistant] Which, when seen from the neighboring houses and other places at a distance,


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[Assistant] Appeared through a kind of Egyptian darkness, which seemed almost impervious to the rays, close quote. Isaiah Thomas, Massachusetts Spy, or American Oracle of Liberty, Volume 10, Number 472, May 25th, 1780. Said an eyewitness of the scene, quote, I could not help conceiving at the time that


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[Assistant] If every luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable shades or struck out of existence, the darkness could not have been more complete.


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[Assistant] Though at nine o'clock that night, the moon rose to the full.


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[Assistant] It had not the least effect to dispel the deathlike shadows. After midnight the darkness disappeared and the moon, when first visible, had the appearance of blood.


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[Assistant] May 1917, 80 stands in history as the dark day.


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[Assistant] Since the time of Moses no period of darkness of equal density, extent and duration has ever been recorded. The description of this event, as given by eyewitnesses,


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[Assistant] Is but an echo of the words of the Lord, recorded by the prophet Joel, twenty five hundred years previous to their fulfillment.


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[Assistant] And rejoice as they should behold the tokens of their coming king. When these things begin to come to pass, he said, then look up.


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[Assistant] And lift up your heads. For your redemption draweth nigh.


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[Assistant] He pointed his followers to the budding trees of spring and said,


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[Assistant] When they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye,


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[Assistant] When ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Luke 21 verses 28, 30 and 31.


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[Assistant] But as the spirit of humility and devotion in the church had given place to pride and formalism, love for Christ and faith in His coming had grown cold.


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[Assistant] Absorbed in worldliness and pleasure-seeking, the professed people of God were blinded to the Savior's instructions concerning the signs of His appearing. The doctrine of the Second Advent had been neglected.


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[Assistant] The scriptures relating to it were obscured by misrepresentation.


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[Assistant] Until it was to a great extent ignored and forgotten.


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[Assistant] Especially was this the case in the Churches of America?


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[Assistant] The freedom and comfort enjoyed by all classes of society. The ambitious desire for wealth and luxury. Begetting and absorbing devotion to money making. The eager rush for popularity and power, which seemed to be within the reach of all.


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[Assistant] Let men to center their interests and hopes on the things of this life.


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[Assistant] And to put far in the future that solemn day when the present order of things should pass away.


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[Assistant] When the Savior pointed out to his followers the signs of his return,


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[Assistant] He foretold the state of backsliding that would exist just prior to his second advent. There would be, as in the days of Noah,


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[Assistant] The activity and stir of worldly business and pleasure seeking.


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[Assistant] Buying, selling, planting, building, marrying, and giving in marriage with forgetfulness of God in the future life.


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[Assistant] For those living at this time, Christ's admonishment is.


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[Assistant] Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Watch ye therefore and pray always


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[Assistant] The condition of the church at this time is pointed out in the Savior's words in the Revelation.


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[Assistant] Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead.


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[Assistant] And to those who refuse to arouse from their careless security, the solemn warning is addressed,


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[Assistant] If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief.


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[Assistant] And thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Revelation 3 verses 1 and 3.


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[Assistant] It was needful that men should be awakened to their danger.


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[Assistant] The day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can abide it?


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[Assistant] Who shall stand when he appeareth, who is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity?


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[Assistant] Yet have transgressed his covenant and hastened after another god


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[Assistant] And punish the men that are settled on their lees That say in their heart


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[Assistant] Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them.


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[Assistant] Their goods shall become a booty and their houses a desolation.


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[Assistant] The prophet Jeremiah looking forward to this fearful time exclaimed, I am pained at my very heart. I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried. Jeremiah 4 verses 19 and 20.


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[Assistant] That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm. Zephaniah 1 verses 15 and 16.


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[Assistant] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh to lay the land desolate, and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Isaiah 13 verse 9.


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[Assistant] In view of that great day, the word of God in the most solemn and impressive language calls upon his people to arouse from their spiritual lethargy.


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[Assistant] to seek his face with repentance and humiliation. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain.


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[Assistant] Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.


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[Assistant] Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders. Gather the children. Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet.


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[Assistant] Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar.


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[Assistant] Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. And rend your heart and not your garments.


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[Assistant] To prepare a people to stand in the day of God, a great work of reform was to be accomplished.


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[Assistant] ...represented as proclaimed by heavenly beings and immediately followed by the coming of the Son of Man to reap the harvest of the earth.


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[Assistant] The first of these warnings announces the approaching judgment.


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[Assistant] Having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come.


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[Assistant] And worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters. Revelation 14 verses 6 and 7.


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[Assistant] This message is declared to be a part of the everlasting gospel.


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[Assistant] They have in charge the great movements for the salvation of men.


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[Assistant] But the actual proclamation of the gospel is performed by the servants of Christ upon the earth.


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[Assistant] Faithful men who were obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of His Word were to proclaim this warning to the world. They were those who had taken heed to the sure word of prophecy


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[Assistant] The light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise.


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[Assistant] would have opened to them the events about to take place.


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[Assistant] But they did not occupy this position and the message was given by humbler men.


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[Assistant] Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you. John 12 verse 35


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[Assistant] Whoever is with singleness of purpose seeking to do God's will, earnestly heeding the light already given will receive greater light.


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[Assistant] To that soul some star of heavenly radiance will be sent to guide him into all truth.


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[Assistant] At the time of Christ's first advent, the priests and scribes of the holy city, to whom were entrusted the oracles of God,


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[Assistant] Might have discerned the signs of the times and proclaimed the coming of the promised one. The prophecy of Micah designated his birthplace. Daniel specified the time of his advent. See Micah 5 verse 2, Daniel 9 verse 25. God committed these prophecies to the Jewish leaders.


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[Assistant] They were without excuse if they did not know and declare to the people that the Messiah's coming was at hand.


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[Assistant] Their ignorance was the result of sinful neglect.


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[Assistant] The Jews were building monuments for the slain prophets of God while by their deference to the great men of earth, they were paying homage to the servants of Satan. Absorbed in their ambitious strife for place and power among men.


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[Assistant] They lost sight of the divine honors proffered them by the King of Heaven.


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[Assistant] With profound and reverent interest, the elders of Israel should have been studying the place, the time, the circumstances of the greatest event in the world's history.


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[Assistant] The coming of the Son of God to accomplish the redemption of man.


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[Assistant] Two weary travelers from the hills of Nazareth traverse the whole length of the narrow street to the eastern extremity of the town.


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[Assistant] Veinly seeking a place of rest and shelter for the night. No doors are open to receive them. In a wretched hovel, prepared for cattle, they at last find refuge, and there the savior of the world is born.


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[Assistant] Heavenly angels had seen the glory which the Son of God shared with the Father before the world was.


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[Assistant] And they had looked forward with intense interest to his appearing on earth as an event fraught with the greatest joy to all people.


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[Assistant] Angels were appointed to carry the glad tidings to those who were prepared to receive it.


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[Assistant] As he should make his soul an offering for sin.


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[Assistant] Yet angels desired that even in his humiliation,


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[Assistant] The son of the highest might appear before men with a dignity and glory befitting his character.


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[Assistant] Would the great men of earth assemble at Israel's capital to greet his coming?


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[Assistant] Would legions of angels present him to the expectant company?


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[Assistant] An angel visits the earth to see who are prepared to welcome Jesus, but he can discern no tokens of expectancy. He hears no voice of praise and triumph that the period of Messiah's coming is at hand. The angel hovers for a time over the chosen city and the temple where the divine presence has been manifested for ages


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[Assistant] But even here is the same indifference. The priests in their pomp and pride are offering polluted sacrifices in the temple.


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[Assistant] The Pharisees are with loud voices addressing the people or making boastful prayers at the corners of the streets, in the palaces of kings, in the assemblies of philosophers, in the schools of the rabbis.


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[Assistant] All are alike, unmindful of the wondrous fact which has filled all heaven with joy and praise.


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[Assistant] That the Redeemer of men is about to appear upon the earth. There is no evidence that Christ is expected and no preparation for the Prince of Life.


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[Assistant] In amazement, the celestial messenger is about to return to heaven with the shameful tidings when he discovers a group of shepherds who are watching their flocks by night and as they gaze into the starry heavens,


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[Assistant] are contemplating the prophecy of a messiah to come to earth and longing for the advent of the world's redeemer.


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[Assistant] An innumerable company of angels is revealed.


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[Assistant] And as if the joy were too great for one messenger to bring from heaven, a multitude of voices break forth in the anthem which all the nations of the saved shall one day sing.


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[Assistant] Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. Luke 2 verse 14.


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[Assistant] Oh, what a lesson is this wonderful story of Bethlehem.


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[Assistant] How it rebukes our unbelief, our pride and self-sufficiency.


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[Assistant] How it warns us to beware lest by our criminal indifference we also fail to discern the signs of the times and therefore know not the day of our visitation. It was not alone upon the hills of Judea


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[Assistant] Not among the lowly shepherds only that angels found the watchers for Messiah's coming.


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[Assistant] In the land of the heathen also were those that looked for him.


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[Assistant] They were wise men, rich and noble, the philosophers of the East.


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[Assistant] Students of nature, the Magi had seen God in his handiwork.


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[Assistant] From the Hebrew scriptures they had learned of the star to arise out of Jacob, and with eager desire they awaited his coming.


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[Assistant] Who should be not only the consolation of Israel, but a light to lighten the Gentiles.


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[Assistant] And for salvation unto the ends of the earth, Luke 2 verse 25 and verse 32, Acts 13 verse 47.


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[Assistant] They were seekers for light, and light from the throne of God illumined the path for their feet. While the priests and rabbis of Jerusalem, the appointed guardians and expounders of the truth were shrouded in darkness,


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[Assistant] The heaven-sent star guided these gentile strangers to the birthplace of the newborn king.


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[Assistant] Like the tidings of the Savior's birth, the message of the Second Advent was not committed to the religious leaders of the people.


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[Assistant] They had failed to preserve their connection with God and had refused light from heaven.


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[Assistant] Therefore, they were not of the number described by the apostle Paul.


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[Assistant] But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.


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[Assistant] You are all the children of light and the children of the day.


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[Assistant] Should have been the first to catch the tidings of the Savior's advent.


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[Assistant] The first to lift their voices to proclaim Him near, the first to warn the people to prepare for His coming. But they were at ease, dreaming of peace and safety while the people were asleep in their sins. Jesus saw His church like the barren fig tree covered with pretentious leaves, yet destitute of precious fruit.


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[Assistant] There was a boastful observance of the forms of religion while the spirit of true humility, penitence and faith


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[Assistant] Formalism. Vainglory. Selfishness. Oppression.


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[Assistant] A backsliding church closed their eyes to the signs of the times.


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[Assistant] God did not forsake them or suffer his faithfulness to fail, but they departed from him and separated themselves from his love. As they refused to comply with the conditions, his promises were not fulfilled to them.


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[Assistant] Such is the sure result of neglect to appreciate and improve the light and privileges which God bestows.


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[Assistant] Unless the church will follow on in his opening providence, accepting every ray of light, performing every duty which may be revealed, religion will inevitably degenerate into the observance of forms, and the spirit of vital godliness will disappear.


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[Assistant] Works of faith and obedience corresponding to the blessings and privileges bestowed.


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[Assistant] Obedience requires a sacrifice and involves a cross.


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[Assistant] And this is why so many of the professed followers of Christ refuse to receive the light from heaven.


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[Assistant] The Lord passed them by and revealed his truth to those who like the shepherds of Bethlehem and the Eastern Magi.


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[Assistant] had given heed to all the light they had received.


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[Assistant] If his coma is genuine, he won't feel my knife point, will he?


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[Assistant] He doesn't seem to realize the shame and humiliation were all suffering because of his feelings.


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[Assistant] Of the hundreds of thousands that laid down their life for this country in the war. And he cannot bring himself to make one small sacrifice. No. Tell him I shall never receive that woman Bertie. Never.


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[Assistant] Almost sixteen. Make it my birthday present, Father. Please. I won't get into trouble.


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[Assistant] You must come to Paris to meet my parents, so that they may thank you in person. Unfortunately, I cannot. Business, you see. Please! It is a matter of honour.


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[Assistant] Very well. Excellent. I could be there just in time. In time for?


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[Assistant] Chapter 7 The Stapletons of Merripit House


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[Assistant] The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.


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[Assistant] As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast, the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows, throwing watery patches of colour from the coats of arms which covered them.


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[Assistant] The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.


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[Assistant] I guess it is ourselves and not the house that we have to blame," said the baronet. We were tired with our journey and chilled by our drive, so we took a gray view of the place. Now we are fresh and well, so it is all cheerful once more.


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[Assistant] That is curious, for I did, when I was half asleep, fancy that I heard something of the sort.


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[Assistant] I waited quite a time but there was no more of it, so I concluded that it was all a dream.


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[Assistant] I heard it distinctly, and I'm sure that it was really the sob of a woman. We must ask about this right away.


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[Assistant] He rang the bell and asked Barrymore whether he could account for our experience.


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[Assistant] It seemed to me that the pallid features of the butler turned a shade paler still as he listened to his master's question.


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[Assistant] There are only two women in the house, Sir Henry," he answered. One is the scullery maid who sleeps in the other wing, the other is my wife, and I can answer for it that the sound could not have come from her. And yet he lied as he said it.


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[Assistant] For it chanced that after breakfast I met Mrs Barrymore in the long corridor with the sun full upon her face.


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[Assistant] She was a large, impassive, heavy, featured woman with a stern set expression of mouth.


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[Assistant] But her telltale eyes were red and glanced at me from between swollen lids. It was she then who wept in the night.


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[Assistant] And if she did so, her husband must know it.


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[Assistant] Yet he had taken the obvious risk of discovery in declaring that it was not so. Why had he done this? And why did she weep so bitterly?


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[Assistant] Already round this pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man there was gathering an atmosphere of mystery and of gloom.


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[Assistant] It was he who had been the first to discover the body of Sir Charles.


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[Assistant] And we had only his word for all the circumstances which led up to the old man's death.


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[Assistant] Was it possible that it was Barrymore after all whom we had seen in the cab in Regent Street? The beard might well have been the same. The cabman had described a somewhat shorter man, but such an impression might easily have been erroneous. How could I settle the point for ever?


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[Assistant] Obviously the first thing to do was to see the Grimpen postmaster and find whether the test telegram had really been placed in Barrymore's own hands.


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[Assistant] Be the answer what it might. I should at least have something to report to Sherlock Holmes.


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[Assistant] Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.


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[Assistant] It was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor.


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[Assistant] Leading me at last to a small grey hamlet in which two larger buildings, which proved to be the inn and the house of Dr. Mortimer, stood high above the rest.


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[Assistant] The postmaster, who was also the village grocer, had a clear recollection of the telegram. Certainly, sir," said he. I had the telegram delivered to Mr. Barrymore exactly as directed. Who delivered it? My boy here. James?


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[Assistant] You delivered that telegram to Mr Barrymore at the hall last week, did you not?


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[Assistant] Yes, father, I delivered it. Into his own hands, I asked.


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[Assistant] Well, he was up in the loft at the time, so that I could not put it into his own hands, but I gave it into Mrs Barrymore's hands, and she promised to deliver it at once.


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[Assistant] Did you see Mr. Barrymore? No sir, I tell you he was in the loft.


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[Assistant] If you didn't see him, how'd you know he was in the loft? Well, surely his own wife ought to know where he is," said the postmaster testily. Didn't he get the telegram?


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[Assistant] If there is any mistake, it is for Mr. Barrymore himself to complain. It seemed hopeless to pursue the inquiry any farther.


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[Assistant] But it was clear that in spite of Holmes's ruse we had no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.


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[Assistant] Suppose that it was so. Suppose that the same man had been the last who had seen Sir Charles alive, and the first to dog the new heir when he returned to England. What then? Was he the agent of others, or had he some sinister design of his own?


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[Assistant] What interest could he have in persecuting the Baskerville family?


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[Assistant] I thought of the strange warning clipped out of the leading article of the Times.


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[Assistant] Was that his work, or was it possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting his schemes?


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[Assistant] The only conceivable motive was that which had been suggested by Sir Henry.


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[Assistant] That if the family could be scared away a comfortable and permanent home would be secured for the Barrymores.


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[Assistant] But surely such an explanation as that would be quite inadequate to account for the deep and subtle scheming which seemed to be weaving an invisible net round the young baronet.


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[Assistant] Holmes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations. I prayed as I walked back along the grey lonely road that my friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations


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[Assistant] And able to come down to take this heavy burden of responsibilities from my shoulders.


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[Assistant] Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of running feet behind me and by a voice which called me by name. I turned, expecting to see Dr. Mortimer.


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[Assistant] But to my surprise it was a stranger who was pursuing me.


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[Assistant] He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat.


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[Assistant] A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder.


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[Assistant] Here on the moor we are homely folk, and do not wait for formal introductions. You may possibly have heard my name from our mutual friend Mortimer. I am Stapleton of Merrypith House.


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[Assistant] Your net and box would have told me as much, said I, for I knew that Mr. Stapleton was a naturalist.


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[Assistant] But how did you know me? I have been calling on Mortimer, and he pointed you out to me from the window of his surgery as you passed. As our road lay the same way, I thought that I would overtake you and introduce myself. I trust that Sir Henry is none the worse for his journey? He is very well, thank you.


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[Assistant] We were all rather afraid that after the sad death of Sir Charles the new baronet might refuse to live here.


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[Assistant] It is asking much of a wealthy man to come down and bury himself in a place of this


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[Assistant] But I need not tell you that it means a very great deal to the countryside. Sir Henry has I suppose no superstitious fears in the matter.


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[Assistant] I do not think that is likely. Of course you know the legend of the fiend dog which haunts the family. I have heard it. It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here. Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor.


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[Assistant] He spoke with a smile, but I seem to read in his eyes that he took the matter more seriously.


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[Assistant] The story took a great hold upon the imagination of Sir Charles, and I have no doubt that it led to his tragic end. But how?


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[Assistant] His nerves were so worked up that the appearance of any dog might have had a fatal effect upon his diseased heart.


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[Assistant] I fancied that he really did see something of the kind upon that last day in the Yew Alley. I feared that some disaster might occur, for I was very fond of the old man, and I knew that his heart was weak. How did you know that? My friend Mortimer told me.


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[Assistant] You think then that some dog pursued Sir Charles?


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[Assistant] And that he died of fright in consequence. Have you any better explanation?


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[Assistant] I have not come to any conclusion, as Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The words took away my breath for an instant.


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[Assistant] But a glance at the placid face and steadfast eyes of my companion


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[Assistant] And you could not celebrate him without being known yourself. When Mortimer told me your name he could not deny your identity. If you are here then it follows that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is interesting himself in the matter, and I am naturally curious to know what view he may take. I am afraid that I cannot answer that question.


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[Assistant] May I ask if he is going to honour us with a visit himself? He cannot leave town at present.


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[Assistant] He has other cases which engage his attention. What a pity. He might throw some light on that which is so dark to us. But as to your own researches, if there is any possible way in which I can be of service to you I trust that you will command me.


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[Assistant] If I had any indication of the nature of your suspicions or how you propose to investigate the case,


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[Assistant] I might perhaps even now give you some aid or advice.


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[Assistant] I assure you that I am simply here upon a visit to my friend, Sir Henry.


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[Assistant] We had come to a point where a narrow grassy path struck off from the road and wound away across the moor.


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[Assistant] A steep boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right.


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[Assistant] With ferns and brambles growing in its niches.


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[Assistant] My first thought was that I should be by Sir Henry's side.


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[Assistant] And Holmes had expressly said that I should study the neighbours upon the moor.


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[Assistant] I accepted Stapleton's invitation, and we turned together down the path. It is a wonderful place, the Moor, said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges. You never tire of the Moor,


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[Assistant] You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast and so barren and so mysterious. You know it well, then. I have only been here two years.


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[Assistant] The residents would call me a newcomer. We came shortly after Sir Charles settled.


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[Assistant] But my tastes led me to explore every part of the country round and I should think that there are few men who know it better than I do.


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[Assistant] Is it hard to know? Very hard. You see, for example, this great plain to the north here, with the queer hills breaking out of it. Do you observe anything remarkable about that? It would be a rare place for a gallop.


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[Assistant] You would naturally think so, and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it? Yes, they seem more fertile than the rest.


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[Assistant] He never came out. I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog hole, but it sucked him down at last. Even in dry seasons it is a danger to cross it.


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[Assistant] But after these autumn rains it is an awful place and yet I can find my way to the very heart of it and return alive. By George there is another of those miserable ponies.


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[Assistant] Something brown was rolling and tossing among the green sedges.


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[Assistant] Then a long agonised writhing neck shot upward, and a dreadful cry echoed over the moor. It turned me cold with horror.


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[Assistant] My companion's nerves seem to be stronger than mine. It's gone, said he. The mire has him. Two in two days, and many more, perhaps.


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[Assistant] But they get in the way of going there in the dry weather and never know the difference until the mire has them in its clutches.


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[Assistant] It's a bad place, the great Grimpenmire. And you say you can penetrate it? Yes. There are one or two paths which a very active man can take. I have found them out.


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[Assistant] But why should you wish to go into so horrible a place? Well, you see the hills beyond, they are really islands cut off on all sides by the impossible mire, which has crawled round them in the course of years.


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[Assistant] That is where the rare plants and the butterflies are, if you have the wit to reach them. I shall try my luck some day.


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[Assistant] He looked at me with a surprised face. For God's sake put such an idea out of your mind, said he. Your blood would be upon my head.


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[Assistant] I assure you that there would not be the least chance of your coming back alive. It is only by remembering certain complex landmarks that I am able to do it. Hello? I cried. What is that?


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[Assistant] A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor. It filled the whole air, and yet it was impossible to say whence it came.


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[Assistant] From a dull murmur, it swelled into a deep roar.


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[Assistant] And then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again.


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[Assistant] Stapleton looked at me with a curious expression in his face.


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[Assistant] Queer place, the more, said he. But what is it?


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[Assistant] The peasants say it is the hound of the Baskervilles calling for its prey. I've heard it once or twice before, but never quite so loud.


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[Assistant] I looked round, with a chill of fear in my heart, at the huge swelling plain mottled with the green patches of rushes


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[Assistant] Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens which croaked loudly from a tore behind us.


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[Assistant] You are an educated man. You don't believe such nonsense as that," said I. What do you think is the cause of so strange a sound? Bogs make queer noises sometimes. It's the mud settling, or the water rising, or something.


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[Assistant] No, no, that was a living voice. Well, perhaps it was. Did you ever hear a bittern booming? No, I never did. It's a very rare bird, practically extinct in England now, but all things are possible upon the moor.


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[Assistant] Yes, I should not be surprised to learn that what we have heard is the cry of the last of the bitons. It's the weirdest, strangest thing that ever I heard in my life. Yes, it's rather an uncanny place altogether. Look at the hillside yonder. What do you make of those?


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[Assistant] The whole steep slope was covered with grey circular rings of stone, a score of them at least. What are they, sheep-pens? No, they are the homes of our worthy ancestors. Prehistoric man lived thickly on the moor.


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[Assistant] And as no one in particular has lived there since, we find all his little arrangements exactly as he left them.


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[Assistant] These are his wigwams with the roofs off.


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[Assistant] He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe. Look at the great trench in the opposite hill


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[Assistant] That is his mark. Yes, you will find some very singular points about the Moor, Dr. Watson. Oh, excuse me an instant, it is surely Cyclopedes. A small fly or moth had fluttered across our path.


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[Assistant] And in an instant Stapleton was rushing with extraordinary energy and speed in pursuit of it.


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[Assistant] To my dismay, the creature flew straight for the great mire.


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[Assistant] And my acquaintance never paused for an instant, bounding from tuft to tuft behind it, his green net waving in the air.


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[Assistant] His grey clothes and jerky zigzag irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.


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[Assistant] I was standing watching his pursuit with a mixture of admiration for his extraordinary activity and fear lest he should lose his footing in the treacherous mire.


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[Assistant] When I heard the sound of steps and turning round, found a woman near me upon the path.


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[Assistant] But the dip of the moor had hit her until she was quite close.


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[Assistant] I could not doubt that this was the Miss Stapleton of whom I had been told, since ladies of any sort must be few upon the moor.


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[Assistant] And I remembered that I had heard someone describe her as being a beauty. The woman who approached me was certainly that, and of a most uncommon type.


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[Assistant] There could not have been a greater contrast between brother and sister.


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[Assistant] For Stapleton was neutral tinted, with light hair and grey eyes,


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[Assistant] While she was darker than any brunette whom I have seen in England, slim, elegant, and tall, she had a proud, finely cut face,


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[Assistant] So regular that it might have seemed impassive, were it not for the sensitive mouth and the beautiful dark, eager eyes.


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[Assistant] With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was indeed.


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[Assistant] A strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path. Her eyes were on her brother as I turned, and then she quickened her pace towards me


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[Assistant] I had raised my hat and was about to make some explanatory


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[Assistant] When her own words turned all my thoughts into a new channel. Go back, she said. Go straight back to London instantly. I could only stare at her in stupid surprise.


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[Assistant] Her eyes blazed at me, and she tapped the ground impatiently with her foot.


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[Assistant] Why should I go back? I asked. I cannot explain.


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[Assistant] She spoke in a low, eager voice, with a curious lisp in her utterance. But for God's sake, do what I ask you. Go back and never set foot upon the moor again. But I've only just come. Man, man! she cried.


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[Assistant] Can you not tell when a warning is for your own good? Go back to London. Start tonight. Get away from this place at all costs.


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[Assistant] Hush, my brother is coming. Not a word of what I have said.


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[Assistant] Would you mind getting that orchid for me among the mare's tails yonder? We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though of course you are rather late to see the beauties of the place.


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[Assistant] Stapleton had abandoned the chase and came back to us breathing hard and flushed with his exertions.


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[Assistant] And it seemed to me that the tone of his greeting was not altogether a cordial one.


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[Assistant] Yes, I was chasing a Cyclopides. He is very rare and seldom found in the late autumn. What a pity that I should have missed him." He spoke unconcernedly.


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[Assistant] But his small light eyes glanced incessantly from the girl to me.


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[Assistant] You have introduced yourselves, I can see. Yes, I was telling Sir Henry that it was rather late for him to see the true beauties of the Moor. Why, who do you think this is? I imagine that it must be Sir Henry Baskerville. No, no, said I, only a humble commoner. But his friend, my name is Dr. Watson.


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[Assistant] A flush of vexation passed over her expressive face.


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[Assistant] We have been talking at cross purposes," said she. Why, you had not very much time for talk, her brother remarked with the same questioning eyes. I talked as if Dr. Watson were a resident instead of being merely a visitor, said she.


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[Assistant] It cannot much matter to him whether it is early or late for the orchids, but you will come on, will you not, and see Mary Pitt House?


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[Assistant] A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days.


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[Assistant] But now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.


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[Assistant] An orchard surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual upon the moor, were stunted and nipped.


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[Assistant] The effect of the whole place was mean and melancholy.


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[Assistant] We were admitted by a strange, wizened, rusty-coated old manservant who seemed in keeping with the house.


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[Assistant] Inside, however, there were large rooms furnished with an elegance in which I seemed to recognise the taste of the lady.


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[Assistant] As I looked from their windows at the interminable granite-flecked moor rolling unbroken to the farthest horizon.


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[Assistant] I could not but marvel at what could have brought this highly educated man and this beautiful woman to live in such a place. Queer spot to choose, is it not? said he, as if in answer to my thought.


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[Assistant] And yet we managed to make ourselves fairly happy, do we not, Beryl? Quite happy, said she. But there was no ring of conviction in her words. I had a school, said Stapleton. It was in the North Country.


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[Assistant] The work to a man of my temperament was mechanical and uninteresting, but the privilege of living with youth, of helping to mould those young minds and of impressing them with one's own character and ideals, was very dear to me. However, the fates were against us. A serious epidemic broke out in the school, and three of the boys died.


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[Assistant] It never recovered from the blow and much of my capital was irretrievably swallowed up. And yet


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[Assistant] If it were not for the loss of the charming companionship of the boys, I could rejoice over my own misfortune, for with my strong tastes for botany and zoology I find an unlimited field of work here


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[Assistant] And my sister is as devoted to nature as I am.


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[Assistant] All this, Dr. Watson, has been brought upon your head by your expression, as you surveyed the maw out of our window.


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[Assistant] It certainly did cross my mind that it might be a little dull. Less for you, perhaps, than for your sister.


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[Assistant] No, no, I am never dull, said she quickly. We have books, we have our studies,


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[Assistant] And we have interesting neighbours. Dr Mortimer is a most learned man in his own line.


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[Assistant] Of course, Charles was also an admirable companion. We knew him well, and miss him more than I can tell.


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[Assistant] Do you think that I should intrude if I were to call this afternoon and make the acquaintance of Sir Henry? I'm sure that he would be delighted.


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[Assistant] Then perhaps you would mention that I proposed to do so.


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[Assistant] We may in our humble way do something to make things more easy for him until he becomes accustomed to his new surroundings. Will you come upstairs, Dr. Watson, and inspect my collection of Lepidoptera?


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[Assistant] I think it is the most complete one in the South West of England.


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[Assistant] By the time that you have looked through them lunch will be almost ready. But I was eager to get back to my charge.


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[Assistant] The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.


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[Assistant] Then on the top of these, more or less vague impressions, there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.


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[Assistant] I resisted all pressure to stay for lunch and I set off at once upon my return journey, taking the grass-grown path by which we had come.


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[Assistant] It seems, however, that there must have been some shortcut for those who knew it.


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[Assistant] A face was beautifully flushed with her exertions, and she held her hand to her side.


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[Assistant] I have run all the way in order to cut you off, Dr. Watson," said she. I had not even time to put on my hat. I must not stop or my brother may miss me. I wanted to say to you how sorry I am about the stupid mistake I made in thinking that you were Sir Henry. Please forget the words I said.


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[Assistant] Which have no application whatever to you. But I can't forget the Miss Stapleton, said I. I am Sir Henry's friend.


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[Assistant] When you know me better you will understand that I cannot always give reasons for what I say or do.


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[Assistant] Ever since I have been here I have been conscious of shadows all round me.


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[Assistant] Life has become like that great Grimpenmyre.


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[Assistant] An expression of irresolution passed for an instant over her face.


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[Assistant] But her eyes had hardened again when she answered me. You make too much of it, Doctor Watson, said she.


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[Assistant] My brother and I were very much shocked by the death of Sir Charles.


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[Assistant] We knew him very intimately for his favorite walk was over the moor to our house.


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[Assistant] He was deeply impressed with the curse which hung over the family. And when this tragedy came...


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[Assistant] Take him away from a place which has always been fatal to his family. The world is wide. Why should he wish to live at the place of danger?


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[Assistant] Because it is the place of danger. That is Sir Henry's nature.


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[Assistant] I fear that unless you can give me some more definite information than this, it would be impossible to get him to move. I cannot say anything definite, for I do not know anything definite. I would ask you one more question, Miss Stapleton. If you meant no more than this when you first spoke to me,


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[Assistant] Why should you not wish your brother to overhear what you said?


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[Assistant] He would be very angry if he knew that I had said anything which might induce Sir Henry to go away. But I have done my duty now, and I will say no more. I must go back or he will miss me, and suspect that I have seen you. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] She turned and had disappeared in a few minutes among the scattered boulders, while I—


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[Assistant] With my soul full of vague fears, Pursued my way to Baskerville Hall.


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[Assistant] All right, so let's keep it moving fam. I'm going to this next article right here. John Groot once again.


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[Assistant] Uh, talking about him as John Gruden for those who might not have known, uh, it was a busy day in football period for the Saints, the Kamara suspension, the Camp News, uh, you know, the extension with


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[Assistant] Cam Jordan, so you had Cam's extension, Elvin's suspension, and then the day camp news, and then John Gruden was at camp.


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[Assistant] So it was a very lively Friday to be honest with you and I, it was good. I like seeing those say.


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[Assistant] Former NFL coach John Gruden, known for his stints with the Bucks and Raiders, was set to visit the Saints training camp on Friday. He was actually, this was done earlier. Gruden already consulted with the Saints during their offseason program.


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[Assistant] We'll continue his role as an advisor to the team, particularly focus on his experience with newly signed quarterback, Derek Carr, whom he previously coached during his time.


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[Assistant] With the Raiders, and of course, this is the picture right here. John Gru- I mean, uh, uh, Jeff Duncan.


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[Assistant] Tweeted this image, this picture that he took with John Gruden, with Derek Hardt, as you can see, Gruden decked down in all Saint gear.


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[Assistant] Got Saint hat on shirt, and I think you got Saint shorts on too. Hell, you might have sneakers on with the Saints. Saint sneakers on, you never know.


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[Assistant] But uh, then he got a call sheet in his hand.


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[Assistant] He got a call sheet in his hand. Gruten feel like he back in his offensive days. He said he'll be around for several days or so, which is cool because


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[Assistant] I want to, hopefully some of our reporter friends get close enough to him to kind of talk to him, to get an interview with John Gruden to see what he, you know.


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[Assistant] But like I'm kidding about early in the show, but Grootin looks like more of an employee as opposed to a guy just visiting.


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[Assistant] Dennis Allen downplaying any rumors of any more significant, of course he's going to downplay the rumors.


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[Assistant] Groon started, uh, stating that the 59 year old or, you know, rolled for Groon and Dennis Allen stating that the 59 year old.


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[Assistant] Ruins extensive knowledge of the west coast offense similar to the one he ran with the Raiders when Carr was his quarterback makes him a valuable resource.


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[Assistant] And then of course, while Gruden's presence at the campus generated some speculation, coach Allen clarified that there's no current plan to hire him on a full time basis. Current plan. Things do change though.


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[Assistant] Instead, the sayings view them as temporary resource to provide insights and advice to both car.


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[Assistant] in the offensive coaching staff. Pete Carmichael, Ronald Curry, pay attention. Ruins track record of success. Coaching car is


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[Assistant] This image, like Dennis Allen said, and we'll play Dennis Allen in a second, about John Cruden.


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[Assistant] So him wearing all them clothes over there, you know. Oh, we give them clothes to everybody.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't have what? Oh, well, we are a lot of them right now, but we give them to everybody.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, alright. Dennis, thank you, sir. Appreciate you on that. Alright, alright. But anyway.


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[Assistant] Groot, all I can say is Grootin' looks good in that Saint stuff, don't it?


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[Assistant] I mean, don't he look good with the same vibes and the same shirt and everything? Don't he, don't he look good?


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[Assistant] You know, I got a whole box full of those clothes and hats and shoes and socks in my office, in the closet.


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[Assistant] So he just takes it and puts it on, you know? Okay, alright, okay, alright coach, we'll see. Alright, anyway.


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[Assistant] I don't know man, that pitcher, that pitcher, he looks a little comfortable in that, in that black and gold baby.


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[Assistant] That's all I'm saying. He look real comfortable in that black and gold, baby.


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[Assistant] You look really cool in that black and gold, baby. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Bucking eyes! Bucking eyes! Alright, uh, Lamanel says, uh, Big Q, you know Guru named Bendel Saint his whole career, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hey, Dennis Allen is here, man. Dennis Allen trying to get all, everything that's good from the Raiders or trying to get him to work. But it's interesting, man, to say the least. So he said he'll be around for several days. So that's something we're going to look at.


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[Assistant] If we take a look at the Saints LeRoy Glovers here, then you say another throwback Saints great and Brett Maxey, the old safety from back in the day there. So he's roaming around there. So the Saints got a lot of really good old school players and they're trying to help out. So it's a great energy of like, uh,


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[Assistant] Guys from the past here to kind of help the Saints, whatever. And that's the great thing about it. It's like an open door. Like, come on, can you help us with these guys, get these guys together? And that's, that's very positive. So the only thing I know is from, from our history standpoint,


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[Assistant] You bring a guy in and Sean Payton was famous for this. He'll bring guys in, see how they look. And then next thing you know, they'll have a prolonged period of time.


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[Assistant] But with Grootin is different because they have aforementioned things we talked about. But he is, but, how could you not?


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[Assistant] Like, DA is saying, oh, don't pay no attention to it. Don't look at the man behind the, the, the curtain there. He ain't, uh, how could you not? I mean, it's John Gruden.


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[Assistant] Who won the Super Bowl as a head coach, runs a really good west coast style offense. It's very similar. The guy that he had.


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[Assistant] And then you got John Gruden here who got the most out of them in the West Coast offense in the league.


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[Assistant] Now he's in the West Coast offense with the Saints and he's the most accomplished of your offensive people.


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[Assistant] That's in a room and he's giving all of them tutelage. How could you not, like, look away and say, oh, that's just nothing at all? You know, I'm just saying, man, it's a lot, so.


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[Assistant] He's all, he downplaying the hell out of it, but you really can if you think about it. That's why people are like, damn, John Gruden over there, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] He trying to, he just helping out Derek Carr. No, no, no, no. He doing a little bit more than helping out Derek Carr.


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[Assistant] Johnny, well you gotta teach these philosophy. He can have the phone call to do that. You know, like remember the big tuner used to do that with Sean Payton?


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[Assistant] Sean Payton would get on the phone with him and he'll have press conferences. Yeah, I just got off the phone with Bill Parcells. He was telling me such, such, such, such.


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[Assistant] But it's just like, it's the second time here and then this time it's a longer time than the day the first time. Like I said, it's hard not to read too much into it, but you know, we'll see.


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[Assistant] I think it's a little bit more than that, DA. You're going to be around here a couple of days. A couple is two, right? Couple of days is two. Then it became three.


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[Assistant] The next week is going to be, oh, we decided to keep him for, he going to be around here for the summation of training camp.


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[Assistant] Oh, the next thing you know, oh, well, he gonna be here for preseason too. He just watching and see how things go, catching up with speed of the game. So, you know, and I'm just joking about it, but.


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[Assistant] Anytime, like I said, when you bring John Gruden around here and what he knows offensively speaking and like,


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[Assistant] You know, the family member astutely mentioned that him and Sean Payton come from the same...


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[Assistant] It'll, it'll come from up right up under the same school of thought.


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[Assistant] You know, those guys are, you know, like when they played each other, they, you know, they usually get up to play each other. And now he's here.


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[Assistant] Well, Carr and all of the weapons the Saints have, it's hard for the average family member not to get a little bucked and excited about the fact that John Gruden's here. Of course, we know there's those certain situations of revolving around John Gruden that the Saints are very aware of.


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[Assistant] But like one of the family members in the Great St. Think Tank is such an intelligent group of people, they astutely mentioned that this is just them acclimating you to the process, testing them waters.


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[Assistant] Ah, it was a couple then it was three. Oh, it ain't nothing.


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[Assistant] Oh, he, but, but, but, but, you know, it ain't, oh, he got a Saint hat and the shirt on, you know, and yeah, next thing you know is.


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[Assistant] You know, this, and this is not nothing that's new. It's just, this guy is a bigger name.


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[Assistant] Cause we've had guys that came here before. Remember we had Chaney, that's the guy. Cause Sean Payton was really good at that. Sean Payton had so many connections, he would go and get these.


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[Assistant] Old coaches that he knew and liked and that mentored him and he would bring them in as analysts.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's here just to overlook things, make sure, you know, he's an extra set of eyes with Sean Payton's verbiage.


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[Assistant] He's an extra set of eyes for us just in case we miss something he's there to catch. He's an extra set of eyes. That's what Sean Payton used to say. You know, so.


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[Assistant] We'll see man at the end of the day. How could you not though? You know, it's what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] When you see something like that, you know, he's the most accomplished guy in a Saints offensive room.


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[Assistant] He has a, he, he had tremendous success with your starting quarterback in the West Coast offense.


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[Assistant] He's as grumpy and as, uh, what's the term, uh, ballsy. That's Gruden and Sean Payton, both right around the same type of characters. Ballsy kind of coach there. So, you know, man, they would assign, if, if all other stuff,


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[Assistant] He got passive cause he's suing the league, but if that wasn't happening and he had already apologized.


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[Assistant] This guy will more than likely be, like, signed to be an analyst, but it's happening. You don't just...


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[Assistant] Out of all the shit in the world you got to do, you mean to tell me all you gonna do is just


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[Assistant] I'ma just sit up here. I won't help Derrick Carl be the best Saint he could be. Uh, it's just more than that to me, man. I just seen too much. It's gonna come around.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, look at that. He got a call sheet under there, man.


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[Assistant] You just a set of eyes. I'm just hating that you did that wrong.


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[Assistant] Oh, I get you coach, but he was saying on the press conference that, you know, the other day that he'd been, he went through some stuff and he was saying that,


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[Assistant] He's feel like he's playing football now before he was doing a lot of thinking. Now he's playing football. Yeaah. But what you expect him to say? See, that's why I'm here.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, okay. But they didn't announce you though, coach. You kinda popped up here kinda fast, didn't you? You know what I'm saying? You didn't...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know the Helvin Camaro suspension, the extension of the cam and then you popped up here.


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[Assistant] And 504 coach says, DA is tremendous team builder, defensive coach along with Jimmy G's offensive savvy. This could be a challenge. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. The Saints, everything they're doing. Like if you look at the.


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[Assistant] Like I was saying, the coaches that they brought in, even the assistants, the help that they're getting outside. I just love it. Even though, you know, the thing with John Gruden around there, outside of, you know, him, he got to get, get that right. But his coaching acumen.


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[Assistant] In terms of knowing the West Coast, knowing Dennis, I mean Derek Carr. He was a head, uh, uh, uh, Gruden was a Raider coach. Dennis Allen was a Raider coach. Just a lot of veteran coaches coming here and the goal is to make the Saints a winner again. So if,


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[Assistant] So it's just, it's just amazing how it all is, is working out like, man. And it's like, it's hard for you to even look at it. Corvade said, that's what I said earlier for what we doing. Could have did a zoom call, could have had his opinion waiting for a dip in offense to boot.


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[Assistant] Put Pete Carmichael in the street? Is that what we're doing? King Morrison said by the end of the preseason, he will be the new OC. Yeaah, y'all calling, yeaah. Week 6, Carmichael's taking a leave of absence from the team due to family issues. Giant Group will be our interim offensive coordinator for the remainder of the season. Now how the hell would that look as an offense? You don't think, let me tell you something fam.


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[Assistant] You don't think John Gruden looking at, look at his, look at his eyes on, he bucking eyes right here on this picture right here. Look at Gruden's eyes here. He bucking them right now.


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[Assistant] Oh my God. Look at him. His face be bucking eyes and he excited right now.


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[Assistant] On this picture, looking at out the field at all of, John Groon ain't never had nothing like what he looking at right now. That's why he looking like that.


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[Assistant] He never had nothing like what he looking at the saints offense. You mean to tell me he going to look at that and then walk out the door?


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[Assistant] He just loves football. That's Dennis Allen words. You think John Groome gonna walk out the door after seeing all this?


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[Assistant] Seeing all of the talent, that man ain't never had nothing like this. Never.


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[Assistant] Never. He gonna figure a way to get in there. Yeah. Yeah. Look at his face, bro. Look, John groom is bucking. He's bucking them, bro.


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[Assistant] Let me see if I can get this picture. Let me see if I can get close on in the picture.


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[Assistant] Look y'all, look. This close as I can get right there. You see that? Look at that.


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[Assistant] Ah, look at, look at, look at Grootin, man. I got up close and personal so y'all can see it. Look at him. Boy, Grootin bucking. He going, oh my God, what's going on, man? Man, that's all this. All these people around here. My God, what?


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[Assistant] My, oh my goodness, he never had nothing like this. Look at his face, man.


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[Assistant] Ah, yeaah, J-Rock, he buckin' his eyes, baby. He buckin' em, man, he buckin' em.


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[Assistant] You see what I'm saying? We gonna see fam. 504 says Q Grutin is an alpha, Carmichael is a beta. Yea, yea, he says don't bow down to a beta. But see, that's the thing though. See Pete Carmichael.


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[Assistant] Is not gonna buck John Gruden even though Pete's the offensive coordinator. That's not his character. B. Carmichael knows that Gruden...


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[Assistant] In that room is the more experienced man. That's why he's here teaching car. And you know, if, if Dennis Allen felt like car didn't need any help that, that, that, uh, Carmichael can handle it, then why is Groot in here? You see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Cause Pete knows the Sean Payton offense and the West Coast offense. Carr played in that offense for a lot of years. Shouldn't be that hard for Pete to teach Carr the right offense to utilize. Shouldn't be that hard, right?


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[Assistant] He's already appreciated the self, Derek Carr told him he's going to run the plays that he's like, that he's familiar with. Carr is a fast learner based on.


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[Assistant] How he had six, what, five offensive coordinators during his time with the Raiders. Pete makes six with the Saints. Had six coordinators in 10 years.


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[Assistant] They're telling us the reason for John being here is because he's helping Carr learn the Saints offense better. Wouldn't that be Pete Carmichael's good enough to do that?


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[Assistant] Or is that just something else where they just telling you that until they can get you lukewarm ready for when John Gruden joins it as a senior offensive, a senior member of the, of the offensive room. I'm just saying, I'm just throwing stuff out here. How could you not?


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[Assistant] All right, Rich, thank you bro, says Q. With the talent we got, we need an alpha male, the Lissy. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Let me get you to run.


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[Assistant] Yeah, boy. Thank you, bro. Appreciate you. With the super, with the super, uh, chat there, my brother, brother Rich Rue, shout out to you. Yeah, and I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] Common sensically thinking, just common sensically speaking on a John Gruden thing.


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[Assistant] Better than Pete Carmichael except for Drew Brees. Man, let's throw that in there. The only other player that, a person that knows Sean System better than, well,


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[Assistant] Then P Carmichael is Drew Brees. Let's get that understood. Drew mastered that system. P Carmichael knows that system. He just doesn't have the aggression or the aggressive play calling.


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[Assistant] Mentality like Ashawn Payton has. He's more conservative on his approach.


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[Assistant] You know, he's more conservative. So him getting in, you know, him and Ronald Curry getting together with Derek Harve there or something. But what if another, just, just, just what if.


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[Assistant] But what if another component to this is Derek Carr wants John Gruden to be there? You tell him no? I'm just saying you didn't gave him everything else. Would he stop asking?


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[Assistant] What if Bruton is here because Carr asked for him to be?


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[Assistant] This is being portrayed like it's a Dennis Allen idea. But what is, I'm just saying, just throwing it out there. What if it isn't entirely Dennis Allen? What if it's a Derek Carr idea that inspired it to Dennis Allen to bring Groot in here? Cause the first time he snuck in, snuck out. That's cool.


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[Assistant] How many more lessons we gotta see from you? Cause you was here before several weeks ago, several what? Months ago?


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[Assistant] And now you're back here staying for three days. At first it was a couple days, now it's three days.


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[Assistant] Rage Raider says Groot had a better offense with Raiders and defense with Ganon. Rice, Tim Brown, and defense was top 10. Oh, you talking about when he was, well, the, the, uh,


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[Assistant] What led up to the Super Bowl, uh, uh, uh, uh, appearance is what you're saying. Rage Raider. All right. Thank you, bro.


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[Assistant] Alright, Faxa says, Kuvaitis, thank you bro. Jrock says, Grootin is going to play Stay By Jotis.


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[Assistant] Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. But I'm saying, but look at John Gruden's face, family. Yeah, I know the Raiders south. How about that, Quavedas?


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[Assistant] He says they got, you know, curry. Yeah, you're drawing curry. Curry was a wide receiver from the Raiders. Well, you got Dennis Allen from over there.


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[Assistant] You got, yeah, you got Woods who was there with Dennis. You got Roberson. Yeah. You got Carr, Monroe, Edwards, and Niall Grutin. Yeah, it's definitely a pipeline, but this is the ultimate one right here because this guy has a Super Bowl trophy and he's more distinguished than your entire offensive room in terms of the coaching staff. And he's sitting up there. Look at him. Look how he looking at that.


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[Assistant] Man, he, nah, I gotta disagree, Rage. Rage is saying that he had Rich Gannon and I hear you on that. No disrespect. Rich Gannon was a good quarterback. I'm not mad at what you had with the.


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[Assistant] The, the, the, the, the, but listen, you got to admit rage Raider that


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[Assistant] You got Elvin Kamara, Jamal, hey listen, Elvin Kamara, Jamal Williams, Kendre Miller, Taysom Hill, Foster Morrow, Jawan Johnson is the league's best kept secret, Michael Thomas, who's healthy, Chris Olavi, Rashid Shahid, who's another up and coming that's there. They got all these people in the offense and giant group. Look at his face. Yeah.


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[Assistant] He said, I'm a huge car fan. So now I'll keep my eye out for the Rays to win big with high. That's what. Okay. Okay. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you that. Thank you, man.


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[Assistant] Good to see a lot of the Raiders, see a lot of the Raider family members, man. They, they, I always invite the Raider family members to give their, you know, critique of our current quarterback because they know. They know his good and his bad. So if, you know,


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[Assistant] Feel free to throw it out there, man. We, we here to learn.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright. Okay, K-Man said this is the most interesting news. I know. That's the thing. And it was all behind everything else, right? Elvin's suspension, Kam's extension, and then John Gruden decked down in Saint gear. But with his face looking like this.


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[Assistant] All right, Millie 2L says, Jamal was looking kind of fishy the way he was walking today. Okay. All right. You thinking he might have us an issue? Yeah, this is definitely it, man.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I know, I know Kovaitis. His car is a 10 year vet. He don't need that many classes. I know. See, that's how I'm saying something wrong. You had, the guy had been in the league. I can understand if it was a new quarterback that you had, oh, I gotta, you gotta walk, you gotta hold his hand. Right? Car is in his 10 year.


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[Assistant] So the, the, I'm just throwing this out here, man, cause this is how I think. Like, so you telling me that cars, that Gruden is here.


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[Assistant] To help Carl acclimate, then he did that a few weeks ago when he came here and dipped in here and then dipped out.


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[Assistant] Now he's back for three, for two days at first and now it's three days here just to oversee and overlook, just to see what's going on in the work with car.


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[Assistant] If you love football, man, John Gruden want every, look at his face. He wants every bit to be affiliated with the saints to the fact that he wearing a goddamn gear.


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[Assistant] Ah, yeaah, he's a good looking like he took.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, oh yeaah, Kendra, Kendra Miller is awesome man, listen.


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[Assistant] Listen, it's going to be, this is, I'm just saying, listen, the overall energy of the team.


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[Assistant] Like all of the stuff that they're doing, not just the personnel, like the saints have added, they brung in car, they got the leader at the quarterback, the guy that can get the deep ball out there. Michael Thomas is healthy. Chris Olavi and Rashid Shahid is due to have, you know, even though they're going through sophomore years, we looking at them. The saints from an,


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[Assistant] Offensive standpoint, they brought all their guys back on the offensive line, reworked contracts.


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[Assistant] They kind of solidify that line. They brought a lot of depth in here. A couple of veteran offensive linemen in here. So they're looking at that. There's a lot. Each room is loaded with competition.


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[Assistant] The tight end room has three, three guys that's going to make the team. I don't think you cut any of those guys if they healthy. Taysom is a weapon in this. You got, and listen, I said all that and Jimmy Graham's there too.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Graham, I forgot to throw Jimmy Graham in there. That's right. Jimmy Graham is there too. That's why John Gruden looking like this.


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[Assistant] Cause he out there watching all of the stuff and saying, man, this could be something special. Cause all of the football that coach Gruden and even any experienced, uh, coach or any experienced family member that's watching know, Hey man, this is.


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[Assistant] This got the makings to look like this could be something spectacular and I want a part of it. That's what that looks look like to me.


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[Assistant] You know, that's what that looks like. That look that he's having looks like to me, that he's really.


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[Assistant] Digging on what the saints have, cause John Gruden don't have, they can go somewhere else and do other things.


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[Assistant] You know, he's there trying to talk about, yeah, I'm trying to help Derek Allen, who, I mean, Derek Carr, who's been in the league.


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[Assistant] For 10 years, acclimate to a West Coast offense in which he's familiar with.


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[Assistant] With the verbiage. Which he should be already getting because he said he's getting most of the verbiage. He said that in multiple interviews we play here on Lessie Line.


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[Assistant] So at the end of the day, man, I think it's a little bit more, but it's, but outside of that is super Uber special.


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[Assistant] What the Saints are building here. And I'm not just talking about the players that I mentioned. I'm talking about the assistant coaches around the players too.


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[Assistant] The guys that they brought in, man, it's a fire energy that's around the team. And hopefully we could take all of this and then ball it together and then focalize it.


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[Assistant] And focalize it and just shoot it right at the Atlanta Falcons and knock all the feathers off of.


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[Assistant] That night, the company was again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn, and there the Lord and Lady greeted them with fair words. At length, Celeborn spoke of their departure. Now is the time, he said.


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[Assistant] When those who wish to continue the quest must harden their hearts to leave this land.


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[Assistant] Those who no longer wish to go forward may remain here for a while. But whether they stay or go, none can be sure of peace. For here we are come now to the edge of doom.


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[Assistant] Then they may return to their own lands, or else go to the long home of those that fall in battle.


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[Assistant] They all resolved to go forward, said Galadriel, looking in their eyes. As for me, said Boromir, my way home lies onward and not back. That is true, said Celeborn, but is all this company going with you to Minas Tirith? We have not decided our course, said Aragorn. Beyond Lothlorien, I do not know what Gandalf intended to do. Indeed, I do not think that even he had any clear purpose.


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[Assistant] Maybe not, said Celeborn. Yet when you leave this land, you can no longer forget the great river.


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[Assistant] As some of you know well, it cannot be crossed by travellers with baggage between Lorien and Gondor, save by boat.


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[Assistant] And are not the bridges of those Gileath broken down and all the landings held now by the enemy?


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[Assistant] On which side will you journey? The way to Minas Tirith lies upon this side, upon the west, but the straight road of the quest lies east of the river, upon the darker shore. Which shore will you now take?


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[Assistant] If my advice is needed, it will be the western shore, and the way to Minas Tirith, answered Boromir. But I am not the leader of the company.


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[Assistant] The other said nothing and Aragorn looked doubtful and troubled. I see that you do not yet know what to do, said Celeborn.


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[Assistant] It is not my part to choose for you, but I will help you as I may. There are some among you who can handle boats.


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[Assistant] Legolas was folk known as the Swift Forest River, and Boromir of Gondor and Aragorn the Traveler.


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[Assistant] Then I will furnish your company with boats. They must be small in light, for if you go far by water,


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[Assistant] There are places where you will be forced to carry them. You will come to the rapids of Sarn Gebir.


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[Assistant] And there are other perils. They will not give you counsel. In the end you must leave them and the river and turn west. Or east.


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[Assistant] Aragon thanked Celeborn many times. The gift of boats comforted him much. Not least because there would now be no need to decide his course for some days. The others too looked more hopeful.


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[Assistant] Whatever paddles lay ahead, it seemed better to float down the broad side of Anduin to meet them than to plod forward with bent backs. Only Sam was doubtful.


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[Assistant] He at any rate still thought boats as bad as wild horses. Or worse.


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[Assistant] All shall be prepared for you and await you at the haven before noon tomorrow," said Celeborn.


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[Assistant] I will send my people to you in the morning to help you make ready for the journey.


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[Assistant] Now we will wish you all a fair night and untroubled sleep. Good night friends, said Galadriel. Sleep in peace.


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[Assistant] Do not trouble your hearts over much with thought of the road tonight.


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[Assistant] Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet. Though you do not see them. Goodnight. The company now took their leave and returned to their pavilion.


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[Assistant] Legolas went with them, for this was to be their last night in Lothlorien. And in spite of the words of Galadriel, they wished to take council together. For a long time they debated what they should do.


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[Assistant] And how it would be best to attempt the fulfilling of their purpose with the ring. But they came to no decision.


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[Assistant] It was plain that most of them desired to go first to Minas Tirith, and to escape at least for a while from the terror of the enemy.


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[Assistant] They would have been willing to follow a leader over the river and into the shadow of Mordor, but Frodo spoke no word. And Aragorn was still divided in his mind.


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[Assistant] His own plan while Gandalf remained with them had been to go with Boromir and with his sword help to deliver Gondor. For he believed that the message of the dreams was a summons.


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[Assistant] And that the hour had come at last when the heir of Elendil should come forth and strive with Sauron for the mastery. But in Moria the burden of Gandalf had been laid on him, and he knew that he could not now forsake the ring, if Frodo refused in the end to go with Boromir.


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[Assistant] And yet what help could he or any of the company give to Frodo, save to walk blindly with him into the darkness?


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[Assistant] I shall go to Minas Tirith, alone if need be, for it is my duty," said Boromir, and after that he was silent for a while, sitting with his eyes fixed on Frodo, as he was trying to read the halfling's thoughts. At length he spoke again, softly, as if he was debating with himself.


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[Assistant] If you wished only to destroy the ring, he said


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[Assistant] Then there is little use in war and weapons and the men of Minas Tirith cannot help, but if you wish to destroy the armed might of the Dark Lord, then it is folly to go without force into his domain and folly to throw away. He paused suddenly, as if he had become aware that he was speaking his thoughts aloud. It would be folly to throw lives away, I mean.


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[Assistant] It is a choice between defending a strong place and walking openly into the arms of death. At least, that is how I see it.


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[Assistant] Frodo caught something new and strange in Boromir's glance as he looked hard at him. Plainly Boromir's thought was different from his final words. It would be folly to throw away... What? The Ring of Power.


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[Assistant] In the morning as they were beginning to pack their slender goods,


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[Assistant] Elves that could speak their tongue came to them and brought them many gifts of food and clothing for the journey.


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[Assistant] Gimli took up one of the cakes and looked at it with doubtful eye.


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[Assistant] He said under his breath, as he broke off a crisp corner and nibbled at it.


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[Assistant] I thought this was, I thought this was only a kind of crab, such as the dail men make for journeys in the wild, said the dwarf. So it is, they answered. But we call it lambas, or whey bread, and it is more strengthening than any food maybe by men.


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[Assistant] It is better than the honey cakes of the Beornings. And that is great praise for the Beornings are the best bakers that I know of. But they are none too willing to deal out their cakes to travelers in these days. You are kindly hosts. All the same, we bid you spare the food, they said. Eat a little at the time and only at need. For these things are given to serve you in all else fails.


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[Assistant] The cakes will keep sweet for many many days, if they are unbroken and left in their leaf wrappings as we have brought them.


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[Assistant] One will keep a traveler on his feet for a day of long labor, even if he be one of the tall men of Minas Tirith.


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[Assistant] Made according to his size. Of the light but warm silken stuff that the Galadrim wove. It was hard to say of what color they were. Twilight under the trees they seemed to be. And yet if they were moved or set in another light.


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[Assistant] I do not know what you mean by that, answered the leader of the elves.


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[Assistant] They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are elvish robes, certainly, if that is what you mean.


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[Assistant] Leaf and branch, water and stone, they are the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love. For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.


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[Assistant] Yet they are garments, not armor, and they will not turn shaft or blade. But they should serve you well.


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[Assistant] They are light to wear, and warm enough or cool enough at need.


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[Assistant] And you will find them a great aid in keeping out the sight of unfriendly eyes, whether you walk among the stones or the trees.


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[Assistant] You are indeed high in the favor of the lady, for she herself and her maidens wove this stuff, and never before have we clad strangers in the garb of our own people.


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[Assistant] Their hearts were heavy, for it was a fair place, and it had become like home to them, though they could not count the days and nights that they had passed there.


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[Assistant] Haldir came walking towards them over the green grass of the glade. Frodo greeted him with delight.


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[Assistant] At last Haldir led them down the southward slopes of the hills, and they came again to the great gate hung with lamps, and to the white bridge. And so they passed out and left the city of the elves.


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[Assistant] Then they turned away from the paved road and took a path that went off into a deep thicket of mallon trees and passed on, winding through rolling woodlands of silver shadow.


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[Assistant] Leading them ever down, southwards and eastwards, towards the shores of the river.


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[Assistant] Passing through an opening, they came suddenly out of the trees. Before them lay a long lawn of shining grass, studded with golden eleanor that glinted in the sun.


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[Assistant] On the right and west the silver load flowed glittering.


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[Assistant] On the left and east of the great river rolled its broad waters, deep and dark. On the further shores, the woodlands still marched on southwards, as far as the eye could see. But all the banks were bleak and bare.


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[Assistant] No Malon lifted its gold-hung boughs beyond the land of Lorien.


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[Assistant] On the bank of the silver lode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a heif of white stones and white wood.


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[Assistant] By it were moored many boats and barges. Some were brightly painted and shown with silver and gold and green, but most were either white or grey.


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[Assistant] Three small gray boats had been made ready for the travelers, and in these the elves stowed their goods, and they added also coils of rope, three to each boat. Slender they looked, but strong, silken to the touch, gray of hue like the elven cloaks.


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[Assistant] But there is no time now to instruct you in the art of their making. Had we known that this craft delighted you, we would have taught you much. But now alas, unless you should at some time return hither, you must be content with our gift. May it serve you well. Come, said Haldir. All is now ready for you. Enter the boats. But take care at first. Heed the words, said the other elves.


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[Assistant] These boats are light built, and they are crafty and unlike the boats of other folk.


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[Assistant] They will not sink. Lay them as you will. But they are wayward if mishandled.


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[Assistant] It would be wise if you accustomed yourself to stepping in and out, here where there is landing place, before you set off downstream.


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[Assistant] In this last boat, most of the goods and packs were stowed. The boats were moved and steered with short-handled paddles that had broad self-leaf-shaped blades.


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[Assistant] When all was ready Aragorn led them on a trial up the silver lode. The current was swift and they went forward slowly.


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[Assistant] As they passed beyond the green field of the Tang, the trees drew down into the river's brink.


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[Assistant] The air was very bright and still, and there was a silence, except for the high distant song of larks.


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[Assistant] They turned a sharp bend in the river, and there, sailing proudly down the stream towards them, they saw a swan of great size.


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[Assistant] Its beak shone like burnished gold, and its eyes glinted like jets set in yellow stones. Its huge white wings were half-flifted. A music came down the river as it drew nearer. And suddenly they perceived that it was a ship, wrought and carved with elven skill in the likeness of a bird.