Event
The Moor Ambush
Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade lie hidden among the rocks on the path from Merripit House, using Sir Henry as bait as he walks home alone. A dense fog rolls off the mire and nearly ruins the plan, but as the baronet passes, a gigantic hound with blazing jaws and eyes springs from the vapour at his heels. Holmes and Watson empty their revolvers into the beast and bring it down just as it pins Sir Henry by the throat; the creature proves a real dog smeared with phosphorus.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Searching the house, they find no Stapleton but his wife bound and beaten in an upper room, who names the island in the Grimpen Mire as his only refuge. The fog makes pursuit hopeless that night, and by next morning his trail is swallowed in the bog.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
In Holmes's retrospection the ambush stands as the only way left to make a case. Lacking any proof a jury would accept, he had to take the murderer red-handed, at the cost of a severe shock to Sir Henry, and so drove Stapleton to his destruction in the mire.
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