Sir Charles's Nervous System Was Struggling to the Breaking Point

He was convinced that a dreadful fate overhung his family. The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him. He asked me whether i had, on my medical journeys at night, ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound. I can well remember driving up to his house in the evening some three weeks before the fatal event and seeing something which i took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.