Chapter 3
Holmes weighs the supernatural hypothesis: 'A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too absurd a conception.'
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Chapter 15
The retrospection dismantles every uncanny element with mundane explanation — phosphorus paint on a real dog.
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