How we cite our quotes: (Chapter. Paragraph)
Quote #10
"My God, can there be some truth in all these stories? Is it possible that I am really in danger from so dark a cause? You don't believe it, do you, Watson?"
"No, no."
"And yet it was one thing to laugh about it in London, and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that." (9.115-7)
Here's the clearest illustration in the novel on the contrast between London and Dartmoor. Sir Henry admits that the legend of the Hound is way harder to dismiss when standing "out here in the darkness of the moor." Dartmoor's dark, scary, supernatural atmosphere gives Stapleton's plans a better chance of success. It sure helped him kill off Sir Charles.