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Holmes sent a telegram to the nearest telegraph office in Grimpen with explicit instructions that the other telegram to Barrymore is to be 'delivered into his own hand', which would have determined if Barrymore was at Baskerville Hall, but the postmaster did not follow the instructions.

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