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- 0:00Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, will you go on with your story.
- 0:03Speaker 2: It was in the summer of eighty nine, mister Harris,
- 0:06some little time after my marriage. After that important event,
- 0:10you remember, I abandoned homes and our Baker Street rooms
- 0:13and returned to civil practice.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Oh.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I still dropped in on him, of course, now and
- 0:18then I even persuaded him to forego his bohemian surroundings
- 0:21and come and partake of a respectable Sunday dinner with
- 0:24Mary and be. And how did he and missus Watson
- 0:27get along? Splendidly? She adored him, mister Harris. Well, I
- 0:32had settled down and become a respectable married man, practiced
- 0:36steadily increasing and all that. My house was no great
- 0:39distance from Paddington Station, and I had a few patients
- 0:42from among the officials. One morning, a little before seven,
- 0:46I was awakened by the maid rapping frantically at my door.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Doctor Watson.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Watson, Oh hello, yes, come in, come in.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Oh doctor Watson, come quick.
- 1:02Speaker 2: What's what's happened?
- 1:04Speaker 3: An accidents of a nasty accident?
- 1:06Speaker 1: Is his card?
- 1:09Speaker 2: Mister Victor Heavenly Idralic Engineer sixteen a victorious street w.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Yes, so walked over from the station. He did. I
- 1:16let him in.
- 1:17Speaker 3: He's downstairs now in the consulting room.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Looks like he does well. It can't be too serious
- 1:22if he had the strength to walk over from the
- 1:24station by himself.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Looks like he's at pains. It's his end's left hand.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Then the stop of the handkerchief.
- 1:30Speaker 2: It is, and it's all tripping with bloods sounds more
- 1:35serious than I suspected. Millie Magon. Heat some water and
- 1:39I'll go go right down to him. Yes, sir, mmmm,
- 1:43severe hemorrhage. Wonder what the accident was, Oh, mister Victor, heavenly,
- 1:49good morning morning.
- 1:51Speaker 5: I'm sorry to wake you up solutely has a serious
- 1:53accident during the night. I came in by train this morning.
- 1:55They told me at the station that you were a
- 1:57good duck.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Tack came here and that journey that in itself is
- 2:00a rather tiring and the monotonous affair.
- 2:02Speaker 3: You couldn't call my night monotonous monotonous.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Never had a less monotonous night.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Stop it, stop it, put yourself together.
- 2:10Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
- 2:12Speaker 1: I happy making a fool of myself.
- 2:14Speaker 3: The relief, you understand, I apologize.
- 2:18Speaker 2: All often happens in a case of shock. Yeah, take
- 2:23a swig of this grande.
- 2:29Speaker 4: That's better.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Now, let's have a look at your hand.
- 2:32Speaker 5: It's my thumb, doctor Watson, or athor what used to
- 2:33be my thumb?
- 2:34Speaker 2: Here, take a look. Ends. This is a terrible injury,
- 2:38less badly mangled.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Will it have to be amputated?
- 2:41Speaker 2: No? No, no, I think you can save it. Unpleasant
- 2:45wound must have bled considerablace.
- 2:47Speaker 5: It did, I guess I fainted when it happened. When
- 2:50I came to, I was still bleeding. So I tied
- 2:51one end of a hankcheef very tightly around the wrist
- 2:54and braced it with a tweet.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Excellent. You should have been a surgeon.
- 2:57Speaker 5: Just a question from hydraulics, Doctor Watson, were within my own.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Must have been done by a very sharp and heavy instant,
- 3:04Dr Watson.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Accident, a murderous attack.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Yeah, dear, that sounds serious.
- 3:10Speaker 5: Yes, I shall have to tell my story to the police,
- 3:12I suppose, But between you and me, I doubt if
- 3:13they believe my statement.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Problem Eh, Well, if it's anything of that nature you
- 3:18want solved, I strongly recommend my friend mister Sherlock Holmes.
- 3:21Speaker 5: Mister Sherlock Holmes, I've heard of him, of course, do
- 3:24you think he'd be interested?
- 3:25Speaker 2: Could you?
- 3:25Speaker 4: Could you give me an introduction?
- 3:26Speaker 2: I'll do better than that. I'll take you around to
- 3:29him myself. But first let's attend to this thumb and
- 3:32then we'll call a candle and dropping on Holmes for a.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Bit of breakfast, another bit of missus Hudson's omelet. Mister No,
- 3:48thank you, mister Holmes.
- 3:50Speaker 5: I feel a new man since Dr Watson banished my hand,
- 3:53and your excellent breakfast is completed.
- 3:55Speaker 1: The cure good. Now you can tell us your story
- 3:57if you're sure you feel strong enough.
- 3:59Speaker 5: Well, I'll tap as little of your valuable time as possible.
- 4:02To begin with, I must tell you that I'm an
- 4:04orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings here in London.
- 4:07My professional a hydraulic engineer. I had seven years experience
- 4:11with a firm of Venner and Mathison before I decided
- 4:12to go into business for myself. Well, the start of
- 4:15any new firm is always rather slack, I suppose. So
- 4:18far I've had three consultations and one small job.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Not what you call a rushing business.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Well, no, not exactly.
- 4:25Speaker 5: Every day from nine till four I waited in my
- 4:27little den until at last my heart began to sink
- 4:29and I began to feel I should never have any
- 4:31practice at talk.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Well, I know that feeling. He would you believe it?
- 4:35The first two months up the resume my medical practice,
- 4:37I hated you, Watson. Watson turned it to run, oh sorry,
- 4:40onster heavily.
- 4:41Speaker 5: It all began yesterday, just as I was thinking of
- 4:43closing up for the day, my clerk came in to
- 4:46say that there was a gentleman waiting to see me
- 4:47on business. His card gave me the name of Colonel
- 4:50Lysander Stark. Well, I told the clerk to show him
- 4:54in by all means.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Colonel Lysander Stark. Picturesque name, hey, Watson, and what sort
- 4:59of man? He turned out to be?
- 5:01Speaker 5: Slightly over middle height and exceedingly thin. I don't think
- 5:05I've ever seen a thinner man. His whole face sharpened
- 5:09away into nose and chin, and the skin was drawn
- 5:12tightly over his protruding cheekbones. No, mister Holmes, I should say,
- 5:16just naturally emaciated. His eye was bright, trifle too bright.
- 5:20I thought his step brisk, and his bearing ashore. He
- 5:25spoke with a slight German.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Accent, I have to honor.
- 5:37Speaker 3: This is mister Victor Hatheley nick twas.
- 5:41Speaker 5: Yes, Colonel Stark, won't you sit down darker?
- 5:45Speaker 3: You are recommended to me, sir, for a young man
- 5:47who is clever and also discreet.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Thank you not at all.
- 5:54Speaker 3: I know also that you are an orphan bachelor and
- 5:58you live alone, quite correct, But I don't see why
- 6:01that can possibly concern you.
- 6:03Speaker 5: I understood that it was on a professional matter that
- 6:05you wanted to see me theagavis.
- 6:07Speaker 3: I have a professional commission, but I must insist on secrecy,
- 6:11absolute secrecy, and that is easier from a man that
- 6:14has no family.
- 6:15Speaker 5: If I promise to keep a secret, Colonel Stuck, you
- 6:17may depend on my doing so.
- 6:19Speaker 2: You promise, then I promise.
- 6:21Speaker 3: Now we can get down to business one moment, please, Yes,
- 6:27it is as it should be. These clerks, you know,
- 6:31sometimes they are so interested in the affairs of the master.
- 6:35Bring your chair close to mine very well. Yeah, now
- 6:41we can talk.
- 6:43Speaker 5: With But if you don't mind, Colonel, my time is valuable.
- 6:46Speaker 3: So to whom then I know how much work you
- 6:50have done lately, my young friend. You do not fool me.
- 6:55How does fifty guineas for a night's work strike you.
- 7:00Speaker 5: That's very generous, Colonel Start.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I have said a night's work, an hour's work will
- 7:04be more correct. Your opinion is already asked. I have
- 7:08a hydraulic press. It is in bad order. You show
- 7:12us what is wrong, we fix it ourselves.
- 7:15Speaker 1: You will do that?
- 7:16Speaker 2: Uh, of course good. You will come tonight by the
- 7:20last train where to.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Air four That is in Berkshire.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Your train arrives at eleven fifteen. A carriage will come
- 7:27to meet you.
- 7:28Speaker 5: Oh your place is out in the country.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Yeah, a good seven miles from the station. There's no
- 7:33train back. You will spend the night.
- 7:36Speaker 5: Yes, But couldn't I come at a more convenient hour
- 7:38tomorrow in the daytime?
- 7:39Speaker 3: Impossible. It is for your inconvenience that we pay the
- 7:44fifty guineas, and for the secrecy, of course.
- 7:48Speaker 5: But perhaps if you could explain the reason for all
- 7:50this service.
- 7:51Speaker 3: Caution, very well, I explain you know? Do you not
- 7:55that Fuller's Earth is a very valuable product and is
- 7:59to be found only in two places in England?
- 8:02Speaker 2: Why?
- 8:02Speaker 5: Yes, I believe I have heard something of that effect
- 8:04some time ago.
- 8:05Speaker 3: I have bought a place, so very small place. You
- 8:07understand well one day, I am so fortunate I discover
- 8:11a small deposit, a fuller's earth in my backyard.
- 8:13Speaker 5: Congratulations.
- 8:14Speaker 3: I investigate. I find it is a link between two
- 8:17so much larger deposits. But in the property which belongs
- 8:22to my neighbors. These people, they do not know the value.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Of their land.
- 8:26Speaker 5: So you bought it up?
- 8:27Speaker 3: No, mister Hathley, I am not a rich man. I
- 8:31have not the money. So I speak to some of
- 8:34my friends and we work our little deposit in secret
- 8:38so we can earn the money to buy the land
- 8:40near us.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Yes, but I don't understand what use you can make
- 8:43of a hydraulic press and excavating full of earth.
- 8:46Speaker 3: We come press the earth into bricks so we can
- 8:49remove them without showing what they are. That is a detail,
- 8:52a mere detail. So I have taken you into my confidence.
- 9:01I expect you tonight, mister Happening.
- 9:03Speaker 4: I shall be there.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Colonel start Lood, not a word to a soul. It
- 9:08is best you do not even tell anyone that you
- 9:10are going away.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Very well, if you wish it.
- 9:13Speaker 3: I not only wish, I insist. Here's twenty guineas in advance.
- 9:22Were a reader saying, mister happily.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Sounds fishy to me. It, Holmes, fifty guineas is a
- 9:39suspiciously large fee for a small job like that.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Quite Watson, quite hydraulic presses. Eh, did this initiated German
- 9:49colonel have a scar on his forehead?
- 9:51Speaker 2: Why?
- 9:52Speaker 5: Yes, now you mentioned it.
- 9:52Speaker 4: I believe it there, I.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Thought, so, then you know who he is home. I
- 9:56can guess. I can guess. But go on with your story,
- 9:59mister Happily. He reached afoot at eleven fifteen.
- 10:01Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes. As I passed through the station gate,
- 10:04I found Colonel Stark waiting for me.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Without a word. He hurried me into a carriage, and
- 10:08he was waiting for us.
- 10:09Speaker 5: Both we got in, he drew up the windows on
- 10:11both sides, tapped on the glass, and away we were
- 10:13as fast as.
- 10:13Speaker 1: The horse could go, one horse or two only one,
- 10:15mister Holmes. Did you observe the color?
- 10:17Speaker 5: Yes, I saw it by the carriage lamps as I
- 10:19was getting It was a chestnut, tired looking or fresh fresh, fresh,
- 10:22and glossy.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Well.
- 10:23Speaker 5: We drove for the better part of an hour, and
- 10:25from the rate at which we were going, I should
- 10:27say the distance we covered was nearly twelve and seven miles.
- 10:30Speaker 1: It's interesting. What did the country side look like?
- 10:32Speaker 5: It was a dark night, mister Holmes.
- 10:34Speaker 3: I saw nothing.
- 10:34Speaker 5: Moreover, the carriage windows were made of a frosted glass.
- 10:38Speaker 2: Sounds funny to me, Holmes.
- 10:40Speaker 1: The roads were they smooth or pumpy?
- 10:41Speaker 5: Decidedly bumpy, mister Holmes. We lurched and jolted terribly. Moreover,
- 10:45we seemed to be going continually up and down hill. Well,
- 10:48finally the bumpy road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness
- 10:50of a gravel dry The carriage came to it to
- 10:52stand still, and I got out.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Can you describe the front of the house.
- 10:56Speaker 5: I'm afraid I can't, mister Holmes. I was whisked into
- 10:58the front door so fast I could see nothing. The
- 11:00instant I crossed the threshold, the doors slammed behind us,
- 11:02and I heard the rattle of the wheels as the
- 11:04carriage drove away.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Mina, Mina, yeah, bring a lamp. Ah, that is better.
- 11:19It is not nice to keep our guests standing in
- 11:21the dark, Garis, take the lamp into my study. Now,
- 11:27mister Hatteley, if you will be so good, come with me. Mena,
- 11:31you can go now, My sister. Mister Hattney a good girl.
- 11:35She does much she is told. And now you will
- 11:38excuse me a few minutes. Beleause I come right back.
- 11:41Make yourself comfortable.
- 11:44Speaker 5: M gloomy looking hole smells musty, as though it hadn't
- 11:49been living for a long time.
- 11:51Speaker 1: All the windows shuttered and burned.
- 11:54Speaker 3: Confound that clock which she wouldn't tick like that give
- 11:57him the jumps.
- 12:00Speaker 5: It is only me, geez, do not call out. I
- 12:03must tell you something. Please don't look so fright.
- 12:06Speaker 6: No, no, it is not all right.
- 12:08Speaker 2: You must go. You must not stay here.
- 12:10Speaker 5: There is no good.
- 12:11Speaker 2: For you to do.
- 12:12Speaker 5: Yes, but I came to inspect the machine. I can't
- 12:14leave before.
- 12:14Speaker 1: No, you must.
- 12:15Speaker 5: You can do no good the last man who came here?
- 12:18What is too terrible?
- 12:21Speaker 2: Inn Where are you?
- 12:23Speaker 1: Goodness villain?
- 12:24Speaker 5: Before it is too date this passage door, Mina, who
- 12:30are you talking? You run so you let him go? Jeez,
- 12:35you will not hurt him.
- 12:36Speaker 4: I won't hurt him.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Wait till I get hold of him.
- 12:38Speaker 5: Wait he's coming. Run run.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Well.
- 12:50Speaker 5: I got a glimpse in coming after me with a
- 12:51cleverer and I ran ran for dear life, but he
- 12:54ran to I just managed to scale a garden wall
- 12:56before he got to it. Even so, I wasn't quite
- 12:58quick enough that Clever came down on my left before
- 13:00I could get away. I called over to some bushes
- 13:03as best I could, and then promptly fainted.
- 13:05Speaker 2: But he didn't come out to you and finish the job.
- 13:07Speaker 5: They hold the bushes hit me, I guess. But someone
- 13:09must have found me sooner or later. It must have
- 13:11been the girl, or perhaps she bribed the coachman to
- 13:13help me.
- 13:13Speaker 1: What ticks you say that?
- 13:14Speaker 5: Well, when I came to the sun was just rising.
- 13:17I was lying in an angle of a hedge along
- 13:19the high road. It just a little lower down was
- 13:21a long building, the Earth Station.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Well, I'm blessed.
- 13:25Speaker 5: Half days I went to the station. The early morning
- 13:27train was just pulling in.
- 13:28Speaker 2: I board.
- 13:28Speaker 5: It didn't return to London. What I can't understand is
- 13:32why I should have been lured to that lonely spot,
- 13:34and what reason Colonel Stark can have had for making
- 13:36his murderous attack on me.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Yes, interesting little problem. We shall have to look into it.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Well.
- 13:41Speaker 1: By the way, I have a newspaper clipping I think
- 13:43might interest you, and Watson hand me last year's index
- 13:45acted with manna. Here you are you see January the
- 13:52Limehouse Plague, Lady Waterfield's Pearls February March. Ah, Yes, here
- 13:58we are read this.
- 14:00Speaker 5: Last and the ninth of May. Mister Jerrymyer Haling, aged
- 14:04twenty sixth hydraulic engineer. I say that's a coincidence. Left
- 14:10lodgings at ten o'clock at night has not been heard
- 14:14of since was dressed in great to eat soft black boots.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I suspect that represents the last time the
- 14:20colonel's machinery needed overhauling.
- 14:22Speaker 5: And that explains what the girl was trying to tell me.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Undoubtedly, your colonel is a cool and desperate man. Mister Heavenly,
- 14:27he lets nothing stand in the way of his little game,
- 14:30and like some of our early pirates, he believes in
- 14:32leaving no survivors behind from a captured ship.
- 14:35Speaker 5: Good Heavens, I have had a narrow escape.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Quite he'd have killed you sooner or later in any
- 14:39of it.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Well, Homes, sir, what are you going to do?
- 14:42Speaker 1: I think I shall run down and have a look
- 14:43at that machinery for myself.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Homes, that's just putting your head into the lion's mouth.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Yes, I only hope the lion hasn't run away.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Well, at least let me go along.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Well, you can come as far as Irford Station if
- 14:53you like. I may need reinforcements, and I'm coming too.
- 14:55Speaker 5: But your wound is a labishaquil one hundred percent. It proved.
- 14:58After all, this is my problem and my curate posity.
- 15:00If nothing else, won't let me take a passive part
- 15:03in its solution.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Very well, come along, both of you. We've barely time
- 15:05to catch the ten forty five train.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Well, here we are homes Erford Station.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Now what First of all, we must find Colonel Stark's house.
- 15:25Speaker 2: I mentioned the name to the station agent in passing
- 15:28sid He never heard of it before.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Yes, it's an assumed name, of course, the gentleman in
- 15:31question is famous for his adiases.
- 15:33Speaker 2: We then, how we to find the house.
- 15:35Speaker 1: I'd brought an ordnance map of the surrounding country.
- 15:37Speaker 5: Of course, I drove ten miles at the most twelve
- 15:41in that carriage. All we have to do is draw
- 15:43circle with the radius of twelve miles, and this station
- 15:46is its center. Then visit all the places within that limit.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Yes, rather a tiresome job, I think, I can lay
- 15:51my finger on it without all that podder.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Oh you've formed your opinion. I bet I urge in
- 15:56the south it comes is more deserted there.
- 15:58Speaker 3: No, I'd say east.
- 15:58Speaker 5: I seem to remember driving.
- 15:59Speaker 1: He's wrung again.
- 16:00Speaker 4: It was west.
- 16:01Speaker 5: There are several quiet little villages over there.
- 16:03Speaker 1: No, it wasn't west, and I am to the north.
- 16:05Speaker 2: That the hills there, Mister Havin has said he drove
- 16:07up and down hills when you.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Have completely boxed the compass between you. You're both wrong.
- 16:12That's impossible at all. This is my choice. It's here
- 16:16we shall find the house in the center of the circle,
- 16:18the starting point itself.
- 16:19Speaker 2: For about the twelve mile drive.
- 16:21Speaker 1: Six miles out and six miles back.
- 16:22Speaker 5: Then that drive was just a hoax.
- 16:24Speaker 1: And there, if I'm not mistaken, is the house almost
- 16:27across the road.
- 16:29Speaker 5: You're right, mister Holmes, I'm sure you are. What that's
- 16:32the very same war I vaulted last night, and there
- 16:34further down the road of the bushes, I hid it.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I thought, so well, I'll go over and have a
- 16:39chat with our friend Colonel Stark. Mister Hatherry, you and
- 16:41Watson stay here. Why can't give me go with your impossible,
- 16:44My dear Watson, I don't want to frighten Colonel stark
- 16:46Off before I have a look at that machine of his.
- 16:47Speaker 5: Yes, but you're not a hydraulic engineer, mister Holmes, you
- 16:50wouldn't understand it. He'll suspect you immediately.
- 16:52Speaker 1: I have a fairly good knowledge of hydraulics. I think
- 16:54you'll see me through. However, if i'm not back inside
- 16:57of fifteen minutes, you may come and get me. I
- 17:00may need assistance.
- 17:13Speaker 7: Most men are loyal customers of the friendly local store
- 17:16in their community, the store they can trust. Therefore, it's
- 17:19doubly pleasing that this fine independent store, the leading establishments
- 17:23in town, sells Clippercraft clothes. It's nice to get all
- 17:26the advantages of group buying at the store of your choice,
- 17:30and it's mighty easy on your pocket book too. The
- 17:33clipper Craft Plan concentrates the buying power of ten hundred
- 17:36thirty six stores from coast to coast, bringing you beautifully
- 17:40tailored clipper Craft suits at only forty and forty five dollars,
- 17:44top coats and overcoats at only forty dollars, and sport
- 17:47jackets at only twenty six fifty Yes. Selling expensive clothes
- 17:52at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest independent stores
- 17:57is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft plan. That's
- 18:01why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes. So
- 18:04be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
- 18:08Speaker 6: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
- 18:11add their names to clipper Craft and your Suit, top
- 18:14coat and Overcoat. In Manhattan, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at
- 18:17thirty fourth, John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and
- 18:21sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
- 18:25New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Cresgy, Newark.
- 18:28Speaker 6: And in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one
- 18:30sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
- 18:42Speaker 7: And now back to Sherlock Holds. We find him at
- 18:46the door of the mysterious Colonel.
- 18:47Speaker 8: Stark, finding judents because he's made his get away.
- 19:01Speaker 4: Who are you?
- 19:02Speaker 3: What do you want?
- 19:02Speaker 6: Oh?
- 19:03Speaker 1: How do you do? Colonel Stark? I presume I've come
- 19:05to repair your hydraulic press.
- 19:07Speaker 5: You you, how dare you?
- 19:09Speaker 1: When you see a friend of mine? Mister Heavenn told
- 19:12me of his experience here last night. I said, I
- 19:14thought he was a fool to run away like that.
- 19:16That you must have mistaken him for someone else last
- 19:18night when you chased him in the dark.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, that is so a suitor of
- 19:26my sister, good for nothing, scoundrel. It was all a mistake,
- 19:30just as I suspected.
- 19:31Speaker 1: And when mister heaven said he wouldn't come back, and
- 19:34when I learned what a fine fee you promised him,
- 19:36I thought, why not come and have a look for myself?
- 19:38Speaker 2: Of course, why not?
- 19:40Speaker 3: You too are a hydraulic engineer.
- 19:42Speaker 1: Naturally very well.
- 19:44Speaker 3: You may come in.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Ah, trunks and boxes in the front hall. You're about
- 19:53to leave this neighborhood.
- 19:54Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, the English climate, it is bad for my
- 19:58sister's health. We go to the south of France. I
- 20:01wonder if I might see your sister. So sorry, she
- 20:04is in her room. She is not well.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Oh, just for a moment, Heavenly seemed to be worried
- 20:08about her, said he thought you might have mistreated her
- 20:11last night after he got away. Ridiculous, of course, But
- 20:16if I could just see her, I could reassure him.
- 20:18Here seemed to want to call him the police.
- 20:22Speaker 3: The foolish young man. But come, I let you see her.
- 20:26This way. She shall tell you herself that she.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Is all right.
- 20:29Speaker 1: That's very good of you. I'm sure I wouldn't dream
- 20:31of prepping you myself. But you see, young Heavely, is.
- 20:34Speaker 3: This is her rule? Manna Mana, Yes, see, Mina, I
- 20:43bring a gentleman who is anxious to know if you
- 20:45are all right. Tell him how you feel an I, well.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm delighted to hear it. You see, my friend,
- 20:52mister Heavenly was worried about you.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Heave the young gentleman I mistook for someone else last night.
- 20:59Are you see he's all right?
- 21:01Speaker 1: Why? Yes, of course, I'm so glad. Hold on a minute, Okay,
- 21:07those bruises on your neck and arms? Has anyone been
- 21:10treating you badly?
- 21:11Speaker 3: That was from falling downstairs? You know?
- 21:15Speaker 4: Yes?
- 21:17Speaker 1: I see. Well, Colonel Stark, suppose we take a look
- 21:21at your highgarlic press.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Certainly, of course, this way, please.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Up, goodbye, Falling Stark. I hope you will enjoy the
- 21:30south of France. Yes, lovely climate. Well, goodbye.
- 21:41Speaker 2: This way.
- 21:41Speaker 3: The press is on this floor.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Here we are hmm, gigantic affair, colonel.
- 21:50Speaker 3: Yes, it is capable of exerting enormous pressure. Besides, are
- 21:54all of iron.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Yes, very impressive.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I pulled the lever so the water flows into the cylinders,
- 22:02you hear, But there's a leakage somewhere.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Yes, loss of power. Yes, that third driving rod, the
- 22:08rubber banding around the top seems to have shrunk. It
- 22:10doesn't quite fill the socket.
- 22:12Speaker 3: Of course, how stupid I may not to notice for myself.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Yes, it would have saved you a lot of trouble,
- 22:15wouldn't it. You can stop the machine now, let's have
- 22:21a look at the inside. Very well if you wish,
- 22:25you can't enter here.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Hm.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Very impressive, like a prison. Hello, what's this on the floor?
- 22:37Metallic deposit? Wasn't it full as earth? You're supposed to
- 22:41be mining?
- 22:41Speaker 3: Yes, I thought you might see that.
- 22:45Speaker 5: Good Bye, mister slocks.
- 22:48Speaker 1: With thunder. He's locked me in. Start at the machine.
- 22:55The ceiling's coming down on me. Well, shallock, holones, you
- 22:58let yourself into something this time closer, closer. You wouldn't
- 23:03think of the move so fast in a few minutes.
- 23:05It'll grind me to a helpless pump. Better not think
- 23:08about it. I can reach it. Now down down, Naga,
- 23:14trying to push it back, you'll find it. I can't
- 23:18stand up any longer. Well, then sit down? Shall luck lower? Lower?
- 23:27If I lie on my face, the weight will crack
- 23:29my spine. No, the other way will be less painful. Please,
- 23:35mister Minna, where did you come from?
- 23:37Speaker 3: Near the floor? A panel? It's open?
- 23:39Speaker 1: Job another a hurry, Do not talk so much.
- 23:43Speaker 5: You can get out.
- 23:44Speaker 1: The opening is pretty small.
- 23:46Speaker 3: I can just squeeze through there. Good, Thank you, sa
- 23:53pretty close.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Shave hear that the pressor has just hit the floor
- 24:00another minute in there might have been grounded to a pulpe.
- 24:15So Minna was the good Angel a second time?
- 24:17Speaker 2: Yes, the great girl that minner Heavenly took quite a
- 24:21fancy to her. In fact, she eventually became missus Henviley, oh,
- 24:25and her brother oh heavenly. And now I caught him
- 24:27on his way out as he was making his getaway.
- 24:29He's still in prisoned, serving a life sentence for attempted
- 24:32murder and counterfeiting.
- 24:34Speaker 1: What a ghastly story, doctor, So that was what the
- 24:36hydraulic press was used for.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Counterfeiting. Yes, of course Holmes suspected it from the first naturally.
- 24:42Speaker 7: And now, Doctor Watson, would you like to give us
- 24:43a hint about next week's adventure.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Next week, I think I shall explain why the ancient
- 24:49statue of Charles the First, which stands in Chatting Cross,
- 24:52holds a modern sword. I may even tell you how
- 24:56the original sword flitted the life of one of the
- 24:58premier Dukes
- 24:59Speaker 1: Of England, and visit