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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watton, how about the nineteenth century scandal in
- 0:03Speaker 1: which you and the great Sherlock Holmes became involved.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Well, it's that adventure of again. In the very early
- 0:09Speaker 2: days of the.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Great man's career, world Acclaim and Handsome Fees were.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Some years ahead of him, and in those times.
- 0:16Speaker 3: We spent many long evenings discussing whether a decent living
- 0:20Speaker 3: could be.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Obtained by the practice of criminal detection.
- 0:24Speaker 4: On the day that this particular story began, we just
- 0:26Speaker 4: finished our breakfast.
- 0:28Speaker 5: Holmes a curved pipe clenched between his teeth.
- 0:32Speaker 2: With scanning the personal columns of the morning paper. I
- 0:35Speaker 2: can almost hear him now, as he said.
- 0:39Speaker 5: Demi Watson, the agony column of the Times is more
- 0:43Speaker 5: than usually Darren, this morning.
- 0:44Speaker 2: You looking for a possible clown room nation him.
- 0:48Speaker 5: Since we are already own missus Saxon for two months
- 0:50Speaker 5: rent here, and our daughter has been threateningly funning during
- 0:53Speaker 5: that period, I must see what possible service on there, Brenda,
- 0:56Speaker 5: These unhappy correspons all right down the column that I
- 0:59Speaker 5: can en promising, No, Watson, it's a rag bag of
- 1:03Speaker 5: bizarre happenings. What a chorus of groans, cries and fleeting
- 1:08Speaker 5: one skims through them. And what does one being lady
- 1:12Speaker 5: with a black boy at the Princess Skating Club wishes
- 1:15Speaker 5: to meet gentlemen who was kind enough to that we
- 1:18Speaker 5: made no I think she.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Does, sons, though she needs yourselves.
- 1:24Speaker 5: Surely Jimmy will not break his mother's heart. That appears
- 1:28Speaker 5: to be irrelevant. If the lady who fainted on the
- 1:31Speaker 5: top deck of the Brixton bus, she doesn't interest me either, Watson, no,
- 1:36Speaker 5: probably anyone else who wasn't on that bus. Every day
- 1:39Speaker 5: my heart longs for ah beat Watson. All this trouble
- 1:44Speaker 5: is unmitigated.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Teach, It is hardly homes You haven't had a case
- 1:48Speaker 2: through over.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Two weeks years. Sometimes I think I chose the wrong profession.
- 1:53Speaker 5: What do the public, the great unobserved public, who can
- 1:56Speaker 5: hardly tell a weaver bised tooth or a compositive buyer
- 2:00Speaker 5: is left thumb care about the final shades of analysis
- 2:03Speaker 5: and deduction. As to my own little practice, it seems
- 2:06Speaker 5: to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead
- 2:09Speaker 5: pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding schoous
- 2:13Speaker 5: Come over here to the window? What John Watson over that.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Man walking down the street. He's looking at the numbers
- 2:20Speaker 3: of the houses. Let's hook two twenty one D's the
- 2:23Speaker 3: number he's searching for. What you make up in Watson?
- 2:26Speaker 3: Let me see what I make him?
- 2:28Speaker 5: Will I atility use a foreigners?
- 2:30Speaker 2: Foreigner? Look at those flashy clothes and his poised start.
- 2:34Speaker 5: Don't be misled by externals, old chap observe the steady,
- 2:37Speaker 5: controlled gait. No trace of the light agility of the
- 2:40Speaker 5: Latins or the military heaviness of the German. No Watson,
- 2:44Speaker 5: I think an english gate in foreign attire would suggest
- 2:47Speaker 5: an expatriate Englishman only just return from the stair of plays.
- 2:51Speaker 5: Come here homes, meet him on the stair at Watson.
- 2:53Speaker 5: It will save missu Hudson.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Where How do you do, sir? How do you do?
- 3:02Speaker 2: Would you be someone up.
- 3:06Speaker 5: That's right here? Which of your fellows with Shelock Holmes?
- 3:11Speaker 5: I am, sir? And John as will remains Reginald Tremaine.
- 3:15Speaker 5: I'm not to watch the sit down to drill my
- 3:19Speaker 5: business won't take long, Holmes. I need protection, and I'm
- 3:24Speaker 5: prepared to pay for it, protection from what my life's
- 3:27Speaker 5: been threatened. The police wouldn't do a thing for me,
- 3:31Speaker 5: so I've come to you. I'm telling you detected fellows
- 3:33Speaker 5: to do anything for money.
- 3:34Speaker 2: No, rather than you've been misimportant to my friend.
- 3:37Speaker 5: Your friend very interested in mister Tremaine's problem, wants me
- 3:40Speaker 5: very continuous.
- 3:41Speaker 6: Sir Holmes, I want you to warn my cousin, telling
- 3:44Speaker 6: you'll get nowhere by threatening me, frighten the witch out
- 3:48Speaker 6: him if you can. I'll give you twenty pounds and
- 3:51Speaker 6: another twenty if I need to upgain.
- 3:53Speaker 5: And who is your threatening cousin, Lord Darling?
- 3:57Speaker 2: Sorry for I thound.
- 4:00Speaker 6: But its title impressed Scotland Yard. That's why they wouldn't
- 4:04Speaker 6: help me. Well, even a title can be vulnerable. A
- 4:09Speaker 6: public scandal would shake him.
- 4:11Speaker 5: And that's what is going to happen if he threatens
- 4:13Speaker 5: me anymore. And you can tell himself from me Homees,
- 4:17Speaker 5: I've always heard of Lord Darlington as the very model
- 4:19Speaker 5: of an English aristocrat. Why shall we threaten you, mister
- 4:23Speaker 5: Tremain that's.
- 4:24Speaker 6: None of your business, geor jobs to me that he
- 4:27Speaker 6: doesn't carry out his threat of thrashing me with an
- 4:29Speaker 6: inch of my life.
- 4:30Speaker 5: Very well, for twenty pounds, I shall warn Lord Darlington
- 4:34Speaker 5: that I stand between you and the freshing the fee
- 4:37Speaker 5: will be paid in advance fees. I have it in
- 4:40Speaker 5: this envelope to hear, and I expect immediate action. Homes
- 4:44Speaker 5: you shall have it, mister Tremaine.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Home to man's insufferable? Why do you take all the
- 4:49Speaker 2: casey to bowner?
- 4:51Speaker 5: Let him get thrashed? These four crisp five pound notes
- 4:55Speaker 5: persuade me Otherwise, Watson, we owe manage missus Hudson and
- 4:59Speaker 5: your medical practice. Those little signs are picking up. I
- 5:01Speaker 5: am take what fees I can.
- 5:04Speaker 2: How can my practice pick up? And I spend half
- 5:06Speaker 2: my time chasing all over the country.
- 5:08Speaker 5: In any case, Watson, ask yourself why such a man
- 5:11Speaker 5: as Lord Darlington so threaten to Maine with physical violence?
- 5:14Speaker 5: Obviously only because Tremaine is himself in some way a
- 5:18Speaker 5: threat to Lord Darnington. There may be yet another female case,
- 5:22Speaker 5: and a much fatter one.
- 5:23Speaker 2: You're going to see Lord Darlington at once?
- 5:25Speaker 5: Yes, I ask you it will come with me, old Chap.
- 5:29Speaker 5: But after your remark about chasing all over the country,
- 5:31Speaker 5: I hesitate to waste your time.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Rubbish as a little joking. And you know you Sili
- 5:36Speaker 2: follow of course I'm going with your home. Get your
- 5:38Speaker 2: coat and hat. The game's afoot.
- 5:50Speaker 6: Ten thousand pounds, my dear cousin, or the scandal will
- 5:54Speaker 6: be spread all.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Over the lantern.
- 5:56Speaker 7: It's preposterous, Reginald, and I warn you, but if you
- 5:59Speaker 7: continue in this vain you will get that thrashing.
- 6:02Speaker 5: I promise hold, though I won't.
- 6:04Speaker 6: I've engaged you to take the fellow by the name
- 6:06Speaker 6: of Sherlock Colins. He's going to act as a bodyguard,
- 6:09Speaker 6: so you'd better not try any tricks.
- 6:12Speaker 5: He should be here at any moment. How you know
- 6:14Speaker 5: you bring a strange into this mess? How dariel D,
- 6:18Speaker 5: my dear cousin, don't shop your courage with the brandy bottle.
- 6:22Speaker 5: Be quiet, Reginald. It will cost you ten thousand pounds
- 6:25Speaker 5: to keep me quiet. I won't pay it.
- 6:27Speaker 6: The scandal will make pretty readings in the newspapers. Before
- 6:30Speaker 6: we go any further, Reginald, I am sist on one thing.
- 6:33Speaker 5: I shall bring Lady Darlington, the heir, and you must
- 6:36Speaker 5: make the strucking accusation to our face. I shall be delighted.
- 6:40Speaker 2: To yes, Jakins, what is it?
- 6:43Speaker 5: Excuse me, your lodger, But there's a mister shirt Holmes
- 6:46Speaker 5: and doctor Watson to see you. Quiet. Told them that
- 6:50Speaker 5: you would engage, but they see miss consistent.
- 6:52Speaker 6: Better have them come in, my dear cousin, we may
- 6:55Speaker 6: need independent witnesses.
- 6:56Speaker 7: Oh very well, show the Gentlemanan Jenkins, and then if you.
- 7:01Speaker 6: Ask Lady Darlington to come here, I'll be very glad
- 7:04Speaker 6: to make my acquisition in public.
- 7:05Speaker 5: It's blackmail, Reginald, that's what it is. You will never
- 7:09Speaker 5: get away with the people. Will I think you'll be surprised.
- 7:13Speaker 5: It's the Sherloff Holmes and doctor Watson. Allow me to
- 7:16Speaker 5: introduce my cousin, gentlemen, Lord Darlington Jenkins. Yes, your lord
- 7:22Speaker 5: you ask Ktty Darlington step in here for a moment.
- 7:25Speaker 5: Yes to lord you, Lord Darlington, I greatly admired your
- 7:29Speaker 5: speech in the House of Lords on tax reform. I
- 7:32Speaker 5: only wish we had met under different circumstances. As it is.
- 7:36Speaker 6: It is my Joe soul right homes. I've already told
- 7:39Speaker 6: my dear cousin that I'd.
- 7:40Speaker 5: Engaged your services.
- 7:42Speaker 2: I want you both here.
- 7:43Speaker 5: His witness whitnesson to a Reginald has made a shorting accusation.
- 7:47Speaker 5: As soon as my wife comes here, I'm going to
- 7:50Speaker 5: insist he repeat the statement to her face. There you are, Clarah,
- 7:55Speaker 5: What God does meet er? Hello, Reginald, are you Clara.
- 7:59Speaker 4: My dear?
- 7:59Speaker 5: I'm to introduce mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. Sit down.
- 8:07Speaker 2: But that's wrong.
- 8:09Speaker 5: You all looks so dreadfully serious. Reginald has made a
- 8:13Speaker 5: shocking accusation. It concerns you, and I anticipate he repeated
- 8:17Speaker 5: in your presence an accusation against me is clever, My dear.
- 8:21Speaker 6: You see, I'm requesting a popery son for concealing my
- 8:24Speaker 6: knowledge of the Darlington substitution scandal.
- 8:27Speaker 5: Substitution earth you mean, who should have the standley better
- 8:31Speaker 5: than you? The baby is sleep upstairs. The supposed heir
- 8:36Speaker 5: to the Darlington title is not your child. That's a lot.
- 8:40Speaker 5: How didn't you say that, Lord Darlington. Surely you were
- 8:44Speaker 5: present at your son's birth. Oh the matter of fact,
- 8:46Speaker 5: I wasn't. I was a born on government business at
- 8:49Speaker 5: the time. My wife went to the country with a
- 8:51Speaker 5: paid companion. My son was born there.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Oh no, my.
- 8:55Speaker 5: Dear cousin, A son was born there and immigrants passed
- 8:58Speaker 5: off as yours. That's not pall, lie Albert.
- 9:02Speaker 2: They can leave this house.
- 9:03Speaker 5: I'm free to tell of my Delvid well, he's setting
- 9:05Speaker 5: to go to the newspapers. We must tear him out,
- 9:08Speaker 5: Lord Darlington. Surely the matter is not hard to settle.
- 9:11Speaker 5: You will say your wife had a companion confront her
- 9:14Speaker 5: with a story. She can establish the truth of the matter.
- 9:16Speaker 5: Of course she can be pray she I haven't seen
- 9:19Speaker 5: mord Harris. Did she let me a year ago?
- 9:21Speaker 8: Then I have a surprise for you, Clara. She's waiting
- 9:24Speaker 8: in my cab outside now. I'll tell Jakins to sender
- 9:28Speaker 8: in Jacan. Yes, ask miss Harris to join us.
- 9:32Speaker 5: She's waiting in my cabin.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Yes, Albert, I don't know what Devil's work reads up to.
- 9:39Speaker 5: But you don't believe in do you? Of course not,
- 9:42Speaker 5: Tara Darling, Mister Tremaine, how did you get in touch
- 9:45Speaker 5: with this sir missus Harris? For an employee? You ask
- 9:48Speaker 5: a lot of questions, Homes. I met Mord Harris at
- 9:52Speaker 5: writ In last week. As soon as she knew I
- 9:54Speaker 5: was a black sheep of the Darlington clan, she thought
- 9:57Speaker 5: we might profitably put our heads together, and so.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Organized with the idea of blackmailings.
- 10:02Speaker 6: For a little Such a valuable secret is surely worth
- 10:05Speaker 6: a few thousand pounds after watching Lord.
- 10:08Speaker 5: Yes, Lady Darlington, it's me. You're just in time to
- 10:11Speaker 5: settle the most important truth.
- 10:12Speaker 7: I'll handle this reginald, young lady, as I understand that
- 10:16Speaker 7: you Crims know the boy.
- 10:18Speaker 5: Lying upstairs is not my son. Who should know better,
- 10:21Speaker 5: Your lordship, he'd mind lod. How can you tell such
- 10:24Speaker 5: a lie?
- 10:24Speaker 2: It's no lie and you know it.
- 10:25Speaker 5: Lady Darlington, your child was born dead. Help, but maybe
- 10:29Speaker 5: stop saying such sun prove yourself. Let's tell the Stocking
- 10:32Speaker 5: tale to the end. Well, go on, young woman. You
- 10:36Speaker 5: were abroad, Lord Darlington when a ladyship brought her child.
- 10:39Speaker 5: She was terrified. She knew how much you longed for
- 10:42Speaker 5: a son, and she made this plan. I was a
- 10:46Speaker 5: widow and I was going to have a child who
- 10:48Speaker 5: befooled the villagers even the doctor, by giving each other's names,
- 10:52Speaker 5: And so my son was born, as the Darlington mayor thought.
- 10:55Speaker 5: That's the most shocking lie I ever heard. I can't
- 10:58Speaker 5: stay here lest my boy. Mister Holmes. I understand you're
- 11:03Speaker 5: a man of discretionability in such matters.
- 11:06Speaker 2: What am I to do?
- 11:08Speaker 5: I would like to ask the young lady a few questions,
- 11:11Speaker 5: Miss Hennis. Why have you chosen to reveal the supposed truth? Now,
- 11:16Speaker 5: I thought that money could compensate me to the loss
- 11:19Speaker 5: of my boy, But I was wrong. A mother's not
- 11:23Speaker 5: never decipher the.
- 11:24Speaker 4: Needs, and I supposse remains plans for blackmail.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Are purely insist.
- 11:29Speaker 5: Keep out of misch Watson. It's not a fair of.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Your establishing truth and justice. It's anybody's business.
- 11:33Speaker 7: My good master Holmes, I'll pay you anything you need
- 11:37Speaker 7: to disapprove this monster's story.
- 11:39Speaker 5: No you don't. My dear cousin Holmes is employed by me.
- 11:42Speaker 5: Mister Tremaine, I've undertaken to protect your physical safety. That
- 11:46Speaker 5: pledge I will keep. Otherwise I'm a free agent. Then
- 11:49Speaker 5: you'll have sept my commission. Yes, Lord Armington, on one condition.
- 11:53Speaker 5: And what's that You have asked me to disprove this story?
- 11:56Speaker 5: I would prefer that to ask me to establish the truth,
- 11:59Speaker 5: of course, and spare no stense. Remember in honor of
- 12:03Speaker 5: the Darlington's is of stake.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Well home. Little did I think would remain calling us
- 12:19Speaker 2: this morning?
- 12:19Speaker 4: We'd end up the day patching a village lane in
- 12:22Speaker 4: Surrey looking for a doctor Godfrey.
- 12:25Speaker 5: And yet that gentleman will surely be able to give
- 12:28Speaker 5: us the final answer. Lady Darlington said that he had.
- 12:31Speaker 4: But supposing the companion's story is true and they had
- 12:34Speaker 4: changed names, even so, the good doctor will certainly know
- 12:38Speaker 4: whether the boy was born to a slight blonde woman
- 12:41Speaker 4: like Lady Darlington or a brunette Amazon Mike Morhrit.
- 12:45Speaker 5: Here the doctor's house, they said in the village.
- 12:46Speaker 2: It was the one with his gable roof.
- 12:48Speaker 5: Hmmm, light's visible. I hope the doctor's not out, he
- 12:56Speaker 5: would really answered. Finally, our home, and you will observe
- 13:05Speaker 5: Watson that this morning's delivered milk still stands on the doorstair. Curious.
- 13:10Speaker 5: Let's explore a little.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Perhaps the doctors go away for a few days, and so.
- 13:14Speaker 5: He's a very careless to name. Look that windows wide open.
- 13:18Speaker 2: I think we might go in the crown.
- 13:20Speaker 5: We not only might, we will go in too much
- 13:24Speaker 5: as at stake to stand our ceremonies. Its back a
- 13:26Speaker 5: mat Watson.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Like that land.
- 13:33Speaker 5: Uk Cook. The figure humped off the desk, someone that
- 13:37Speaker 5: has reached the doctor before us. He's been shot through
- 13:39Speaker 5: the chest.
- 13:41Speaker 2: He's dead.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Home. How long would you estimate has been dead? Watson?
- 13:46Speaker 2: Twenty four hours?
- 13:47Speaker 5: I say so now we become involved in murder as
- 13:51Speaker 5: well as blackmail.
- 13:52Speaker 2: The answer is perfectly oublous to me. Tremaine came here
- 13:54Speaker 2: and shot him. He knew that he could never blackmail
- 13:57Speaker 2: or Darlington. While this doctor is still.
- 13:59Speaker 5: Alive, not necessarily, Watson, If the story of the substitution
- 14:03Speaker 5: is true, you must realize that one foun a person
- 14:05Speaker 5: won't have an equal motive for murder.
- 14:07Speaker 2: We'll cut home.
- 14:08Speaker 5: Who lord darning from himself just a moment.
- 14:23Speaker 1: We'll rejoin doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes as they endeavor
- 14:25Speaker 1: to solve the mystery. At first, they say, nu Ya's
- 14:29Speaker 1: resolutions are made to be broken, but here's one which
- 14:31Speaker 1: should pay you big dividends to keep. Resolve to take
- 14:35Speaker 1: better care of your hair, to keep it better groomed,
- 14:38Speaker 1: your scalp hygienic. Start using Creml hair tonic. At once
- 14:43Speaker 1: you see Kremmel as a highly specialized hair tonic. It
- 14:47Speaker 1: contains a special combination of hair brooming ingredients which is
- 14:49Speaker 1: found in no other hair tonic. That's why it keeps
- 14:53Speaker 1: hair neatly in place longer and gives the hair such
- 14:55Speaker 1: a natural, well groomed appearance, never greasy or sticky. But men,
- 15:01Speaker 1: Cremo does lots more than keep hair looking attractive. It's
- 15:04Speaker 1: light oils have a fine ubricating.
- 15:06Speaker 5: Effect on a dry scalp.
- 15:08Speaker 1: At the same time, it removes loose standards, and a
- 15:11Speaker 1: quick massage with Kreml stimulates the circulation of blood in
- 15:14Speaker 1: the surface of the scalp. Notice how alive, how invigorated
- 15:18Speaker 1: your scalp feels. And men, you like to rub Kremol
- 15:21Speaker 1: on your scalp because it's such a clean hair tonic.
- 15:24Speaker 1: It never feels greasy or sticky. And if your hair
- 15:27Speaker 1: is so dry that it breaks and falls when you
- 15:29Speaker 1: comb it, Cremel actually helps condition the hair in that
- 15:32Speaker 1: it makes it feel softer, more pliable, and looks as
- 15:36Speaker 1: if it had some body to it.
- 15:37Speaker 5: So, men, for better groomed hair and a hygienic.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Scalp, changed to KREML k R E m L Cremmel
- 15:47Speaker 1: hair tonic. Well, doctor Watson, so you went to interview
- 15:55Speaker 1: that village doctor and arrive there to find him dead.
- 15:57Speaker 4: Yes, But before we report her the dread to the police,
- 16:00Speaker 4: Sharlock Holmes conducted an intensive search for the dead man's room.
- 16:05Speaker 2: After a moment, he turned to.
- 16:07Speaker 5: Me and said, Watson We must see what the inanimate
- 16:10Speaker 5: objects in this room can tell us. Ah, here's the
- 16:14Speaker 5: doctor's appointment pad. Let's see who his last visitor was.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Look up, there's the name of Darlington.
- 16:19Speaker 5: Yes, but that tells us little. If the companion's story
- 16:22Speaker 5: is true. The word Darlington could refer to either of
- 16:24Speaker 5: the women or to Lord Darlington himself. But what are
- 16:28Speaker 5: these letters cribbled before the word Darlington? Why must doctors
- 16:32Speaker 5: have such a legible hand right clarts?
- 16:33Speaker 2: Don't he will?
- 16:35Speaker 5: I disagree? In fact, I often thought they'd train you
- 16:37Speaker 5: to write badly in medical colleges. Yes, the letters are
- 16:42Speaker 5: r e re read Darlington.
- 16:45Speaker 2: That means that someone was calling.
- 16:46Speaker 5: About the Darlington case, a fact we already knew. Let's
- 16:50Speaker 5: see what else we can find. Hello, who will be here?
- 16:54Speaker 5: On the sideboard?
- 16:55Speaker 2: Randy the canto, the stubble.
- 16:56Speaker 5: Letcher and one glass that has been drunk from to
- 17:00Speaker 5: had a drink after he shot the doctor, and in
- 17:03Speaker 5: so doing, I think he gave us the clue to
- 17:04Speaker 5: his anking. Oh, how there's a speck on the rim
- 17:07Speaker 5: of this glass. I think it's Ah, the very thing
- 17:10Speaker 5: the doctor's microscope, most convenient.
- 17:13Speaker 2: What did we tell you?
- 17:13Speaker 5: How? Wait? A minute. Uh huh, I was right. This
- 17:18Speaker 5: speck on the glass is wax wax and that.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Means the murder us a candle.
- 17:22Speaker 5: Oh no, what come on, Let's go Bectrol's religion reported
- 17:25Speaker 5: death and then we'll catch the next train to London.
- 17:29Speaker 5: Aren't you going to stay here and help the Please?
- 17:31Speaker 5: Why should I be on telling them the name of
- 17:33Speaker 5: the murder? You mean you know who did it, of course,
- 17:36Speaker 5: and so should you. Well I don't, but we don't
- 17:38Speaker 5: know the answer to the Darlington Substitution's candle. That answer
- 17:42Speaker 5: Watson still lies in London. Nine thousand, nine thousand, five
- 17:59Speaker 5: hundred ten thousand pounds. Well there you are, Reginald. Thank you,
- 18:04Speaker 5: my dear cousin. How's the money?
- 18:06Speaker 2: And my dad jetties mister.
- 18:08Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes and doctor war Lord Darnington that she's of
- 18:11Speaker 5: banknotes in miss Harry's hand. Surely you didn't pay the
- 18:14Speaker 5: blackmail a dis custom matter with my wife, mister Holmes.
- 18:17Speaker 5: She's deeply upset.
- 18:18Speaker 7: We both agreed that these scandal once started, would cling
- 18:21Speaker 7: to us for life, even if it was disproved data.
- 18:24Speaker 5: That's why I paid the money. You engaged me as
- 18:27Speaker 5: your representative in this case, Lord Darnington, Miss Harris, give
- 18:31Speaker 5: that money back at once.
- 18:32Speaker 2: It was a gift in.
- 18:33Speaker 5: Lord Darlington, in front of a weakness. If you'll try
- 18:36Speaker 5: to touch it, I shall send her a policeman. A
- 18:38Speaker 5: bank would be necessary. Two of them are waiting in
- 18:40Speaker 5: the ante room. Now, Police, Holmes, you shouldn't have done it.
- 18:44Speaker 5: I wanted no brother, this scandal to emerge from beyond
- 18:46Speaker 5: these four walls. Thee thank that police are here has
- 18:49Speaker 5: nothing to do with the problems of blackmail. I brought
- 18:52Speaker 5: them here to apprehend a murderer. A murderer. But what
- 18:55Speaker 5: do you mean, Doctor Godfrey? Your wife's position were shot
- 18:59Speaker 5: dead during the past time, before hours.
- 19:00Speaker 4: He was killed before he could kill a secure answer
- 19:02Speaker 4: for the parentage of the.
- 19:03Speaker 5: Child upstairs murdered, dreadful thing.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Have you any idea who did it?
- 19:09Speaker 5: Every idea, Lord Darlington. But before I expose the criminal,
- 19:13Speaker 5: I'd be obliged if you bring Lady Darnington here and
- 19:16Speaker 5: also the child. Very well, Holmes, this is going to
- 19:19Speaker 5: be a terrible thought. You were suddenly very quack to
- 19:25Speaker 5: mend am. I I was wondering who might have killed
- 19:28Speaker 5: doctor Godfrey. Unfortunately we don't have to wonder the murderer
- 19:33Speaker 5: left the crew after he had committed the crime. He
- 19:36Speaker 5: made the mistake of taking a drink. Darligeon is quite
- 19:38Speaker 5: a drinking man, you know, and you have been known
- 19:41Speaker 5: to take a drink on occasions too. Mister Tremaine, for instance,
- 19:45Speaker 5: after you would kill doctor Godfrey a right Robershall say,
- 19:49Speaker 5: you would see the murder left the tiny blob of
- 19:51Speaker 5: wex on the glass or what was that crow? Believe
- 19:53Speaker 5: that someone had been carrying a candle. But this wasn't
- 19:56Speaker 5: candle wex. It was cosmetic wax, such as you used
- 19:59Speaker 5: to waxa pointed mustache of yours.
- 20:01Speaker 2: All right, all of you, I'm getting out of my way.
- 20:07Speaker 2: I'll go.
- 20:07Speaker 5: No, no, Watson. The police are prepared to arrest him,
- 20:11Speaker 5: but not the young lady. We shall need her cooperation
- 20:14Speaker 5: in the last act of this little question.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Allow things clear. By love Tremaine killed the doctor office
- 20:18Speaker 2: says a whole story.
- 20:19Speaker 5: About the substitutions is alive. Not necessary. Even if it
- 20:23Speaker 5: were true. The doctor was still a minister his plans.
- 20:26Speaker 5: How could he and miss Harris ask the highest price
- 20:29Speaker 5: for their secret when the doctor also knew it. No
- 20:32Speaker 5: Watson Tremain had a motive for murder either way. In
- 20:36Speaker 5: the meanwhile, I must at the stage before Nady Darlington
- 20:38Speaker 5: gets here. Well, that put that part of oh here,
- 20:41Speaker 5: it is there a run in their homes, present from
- 20:43Speaker 5: a plumber friend of mine. Though the object in this
- 20:46Speaker 5: past package is only a simple tool of his trade,
- 20:48Speaker 5: I feel that it may give us the answer to
- 20:50Speaker 5: appears inheritance.
- 20:51Speaker 2: So you're being very monsurious.
- 20:53Speaker 5: In a few moments I proposed to conduct a test.
- 20:55Speaker 5: You must right outside the windows when I turned down
- 20:58Speaker 5: the gas light over the men with their work. I
- 21:00Speaker 5: want you to strike a match, apply to the object
- 21:03Speaker 5: in this package, and pass it through the open window.
- 21:05Speaker 5: At the same time, cry out the word fire at
- 21:08Speaker 5: the top of your voice. I think the results of
- 21:11Speaker 5: the experiment may prove quick starting. Lord Darlington, nows of
- 21:24Speaker 5: all the principles in this case are assembled, I shall
- 21:27Speaker 5: conduct my experiment very well. Holmes, I don't see why
- 21:29Speaker 5: I had to bring the boy down here. I assure
- 21:33Speaker 5: you later, Darlington that his presence is absolutely essential. Please
- 21:37Speaker 5: place him in the basinet on the sofa right. That's it,
- 21:40Speaker 5: and you, miss Harris, will you be good enough to
- 21:43Speaker 5: place your handbag on the table very well? Mister Holmes,
- 21:46Speaker 5: but no partner business. Now the police took it away
- 21:49Speaker 5: from Reggie and made it back to me. That money
- 21:51Speaker 5: is mine. Each of you ladies claim to be the
- 21:53Speaker 5: mother of that boy. Since scientific tests of parentage are
- 21:57Speaker 5: notoriously unreliable, I shall conduct it's a simple experiment which
- 22:01Speaker 5: I think they give us the truth in this matter.
- 22:03Speaker 5: Now I want both you ladies to come toward me
- 22:06Speaker 5: with outstretched hands. That's it. I turned down the gas
- 22:10Speaker 5: light over the mantle. So ah right, if you all right,
- 22:18Speaker 5: If you will not closely, you'll observe that this object
- 22:21Speaker 5: is a perfectly harmless Plummer's smoke frock.
- 22:24Speaker 2: You can drop the my fride bottom the case aside
- 22:27Speaker 2: the poments. What on her are you up to?
- 22:29Speaker 5: You will notice that on the cry of fire, Miss
- 22:31Speaker 5: Harris ran for her handbag containing the ten thousand pounds.
- 22:35Speaker 5: Lady Darlington instinctively rushed to her son. I think, Lord Darlington,
- 22:39Speaker 5: that there can no longer be any question of the
- 22:41Speaker 5: child's parentage midnight longer, yes, but so profitable Watson, A
- 23:02Speaker 5: very profitable day's work in view is a thousand guineas,
- 23:05Speaker 5: Lord Darlington, And don't overlook the twenty pounds that mister
- 23:09Speaker 5: Tremaine leave.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Me John pain you for protection, and you end up
- 23:13Speaker 2: by sending him.
- 23:13Speaker 5: To the gallop the faith that he richly deserves. I
- 23:16Speaker 5: only wish I could have persuaded Lord Darlington to prosecute
- 23:19Speaker 5: Miss Harris that mail is a devilish crime. But as
- 23:22Speaker 5: I think that a simple plumber's rocket smoked out the truth. Yes,
- 23:27Speaker 5: though he will remember. I've had occasion to hear a
- 23:29Speaker 5: the instment before. When a woman thinks some house is
- 23:32Speaker 5: on fire, her impulse is at once to rush to
- 23:34Speaker 5: the thing she values most. It's a perfectly overpowering instinct.
- 23:38Speaker 2: You certainly took advantage to the fact, Nawa Watson.
- 23:42Speaker 5: You may remember the old person saying there's danger for
- 23:45Speaker 5: him who'll taketh the tiper come, and danger for whoso
- 23:49Speaker 5: snatches delusion from a woman only as Watson. There's as
- 23:53Speaker 5: much sense in Hafs as in Horace, and as much
- 23:57Speaker 5: knowledge of the world.