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- 1:19Conan Doyle, the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley.
- 1:36This week's story The Adventure of the Gray Pasha, whoa Holmes person star
- 1:48This horse seems on edge tonight. Yes, in a moment the first time
- 1:53we have a visitor coming through the pendic gate with a Lanternsha doesn't like the
- 2:00animals gone mad. He's trying to trample us to death. We're at the
- 2:08door of doctor John Watson's study, and we're about to hear another of his
- 2:12adventures with the fabulous Sherlock Holmes. Well, good evening, mister Harris.
- 2:16Good evening, Doctor Watson, hard at work tonight. Yes, I've just
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- 3:47what about the adventure of the Gray Pasha, Well, mister Harris. It
- 3:52took place in the spring of eighteen ninety seven, a few days before the
- 3:54classic dobb Erase at Ipsom does the odds on favorite that yours a last named
- 4:00gray Pasha owned by Lord and Lady Kimpton, And the second favorite was Roulette,
- 4:04owned by a clubman and man about town named Alex Brand. Lord Kimpton
- 4:10and Brand hated each other more, and London gossip whispered that Lady Kimpton was
- 4:15a reasonable Then one night in the London club, the two men gambled at
- 4:19cards. Lord Kimpton lost heavenly and Finally, well, Brand, you've cleaned
- 4:27me out. You held my IOUs for everything I owe, not everything,
- 4:30Lord Campton, you still have one asset I should like to possess my wife,
- 4:34No doubt you forget your manners, My dear sir gentlemen, do not
- 4:39ban your lady's name over a gambling table. Are you oily swine? Are
- 4:42you trying to find to tell you that I'm interested in your race horse,
- 4:46Gray Pasha. You bought him from me as a cult. Now I should
- 4:49like to buy him back. I'll cut the cards for him, Lord Campton,
- 4:54what you take me for a brand? A fool? You think I'd
- 4:57gamble away the Derby Favorite? The greatest race horses have lived with Albert Moylan,
- 5:01the finest duckey in England. Riding him, he'll throw dusts in the
- 5:04face of that horse of yours. Roulette perhaps, but what about these?
- 5:09I will use your lordship After Great Pasha wins the Derby brand, You'll get
- 5:13your money, every dirty shilling of it. A good boy, pusha good
- 5:34run, lad, all right, Charlie take him, will you? All
- 5:39right? I'll make sure you give him a good rub down. Oh hello,
- 5:45Mailin, mister Brand would expect it, mister Brand, What are you
- 5:48doing here? If Lord Kenton finds you're about his training, good, doesn't
- 5:51worry about his lordship Molan, I expect to own his estate here right after
- 5:56the derby. There was a good ride you gave, Great Pasha. Just
- 6:00know, ah, we'll do fine in the derby. I expect suppose you
- 6:03don't do so well in the derby run violent, What do you mean?
- 6:09I mean my horse Roulette can win, a great Pasha doesn't. Naturally,
- 6:14I expect to pay for any small services you might render, and pay liberally.
- 6:19Shall we see a thousand pounds not for ten thousand? Mister Brand,
- 6:24you can't bribe me. I've worn his Lordship's colors for five years, fair
- 6:28and honest, and I ain't going to sell him out. And if you're
- 6:30not off these grounds pretty quick, I'll call Lord Kempton to run your off.
- 6:41So, mister Brand tried to bribe you, did he? Albert,
- 6:43Yes, Lady Kempton, he was hanging about the stables in the practice track.
- 6:46I see contemptuous blackguards. Just wait till I tell his Lordship, And
- 6:50no, Albert, let us say nothing about it to Lord Kempton. He
- 6:54has a dreadful temper. I'm afraid he'd kill mister Brand if he knew it.
- 7:00I'm worried, why I'm a lady. If Brand couldn't bribe you,
- 7:02he might try to do a Great Pasha harm. He'd do anything to win
- 7:05the derby, anything, Albert. Yes, lady Kempton, we'll be taking
- 7:10Great Pasha to web some downs in two days. Haven't you better sleep in
- 7:15the stable with him, just to make sure that nothing goes wrong? Yeah?
- 7:29Yeah, Now Pasha? There, boy? And what's come over you?
- 7:34We need him prancing about after night? He are in your stall,
- 7:38waking me for me sleep? I never saw yourself strung up and edgy?
- 7:42I didn't. What is it? Lad? There's no one about the us
- 7:48Pasha? What is it? What's come over you? Pasha? No?
- 7:53No? If he's still Boysha? Have you gone crazy? Bash up?
- 7:58No? No, bash up? Watson? You are a devitee of the
- 8:13sport of kings? Are you not well? Holser, I must confess some
- 8:18acquaintance with the bookmakers, much to my distress. Yes, Watson, so
- 8:22I've observed. But why this inquired? Good heaven, Holmes, you're not
- 8:26thinking of wagering a pound or two on the derby, My dear fellow,
- 8:30I deal in facts and logic, not in speculation, however attractive. The
- 8:33fact is, however, that I've just received a telegram from the Royal Stuarts.
- 8:37They wish to retain my services in rather than an unusual matter, did
- 8:41what matter you've heard of? Albert Melonil Joe Holmes, who hasn't is the
- 8:48goodest jockey in the Empire, A winner of the Golden Cup at Ascot and
- 8:50the Oaks two years running. Now he's riding Great Pasha in the derby.
- 8:54He was Watson, Hey, what do you mean? Albert moylan was trampled
- 9:00by Gray Pasha and the animals small last night the racing authorities the spectfile play
- 9:05at this moment the jockey lies at the point of death at some Thomas's hospital.
- 9:09Come Watson, get your head and stick Maylon. Moylon listened to me,
- 9:22try to answer my questions. The bad warehouse, the horrible beating,
- 9:26smashing hooves, that hot, but it hasn't long Togo. Maylon listened to
- 9:33me, old villam, did you see anyone around the premises after Ashal went
- 9:39by me? I saw someone rung with the lad yes, yes, go
- 9:48on the lad well answer through the bad gate. I thought it was oh
- 10:01Malon it is gone, yes, Court chapter sad ending great career. Yes
- 10:09quite, Will Watson, there's nothing more we can do with here, Watson.
- 10:16About this man Brand, It's correct? Is it not? That he
- 10:20and Lord Kempton, the owner of Gray Pasha, are mortal enemies. Not
- 10:24only that Brand used to own Gray pashas of cold, and now he owns
- 10:28Roulette's second favor. I see right, Corm Watson, Let's proceede to the
- 10:33Kempton grounds and examines stables. It's barely possible that our eat quine killer had
- 10:39a human collaborator. Watson. Did you notice anything unusual about Gray Pasha's store?
- 10:52No? I can't say that I did. Host. Everything seemed an
- 10:54order, Yes, quite, except for one peculiar and perhaps meaningless fact.
- 11:00A roof of the stall slopes backward and downwards steeply. And uh huh?
- 11:03What is it? Host? Note the footprints he over the paddock gate,
- 11:07what about? They are some hours old and probably were made by the person
- 11:11Albert Moyland saw last night, and apparently that person was intoxicated. How'd you
- 11:16know that? Which elementary my dear fellow elementary observe the irregular staggered pattern of
- 11:20man's hobnailed boots. Note how the prince veer onto the grass and then back
- 11:26onto the footpath. Watson supposed to go up with the house and talk to
- 11:30Lord Kempton, ms Doctor Watson. The whole affair is proved by Ruin.
- 11:43Indeed, how Lord Cometon it kinded heavily on Gray pishus winning the darb air.
- 11:46I needed the person money desperately for personal reasons. No, No,
- 11:52Gray Pisure can't win. Moyland's dead. I understand, then, your Lordship
- 11:58at this jockey Moyland was indispense. Who hears, mister hooves, But she's
- 12:01a high spirited, temperamental brute with unfamiliar hands at the range, he'd be
- 12:05unmanageable. Only Morland could ride him. Who will confound every town in London?
- 12:11Your launcher bookmakers are sure and they will let the favorite now Joe,
- 12:15but a sensation, This will be an epsom downs and brew left his own
- 12:18by Alex Brand. Yes, mister hers Alex Brand, Blackguard. He's responsible
- 12:26for this show. He hates me and he's trying to break me. He
- 12:28did something to Gray PUSSI, mister hoas somehow that villain brand is responsible for
- 12:33poor Morland's death. Yes, perhaps perhaps not you tie Lord Kent, and
- 12:37I assure you I shall have the answer. Then they read there was no
- 12:39need to detain you any longer. Thank you, mister Hooks. I should
- 12:45be at your disposal whenever you want. He has his troubles, he hos
- 12:52quite and particularly this morning, Watson, did you notice the unhealthy pallor of
- 12:56his skin and his rimmed and bloodshot eyes homes you mean precisely the symptoms of
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- 14:50Watson, you were a lading to us the adventure of the Great Pasha.
- 14:52Soho I was mister Heaths who I watch as I two to a moment ago,
- 14:56Lord Kempton had been intoxicated, and it was plain that the mysterious stranger
- 15:01who left the paddots just after the fatal accidents at night was also intoxicating.
- 15:07My friend Holmes was never want to jump at hasty conclusions without all the facts.
- 15:11A few hours later we visited Alex Brand at his club on Powermount.
- 15:18It's the Brand. Do you mind telling me where you were last night?
- 15:22With better facts? To Holmes, I was miles from London, in Liverpool
- 15:26to be exact, Liverpool there assisting city here It isn't. And if you've
- 15:31doubt my word, you've only telegraphed the a Delphi Hotel in that city.
- 15:35They will confirm my statement. Aside from this, gentleman, there's no doubt
- 15:39in my mind that Lord Kempton is directly responsible for Albert Moylan's death. Indeed,
- 15:45pounds frand it so happens, mister Holmes, that Gray Pasha hated his
- 15:50master. In fact, the horse always went into a tantrum whenever his lordship
- 15:52approached. It seems that Lord Kempton drank heavily and often beat him unmerciful Jove
- 16:00Holmes, and that would explain it and Lord Kempton approached the stables in a
- 16:04drunken stupor. Great Partion went mad in his stall, and yes, quite,
- 16:07Watson, quite, but come, my dear fine back to the manor.
- 16:18So his lordship did leave the house late last night, Lady Kempton,
- 16:22and in an intoxicuted condition. Oh yes, there's no use denying it.
- 16:26He drank heavily because he was worried about his debts to that Blackguard. Mister
- 16:30Brad, it might interest you to know, Lady Kempton, that his lordship
- 16:33wandled down to the stables last night. Charles he went out at the stables.
- 16:38Then, Great Pasha he must have seen Charles coming and he must he
- 16:44must have put Lady Kempton nothing, mister Helms, nothing. I regret to
- 16:48say, your hesitation is significant, very how would you mean we have it
- 16:52on some authority? The Great Pasha I hated Lord Kenton went into a tantrum
- 16:56at his very appearance. Mister Holmes, what do you I say? I'm
- 17:00afraid the implication unfortunately, but his lordship is quite obvious. And by the
- 17:04way, Lady Kempton, yes you smoke hose, what did you? Quiet
- 17:10well, Lady Kempton, I smoke? Why no, mister Holmes, I've
- 17:15never touched tobacco. Why to ask? Or an idle question and perhaps irrelevant?
- 17:22Now I feel excuse us, Lady Kempton, I should like to have
- 17:23another look at Gray Pasha's stall. Well, Watson, there's Gray pasha stall
- 17:37just ahead of the moonlight. Why did you ask Lady Kempton whether she smoked?
- 17:42Because I noticed a brown stain on her fingers resembling nicotine? Well?
- 17:47What are but clearly a detail, perhaps worthless, perhaps significant? And speaking
- 17:52of details, did you notice that lady Kempton is a slim and athletic woman
- 17:56and that the rug on her sitting room floor was a bit untidy? What's
- 17:59the floor the sitting room got to do with all this? I shall know
- 18:02better when I examine the roof. I'm founder homes. You are a Chinese
- 18:04riddle to night. First, you speak of a floor than of a roof?
- 18:07What roof roofs of Gray Pasha stall? Here? Watson? As you
- 18:11see, it's quite accessible to any one of reasonable agility because of it's low
- 18:15pitched to the ground. I propose to climb up there now and give it
- 18:21a f examination. But the jews. Do you expect to find up there
- 18:27on the roof patience? What's some patience? H h what is it?
- 18:32Would you find the boards at the stall roof here are walked apart. I
- 18:36can see down into the stall itself through this aperture. You're such significant,
- 18:40hop it is indeed very significant, Watson. Suppose you find a dark lantern
- 18:45somewhere about the premises. I'm quite sure you'll find one of the groom's cottage
- 18:48if no one else, And why homes? For what purpose? I should
- 18:51like to examine the interior of the stall below, and particularly it's occupant Gray
- 18:56Pasha passure. Here's your boy? Is he was? Like the way there's
- 19:10least is acting here in the stall? Here's a high strung animal. You
- 19:12know, yes he is, indeed, Watson, but tried to keep him
- 19:15still while I examined the back of this group by the light of the lantern.
- 19:18Hose would you expect to find there? If I'm not wrong, my
- 19:22dear fellow, I uh huh, hose? What is observed? Watson?
- 19:26Note these tiniest scars on gray pastures back. They're quite fresh, and you
- 19:32seem to have a visit her coming through the padder gate with the lantern was
- 19:36right to visit her gray plash does would like? Watson? Look up beast,
- 19:41going now back Watson backing against the war stay critics books, while I
- 19:47wait for lantern in the space away from heaven through the door, Bakkeven That
- 20:03was close, yes, speaking of getting out, Watson, our visitors doing
- 20:07the same, running towards the manner in the moonlight. Pose Who can it
- 20:10be? I can't tell from here the man who plotted this fiendish and devilish
- 20:15scheme, Watson, mister Alex Brand branded. He was here last night when
- 20:18Moyle on that country. He was in Liverpool last night. I checked my
- 20:21telegraph child Holmson. Who did Moylon see? When a patience Watson? I
- 20:25should explain later. We must get to the manor at once. Whose Why
- 20:37aren't we looking for brand? What did you interest you? Here in the
- 20:41closet of Lady Kempton's sitting room, Watson. Note of the rug is mud
- 20:45stained, stained the faint, to be sure. But they lead to this
- 20:48closet and huh what is it? Precisely what I expected? A pair of
- 20:53mud stained, hobnailed boots, the same boots which left the tracks we saw
- 20:57on the paddocked path, Lord Kim, exactly, but worn by Lady Kempton
- 21:02last night. Holmes, what, my dear fellow. It's obvious Lady Kempton
- 21:06wore her husband's boots, planted the footprints, staggered them in a pattern of
- 21:10intoxication. And it was she who drove Gray Pasha the serk so that he
- 21:14trampled Moylan. Just how sweet Watson the brown stains on her fingers. I
- 21:18have some knowledge of chemistry, and those stains looked suspiciously like those caused by
- 21:23concentrated nitric acid. Nitric acid, you mean she exactly? Lord Lady Kempton
- 21:27approached Gray Pasha's store from the rear, clambered up on the roof in the
- 21:32dead of night while Morlan was asleep. Then she poured concentrated nitric acid on
- 21:37Gray Pasha's back through the aperture in the roofs homes. No wonder the horse
- 21:40went mad, Miss Watson, And after that she picked up a lantern at
- 21:42the paddock gate, leaving her husband's telltale footprints. Meanwhile, by previous arrangement,
- 21:48Alex Brand was in Liverpool to establish his own innocence. But I believe
- 21:52it was he who plotted this diabolical crime. You're quite right, mister Holmes.
- 21:56I there pose's brand, Lady k don't know why you I have not.
- 22:02It was a good shot with a pistol, especially this one. Oh,
- 22:07my dear, I'm paid. Our little plan went all right, yes,
- 22:10Alex, but you were so sure a great part of it crush these
- 22:12two when you approached. Well, I must say he did his best.
- 22:15It's omvious, my dear, Brand, that it was you whom the broup
- 22:17disliked, not Lord Kenton. Yes, mister Holmes, I owned the animal
- 22:21as a coat. He was unruly, and I beat him till he led.
- 22:26I hope he would take care of you if I visited him personally tonight.
- 22:30But apparently something went wrong. Didn't expect us to get out of the
- 22:33store, did you, Brand, No, Doctor Watson, I did not,
- 22:37And that leaves me with some unfinished business before Lady Kenton and I leave.
- 22:41After all, I owe you both something. If you hadn't appeared,
- 22:44my horse Roulett would have wondered irby and dropped that gun ban What does Lord
- 22:47Kenton? Quick? Whattson the gun? And seat the gun? Oh?
- 22:48You don't, Watson. It's all right, Holmes shot with wild I've got
- 22:56the pistol. Now you make one more move, Brand, I'll shoot you
- 22:59down. Ellen, Ellen, I heard everything at the door. So you
- 23:03conspired with this fear? Yes, you poor weakful If I'd say but you
- 23:07would have been penniless. You're your damn You're responsible for this Brand. You
- 23:11are going to take her away from me. Eh. I ought to throttle
- 23:15you here, will you stand? I ought to chalk the breath out of
- 23:17you. I rather unnecessary procedure, my dear Lord Kenton. When it comes
- 23:22to that sort of thing, no one does it more efficiently than the hangman.
- 23:37Well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting adventure, indeed, yes,
- 23:41mister Harris. And although neither a great Pasha nor Roulette ran in the
- 23:45darby, I managed to pick the winner, and shall we say, earned
- 23:51an extra month's pension money. Well, good for you, doctor. And
- 23:55now, doctor Watson, what adventure will you have for us next week?
- 23:57Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you the adventure of doctor
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- 25:45This is not the first story involving Sherlock Holmes and a race horse. In
- 25:51the Cannon. You have both the Silver Blaze and shawscom Old Place. However,
- 26:00this story is a horse of a different color, mainly because of its
- 26:03outcome and its characters. You have basically three not really likable characters who end
- 26:12up at the eventual and predictable end of their misery, and the horse involved
- 26:22does not win the race. I have to give him a point there for
- 26:26realism. With every case that Sherlock Holmes investigated with a horse ended up with
- 26:32the horse winning. Yeah, I just wouldn't be realistic. I do think
- 26:36they were kind of tipping their hand that the wife was involved. Just they
- 26:41can't seem to keep a secret or to do anything, you know, throw
- 26:48up red herrings. It doesn't kind of end up being obvious. But I
- 26:52thought John Stanley really did put in a solid performance. I think both he
- 26:57and the George Spelvin actor are really kind of jellying a lot better than they
- 27:04were at the beginning. The sad thing is we only have three more weeks
- 27:08left, so benefit will experience from that is someone limited? All right,
- 27:14Well, listener comments and feedback, and we begin with a listener voicemail.
- 27:18Yeah, I was just wondering if you guys are gonna have The Man Called
- 27:23X. That's a very good show. I hope you guys are. We'll
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- 27:32your other shows, so they are very very nice. Thank you very much.
- 27:37Thanks so much for the question, And the answer is absolutely, I'm
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- 27:48are much bigger than twenty episodes, it's always the challenge of finding the space
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- 28:03I can so people can have a good a couple of years enjoying this story
- 28:10of Kim Thurston who's secretly the Man called ACT. However, judging by the
- 28:15number of people who tell him he's the Man called X, the secret may
- 28:18not be particularly well kept. But a lot of fun, adventure, mystery,
- 28:22great series that's been forgotten a little bit just because there are some critics
- 28:27who tend to dump on anything that's somewhat that's got any tinge of espionage from
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- 28:37of fun when we get to it. Finally, I received this email from
- 28:41Justin. Have you read the near Wolf story The Black Mountain? In it,
- 28:45Archie and Wolf leave New York go to Montenegro, which was in Yugoslavia
- 28:49at the time, to a manage the death of an old Wolf's friends.
- 28:56It is interesting to see Wolf and Archie outside the environs of New York,
- 29:00and the story helps add a bit of humanizing touched Wolf. Well, thanks
- 29:06so much for the email, Justin. I definitely agree on that particular story.
- 29:11I just finished going through Over My Dead Body, and that may have
- 29:15been even more humanizing. A Black Mountains right behind there. It's definitely a
- 29:21different type of story because Archie can't speak the language. Everything has to be
- 29:26relayed through Wolf, which is almost a reversal of the typical neural Wolf story.
- 29:32I think that in many Wolf novels there's a clue there, and novellist
- 29:37too. They're clues to his character and to his humanity. One challenge that
- 29:45it can be found reading Neural Wolf is not understanding the era that came from.
- 29:51I think we come from an era where, at least publicly, it's
- 29:56considered that men can be a little more expressive. Much of the emotion and
- 30:02the innerplay between Archie and Wolf, and Wolf in particular are things that are
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- 30:15if not more so. So Thanks so much for listening, and thanks so
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- 30:37Well that will actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
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