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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the singular affair of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: babbling Butler.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Well, that adventure began on a November evening many.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Years ago, a four days a dense yellow pug and
- 0:11Speaker 3: virtually marooned homes and me and our Baker Street lodgings.
- 0:15Speaker 3: The first day the great man had spent in cross
- 0:17Speaker 3: indexing this huge book of references. The second and third
- 0:21Speaker 3: had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had
- 0:24Speaker 3: recently made his hobby, the music to the Middle Ages.
- 0:28Speaker 4: It when on the fourth day we.
- 0:30Speaker 5: Still saw the heavy brown swirl drifting past us and
- 0:34Speaker 5: condensing in oily drops upon the windowpanes, my old friend's
- 0:38Speaker 5: active and impatient nature began to assert itself. He started
- 0:41Speaker 5: to pace restlessly about our room in a fever of
- 0:44Speaker 5: suppressed energy.
- 0:46Speaker 4: Confound this far.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Oh, do stop pacing up and down homes. No good
- 0:50Speaker 2: getting angry with the weather. That's one problem even you
- 0:53Speaker 2: can't do anything about.
- 0:53Speaker 4: It. Isn't the weather, Watson, It's the infannel dullness of
- 0:56Speaker 4: the London criminals these days. Come over here to the window.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Oh what is it?
- 1:00Speaker 6: Ah?
- 1:01Speaker 4: Look out there? See how the figures loom up our
- 1:05Speaker 4: dimly scene. And then blend once more into the fog.
- 1:08Speaker 4: What am I to put a beef for the murderer? Watson?
- 1:10Speaker 4: You could roam London as a tiger does the jungle,
- 1:13Speaker 4: un seeing until he pounces. It's fortunate for this community
- 1:16Speaker 4: that I'm not a criminal. It is indeed, suppose that
- 1:20Speaker 4: I were Brooks or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty
- 1:23Speaker 4: men who have good reason to take my life? How
- 1:26Speaker 4: long could I survive against my own pursuit, A summons,
- 1:30Speaker 4: a bogus appointment, and all would be over? The only
- 1:34Speaker 4: thing that depresses me is an inactivity. Why doesn't something happen?
- 1:38Speaker 4: Why doesn't someone come to me with a problem.
- 1:40Speaker 2: It sounds as if your prayers did answered.
- 1:43Speaker 4: I hope. So see who it is, Watson? Will you
- 1:45Speaker 4: it'll save missus Udson a trip?
- 1:47Speaker 2: Yes, of course, all right, Missus Hudson. Ask the the
- 1:52Speaker 2: gentleman to come up here this matter you would perceived homes.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Yes I do. Then come along in. My name is Watson,
- 2:05Speaker 2: Doc Watson, And.
- 2:06Speaker 7: This is how do you do, mister Holmes, doctor Watson,
- 2:10Speaker 7: My name is Jenkins.
- 2:11Speaker 4: But Sir Rodrick Martin, Sir Roderck Martin, indeed, Sir down Jenkins.
- 2:18Speaker 7: Thank you, sir Martin.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Isn't he the theatrical producer?
- 2:21Speaker 4: Yes, Watson, and he is quite famous in his own
- 2:24Speaker 4: circle for his cynicism of a certain modern wit. Your
- 2:29Speaker 4: master needs my services, I presume Jenkins.
- 2:31Speaker 8: Yes, mister Homey does. He's in desperate trouble. He'd like
- 2:34Speaker 8: you to come over to.
- 2:35Speaker 4: His house of wants.
- 2:36Speaker 2: What kind of trouble is he?
- 2:38Speaker 8: Please don't ask any questions so that just come to
- 2:40Speaker 8: the house and see for yourselves. I have long wanted
- 2:42Speaker 8: to meet Sir Rodrick.
- 2:44Speaker 4: I believe it was he who gave currency to that pun,
- 2:47Speaker 4: though he might be more humble. There's no police like Holmes.
- 2:51Speaker 2: That's a funny police like Boom.
- 2:54Speaker 4: I'm glad it amuses. Sir Watson.
- 2:56Speaker 7: Well, I'm for you to come with Please, gentlemen, come
- 2:59Speaker 7: with me.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Whatever Maske's problems may be. I think I would enjoy
- 3:02Speaker 4: a discussion with him, perhaps on the topic of humility. Yes,
- 3:06Speaker 4: Jenkins will accompany you at once. This is mister Sherlock
- 3:21Speaker 4: Holmes and Dr Watson.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Sir, how do you do? How do you do? Jenkins?
- 3:26Speaker 4: Oh? How very odd?
- 3:27Speaker 9: Now?
- 3:27Speaker 10: Why should Jenkins make such a meteoric exit? I presume
- 3:31Speaker 10: Sir Rodrick, he wished to leave us alone. Indeed, what
- 3:33Speaker 10: a singularly depressing thought.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Well, so, now that he's gone, you can talk quite really,
- 3:38Speaker 2: my dear doctor.
- 3:38Speaker 10: Watson, I've been in the habit of talking freely ever
- 3:40Speaker 10: since I had the pleasure of insulting my nurse at
- 3:42Speaker 10: the age of four. She was a peculiarly revolting female
- 3:45Speaker 10: by the name of Pearl. After forty four years, I
- 3:48Speaker 10: still can't think of a more inappropriate name for her.
- 3:51Speaker 4: Sir Rodrick, your childhood reminiscences are fascinating, But supposing to
- 3:56Speaker 4: get down to business, very well, Holmes, to what do
- 3:58Speaker 4: I owe the well, for lack of a better word,
- 4:01Speaker 4: the pleasure of this visit. Your butler came to Fetcho's.
- 4:05Speaker 2: He said that you were in desperate trouble and needed
- 4:08Speaker 2: our help.
- 4:08Speaker 10: Jenkins told you that I can only assume that he
- 4:11Speaker 10: stole more than his usual quota of brandy to day.
- 4:14Speaker 10: I noticed in the past that alcohol seems to give
- 4:16Speaker 10: him the quaintest delusions.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Then you don't wish to consult me professionally, no, Holmes,
- 4:22Speaker 4: I don't, nor do I wish the services of a doctor. Therefore,
- 4:25Speaker 4: I suggest you both retire.
- 4:26Speaker 10: And ask Jenkins for your hats and an explanation. Good evening, gentlemen.
- 4:32Speaker 3: It's one of his stupid jokes, homes the bounders trying
- 4:35Speaker 3: to make a pool order.
- 4:36Speaker 4: I think not Watson. It'd be a singularly pointless joke
- 4:40Speaker 4: and far below his standard. No, I believe there's some
- 4:43Speaker 4: other game afoot, though, Sir Roderick dismissed a somewhat unceremoniously.
- 4:47Speaker 4: I think we may still be reasonably certain of a
- 4:49Speaker 4: welcome in the certain squatters. You're going to talk to
- 4:51Speaker 4: the butter, Yes, Watson. I'm certain he's neither been drinking
- 4:55Speaker 4: nor suffering from delusions. I'm convinced that.
- 4:57Speaker 9: The man is in mortal terror of his life.
- 5:11Speaker 7: Thank Heavens you came to see me, mister Holmes.
- 5:13Speaker 3: How could we resist it when theeradic told us that
- 5:15Speaker 3: your entire story was a lie.
- 5:17Speaker 7: Oh, you must forgive me, gentlemen.
- 5:18Speaker 8: And I I was desperate with fear, and I had
- 5:21Speaker 8: to attract your attention.
- 5:22Speaker 4: But why you've accomplished your purpose. Now you've thoroughly aroused
- 5:27Speaker 4: my curiosity. But I repeat why.
- 5:29Speaker 8: Because I'm in terror of my life, Sir. Someone's trying
- 5:33Speaker 8: to murder me.
- 5:34Speaker 2: What reason have you for saying that, Jakin.
- 5:36Speaker 7: Last night an attempt was made to kill me?
- 5:39Speaker 4: Oh, please describe the circumstances.
- 5:42Speaker 8: Well, sir, I was carrying a cake of wine down
- 5:45Speaker 8: into the cellar, slipped from my arms and hit the stairs,
- 5:48Speaker 8: and then the stairs collapsed.
- 5:50Speaker 7: When I examined them, I found that they'd been sore.
- 5:52Speaker 7: Almost true.
- 5:54Speaker 4: I assume that you are the only member of the
- 5:56Speaker 4: household who ever visits the wine cellar.
- 5:58Speaker 8: Yes, that was a liberate trap to break my neck.
- 6:02Speaker 8: If I'd step down, would have been the end of me. Oh,
- 6:04Speaker 8: mister Holmes, I'm only a servant.
- 6:07Speaker 4: I couldn't pay this well.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Did Jenkins?
- 6:08Speaker 3: Are sure that mister Holmes is as interested in preventing
- 6:11Speaker 3: the murder of a servants ian is in saving the
- 6:14Speaker 3: life of a prime.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Minister Jenkins, have you any idea who might want to
- 6:19Speaker 4: kill you?
- 6:19Speaker 9: On?
- 6:20Speaker 8: There's only one person on earth for the murder for
- 6:22Speaker 8: killing me, So that's my master, Roderck Martin.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Come, Come, come, my dear man. I'm sure I'm mistaken.
- 6:29Speaker 4: What reason do you have for suspecting him?
- 6:31Speaker 7: It's this way, mister Holmes.
- 6:32Speaker 8: A year ago a certain lady killed herself when Sir
- 6:35Speaker 8: Roderick jolted her.
- 6:36Speaker 4: The affair was all hushed up him.
- 6:38Speaker 8: Nobody knew so Roderick was even involved, but her brother
- 6:41Speaker 8: swore to avenge her death. That brother is a very
- 6:44Speaker 8: close friend of Sir Roderick's that has never suspected him.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Complicated situation.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Yes, Watson, I take it. Jenkins. You are the only
- 6:52Speaker 4: person who knows that your master was going to him, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
- 6:56Speaker 7: And if I were dead, his secret would be safe.
- 6:58Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, is what can I do? I know he's
- 7:01Speaker 7: planning my death.
- 7:02Speaker 4: You've got to save me, Sir Jenkins. My advice is this,
- 7:05Speaker 4: Write a full statement of the circumstances in this case,
- 7:08Speaker 4: sign and seal it and hand it over to me
- 7:10Speaker 4: for safe keeping. Inform your master that if anything happens
- 7:14Speaker 4: to you, I shall make public the contents of the statements.
- 7:17Speaker 2: It's a very good idea.
- 7:18Speaker 4: I'll do that, Sir. I'll do that.
- 7:19Speaker 7: I'll bring it to you in the morning.
- 7:20Speaker 4: Spend it. Come on, Watson. Oh, by the way, Jenkins,
- 7:25Speaker 4: what's the name of your doctor? Doctor? Sir? I never
- 7:28Speaker 4: said that. You never said what doctor?
- 7:31Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Dr David Stanley in Wimpole Street.
- 7:35Speaker 4: Dr David Stanley, I see, well, good night, Jenkins. We
- 7:39Speaker 4: shall expect you in the morning.
- 7:54Speaker 2: But why are we going to see Dr Stanley?
- 7:57Speaker 4: Firstly because I want his physician's opinion as to weather
- 8:00Speaker 4: as might be suffering from hysterical delusion.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Well as a doctor myself, I say that's small likely.
- 8:06Speaker 3: I must say his actions tonight hard to seem the
- 8:08Speaker 3: behavior of a sane man when.
- 8:11Speaker 4: A man is bad at frightened Watson, and it's sometimes
- 8:13Speaker 4: hard to judge his actions by more rational standards. Instantly,
- 8:18Speaker 4: did you notice the way he started when I asked
- 8:20Speaker 4: him the name of his doctor? Almost certainly, doctor David
- 8:24Speaker 4: Stanley is the vengeful killer.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Right George, now that you mentioned it.
- 8:27Speaker 3: I do remember hearing some gossip in Harley Street about
- 8:29Speaker 3: Stanley's sister killing herself, but nobody seemed to.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Know the motives.
- 8:34Speaker 4: Woo, here's the house, Watson.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Well, let's hope the doctor's at home.
- 8:38Speaker 4: If he isn't, we haven't come very far out of
- 8:40Speaker 4: our way.
- 8:41Speaker 7: We'll beg a wait for your governor.
- 8:43Speaker 4: No, thanker, Kevin, here you are, thank you. I can
- 8:50Speaker 4: hear a pana play.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Someone is at home.
- 8:55Speaker 4: That seems an eminently logical deduction.
- 8:58Speaker 2: There's no need to be their home. Good evening.
- 9:03Speaker 4: My name is Charlotte Holmes, and this is my colleague,
- 9:06Speaker 4: doctor Watson. How do you do. I'm missus Stanley.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Will you wondered if.
- 9:10Speaker 4: We might have a few words with your husband?
- 9:13Speaker 2: Come in, won't you?
- 9:14Speaker 4: Gentlemen, mister Holmes, you are detective.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Aren't you?
- 9:21Speaker 4: Yes, Missus Stanley, I.
- 9:22Speaker 7: Hope you haven't come here to talk to David about his.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Sister's death, not directly, madam. Though my mission is not
- 9:29Speaker 4: unconnected with their tragedy, then I can't let you.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Really, Missus Tanner, my friend only will.
- 9:35Speaker 4: For the sake of his sanity. I daren't let you
- 9:37Speaker 4: talk to him ever since his sister died, and you
- 9:40Speaker 4: seem like a so tormented he spends most of his.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Time in there playing those frightening compositions to be on
- 9:46Speaker 1: the piano.
- 9:47Speaker 7: I can't let be subjected any more questioning about his sister.
- 9:51Speaker 4: Even though I don't miss you, Sylvia, I had voices. Oh, gentlemen,
- 9:59Speaker 4: it's miss to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. I hope
- 10:03Speaker 4: we're not intruding, Sir the Great Sharlock Holmes this friend,
- 10:06Speaker 4: Doctor Watson, intruding, but cost not. I'm flattered. Come in,
- 10:09Speaker 4: Come in, gentlemen. Don't wry missus Stanley, we will.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Come.
- 10:19Speaker 4: I believe you're something of a musician. I like your
- 10:22Speaker 4: opinion of this, David, Dear. They haven't come here and listen.
- 10:25Speaker 11: I don't care what they came here for. This is
- 10:28Speaker 11: what they're going to hear. Well, do you like it?
- 10:39Speaker 4: A strange savage melody? Doctor Stanley is?
- 10:43Speaker 3: And it's a rather depressing if you.
- 10:46Speaker 4: No, I shouldn't it be when it's finished? I call
- 10:48Speaker 4: it a frenity for dead sister. That's what you've come
- 10:54Speaker 4: to see you about, isn't it? Mister Sherlock comes, David,
- 10:57Speaker 4: you much.
- 10:58Speaker 12: I should prefer that you leave us alone. Dead alone, Sylvia, Sylvia,
- 11:09Speaker 12: the girl can't face up the facts. I can tell me, Holmes,
- 11:15Speaker 12: what have you found out about my sister's death?
- 11:17Speaker 4: Doctor Stanley, I'm afraid you're laboring under a misapprehension. I
- 11:21Speaker 4: know nothing of your sister. I came here to talk
- 11:23Speaker 4: about Jenkins, Sir Robert Martine.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Tells us that you were his physician.
- 11:28Speaker 12: Jenkins, Eh, what you want to know about him?
- 11:31Speaker 4: Has he been ill?
- 11:33Speaker 12: Recently a few months ago, he had a bad attackive
- 11:36Speaker 12: in Kerrick fever right.
- 11:37Speaker 3: Your eyes, and Keerik sometimes leaves that after fact, would
- 11:41Speaker 3: you say, doctor the Jenkins has suffered no lasting damage
- 11:45Speaker 3: hallucinations for listener.
- 11:47Speaker 12: At the time, he was out of his head for
- 11:49Speaker 12: a while. But I'd say he's perfectly south now, Thank you,
- 11:54Speaker 12: doctor Stanley. That's all we wanted to know.
- 11:56Speaker 11: You mean to say that you came here simply to
- 12:00Speaker 11: find out about the state of jenkins sanity.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Just that, sir, Good evening, Good.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Night, doctor Furner.
- 12:07Speaker 11: I think you had something else on your mind before
- 12:11Speaker 11: you talk.
- 12:11Speaker 4: Of Sylvia.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Jenkins may be saying, but that man's on the edge
- 12:18Speaker 2: of a mental collapse if I ever saw one.
- 12:20Speaker 4: I quite agree, Watson, missus Kenny seems to have gone upstairs.
- 12:25Speaker 4: I think they let ourselves out.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, that was rather a fruitless trip.
- 12:37Speaker 3: We didn't learn much there except that Jenkins is compass
- 12:40Speaker 3: mentis I disagree?
- 12:41Speaker 2: O Chap.
- 12:42Speaker 4: We'll learn to great new more than that tomorrow morning.
- 12:45Speaker 4: I shall do no time in calling on Sir Roderick
- 12:47Speaker 4: again that horrible follow say why because he's the focal
- 12:51Speaker 4: point in a grim Fangedy. Inevitably, either he will kill
- 12:55Speaker 4: Jenkins or doctor Stanley will kill him.
- 12:58Speaker 10: O idea, Homes, I am accustomed to facing two brown
- 13:11Speaker 10: eggs at breakfast, two brown eggs lightly boiled, followed by
- 13:14Speaker 10: a leisurely a perusal of the times.
- 13:16Speaker 4: I see no reason why this day should commence any differently.
- 13:20Speaker 4: So Roderck, I've explained you'll explain nothing, including your own presumption.
- 13:23Speaker 10: Homes, I can see no cause for your meddling, even
- 13:26Speaker 10: if I understood precisely what you were driving at, which
- 13:28Speaker 10: I don't.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Herodic, you must see that my friend is trying to
- 13:31Speaker 2: protect you.
- 13:32Speaker 10: Doctor Watson, I once had the acute misfortune to read
- 13:35Speaker 10: one of your shockingly florid stories.
- 13:38Speaker 4: I can only assume that your gross imagination has infected
- 13:41Speaker 4: your daily life. Since your own safety seems to be
- 13:43Speaker 4: a matter of indifference to you, So Rodric, I may
- 13:46Speaker 4: point out that I know too much if you plan
- 13:49Speaker 4: on being a danger yourself.
- 13:50Speaker 10: Homes, you're impertinent, a quality which is attractive only in
- 13:53Speaker 10: a younger person and of a different sex.
- 13:57Speaker 4: What is even more unpardonable, you're boring. Leave and take
- 14:00Speaker 4: this bumbling veterinary surgeon with you excremin before one thing,
- 14:06Speaker 4: Where is your butler, Jenkins? A new man opened the
- 14:08Speaker 4: door just now Jenkins?
- 14:10Speaker 10: Oh, yes, yes, yes, I omitted to tell you Jenkins
- 14:14Speaker 10: has left my service. You discharge you must well, not exactly,
- 14:17Speaker 10: though it is my invariable rule to discharge any certain
- 14:20Speaker 10: time guilty of a crime.
- 14:22Speaker 4: A crime, and what was Jenkins's crime? He committed suicide.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Just a moment we shall hear more about this ironic
- 14:40Speaker 1: crime of suicide. But first, man, nice looking, attractive hair
- 14:46Speaker 1: means so much to a man's appearance, and one of
- 14:48Speaker 1: the first requisites of handsome, healthy looking hair as a
- 14:51Speaker 1: hygienic scalp. So start at once, take better care of
- 14:55Speaker 1: the hair you've got. Change to Crammel hair timing. No
- 14:59Speaker 1: other hair tonic keeps the hair more neatly in place
- 15:02Speaker 1: without looking or feeling greasy. But men, Kremmel does lots
- 15:06Speaker 1: more than keep hair looking handsome. It's light oil to
- 15:10Speaker 1: have a fine lubricating effect on.
- 15:11Speaker 4: A dry scalp.
- 15:13Speaker 1: At the same time it removes itchy, loose dandru Notice
- 15:16Speaker 1: how alive, how invigorated your scalp feels. And men, you
- 15:20Speaker 1: like to massage Kremel on your scalp because it's such
- 15:22Speaker 1: a clean hair tonic never feels greasy or sticky. And
- 15:26Speaker 1: if your hair is so dry that it breaks and
- 15:29Speaker 1: falls when you comb it, Kremel actually helps condition the
- 15:32Speaker 1: hair in that it makes it feel softer, more pliable,
- 15:35Speaker 1: and look as if it had some body to it.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So men for handsome, groomed hair and a more hygienic scalp,
- 15:42Speaker 1: use Cremo daily. Buy a bottle of Cremel at any
- 15:45Speaker 1: drug store, ask for an application at your barbers k
- 15:49Speaker 1: R E. M. L. Kremmel hair tonic, that famous modern
- 15:55Speaker 1: hair tonic preferred among America's most successful men. Well, doctor Watton,
- 16:06Speaker 1: and this story really has me on the edge of
- 16:08Speaker 1: my chair. So the butler Jenkins had committed suet.
- 16:11Speaker 13: Oh, that's what Sir Roderick turlus, mister Bell, though we
- 16:14Speaker 13: had great difficulty in persuading him to let us examine
- 16:16Speaker 13: the dead man's room.
- 16:18Speaker 14: Finally, after Sherlock Holmes had pointed out that if we
- 16:21Speaker 14: couldn't handle the case and Scotland Yards certainly would, we
- 16:25Speaker 14: were allowed to visit that room of death.
- 16:29Speaker 2: The evidence of suicide was apparent. After brief examination, Holmes
- 16:35Speaker 2: turned to me and.
- 16:36Speaker 4: Said, what do you make of it, Watson.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Obvious signs of strict and poisoning homes. Quite clearly a suicide.
- 16:44Speaker 4: Yes, the other servants told us that they had to
- 16:47Speaker 4: break the door down to get in. It was locked
- 16:49Speaker 4: and bolted from the insign.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Your examination proved that there was no sign of the
- 16:53Speaker 3: lock having been tampered.
- 16:55Speaker 4: With precisely, and he drank the poison from this glass
- 16:59Speaker 4: here by the bed. Yes, I'd say that there's been
- 17:03Speaker 4: nothing in this glass but strychnine and water. Hello, what's
- 17:07Speaker 4: this on the carpet?
- 17:10Speaker 2: It's like a piece of clay.
- 17:12Speaker 4: It is, and it bears the imprint of a heel from.
- 17:16Speaker 2: A man's boot.
- 17:18Speaker 4: The size and observe the color of the clay, Watson,
- 17:20Speaker 4: This particular specimen is quite rare. I shall take it
- 17:23Speaker 4: back to Baker Street and examine it.
- 17:25Speaker 2: I can't see any logic in this case, Holmes.
- 17:27Speaker 3: After all, people terrified of murder don't go committing suicide.
- 17:32Speaker 4: Patience, old fellow. I'm convinced that this is one case
- 17:35Speaker 4: where an armed laboratory may aid the solution more than
- 17:38Speaker 4: all the logic in the world.
- 17:40Speaker 6: O Well, Holmed, what do your tests through the microscope tell.
- 17:56Speaker 4: You, first of all, that the glass contained nothing but strychnine.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Nobody could drink that without knowing it. That proves that
- 18:03Speaker 2: if the suicide.
- 18:04Speaker 4: Not necessarily Watson, I've also tested the clay. In addition
- 18:09Speaker 4: to being a very rare clay, it's oddly impregnated with
- 18:12Speaker 4: certain acids and chemicals, exactly as it might be if
- 18:16Speaker 4: a doctor picked it up on his heel outside his
- 18:18Speaker 4: house and later went into his laboratory. Doctor, that will
- 18:22Speaker 4: explain the poison exactly. Jenkins was under his doctor's care.
- 18:26Speaker 4: Supposing the physician prescribed a draft to be taken on retiring,
- 18:30Speaker 4: why question its peculiar bitter taste. Jenkins was a frightened man.
- 18:35Speaker 4: Undoubtedly he bolted and locked his door last night and
- 18:37Speaker 4: then trustingly drank the fatal poison.
- 18:40Speaker 13: All of which points to doctor Stanley quite but I
- 18:45Speaker 13: don't understand it. He had a motive for murdering Sir Rodrick,
- 18:48Speaker 13: and Sir Roderick had a motive for murdering Jenkins. With
- 18:51Speaker 13: all the evidence points to the effect that.
- 18:53Speaker 3: Doctor Stanley murdered Jenkins, it does make any sense, But
- 18:57Speaker 3: it does, Watson precise, accurate, and terrifying sense.
- 19:01Speaker 4: We must return to so Rodrick's house once. There's not
- 19:03Speaker 4: a moment to be lost.
- 19:13Speaker 10: Holmes, you and your friend here are positively pack of dermeters.
- 19:17Speaker 10: Twice I've told you to mind your own business, and
- 19:19Speaker 10: yet you come back for more insults. Am I to
- 19:21Speaker 10: assume that you find my personal charm so utterly irresistible?
- 19:26Speaker 2: On the contra, Sir, you can assume that your personal
- 19:28Speaker 2: charm utterly escapes.
- 19:30Speaker 4: Sir Roderick, the only reason we've returned is because I'm
- 19:32Speaker 4: convinced you're engraved danger.
- 19:34Speaker 10: As I told you before, Holmes, I'm eminently capable of
- 19:36Speaker 10: taking care of myself in any case. I'm expecting doctor Stanley,
- 19:39Speaker 10: my physician, here, in a few minutes.
- 19:41Speaker 4: So Roderick, by all you hold safe, I hold nothing.
- 19:44Speaker 10: Sacred homes save human life, by which of course I
- 19:47Speaker 10: mean my home.
- 19:48Speaker 4: Then, for the sake of your own life, Sir, allow
- 19:50Speaker 4: us to slip behind that tapestry while your doctor visits you,
- 19:53Speaker 4: behind the ardor say, the proper place for rats, if
- 19:56Speaker 4: I remember them, I hamlet correctly, Oh that's undoubtedly the doctor.
- 20:00Speaker 4: Then please let us hide. You won't regret it. I
- 20:02Speaker 4: promise you very well. You may hide cutry away. Come
- 20:05Speaker 4: on once.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Murch your home, Come in, Roderick.
- 20:10Speaker 4: I had to.
- 20:10Speaker 7: See you, yes, so it would appear, Sylvia.
- 20:14Speaker 10: If you have to come making dramatic entrances in my
- 20:16Speaker 10: house at an hour that virtually represents the crack of dawn,
- 20:20Speaker 10: I do we should take a little more pains with
- 20:22Speaker 10: your enhumble Your dress is only suitable for tea and
- 20:25Speaker 10: crumpets with a vicar's wife at tooting back.
- 20:27Speaker 4: Oh, Roderick stopped trying to be facetious.
- 20:30Speaker 7: I came here because I had to talk to you
- 20:32Speaker 7: before David got well.
- 20:33Speaker 4: I'm expecting him at any moments. I know that you're
- 20:36Speaker 4: his closest friend, Roderick. You've got to do something for him.
- 20:39Speaker 4: He's ill, he's mentally unbalanced. Olly thinks about and talks
- 20:44Speaker 4: about and dreams about his Angela. He even composed a
- 20:48Speaker 4: horrible piece of music that because Sylvia, David, what are
- 20:51Speaker 4: you doing here? Everyone's day extraordinarily melodramatic this morning.
- 20:55Speaker 10: It's a pity, David, but you have not caught your
- 20:57Speaker 10: wife and me in a compromising situation.
- 21:00Speaker 4: Chiefly, I admit, because I find her somewhat colorless.
- 21:05Speaker 10: I suggest you leave us My DearS, I believe the
- 21:08Speaker 10: word you're groping for is beast.
- 21:11Speaker 4: You beast rodrich.
- 21:15Speaker 12: You put up a convincing caricature of being the inhuman
- 21:18Speaker 12: man of the world because people only knew.
- 21:21Speaker 4: How you stood by me during the past time.
- 21:23Speaker 10: Now, David, this has been a most emotional morning. For
- 21:25Speaker 10: Heaven's say, don't you become lachrimos.
- 21:27Speaker 4: I'm not.
- 21:28Speaker 11: I'm just saying that if you hadn't stood by me
- 21:30Speaker 11: since Angela's.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Death, I don't know what I'd have done. You'd probably
- 21:34Speaker 4: been back on your feet long before this. But you
- 21:36Speaker 4: came here this morning in your professional capacity. David. Yes, yes,
- 21:40Speaker 4: I know, Rodrick. How are you feeling? I don't like
- 21:44Speaker 4: your color. I don't like my symptoms. I can't sleep.
- 21:48Speaker 10: My nerves have been more than usually on edge for
- 21:50Speaker 10: the past three weeks. David, you'll promised me some medicine.
- 21:52Speaker 4: You'll know. I brought it with me. It's in my bag.
- 21:55Speaker 4: Here you have a glass and some water, yes, on
- 21:58Speaker 4: the sideboard, and this was steady. You up quite a bit.
- 22:02Speaker 4: I add a little water. So here you are, Rodrick.
- 22:07Speaker 4: This I wasn't sorotick. It won't do much good to
- 22:10Speaker 4: the only thing you hold sacred, Sir much Holmes, what
- 22:13Speaker 4: are you doing here? Your open conversation begins to become
- 22:16Speaker 4: somewhat notton as doctor Stanley. I'm here because I don't
- 22:19Speaker 4: like to see murder committed, even Sir Rodrick.
- 22:21Speaker 2: You mean that doctor Stanley has tried to poison him.
- 22:23Speaker 4: Certainly, just as he poisoned the butler Jenkins. I tried
- 22:29Speaker 4: to protect Jenkins against the Rodrick. I was stupid enough
- 22:32Speaker 4: not to see the other motive at first. Riddles are fascinating, Holmes,
- 22:35Speaker 4: but not when they become personal. What are you talking about?
- 22:38Speaker 4: It's a simple equation, Sir Rodrick. Doctor Stanley attended Jenkins
- 22:41Speaker 4: during his bartmin terry. He told it himself that the
- 22:44Speaker 4: butler was delirious. It was then that he must have
- 22:47Speaker 4: learned Jenkins's secret. That Jenkins was the only human being
- 22:50Speaker 4: who knew that Sir Rodrick was responsible for angel as suicide. Logically,
- 22:55Speaker 4: he had to die first.
- 22:56Speaker 2: And I still don't see that doctor.
- 22:58Speaker 4: Stanley does, despite his son. Jenkins was the only human
- 23:02Speaker 4: being who knew that doctor Stanley had a motive for
- 23:04Speaker 4: killing Sir Rodrick.
- 23:05Speaker 10: This is very melodramatic, Hume, But I haven't the faintest
- 23:07Speaker 10: idea what you are talking about.
- 23:09Speaker 11: Nor have I except that you seem to be laboring
- 23:11Speaker 11: under the delusion that I killed Jenkins.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Of course you did. You had to before you could
- 23:17Speaker 4: kill Sir Rodrick. Had Jenkins lived, he would have been
- 23:20Speaker 4: suspicious of his master's death. But if he were out
- 23:23Speaker 4: of the way, no one would have connected Sir Rodrick's
- 23:25Speaker 4: close friend and physician with his murder. The seller's stairs
- 23:28Speaker 4: attempt failed, but last night's poison did not, and I tried.
- 23:32Speaker 2: To repeat the patent. The glass over there contains strichenen
- 23:34Speaker 2: and water.
- 23:35Speaker 11: Of course it does. I assure you this mention is
- 23:37Speaker 11: perfectly harmless. To prove it, I shall drink it myself.
- 23:41Speaker 2: Bobby Watson put don't put it down. I said, it's right.
- 23:46Speaker 4: None was meant for you, Roderick. It was too good
- 23:50Speaker 4: for you, considering the way you treated my sister, angelmin.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Hatch.
- 24:04Speaker 4: He's Deadham yes, and you, Sir Roderick, have escaped to
- 24:10Speaker 4: brother's vengeance. I'm almost sorry that I insisted on trying
- 24:14Speaker 4: to save your wretched life. Well, just as you have saved.
- 24:17Speaker 10: I don't expect anything as conventional as thanks or remorse.
- 24:20Speaker 10: My only regret is that, during the past few minutes
- 24:23Speaker 10: you've enjoyed an experience granted to very few men on
- 24:26Speaker 10: this earth.
- 24:27Speaker 2: And what is that? May I ask?
- 24:29Speaker 4: You? Have seen me speechless, a