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- 0:03Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson.
- 0:05Speaker 2: What about the adventure of the Gray Pasha.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Well, mister Harris. It took place in the spring of
- 0:10eighteen ninety seven, a few days before the classic Darby
- 0:13race at epsom Down's. The odds on favorite that year
- 0:16was a house named Gray Pasha owned by Lord and
- 0:19Lady Kimpton, and the second favorite was Roulette, owned by
- 0:22a clubman and man about town named Alex Brand. Lord
- 0:27Kimpton and Brand hated each other, mod and London gossip
- 0:31whispered that Lady Kimpton was a vision. Then one night
- 0:35in a London club, the two men gambled at carts.
- 0:38Lord Kimpton lost heavenly and finally, Will Brand.
- 0:43Speaker 4: You've cleaned me out. You heard my io use for
- 0:46everything I owe?
- 0:47Speaker 5: Not everything, Lord Campton, you still have one I said
- 0:50I should like to possess my wife, No doubt you
- 0:53forget your manners, My dear sir, gentlemen, do not ban
- 0:56your lady's name over a gambling table.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Why you oily swine are you trying to I'm trying.
- 1:00Speaker 5: To tell you that I'm interested in your race horse,
- 1:03Great Pasha. You bought him from me as a colt.
- 1:06Now I should like to buy him back. I'll cut
- 1:09the cards for him, Lord Captain.
- 1:10Speaker 3: What'd you take me for a brand?
- 1:12Speaker 1: A fool?
- 1:13Speaker 4: You think I'd gamble away the Derby favorite, the greatest
- 1:16racehorses ever lived, with Albert Moylan, the finest jockey in
- 1:20England riding him, you'll throw dusts in the face of
- 1:22that horse of yours.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Who let perhaps, But what about these?
- 1:26Speaker 5: I'll use your lordship.
- 1:27Speaker 4: After Great Passua wins the Derby, Brand, you'll get your money,
- 1:31every dirty shilling of it.
- 1:46Speaker 6: A good boy Pasha, good run, lad, All right, Charlie, take.
- 1:55Speaker 7: Him, will you?
- 1:56Speaker 6: And I'll make sure you give him a good rubdown.
- 2:00Speaker 5: Oh hello, mylon.
- 2:03Speaker 6: Mister Brand. You'd expect it, mister Brand, What are you
- 2:06doing here? If Lord Kempton finds you're about his training, grand.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Doesn't worry about his lordship, Mylon, I expect to own
- 2:12his estate here right after the Derby. It was a
- 2:15good ride you gave a great Pasha just now.
- 2:18Speaker 6: Ah, we'll do fine in the Derby, I expect.
- 2:20Speaker 5: Suppose you don't do so well in the Derby run Violin,
- 2:25What do you mean? I mean? My horse Roulette can
- 2:28win if Great Pasha doesn't naturally. I expect to pay
- 2:32for any small services you might render, and pay liberally.
- 2:37Shall we say one thousand pounds.
- 2:39Speaker 6: Not for ten thousand? Mister Brand, you can't bribe me.
- 2:42I've worn his Lordship's colors for five years, fair and honest,
- 2:45and I ain't gonna sell him out. And if you're
- 2:47not off these grounds pretty quick, I'll call Lord Kempton
- 2:49to run you off.
- 2:58Speaker 8: So mister Brand tried to bribe you, Albert.
- 3:00Speaker 6: Yes, Lady Kempton. He was hanging about the stables in
- 3:03the practice track.
- 3:04Speaker 8: I see a contemptuous black guard.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Just wait till I tell his lord and know Albert.
- 3:09Speaker 8: Let us say nothing about it to Lord Kempton. He
- 3:11has a dreadful temper. I'm afraid he'd kill mister Brand
- 3:14if he knew.
- 3:17Speaker 1: I'm worried why I'm a lady.
- 3:18Speaker 8: If Brand couldn't bribe you, he might try to do
- 3:21Great Pasha harm. He do anything to win the derby, anything, Albert, Yes,
- 3:26Lady Kempton, We'll be taking Great Pasha to web some
- 3:28dwns in two days. Have you been to sleep in
- 3:31the stable with him, just to make sure that nothing
- 3:34goes wrong? Ah?
- 3:45Speaker 6: Yeah, here now, Pasha, there a boy, and what's come
- 3:51over you? You need him prancing about after night here
- 3:54in your stall, waking me from me sleep. Ah, I
- 3:58never saw your sol strung up an edgy I did?
- 4:00Speaker 1: Ah? What is it?
- 4:02Speaker 3: Lad?
- 4:03Speaker 1: There is no one about the last Pasha? What is it?
- 4:07Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 4:08Speaker 1: What's come over you? Pasha?
- 4:10Speaker 9: Now?
- 4:10Speaker 3: Now? If we still boring? Shall have you gone crazy?
- 4:13Speaker 1: Hasha? Pasha? Now?
- 4:16Speaker 2: Flash up?
- 4:29Speaker 1: Watson. You are a devotee of the sport of kings?
- 4:32Are you not well?
- 4:33Speaker 3: Homes up? I must confess some acquaintance with the bookmakers,
- 4:37much to my distress.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yes, Watson, so I've observed.
- 4:41Speaker 3: But why this is inquiry? Good heaven Holmes, you're not
- 4:44thinking of wagering a pound or two on the darby.
- 4:46Speaker 1: My dear fellow. I did in facts and logic, not
- 4:48in speculation, however attractive. The fact is, however, that I've
- 4:52just received a telegram from the Royal Stuarts. They wish
- 4:55to retain my services in rather than unusual mattered? What
- 4:59matter you've heard of? Albert meulen je.
- 5:03Speaker 3: Voes, who hasn't is the goodest jockey in the Empire.
- 5:06A winner of the Gold Cup at a Scud in
- 5:08the Oaks two years running. Now he's riding Gray Pasha
- 5:11in the Darby.
- 5:12Speaker 1: He was, Watson, Eh, what do you mean? Albert moylan
- 5:16was trampled by Gray Pasha and the animal skull last night.
- 5:20The racing authority suspectfile play. At this moment, the jockey
- 5:23lies at the point of death of Saint Thomas's hospital. Come, Watson,
- 5:27get your happ and stick moilon. Marlon listened to me,
- 5:40try to answer my questions in a.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Horrible beating, smashing hoofs of that horse. But he hasn't
- 5:48long to go.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Melon listened to me, Old, did you see anyone around
- 5:53the premises after Ashua went by me?
- 5:59Speaker 3: I all.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Someone riding with the Lanton. Yes, yes, gorm lad Well
- 6:08Lanson through the plot gate. I thought it was.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Oh my, then print is gone. Yes, go Chap sad
- 6:24ending great career.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Yes quite.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Will Watson.
- 6:29Speaker 1: There's nothing more we can do here, Watson. About this
- 6:34man Brand, It's correct? Is it not that he and
- 6:37Lord Kenton, the owner of Gray Pasha, our mortal enemies.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Yes, not only that Brand used to own Gray Pasha's
- 6:44of col and now he owns Roulette second favorite.
- 6:47Speaker 1: I see right, Come, Watson, let's proceed to the Kempton
- 6:51grounds and examine the stables. It's barely possible that our
- 6:54eat quine killer had a human collaborator. Watson, did you
- 7:06notice anything unusual about Gray Pasha's stall?
- 7:09Speaker 3: No, can't say that I did. Host Everything seemed in order.
- 7:12Speaker 1: As quite, except for one peculiar and perhaps meaningless fact.
- 7:16The roof of the stall slopes backward and downwards steeply.
- 7:20And ha, ha, what is it?
- 7:22Speaker 9: Hose?
- 7:22Speaker 1: Note the footprints here by the paddock gate, what about?
- 7:24They are some hours old and probably were made by
- 7:27the person Albert Moylem saw last night. And apparently that
- 7:31person was intoxicated.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Eh, how do you know that?
- 7:34Speaker 1: Which elementary, my dear fellow elementary observed the irregular staggered
- 7:38pattern of man's hobnail boots. Note how the prince veer
- 7:41onto the grass and then back onto the footpath. Watson
- 7:45supposed to go up with the house and talk to Lord.
- 7:47Speaker 7: Kempton storms, Doctor Watson, this whole affair is proved by
- 7:59a room.
- 8:00Speaker 3: Indeed, how Lord comes to.
- 8:02Speaker 1: It counted heavily, and Gray Pash is winning the doughby.
- 8:04Speaker 4: I needed the person money desperately for personal reasons. No, no,
- 8:10Great Pasha can't win Moyland's dead.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Do I understand, then, your Lordship with this jockey, Moylon
- 8:16was indispensable. Here's mister hobs Bluys.
- 8:19Speaker 4: She's a high spirited, temperamental brute with unfamiliar hands at
- 8:22the range.
- 8:23Speaker 1: He'd be unmanageable.
- 8:24Speaker 7: Only Moyland could ride him.
- 8:26Speaker 3: This will confound the retirn in London. Your lordship, bookmakers
- 8:29are sured and they will let the favorite now Joe
- 8:32for a sensation.
- 8:33Speaker 1: This will be some dogs and brew Lett his own
- 8:35by Alex Brandby.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Yes, mister Holmes, Alex Brand Blackgard.
- 8:42Speaker 7: He's responsible for this.
- 8:43Speaker 3: Somehow.
- 8:44Speaker 1: He hates me and he's trying to break me.
- 8:46Speaker 7: He did something to great passion, mister Hoaks.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Somehow that villain Brand is responsible for for poor Moyland's death.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Yes, perhaps perhaps not due time, Lord Captain, I assure
- 8:54you I shall have the answer any rate. There's no
- 8:57need to detain you any longer. Thank you, mister oas.
- 9:01Speaker 3: I should be at your disposal whenever you one Chap
- 9:07he has his troubles.
- 9:08Speaker 1: A hose quite and particularly this morning, Mutson, did you
- 9:12notice the unhealthy pallor of his skin and his rimmed
- 9:15and bloodshot eyes. Homes you mean precisely the symptoms of
- 9:18plane mutson. Lord Kimpton was intoxicated last night.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Now let's begin by pointing out that clipper Craft clothes
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- 9:44That's not the only reason clipper Craft clothes are worn
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- 10:16Speaker 1: In the world.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Now remember, you can get a superbly fitted, all worsted
- 10:20Clippercraft suit for only forty five dollars. That's why men
- 10:24who know insist on clipper Craft clothes bearing the clipper
- 10:28Craft labels. So be sure to visit the clipper Craft
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- 10:33Speaker 9: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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- 10:46Broadway at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abramen Strauss in New York,
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- 10:54the B and B Clothes Shop one six four Owight,
- 10:57Jamaica Avenue.
- 11:05Speaker 2: And now doctor Watson. Doctor Watson, you were a lady
- 11:08to us the adventure of the Great Pasha.
- 11:10Speaker 3: So I was, mister Hart, So I was. As I
- 11:13told you a moment ago, Lord Kempton had been intoxicated,
- 11:16and it was plain that the mysterious stranger who left
- 11:19the Paddots just after the fatal accident that night was
- 11:22also intoxication. My friend Holmes was never one to jump
- 11:26at hasty conclusions without all the facts. A few hours later,
- 11:30we visited Alex Brand at his club on Powellmouth.
- 11:36Speaker 1: It's the Brand. Do you mind telling me where you
- 11:38were last night?
- 11:39Speaker 5: There was a bad effected to home than I was
- 11:41miles from London in Liverpool to be.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Exact, Liverpool existing didy, hey, isn't it?
- 11:48Speaker 5: If you've doubt my word, you've only telegraphed the a
- 11:50dealthy hotel in that city and they were confirmed my statement.
- 11:54Aside from miss Gentleman, there is no doubt in my
- 11:57mind that Lord Kempton is directly respons for Albert Moylen's death. Indeed,
- 12:02how friend it so happens with the home that Gray
- 12:05Pasha hated his mouth there. In fact, the horse always
- 12:09went into a tantrum whenever his lordship approached. It seems
- 12:12that Lord Kempton drank heavily and often beat him unmercifully.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Well to Holmes, and that would explain it. And Lord
- 12:20Kempton approached the stables in a drunken stupor Gray Parsher.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Went mad in his stall, and yes quite Watson quite
- 12:26but come my death phellone back to the manor So
- 12:36his lordship did leave the house late last night, Lady Kempton, and.
- 12:39Speaker 3: In an intoxicated conditioner.
- 12:41Speaker 8: Ah, oh, yes, there's no use denying it. He drank
- 12:45heavily because he was worried about his debts. To that Blackguard.
- 12:48Speaker 3: Mister Brad it might interest you to know, Lady Kempton,
- 12:50that his lordship wandered down to the stables last night.
- 12:53Speaker 8: Charles he went out at the stables. Then, Great Pasha
- 12:57he must have seen Charles coming.
- 12:59Speaker 1: And you must have what, Lady Kempton.
- 13:04Speaker 8: Nothing, mister Helmes.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Nothing. I regret to say your hesitation is significant, very
- 13:09how would you mean we have it on some authority?
- 13:11The Gray Pasha hated Lord Kenton went into a tantrum
- 13:14at his very appearance.
- 13:15Speaker 8: Mister Holmes, what are you trying to say?
- 13:17Speaker 1: I'm afraid the implication, unfortunately that his lordship is quite obvious.
- 13:21And by the way, Lady Kempton, yes, you smoke, hose,
- 13:25what do you quiet well, Lady.
- 13:27Speaker 8: Kimpton, I smoke. Why no, mister Holmes, I've never touched tobacco.
- 13:34Why do you ask?
- 13:35Speaker 1: Oh? An idle question and perhaps irrelevant now, if you'll
- 13:39excuse us, Lady Kepton, I should like to have another
- 13:41look at Gray Pasha's stall. Well, Watson, there's Gray pasha
- 13:55stall just ahead of the moonlight hoes.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Why did you ask Lady Kempton whether she smoked?
- 14:00Speaker 1: Cause I noticed a brown stain on her fingers resembling nicotine. Well,
- 14:04what are but nearly a detail? Perhaps worthless, perhaps significant?
- 14:08And speaking of details, did you notice that lady Kempton
- 14:11is a slim and athletic woman, and that the rug
- 14:14on her sitting room floor was a bit untidy?
- 14:16Speaker 3: What's the floor of your sitting room got to do
- 14:18with all this?
- 14:18Speaker 1: I shall know better when I examine the roof come
- 14:20found in homes.
- 14:21Speaker 3: You are a Chinese riddle to night. First you speak
- 14:23of a floor than of a roof?
- 14:25Speaker 1: What roof? Roofs of gray? Pasha stall here, Watson? As
- 14:29you see, it's quite accessible to any one of reasonable
- 14:31agility because of its slow pitched to the ground. I
- 14:35propose to climb up there now and give it a
- 14:38thorough examination.
- 14:39Speaker 6: Aw ha, ha Hapose what the deuce do you expect
- 14:44to find up there on the.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Roof, patients Wat's impatience, I A ha, what is it?
- 14:49Speaker 3: What'd you find?
- 14:50Speaker 1: The boards are the store roof here are walked apart.
- 14:53I can see down into the stall itself through this aperture?
- 14:56Is that significant HOAt is indeed very significant? Watson? I
- 15:01suppose you'll find a dark lantern somewhere about the premises.
- 15:03I'm quite sure you'll find one of the groom's cottage if.
- 15:06Speaker 3: No one else. For what purpose?
- 15:08Speaker 1: I should like to examine the interior of the store below,
- 15:11and particularly it's occupant, Gray Pasha.
- 15:21Speaker 3: A great pasture of that heusy boy is he was
- 15:26at it like the way there's least's acting here in
- 15:28the store. He's a high strung animal, you.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Know, Yes he is, indeed, Watson, But try to keep
- 15:32him still while I examined the back of this group
- 15:34by the light of the lantern.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Hose would you expect to find there?
- 15:37Speaker 1: If I'm not wrong, my dear fellow, ha ha, hose,
- 15:41what is observed? Watson? Note these tiny scars on Gray
- 15:44Pasha's back there quite fresh and Watson, Yes, you seem
- 15:49to have a visitor coming through the padder gate with
- 15:51the lantern, and if to visit her, Gray Pasha doesn't
- 15:56like Watson, look out to be going there to death.
- 16:01That cuts him back. Sing against the walls, they credas hooleful.
- 16:04I wave the lantern in the sta hiding away from
- 16:07the heaven. I'm through the door, Thank heaven.
- 16:19Speaker 3: He got outsafing that was close.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of getting out, whatts and our visitors doing
- 16:25the same running toward the Manor in the moonlight?
- 16:27Speaker 3: Whose? Who can it be? I can't chill from here?
- 16:29Speaker 1: The man who plotted this fiendish and devilish scheme, Watson,
- 16:32mister Alex Branded, he was here last night, when was
- 16:36on the country, He was in Liverpool last night. I
- 16:38checked my telegram, Holmes.
- 16:39Speaker 3: And who did Moylon.
- 16:40Speaker 1: See when a patients Wotson, I should explain later. You
- 16:43must get to the Manor at once.
- 16:54Speaker 3: Whose Why aren't we looking for brand? What did you
- 16:57interest you?
- 16:57Speaker 1: Here?
- 16:57Speaker 3: In the closet of Lady Kempton's sitting.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Room, Watson, Note that the rug is mud stained, the
- 17:03stains are faint, to be sure that they lead to
- 17:05this closet. And hh, what is it? Precisely what I expected?
- 17:10A pair of mud stained hobnail boots, the same boots
- 17:13which left the tracks we saw on the paddock path.
- 17:16Lord Kempton's spoke exactly, but worn by Lady Kempton last night.
- 17:20My dear fellow, It's obvious Lady Kempton wore her husband's boots,
- 17:24planted the footprints, staggered them in a pattern of intoxication,
- 17:28and it was she who drove Gray Pasha a cirque
- 17:31so that he trampled Moyler Sweet Watson. The brown stains
- 17:35on her fingers. I have some knowledge of chemistry, and
- 17:38those stains looked suspiciously like those caused by concentrated nitric acid.
- 17:42Speaker 3: Nitric acid, you mean she exactly?
- 17:45Speaker 1: Lady Kempton approached Gray Pasha's store from the rear, clambered
- 17:48upon the roof in the dead of night while Moren
- 17:50was asleep. Then she poured concentrated nitric acid on Gray
- 17:54Pasha's back through the aperture in the roof.
- 17:56Speaker 3: No wonder the horse went mad.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Miss Watson, and after that she picked up lantern at
- 18:00the paddock gate, leaving her husband's telltale footprints. Meanwhile, by
- 18:04previous arrangement, Alex Brand was in Liverpool to establish his
- 18:07own innocence. But I believe it was he who plotted
- 18:11this diabolical crime.
- 18:12Speaker 5: You are quite right, mister Holmes.
- 18:14Speaker 3: I dare pose his bread, Lady Kimpton.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Don't you.
- 18:18Speaker 5: I am noted as a good shot with a pistol,
- 18:21especially this one. Oh my dear, I'm afraid out that
- 18:25the plan went all right.
- 18:27Speaker 8: Yes, Alex, but you were so sure, great part of
- 18:29it crushed these two when you approached.
- 18:31Speaker 5: I must say he did his best.
- 18:32Speaker 1: It's obvious, my dear Brand, that it was you whom
- 18:34the brouk disliked, not Lord Kempton.
- 18:36Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes, I owned the animal as a colt.
- 18:39He was unruly and I beat him to leave bled.
- 18:42I hoped he would take care of you if I
- 18:45visited him personally to night, but apparently something went wrong.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Didn't expect us to get out of the store, did you.
- 18:51Speaker 5: Bread, No, Doctor Watson, I did not, and that leaves
- 18:54me with some unfinished business before Lady Kempton and I leave.
- 18:58After all, I owe you both something. If you hadn't appeared,
- 19:01my hosse Roulette would have wondered, Dobby, I've.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Got that, young Bran. What is Lord Kilton?
- 19:05Speaker 1: Quick? Watson? The gun seat An Watson.
- 19:09Speaker 3: It's all right, horse shot with world, but I've got
- 19:13the pistol. Now you make one more move, Brand, I'll
- 19:16shoot you down. Ellen.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Ellen, I heard everything at the door.
- 19:20Speaker 3: So you conspired with this.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Feet, Yes, you poor wakefool.
- 19:24Speaker 8: If I'd stayed with you would have been penniless.
- 19:26Speaker 4: You young damn you're responsible for this brand you are
- 19:29going to take away from me.
- 19:30Speaker 7: Eh.
- 19:31Speaker 1: I ought to thrattle you here where you sed tend.
- 19:33I ought to chunk the breath out of you. I
- 19:35rather unnecessary procedure, my dear Lord Kenton. But it comes
- 19:39to that sort of thing, no one does it more
- 19:41efficiently than the hangman. Well, doctor Watson, that was an
- 19:57exciting adventure, indeed.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Yes, and although neither Gray Pasha nor Roulette ran in
- 20:03the derby, I managed to pick the winner, and shall
- 20:07we say, earned an extra month's pension money.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Well, good for you, doctor, And now, doctor Watson, what
- 20:12adventure will you have for us next week?
- 20:14Speaker 3: Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you the
- 20:17adventure of doctor Winthrop's notorious carriage. It concerns a bouquet
- 20:23of orchids, a purple vest and a dismembered corpse lying
- 20:28in an alley by the stage door of an abandoned
- 20:32Theete