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The Vanishing Herd · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 2: That it would come as a shock to hear of
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  Speaker 2: someone who didn't want the help of the world's greatest detective.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Huxtable, when I learned that the purpose of your visit
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  Speaker 1: to London was to enlist the services of Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes, I was shocked.
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  Speaker 6: But, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Wilder, the police have failed.
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  Speaker 1: His Grace is by no means convinced that the police
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  Speaker 1: have failed. But I cannot understand why you object to
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  Speaker 1: using the services of Mr.
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  Speaker 8: that goal.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the crime of kidnapping seems never to go out
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  Speaker 2: of fashion. Historically, it reaches as far back as the
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  Speaker 2: ancient Greeks and Romans. However, I didn't know until recently
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  Speaker 2: that Sherlock Holmes was once called upon to solve a
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  Speaker 2: sensational abduction. Holmes' good friend Watson called it the case
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  Speaker 2: of the vanishing herd.
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  Speaker 1: Our snug quarters at Baker Street have had some dramatic
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  Speaker 1: entrances and exits, but none more sudden and startling than
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  Speaker 1: the first appearance of Thornycroft Huxtable M.A.P.H.E. After his first
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  Speaker 1: thunderous knocking, the door opening and closing behind him, he
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  Speaker 1: took one step forward.
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  Speaker 7: And collapsed almost at Holmes' feet.
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  Speaker 4: Quick, Watson. I'll get a cushion. You fetch the brandy. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: If it's your diagnosis that that's what our visitor needs.
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  Speaker 4: I'll check, Holmes. Here's the cushion.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: What's his illness? Absolute exhaustion.
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  Speaker 1: And possibly mere hunger and fatigue. I think some biscuits
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  Speaker 1: and milk would be.
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  Speaker 4: Better than brandy. Oh, dear me, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive this momentary weakness.
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  Speaker 4: You see, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: I left the school to ensure that you come with
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  Speaker 1: me immediately to Mackleton.
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  Speaker 4: My dear Dr. Hoxtonville. How do you know my name?
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  Speaker 1: It's elementary, sir. He took your card from your pocket
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  Speaker 1: when he went to your aid. Oh, for which I
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  Speaker 1: do thank you both.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm quite.
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  Speaker 1: Recovered now, and we don't have much time if we're
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  Speaker 1: to catch the.
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  Speaker 4: Next Jane to Mackleton.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid that's out of the question. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: nothing of the abduction of the only son of the
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  Speaker 1: Duke of Holderness?
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  Speaker 4: The ex-cabinet minister? Exactly. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Me, sir, what have you to do with the abduction?
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  Speaker 1: My dear Watson, Dr. Huxtable is the headmaster of one
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  Speaker 1: of England's most exclusive schools. It's only logical to assume
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  Speaker 1: that the boy was taken from his school. We tried
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  Speaker 1: to keep it out of the papers, but last night
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  Speaker 1: the Globe printed some rumors which I thought might have
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  Speaker 1: reached your ears.
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  Speaker 4: I'm well aware that the Duke is one of the
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  Speaker 4: great men in the kingdom. Oh, and one of the wealthiest.
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  Speaker 1: His grace will hand a check for 5,000 pounds to
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  Speaker 1: whomever locates his son.
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  Speaker 4: Watson, pack a bag. We're accompanying Dr. Huxable to the
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  Speaker 4: north of England. Excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: You relieve my mind, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: And you, sir, when you've finished with your nourishment, will
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  Speaker 1: you tell me how it happened and what you now
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  Speaker 1: have to do with the matter?
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  Speaker 4: And finally.
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  Speaker 1: why you come to me three days after the event
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  Speaker 1: to engage my humble services. But you told me you
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard of the abduction. So how could you know
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  Speaker 1: it took place three days ago? The state of your
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  Speaker 1: chin and the growth of your beard gives me the date. Now,
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  Speaker 1: finish your biscuits and milk, and we'll hear the story
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  Speaker 1: on the way.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 8: Well, now, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, you seem to be familiar with my school, the Priory.
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  Speaker 1: It is the best and most selective preparatory.
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  Speaker 2: School in England.
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  Speaker 1: But I felt that it had reached its zenith when
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  Speaker 1: the Duke of Holderness informed me that he wished to
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  Speaker 1: enroll his son.
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  Speaker 4: And heir, Lord Saltmire.
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  Speaker 1: And when was this?
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  Speaker 4: Three weeks ago. The boy was charming and.
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  Speaker 1: Soon adapted and was extremely happy, which was not the
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  Speaker 1: case at his home.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it is.
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  Speaker 2: An open secret that the Duke's.
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  Speaker 1: Married life hasn't been as happy as one could hope,
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  Speaker 1: but the Duchess left Haudenosaunee.
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  Speaker 2: For the south of France about a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: The boy sided with his mother and was certainly discontented,
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  Speaker 1: which was the reason for the Duke sending him to
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  Speaker 1: my school. And he disappeared on last seen Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: His absence was discovered on Tuesday morning. His bed had
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  Speaker 1: been slept in. He dressed himself fully before going out,
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  Speaker 1: and his room was in perfect order.
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  Speaker 4: There was no sign of any struggle.
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  Speaker 1: You've been very remiss in not coming to me sooner.
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  Speaker 4: However, it can't be helped.
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  Speaker 1: We can continue with this on the train.
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  Speaker 7: But can you hold out any hope at all, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure I've told you everything, but
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  Speaker 1: is it enough?
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  Speaker 4: It's enough to raise some very curious questions, Dr. Huxtable.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: And my biggest question concerns the missing German professor, Heidegger.
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  Speaker 4: Heidegger. That's the chap.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, don't you think it's suspicious that he turns up
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  Speaker 1: missing the same day as the lad? As I said, Watson,
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  Speaker 1: it's curious.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Huxtable has assured us that there was no contact between
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  Speaker 1: the boy and Professor Heidegger.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, none whatever.
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  Speaker 1: The boy wasn't taking German. And so far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: they never even exchanged a word.
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  Speaker 4: That's all very well.
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  Speaker 1: But it's more than a coincidence that both he and
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  Speaker 1: the boy disappeared on the same day.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you agree, Holmes? Yes, Watson, I'm in complete agreement.
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  Speaker 1: It's much more than a coincidence, and one which we'll
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  Speaker 1: look into when we get to the school. Gentlemen, the
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  Speaker 1: Duke and his secretary, Mr. Wilder, are in my study
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  Speaker 1: here at the school, and I should like you to
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  Speaker 1: meet them. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: Then follow me, please.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 1: His Grace, the Duke of Holderness, and Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Wilder. I came this morning, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Huxtable, too late to prevent your starting for London.
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  Speaker 4: Prevent me, Mr. Wilder, from starting? Precisely.
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  Speaker 1: When I learned that the object of your visit was
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  Speaker 1: to invite Mr. Sherlock Holmes to undertake this case. His
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  Speaker 1: grace is surprised, Dr. Huxtable, that you should take this
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  Speaker 1: step without consulting him. Well, surely, Mr. Wilder, my seeking
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  Speaker 1: out Sherlock Holmes... You're well aware of how his grace
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  Speaker 1: feels about notoriety and that Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes' reputation is worldwide.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I agree with Mr. Wilder that you, Dr. Huxtable,
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  Speaker 1: would have done wisely to consult me.
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  Speaker 4: But since Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes is already privy to what has occurred, it would
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  Speaker 1: be absurd not to avail ourselves of his services.
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  Speaker 4: Your Grace... At the moment, I assume you have received
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  Speaker 4: no ransom note? No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me for the reference, but it must be asked.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think the Duchess.
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  Speaker 1: Had anything to do with the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Why, I do not think so, no. One more question,
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  Speaker 4: Your Grace.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that you wrote to your son upon the
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  Speaker 1: day this incident occurred.
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  Speaker 4: I know. I wrote the day before. Exactly. But he
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  Speaker 4: received it on that day. Aye, so I'm told.
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  Speaker 1: Was there anything in that letter which might have upset
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  Speaker 1: him or induced him to run away?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly not. Did you post that letter yourself?
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  Speaker 1: His Grace is not in the habit of posting letters himself.
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  Speaker 1: This letter was with the others on the study table,
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  Speaker 1: and I myself put them in the post bag.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: How many letters did Your Grace write that day?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, twenty or thirty.
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  Speaker 1: I have a large correspondence, but surely that is somewhat irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: Not entirely. For my own part, I have advised the
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  Speaker 1: police to turn their attention to the south of France... Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've already said that I do not believe the Duchess
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  Speaker 1: would encourage so monstrous an action, but the lad is strong-minded,
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  Speaker 1: and it is possible that, aided by the German, he
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  Speaker 1: may have fled to her.
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  Speaker 4: And now, Dr. Huxtable, I think we will return to
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  Speaker 4: the hall.
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  Speaker 1: After the Duke and his secretary had left somewhat abruptly,
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  Speaker 1: Holmes and I were shown to our rooms.
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  Speaker 4: And shortly thereafter, we met.
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  Speaker 1: With Inspector Richardson of the local police on the lawn
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  Speaker 1: underneath the windows of the missing Professor Heidegger.
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  Speaker 10: I've long been a great admirer of yours, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: And when I can, I try to fashion my methods
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  Speaker 2: after yours.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Inspector. I take that as a compliment. What
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  Speaker 4: do you make of our mystery here?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, no question but that the lad and the professor,
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  Speaker 10: this German, are connected.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. Oh, they went off together, I'm certain.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told that only the bicycle belonging to Professor
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  Speaker 1: Heidegger is missing.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, that's so. The boy had no bicycle.
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  Speaker 1: And it's quite certain that there's no other bicycle missing?
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  Speaker 4: Quite.
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  Speaker 10: I'm surprised that you haven't hit on the answer by now.
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  Speaker 10: The bicycle was a blind. They hit it somewhere and
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  Speaker 10: went off on foot.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent, my dear inspector.
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  Speaker 1: But weren't there other bicycles in the shed where the
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  Speaker 1: professor kept his?
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  Speaker 4: Separate.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't someone desiring you.
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  Speaker 7: To believe that they'd ridden off.
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  Speaker 1: Have hidden two bicycles rather than one?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I suppose he would.
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  Speaker 1: But, Holmes, you agreed with the inspector that the two
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  Speaker 1: were connected. And so they were.
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  Speaker 4: What? And so they were. But how, Mr. Holmes, how?
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  Speaker 1: That's only a theory, Inspector. You shall have to wait
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  Speaker 1: until I can prove it. But I'll give.
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  Speaker 10: You a clue.
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  Speaker 4: The lad, young Lord Saltmeyer, went off fully dressed. Correct? Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Let me call to your attention, Inspector, that the professor's
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  Speaker 1: rooms faced the same way as the missing boys. And
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  Speaker 1: the professor went away only partly dressed, since your investigation
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  Speaker 1: showed that he'd left his shirt and socks on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: But, Mr. Holmes, what is that supposed to prove?
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  Speaker 1: I suggest you check out Professor Heidegger's eyesight. Holmes spent
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  Speaker 1: most of the evening poring over a large ordinance map
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  Speaker 1: of the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: This case grows upon me, Watson. Come over here like
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  Speaker 4: a good chap and.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this map.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the school. Now, you see this line?
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  Speaker 1: It's the only road past the school. It runs east
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  Speaker 1: and west.
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  Speaker 4: Very clear. We can take it further, my good fellow.
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  Speaker 4: By a happy chance.
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  Speaker 1: I have proven that no one passed along that road
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  Speaker 1: after midnight on Monday night. We have the word of
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  Speaker 1: a constable and an innkeeper. But can you be sure
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  Speaker 1: of this, Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: The lady who runs the inn was up waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a doctor. And the constable never left his post at
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  Speaker 1: the crossroads. So, Watson, we can say the fugitives never
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  Speaker 1: used the road at all. But the bicycle?
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  Speaker 4: Quite so.
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  Speaker 1: I say they must have traversed the country to the
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  Speaker 1: north or south. Now, if they went south... they'd encounter
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  Speaker 1: a number of tilled fields with stone walls dividing them,
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  Speaker 1: which makes a bicycle impossible.
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  Speaker 4: But to the.
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  Speaker 1: North, there's a great rolling moor intersected with paths.
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  Speaker 4: A cyclist doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Need a road with the moon at the foot.
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  Speaker 4: Come in. Oh, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Huxtable.
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  Speaker 4: I say, we have a clue at last. Thank heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Inspector Richardson found the boy's cap.
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 2: In the van of some gypsies who camped on the moor.
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  Speaker 1: They left on Tuesday. Richardson has the police on their trail.
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  Speaker 1: Today they found them and the cap in the caravan.
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  Speaker 4: How did they account for it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they said they found it on the moor Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they lied, but either the law or the
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  Speaker 1: duke's purse will get the truth out of them. So
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  Speaker 1: we can all sleep well tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Good night. He's right, Watson.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: We'll both need a good night's sleep, since we have
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  Speaker 1: to be up and about with the sunrise to see
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  Speaker 1: if we can find the real solution to this mystery.
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  Speaker 4: The gypsies may be telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The End.
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  Speaker 2: From time immemorial, gypsies have had a bad name. I've
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  Speaker 2: tried to do some research to discover whether or not
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  Speaker 2: it's deserved, but it's difficult to find any definite statistics
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  Speaker 2: since the gypsy people are such fierce individualists. I think
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  Speaker 2: we'd best leave the answer to Sherlock Holmes and his
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  Speaker 2: encyclopedic knowledge when we return to Act Two shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Wyman Saunders.
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  Speaker 12: Little Bo Peep lost her sheep, but instead of being depressed,
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  Speaker 12: she decided to pull herself together. She realized it was
• 18:14
  Speaker 12: her little old helpless me way of thinking that made
• 18:17
  Speaker 12: her so vulnerable to circumstances and negative criticism that she
• 18:20
  Speaker 12: was not only tearing herself down, but even turning people's
• 18:24
  Speaker 12: compliments into downers by saying things like, you can't mean me,
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: you're just trying to make me feel good. So most
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: of her friends began to conclude, well, if she doesn't
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: like herself, why should I like her? After all, she
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: knows herself better than anyone else. Bo Peep finally realized
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: she needed to recognize her strengths and focus on them
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  Speaker 12: a new sense of self-confidence.
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  Speaker 4: She likes herself.
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  Speaker 12: I'd like to send you a free copy of my
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  Speaker 12: in a letter and send it to heartbeat Hartford, Connecticut.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: This is free. This is heartbeat.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Every fan of Sherlock Holmes knows that Arthur Conan Doyle was, in.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Reality, a physician.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: They also know that he started out as a practicing
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: doctor and only turned to writing to augment his income. However,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard any of the thousands
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: of Holmes fans ever question why Doyle made Watson such
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a naive bumbler and also a physician. Was this really
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: his opinion of the medical profession? I find this a
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: fascinating question which ought to be investigated by some fan
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of the Holmes saga.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: The day was just breaking over the priory school and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the northern moors when Holmes was.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: At my bedside shaking me awake. Wake up, Watson. Wake up.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: There's tea or cocoa ready in the next room.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I've already done the lawn and the bicycle shed, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I must beg you to hurry, for unless I'm much mistaken,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: we have a great day before us. I dressed hurriedly
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and joined Holmes, and we struck out on the russet
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: peaty moor intersected with a thousand sheep paths.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I say, Holmes, isn't it late.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: For us to expect to find any traces of their
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: passage since so much time has elapsed?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Ordinarily, you would be right, Watson.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But the map showed a watercourse across the moor.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: In some parts, it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Even widens into a morass. At that part, I expect
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to find some evidence to support my theory. Do you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: think the German professor was in league with the gypsies?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You may recall, Watson, that I asked you to think
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: about the eyesight of this Professor Heidegger.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: What does that have to do with anything?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: My dear chap, just look at the facts.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The professor's window faces the same way as the Duke's son.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The professor was known as a night owl. In his room,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: his socks and shirt were found. Evidence that a man
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: had dressed in haste. Now, Watson, I submit that Professor
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Heidegger was looking out his window on Monday night and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: saw the lad climb down the vine and slip away
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: into the night.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: The good man immediately dressed hastily, threw.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: On anything that came to hand, climbed down the aisle
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: outside his window, got his bicycle, and rode off to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the lad to bring him back.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: What? Joe Holmes? That's amazing. Sheep.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Sheep.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Nothing but sheep seems to have been here.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Here are some tracks that aren't sheep.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Not sheep, Watson, but not the marks we seek. These
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: are cow tracks. See, we're not going to find anything.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: We're temporarily checked, I'll grant you. But there's another morass
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: down yonder, and a narrow neck between.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: What have we here?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: You've hit it again, Holmes.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: We have it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Those are the tracks of a bicycle. A bicycle, certainly.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: But not the bicycle.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with 42 different impressions left by tires. This
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was made by a Dunlop with a patch on the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: outer cover.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Heidegger's tires were.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Palmers, which leave longitudinal stripes.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Huxtable was very positive on that point.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that Heidegger used palmers.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Well, this is the track of the boy, then, eh?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: It's possible.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: if we could prove that the young lad had a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: bicycle in his possession.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: But this we have totally failed to do. You see,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: of course... that this track was made by a rider.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: going away from the school.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: And we shall follow it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: backwards before we go any farther.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: We lose the tracks when we come out on the
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: hard ground.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Holmes, I see the suggestion of a spring over there.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Excellent, Watson.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can pick up that track again
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: over where the ground is damp.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Ah, ah, here we are again.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: It's still moving towards the school.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, dash it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It's no use, Holmes. It disappears as soon as the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: ground gets hard and the cow tracks cover it. It's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: useless to continue backwards. Let's return to the morass and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: see if we can't.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Pick up some other clues.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Is it possible, Holmes, that the professor changed tires deliberately
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: in order to throw us off the scent?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Watson, that's a truly brilliant idea.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And a criminal who was capable of such a thought is.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: A man with whom I'd be proud to do business.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: But I somehow doubt this is the case here. Come, Watson,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: back to our swamp, and let's hope for some luck.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: It was wearisome work systematically surveying the edge of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: sodden section of the moor. And I confess I was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: beginning to doubt Holmes and his theory when I heard
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a cry of delight from him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Ah, the palmer tire! He is here hiding us, sure enough.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I congratulate you, Holmes.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: But I fear it won't lead very far.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Why do you say that, Holmes?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, we shall see. Observe, Watson.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Our rider is now undoubtedly forcing the pace. Look at
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this impression, where both tires are clear.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: See, that one is as deep as the other. Which means.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: That the rider is throwing his weight onto the handlebar,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: as a man does when he's sprinting.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: By Jove, he's had a fall. Oh, here's a side slipper.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I think not, Watson. Look at this clump of gorse.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I say, blood.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Bad.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Bad. It's turning ugly. Very ugly. Now stand clear, Watson.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: At an unnecessary footstep. What do I read here? He
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: fell wounded. He stood up. He remounted. He proceeded. But
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: there are no other tracks of any kind.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: There are tracks of cattle on this side path.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Come, Watson. Let us push on.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Our search wasn't a very long one. The tire tracks
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: began to swerve erratically. A gleam of metal caught my
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: eye among the thick gorse bushes. Out of them we
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dragged a bicycle, palm attired, one pedal bent, and the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: whole front of it horribly smeared with blood. I think
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we have our unfortunate Professor Watson. Right here.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Give me your hand. And tell me the cause of death.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, I'm sure you didn't need me, Holmes, to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: tell you that the man died from a frightful blow
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: on the head. There must have been an extraordinarily strong
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and courageous man to go on after receiving.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Such an injury.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Watson, we've progressed this morning. We've picked up several clues.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: But before we can proceed, we must separate the essential
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: from the accidental.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I'll be blessed to find out which is which. You
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: do know. Now let's go to the beginning.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: That lad was completely dressed.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: What do you deduce from that?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Well, that he planned to leave and went off on
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: his own free will, Captain Watson. And now to our
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: unfortunate German teacher.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: How did he leave? In haste.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: He saw something from his window, and by Jove, he
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: must have seen the lad leaving.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: He went after him to try to bring him back, exactly.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: But now we come to a critical part of my deductions.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: What's the natural way for a man to pursue a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: small boy?
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Well, to run after him, of course. Of course. But
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: the German turns to his bicycle. Why, Watson?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I simply have no idea. Because he saw that the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: boy had some swift means of escape.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Perhaps.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: It's most certainly a possibility, but let's continue.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Our courageous German teacher meets his death five miles from
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: the school.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: He's killed by a savage blow to the head, delivered
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: by a vigorous arm.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: So, our young Lord.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Saltmeyer must have had a companion in his flight.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: My thought exactly.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Yet, when we survey the ground around the scene of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the tragedy, what do we find?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: A few cattle tracks.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Nothing more.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So, another cyclist could have had nothing to do with
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the actual murder. Nor, indeed, can we find any human footmarks. Holmes,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: this is impossible.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: A wise remark. As I stated, it is impossible.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Therefore, I must have gone wrong somewhere. Can you suggest
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: any fallacy?
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: The gypsies. Don't forget the gypsies.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Are you suggesting that they have supernatural powers? They can
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: use a caravan that doesn't leave tracks? And also their
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: tribe leaves no footprints?
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Leave me at my wit's end. Not to worry, Watson.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: We've solved worse problems. We still have material. It's up
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to us to use it. We've exhausted the palmer. But
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: let's see what the Dunlop with the patched cover has
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to offer us. We picked up the track of the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Dunlop and followed it for some distance. But the moor
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: soon rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, leaving the water
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: course behind us, so no further tracks could be hoped for.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: We last saw the tracks, which could have gone on
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to Holderness Hall, the stately towers of which rose just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: some miles to our left, or to a low, grey
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: village which lay in front of us.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Well, Watson, shall we toss a coin?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Head to the left and tails to the right. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: don't know about you. hoes, but I could do with
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: some refreshment. Tramping about in the moors gives a chap
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: an appetite.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: You know. Let's head for the village then, Watson. There
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: must be an inn.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: As we approached a somewhat squalid inn with the sign
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of a Gamecock.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Above the door, Holmes suddenly grasped my shoulder and groaned
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: with pain. Oh, Watson. Here.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: My ankle.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Hop over to the side of the road, man.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Let me take a look at it. No, no, no, no.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Let's get to the inn.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I see the landlord sitting in the doorway.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Just help me. There. Thank you, Watson. And how are you, Mr.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Ruben Hayes? How are you?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: And how did you get my name so fat?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Well, it's printed on the board above your head.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Sure it is. You're a sharp one, ain't you?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I can read if you consider that sharp. I don't
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: suppose you have such a thing as a carriage in
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: your stables?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: No, I have not.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I can hardly put my foot to the ground.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: So don't put it to the ground. This is really
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: rather an awkward fix. I don't know how I'm going
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: to continue. Neither do I.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: The matter is very important. I'd gladly offer you a
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: sovereign for the use of a bicycle.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: A sovereign? Huh? Where do you want to go? To
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Holderness Hall. Parents of the Duke, I suppose.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I know he'll be glad to see us.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: And how do you know that?
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Because we bring him news of his lost son.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: What? You're on his track, then? He's been heard of
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: in Liverpool. They expect to get him any hour. I'll
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: help you take the news to the hall. Thank you.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: But first we'll have some food. Then you can bring
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the bicycle round. I told you, man, I haven't got one.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I bet you have two horses as far.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: As the hall.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that after we've had something to eat.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: But alone in the stone flag kitchen, to my astonishment,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Holmes sprang up and walked to the window. Holmes, your ankle!
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: A miraculous recovery, huh, Watson?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: That ankle was for the benefit of our gracious host,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Reuben Hayes. Gracious is certainly not the word to describe that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Ugly. What are you looking for? The answer. It's out
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: there somewhere I know.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: It's something I've seen and missed.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Something about tracks. By George. Of course. That must be it. Watson,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: old chap.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: I do believe I've found the answer. A.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Conan Doyle also found the answers in real life. He
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: did in the famous case of a man named Oscar Slater,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: tried and convicted for murder. Until Doyle wrote a book
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: showing that the evidence which had convicted him, a pawn
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: ticket for a possession of the murdered woman, had been
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: pawned before she was killed. Slater was released from prison.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I'll be back with a solution to our mystery shortly.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: The boy next door is a doctor and he's single.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: My daughter, what a girl.
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: She's single too.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I'll invite him.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: For some donuts and my coffee.
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: Maxwell House, I'm leaving it up to you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Maxwell House is.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Good moment. Maxwell House is.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Good coffee.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Good to the last drop. Maxwell House.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Get together with the great taste of Maxwell House coffee.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Coffee you can count on.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Good to the last drop.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: I struck Maxwell House.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Only Bayer.
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: Bayer aspirin.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Bayer. Of course.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Ask mothers, which is the only pain reliever you'll need
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: in your home this colds and flu season? And the
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: answer for millions would be.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Bayer, of course. Bayer.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Because the whole family can use it. Bayer because nothing else,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: short of a prescription, can do more for the aches, fever,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and sore throat pain.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Remember, rest, fluids, and all you need is.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: Bayer.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Only Bayer. Bayer aspirin. Use only as directed.
• 34:08
  Speaker 13: Turn back toward the window.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Crushed out a cigarette.
• 34:15
  Speaker 13: Hi, this is Kenny Rogers. Every cigarette smoker can stop.
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: Don't care how long or how much you've smoked, how
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: many times you've fallen off the wagon and tried to
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: crawl back on, or how chained you may think you
• 34:28
  Speaker 13: are to your cigarettes. Here's some tips on how to
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: get loose from cigarettes. First, believe in yourself. Then, begin
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: to carry your cigarettes in a different place. Switch your
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: brand of cigarettes at least twice a week. Don't carry
• 34:43
  Speaker 13: matches or a lighter. Challenge yourself each morning by jotting
• 34:47
  Speaker 13: down how many cigarettes you think you need and at
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: night how many you actually smoked. Don't get crippled in
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: your best years by heart disease.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Get some help. Quit smoking.
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: Call the American Heart Association and put your money where
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: your heart is.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Give to the American Heart Association. They're fighting for your life.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Another book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the Oscar
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Slater case got Slater a full pardon and compensation for
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the years he had served in prison before Doyle managed
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: to get him released. So when Doyle writes of Sherlock
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson, he's not without qualifications
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: on the logic of deduction.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I stared at an excited Sherlock Holmes as he stood
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: over me in the kitchen of that squalid hostelry.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: In the north of England.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Quickly, he rearranged the silverware on the table as he spoke,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: driving his point home. Watson, you remember seeing cow tracks today?
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, Holmes, many times. Where? Everywhere.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: They were at the morass, on the path, and again
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: where poor Heidegger met his death.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Exactly. How many cows did you see? Cows?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Well, come to think of it, I don't remember seeing any.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: It's very strange that we should see.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: So many tracks and never a cow on the whole moor. Watson,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: look at the way I've arranged the silverware and some
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of your breadcrumbs. Do they recall to you the way
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the tracks looked out there on the moor?
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: I really can't say. But I can. I can swear
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: to it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I've been blind not to draw my conclusion before. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: what is your conclusion?
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: That it is indeed a remarkable cow which walks, canters,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: and gallops.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I tell you, Watson, it wasn't the brain of a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: country innkeeper that conceived a trick like that. The coast
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: seems to be clear, save for that lad in the smithy.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Let's slip out and have a look in the stable.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: There were two rough-haired, uncooked horses.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: In the tumble-down stable.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Holmes raised the hind leg of one of them and laughed.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Old shoes, Watson, but newly shod. Old shoes, but new nails.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Mark that, Watson.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: This case deserves to be a classic.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Let's go across to the smithy.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: You're going fast, Spice. What are you doing prowling around
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: in my barn? Tell me that now, will you?
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Why, Mr. Reuben Hayes, one might think.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You were afraid of our finding something out.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: We've been having a look at your horses, but my
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: eye feels so much better. I think I'll walk after all.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's not far, I believe.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Slow on two miles to the hall gates. That's the
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: road to the left.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Holmes, I'm convinced that this Ruben Hayes knows all about it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: A more self-evident villain I never saw.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Hayes does give that impression.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: But then there's the matter of the cows. The vanishing cows.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: We must always keep that in mind.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: But I think we need another.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Look at the inn in an unobtrusive way.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Let's turn off at the road here and come upon
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it from the rear.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Come, Watson. Let's scramble up this hillside.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: I say, Holmes. Holmes, look.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Look there.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Along the road, from the hall.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: The cyclist. Come on, Watson. Get down.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Stay quite still, Watson. Let me take a look as
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: he goes past. I can see through these bushes, Holmes. Why,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: it's the Duke's secretary, Mr.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Wilder. So it is. And riding as if the hounds
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: of hell were his eagles. Come, Watson.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Let's see where he's headed and what he does. We
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: scrambled from rock to rock, making our way to the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: top of a hill, to a point from which we
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: commanded a view of the road.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: In the inn.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: By the time we reached this vantage point, Wilder had disappeared.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: But his bicycle was leaning against the wall near the
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: front door of the inn.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Suddenly, Holmes nudged me. Mr. James Wilder, there he is
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: now at the door. I see him, Holmes.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I suggest we go down and have a closer look. Holmes,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the bar is on the other side.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Quite so. These quarters are for what one might call
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: the private guests. Now, what in the world is Mr.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: James Wilder doing in this den at this hour of
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: the night? And who is the companion who comes to
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: meet him? I cannot say.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: At least I'd like a look at the tires on
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Wilder's bicycle.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Let's go quietly over there. Right. And now a match. Yes, sir.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: There's our patched dollop. Here's at Holmes.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Someone has lit a lamp in the window above us.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I must have a look through that window, Watson. I
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: can bend my back and brace myself against the wall.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: You think you can scramble up on my shoulders? Easily,
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: old chap.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: Come, my friend.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: We've done more than enough for one day.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: At 11 o'clock the next morning, Holmes and I were
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: ushered through the magnificent Elizabethan doorway of Holderness Hall and
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: into his crazy study.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: And there stood Mr.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Wilder, courteous and courtly, with some traces of the wild
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: terror of the night before still lurking in his eyes.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I know you've come to see his grace, but I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: afraid I have disappointing news for you.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: His grace is far from well.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: He has my sympathy, but I must see the Duke.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I believe he's in bed. I will see him there.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: You refuse? Mr.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Wilder, I told you, I must see the Duke. I
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: intend to see him. I will wait here, if you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: ask me, but I will see the Duke.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, very well, Mr. Holmes.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I'll tell him you're here and insist on seeing him.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Holmes, I shan't apologize for keeping you waiting... I understand
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you demanded to see me.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I think, Your Grace, that I could speak more freely
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: in Mr. Wilder's absence.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: The fact is that Mr. Wilder is my confidant, Your Grace.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: If Your Grace wishes, I can leave.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Perhaps you'd better go.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Now, Mr.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Holmes, my colleague, Dr.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Watson, and I had an assurance from Dr. Huxtable that
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: a reward had been offered.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: In this case.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I should like to have this confirmed from your own lips.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Certainly, Mr.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Holmes.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: If I was correctly informed, it amounted to 5,000 pounds...
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: to anyone who will tell you where your son is. Exactly.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I see your grace's checkbook on the table. I should
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: be pleased for you to make me out a check
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: for 5,000 pounds. I know where your son is. And
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I know some, at least, of those who are holding him.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Well, where is he?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: He is, or was, last night... At the Gamecock Inn,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: about two miles from your gate.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: And whom do you accuse?
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: You, Your Grace. Mr. Holmes, how much do you know?
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: I saw you together last night.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Does anyone besides your friend know?
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: I have spoken to no one. Well, however unwelcome the
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: information you have gained.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I'll be as good as my word and write you
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a check... I believe 5,000 pounds is the sum I
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: owe you, is it not?
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: I fear you.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Grace, that matters cannot be arranged so easily. There's the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: death of the schoolmaster to be accounted for. But you
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: can't hold James Wilder accountable for that.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: It was the work of.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: This brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I must take the view, Your Grace, that when a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: any other crime which may spring from it.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Morally, Mr.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Holmes, you're right, but surely not in the eyes of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the law. I... I appreciate your coming here before you
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: spoke to anyone else. You will at least help me
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: to minimize this hideous scandal. I want to help your
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: grace to the best of my ability, but in order
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: to do so, I must have absolute frankness.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Reuben Hayes was arrested at Chesterfield on my information at
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock last night. You continue to amaze me. Well,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I must say I'm glad to hear that Hayes has
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: been taken. If it won't harm James Wilder. Your secretary?
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: No, sir. My other son.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Now it's my turn to confess amazement, Your Grace.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I see the time has come to conceal nothing.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Holmes, I have two sons.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: James Wilder, illegitimate son. and my legitimate son and rightful heir, Arthur,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Lord Saltmire.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I should certainly not like to sit in.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Judgment on you, Your Grace, but Mr. Holmes, when I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: was a very young man, I loved a girl with
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: such a love as comes once in a lifetime. She
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: refused my offer of marriage because she was a commoner
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and she felt that the difference in our station might
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: harm my career.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: And where is she today? Dead, Mr. Holmes. Oh.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And on our deathbed, I promised her one thing. To
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: take care of our son, James Wilder.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: I have kept that promise.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: You seem proud of the fact, despite.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Your knowing that he was responsible for the abduction of
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: your legitimate heir. I only gained that knowledge last night
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: after he'd heard of the murder. He confessed that he'd
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: added a note in my last letter to Arthur, telling
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the lad that the Duchess wanted.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: To see him.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: And that he, James, would arrange it if Arthur would
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: meet him that night in the wood behind the school.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: And Arthur did, of course.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: But of course, it was then that James told my
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: heir that all he had to do was steal out
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the next night and a man with a carriage would
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: meet him in the wood and take him.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: To his mother.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: That's why Arthur dressed and went off with Ruben Hayes.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: It's just.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: unfortunate that the Germans saw him.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: It's also unfortunate that you didn't realize how your illegitimate
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: son felt about your heir. I cannot understand what James
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Wilder thought he stood to gain by this abduction.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Was it to hurt you? I can't explain, Mr. Holmes.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: You see.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: James has always felt that it is in my power
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: to break the entail.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: He also felt that as.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: The eldest son, he should inherit my estate. I think
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: he wanted to bargain with me. He'd give me back
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Arthur if I'd break the entail. He knew that I
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: could never set the police on him, never. Surely this
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: knows that you've condoned a felony. I have placed myself
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: completely in your hands, Mr.
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: Holmes. Just help me, is.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: All I ask.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I think Watson and I can consider our little visit
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: to the North a success.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: But there's one small point.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: On which I'd like some light. This fellow Hayes had
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: shod his horses with shoes that counterfeited the tracks of cows.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Did he learn such an extraordinary device from Mr.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: Wilder? No, Mr.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Holmes, step this way, please. Now, look at this case
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: here in the corner.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I see that these shoes were dug up in the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: moat of Holderness Hall. Those shoes belonged to some of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the moroding barons of the old days, and they were
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: designed to throw pursuers off the track.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Your Grace.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: It's the second most interesting object I've.
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: Seen in the North.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: And the first. Your Grace's check. I'm not a wealthy man.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: There's one facet of the story you just heard that
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: amazes me. And that is, it's the only tale by
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Conan Doyle that shows Holmes with an interest in money.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: After thinking about it, I decided it was because Holmes
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: didn't like the way the Duke treated his younger son
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: and was punishing him for it.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I'll be back shortly. Seven months pregnant, and now I
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: get hemorrhoids.
• 48:41
  Speaker 12: Oh, I got the one I was expecting, sis.
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: What'd you do?
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: Use Preparation H.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: Many find it gives temporary relief from flare-ups.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: The special ingredients.
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: Relieve pain and itch.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Sounds like real medicine.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Even helps shrink swollen, inflamed hemorrhoidal tissue.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: I'll try it.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Check your doctor before using any medicine.
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: Hi, how goes it today?
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Great, thanks to you and Preparation H.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Preparation H relieves pain and itch, helps shrink swelling, use
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: only as directed.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Charlie Daniels, and I'm very concerned about hunger
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: in our world. Every minute, 21 children die because they
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: don't have enough to eat.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: There is enough food to go around. for everybody. What's
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: needed now is for each.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Of us to care enough to get involved in this issue.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Now, I know you care. What can you do?
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Write politicians about your concern and support hunger organizations.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: For further information, write Impact on Hunger, 145 East 49th Street,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: New York, NY 10017.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Not only did Sir Arthur Doyle prove his logical deductions
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: in the field of real.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Crime, but he also helped British intelligence.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: In World War I, he.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Transmitted news to British POWs in Germany by sending what
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: looked like ordinary.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Books to them.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: However, he arranged to put needle pricks under various letters
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: so as to spell out messages. But he started with
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the third chapter because he said the German censor would
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: examine the earlier chapters more carefully.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: And he was right.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Our cast included John Beale, Court Benson, Ian Martin, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Ray Owens. The entire production was under the direction of
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Hyman Brown. And now, a preview of our next tale.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: He's a magician, all right.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I'm the escape artist.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: And we have to do it all over again.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, we'll track Corsini tomorrow and hold him this time.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: It sounded like Bart.
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Sergeant.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Sergeant.
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: Good Lord, Captain. The water.
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: The water.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: Well, what about it? I woke up thirsty.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: I went to the water tank. I poured this.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Madre de Dios. Look at that, Captain. Well, it looks red.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Red and thick. I tasted it, Captain. I drank some
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: before I saw what it looked like. It's blood, Captain.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: The water has all been turned to blood.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: This is E.G.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: WKBN, Youngstown, Ohio.