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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the singular affair of the
- 0:04dying schoolboy.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Well, mister Bell, that strange adventure again on a stormy
- 0:09September evening in Baker Street, many many years ago. All
- 0:13day along, the wind had screamed, the rain had beaten
- 0:15against our windows. Shortly after dinner there was the old
- 0:19familiar jangle on our front door bell, and a few
- 0:22moments later missus Hudson ushered a distinguished visitor into the room.
- 0:26As he stood there in front of the flickering firelight,
- 0:28I could see that he was a good looking man,
- 0:30and also that he was in a state of considerable excitement.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Now, Lord Manders, if you will just give us the facts.
- 0:38Speaker 4: Well, mister Holmes, three years ago I was a passenger
- 0:42on that ill fitted ship with Sophie Andersen. She was
- 0:45waked in the gill and I was the only survivor.
- 0:48I clung to a piece of broken spar and was
- 0:50washed ashore. And after that, for over two years I
- 0:52lived alone on an island in the Indulution. Naturally, when
- 0:55Sophie Andersen founded, I was believed to be dead. My
- 0:59young for the Eric who is next in line inherited
- 1:02the estate and the guardianship of our uncle.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Inquired a lot of confusion when you arrived home this year,
- 1:07Lord Mandon.
- 1:08Speaker 4: There was doctor Watson, but not for the reason you suppose.
- 1:13I landed in England to find that my brother had
- 1:15died last December. He died under very peculiar circumstances. That's
- 1:20why I've conf fumes to Holmes. What were those circumstances.
- 1:24My uncle sent Eric to a school on the Wilshmorls,
- 1:26not far from Cardiff, a school owns Punson be Hall.
- 1:30He died in the school in Thumbry. There supposed live pneumonia.
- 1:33Speaker 3: And you have some reason to believe it was not pneumonia.
- 1:36Nothing definite.
- 1:38Speaker 4: I've been down to the school, but doctor Punson, to
- 1:40the owner, was too ill to see me. However, I
- 1:42did talk to a frightening woman there who's the matron
- 1:45of the place, and missus Arkwright. I became suspicious, so
- 1:49I stayed on and for a few days made some
- 1:52local inquiries.
- 1:53Speaker 3: With what results.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Punson de Hall has a black name with the villagers,
- 1:57mister Holmes, five boys died bell in the last two
- 2:01years under circumstances similar to my brother's.
- 2:04Speaker 3: I presume that you immediately had an accounting with your uncle.
- 2:07Speaker 4: My uncle had settled another account before my return, mister Holmes,
- 2:11he died of a heart attack last February, but I
- 2:14am certain he was responsible for Eric's death. You see,
- 2:17he'stood to inherit the estate. It me sounded incredible, but
- 2:22I believe Eric was murdered at Hunsen Dehor.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Murdered in a boyish school. Oh, come, come, come, sir.
- 2:27Such things can't happen in this nineteenth century of.
- 2:30Speaker 3: World, but they can, Watson, and do. Unfortunately, you don't
- 2:33mean it, I do. A private school situated in a
- 2:37desolate spot and operated by an unprincipled scoundrel could provide
- 2:41excellent and profitable opportunities for removing unwonted relatives.
- 2:45Speaker 4: The ghastly thought, mister Holmes. I know that Eric's dad.
- 2:49Nothing can bring him to life again, but I can
- 2:51try and avenge his death and bring his murder to justice.
- 2:54Speaker 3: You will help me, won't you, Yes, Lord Banders, I will.
- 2:57If these shocking occurrences have been taking place, we may
- 2:59be able at least to prevent further tragedies. Watson, suppose
- 3:03we join Lord Manda's on the west of England Express
- 3:06tonight and tomorrow see what can be done to penetrate
- 3:09the black clouds that surround punsonby Hall.
- 3:22Speaker 4: We're walking in the wrong directions to homes the schools
- 3:25behind us, and before going there, I thought we might
- 3:27profitably player visit here in the village to lou Ellen Coffin.
- 3:31Who's here the local undertaker?
- 3:33Speaker 2: Undertake Coffin? Well, isn't it Coffin? Undertaker? Quite?
- 3:40Speaker 3: But try and control your amusement, will you, Watson? Here's
- 3:43this establishment now?
- 3:47Speaker 5: Good day, gentlemen.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Mister Coffin, Yes, sir, that's my name.
- 3:51Speaker 5: Coffin.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Where strangers in these parts and we're in search of information.
- 3:55I'm hoping, mister Coffin, that you'll be able to help us.
- 3:57Speaker 6: What I can do, Sir, I will and do it.
- 3:59Speaker 3: Grad I understand that you've had an unusually large proportion
- 4:03of business from punsonby Hall in the past two years.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Five boys died, didn't the five boys?
- 4:08Speaker 3: It was, mister Coffin. We've heard some strange stories in
- 4:11the village, yes, stories that make us wonder if those
- 4:14deaths were from natural causes.
- 4:16Speaker 6: Gentlemen, I'm a simple man, look you a man who
- 4:19plies his trade, but cannot afford to ask questions what
- 4:22goes on at Punsonby Hall. And I'll not say strange
- 4:25things haven't happened. There is none of my business.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Then let me appeal to your sympathis my young brother
- 4:31died at punson Be Hall last December. You must have
- 4:33buried him.
- 4:34Speaker 5: Your brother?
- 4:36Speaker 6: Well, now, look you, that makes it different. But you'll
- 4:39not say anything up at the hall, sir. Doctor Punsen
- 4:42is a savage man.
- 4:43Speaker 3: Don't worry on that score. Mister Coffin, what do you
- 4:46often know?
- 4:46Speaker 5: In, sir?
- 4:47Speaker 3: All the five boys were supposed to have had pneumonia.
- 4:49I understand that's what the medical report said. Who signed
- 4:53those reports?
- 4:54Speaker 6: Dr punsonby himself? He's a regular medical doctor.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Look you, how very convenient. No questions had to be asked,
- 5:02mister Coffin. When you prepared those bodies for burial? Did
- 5:05you notice anything unusual about them, anything to make you
- 5:08think their deaths were possibly not cause by pneumonia?
- 5:11Speaker 6: No, sir, think now think way now that you mention it.
- 5:19There was one thing I was often noticing.
- 5:21Speaker 2: Oh what was that? My good man?
- 5:23Speaker 6: The boys had a strange look on their faces as
- 5:25they lay there as if something had frightened the wits
- 5:28of the them.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Just before they died.
- 5:30Speaker 2: They heard the face of anyone dying from pneumonia would
- 5:34been reposed.
- 5:35Speaker 3: Did you notice anything else, mister Coffin, any other peculiarity.
- 5:38Speaker 6: Where there was one thing's heard that gave me to thinking.
- 5:42All the boys had marks on them states marks They
- 5:46were on their necks or shouldershaps.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Of a bite, remember doctor Rilett Oft Moran Holmes.
- 5:52Speaker 3: Did these marks look like the bites of a snake,
- 5:54mister Coffin.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Know that they were in Look, I know a snake
- 5:57bite when I see one.
- 5:58Speaker 4: Didn't these marks make you suspicious?
- 6:00Speaker 5: That they did?
- 6:01Speaker 2: Sir?
- 6:02Speaker 6: And when I saw them on the boys, I took
- 6:04my courage in my hands and asked doctor Punsonby and
- 6:06what did is say inoculation marks? He said that he
- 6:10had tried to save them with some new fangled medicine.
- 6:13Speaker 4: No autopsy was held on the boys, No, sir, Doctor
- 6:17Punsenby is the only doctor in these parts.
- 6:19Speaker 6: Look, he gave the certificates.
- 6:21Speaker 4: Who was to ask any questions?
- 6:23Speaker 3: Exactly? Come on, Watson, Lord Landers, this has been a
- 6:27very promising start. Thank you, mister Coffin. You've been most helpful.
- 6:31Speaker 6: It was a pleasure to talk to you, gentlemen, but
- 6:33please don't be after repeating what I said.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Well, mister Holmes, I think you'll agree my suspicions were
- 6:42well grunned.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Yes, and we'll lose no time investigating this matter. I
- 6:46think we may work fast if we divide our forces.
- 6:49I shall return to the Inn and composed a telegram
- 6:51that I shall ask you to send for me, Lord Menders.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Of course, mister Ms, aren't you going to Punson the
- 6:55whole homes?
- 6:56Speaker 3: Not immediately? However, you, my dear Watson, can be my
- 6:59advance guard. Yes. I think that your open countenance, combined
- 7:03with that delightful Scottish accent you sometimes assume plus an
- 7:06appropriate name, should low doctor punsonby into believing that he
- 7:10has another wealthy customer who needs his very specialized services.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Well, Homes, I'll do my best. It's the same. I'll
- 7:17be very relieved when you get on the scene.
- 7:34Speaker 3: I'm missus Arkwright, the school matron, whom did you wish
- 7:37to see?
- 7:37Speaker 2: I want to have a world wis doctor Punsenbee. My
- 7:40name is Angus McLachlin, and I'm most anxious to send
- 7:44my young cousin. He oh, he needs discipline, and I'm
- 7:49told that you dinner pamper a young lad here.
- 7:52Speaker 6: Please come in.
- 7:54Speaker 2: I'm sure doctor Punsenby will see you. Thank you, Missus Arkley.
- 8:00Speaker 3: You know in Please.
- 8:05Speaker 5: Dr Punsonby, Yes, please sit down, won't you?
- 8:11Speaker 2: Thank you? Sir. My name is Angus McLachlin. I've traveled
- 8:14all the way from Abingdeen to see you. I was
- 8:16told that your school you at least know how to
- 8:20discipline a lad.
- 8:22Speaker 5: Well, mister McLachlan.
- 8:23Speaker 4: In our modest way, we endeavor to inculcate our students
- 8:27with a sense of responsibility.
- 8:29Speaker 5: I was about to have a glass of wine.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Perhaps you care to join me.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Likely you will wish to send a relative here.
- 8:39Speaker 2: I sure, a young cousin of mine if you, If
- 8:42you take.
- 8:43Speaker 5: Him, here's your wine, mister mccroo.
- 8:46Speaker 2: And to your very good health. Ah, that's very good.
- 8:51Speaker 5: Tell me more about your cousins, sir.
- 8:54Speaker 4: Before I accept a new student, I like to know
- 8:57as much about him as possible.
- 9:00Speaker 2: I'll be quite frankly. He's thirteen years old, and he's
- 9:03a young devil, and an inconvenient young devil too. You see,
- 9:08Doctor Fansen may I'm his guardian. If you follow me, no, sir,
- 9:14I don't think I do. I'll be perfectly honest with you.
- 9:19I'm not a poor man, and I'd be a very
- 9:22wealthy one if if it went for that boy. The
- 9:25whipper Snapper is the only person who stands between me
- 9:28and my dead brother's fortune.
- 9:31Speaker 1: I would.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Be sorry if if anything will happened to him. Am
- 9:37I making myself quite clear? Doctor?
- 9:41Speaker 5: Much clearer, mister McLachlan.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Another glass of wine? I thank you well, it's very good,
- 9:49mister mclachland.
- 9:50Speaker 4: Why not put all your cards on the table so
- 9:54much simpler that way?
- 9:56Speaker 2: Very well, there's ten thousand pounds meaning anything to you,
- 9:59doctor Pansom.
- 10:00Speaker 4: Yes, the scholastic profession is notoriously unremulative.
- 10:04Speaker 2: If my cousin who have to be taken ill, perhaps
- 10:07she'll be saying with pneumonia if he were to die
- 10:13here at your school, I'll pay you ten thousand pounds
- 10:21and now, sorry, I can't be more explicit than that,
- 10:25can I?
- 10:26Speaker 5: I don't think so.
- 10:30Speaker 4: By the way, mister mclucklin, your Scottish accent is beginning
- 10:34to disappear. Such a pity, it's pipe colorful rhyme's drugs.
- 10:40Speaker 2: You haven't touched your hands drugs.
- 10:42Speaker 4: I'm a most absterelious man, particularly on occasions like this,
- 10:48Dr Watson.
- 10:50Speaker 5: You know my name, Even in this remote spot.
- 10:53Speaker 4: I've seen photographs of you and your friend, the famous
- 10:56Sherlock Holmes there. I'm just a little hurt that you
- 11:00both thought I was stupid enough to be fooled so easily.
- 11:04Speaker 5: You seem dreadfully sleepy, Doctor Watson.
- 11:09Speaker 2: I gotta go to sleep.
- 11:12Speaker 4: And sleep well, my friend. I only hope that you
- 11:18don't have too much trouble waking up.
- 11:33Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll find out just how much
- 11:35trouble Dr Watson does have in waking up. But first,
- 11:39have you noticed how men are taking a greater interest
- 11:42in their appearance lately? Competition today is keener than ever,
- 11:46and I'm sure you'll agree one of the greatest assets
- 11:48to a man's appearance is well groomed hair. So men,
- 11:53let me give you this tip about CREML hair tonic
- 11:56and why it's preferred by so many of America's most
- 11:59successful and prosperous executives. Kremmeel k r e m L
- 12:05keeps dry, ruffled hair neatly in place all day long.
- 12:10It gives it such a handsome, healthy looking luster too.
- 12:14Yet Kremmel never leaves hair with that offensive, cheap, greasy look.
- 12:18It never leaves hair and scalp full of sticky goo
- 12:21which feels so dirty. Kremmel always looks and smells so
- 12:25clean on both hair and scalp. It gives hair that attractive, natural,
- 12:29he man look, which certainly hits the jackpot with the ladies.
- 12:34And don't forget Kremmel does lots more than keep hair
- 12:36looking handsome. Let me repeat, Kremmel does lots more than
- 12:41keep hair looking handsome. It makes hair feel softer, easier
- 12:46to manage. At the same time, it removes dandroflakes and
- 12:50makes the scalp feel so clean and invigorated. Men use
- 12:55Kremmel hair tonic daily and see if you don't say
- 12:59my hair never looked better, my scalp never felt cleaner. Well,
- 13:08doctor Watson, you certainly left me teetering on the edge
- 13:11of my chair.
- 13:12Speaker 3: We left you drugged in the school master's steady.
- 13:14Speaker 1: What happened next?
- 13:15Speaker 2: Well, my first conscious recollection was to find myself, with
- 13:18the violence pounding in my head, lying in a small
- 13:21clearing between some trees. Bending over me with a look
- 13:25of deep concern on his face, was my old friend,
- 13:28Sherlock Holmes. Watson, Watson, no channel, you are right, yes, yes,
- 13:34vital headacheome What are you doing there? And there was
- 13:38clothes with that group of mustache.
- 13:40Speaker 3: It proved a good enough passport to secure the employment
- 13:42at the stables here?
- 13:43Speaker 2: How did you get me out of? Punson been studied and.
- 13:45Speaker 3: The stables command an excellent view of the school building.
- 13:48Your long absence watted me. And when doctor Punson be
- 13:51finally appeared alone, I became suspicious. So I took advantage
- 13:55of his absence, slipped through the study window and rescue.
- 13:57Speaker 2: You'll thank heavens you did. He gave me drud. It's
- 14:01a funny thing, Holmes. I was probably delirious, but I
- 14:04swear that I saw a woman's handbag on the table,
- 14:07a pink and black beaded bag, and it was alive
- 14:11and moved.
- 14:13Speaker 3: Great Heavens, that confouns my worst suspicions. Did you say too, No,
- 14:16it wasn't there when I came in. Somebody, probably Misses Artwright,
- 14:20removed it. Watson, you were never closer to death. I
- 14:24blame myself for having allowed you to tackle doctor punsonby alone.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Don't reproach yourself homes Where where's Lord.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Manders waiting at the inn for an answer to my telegram?
- 14:33He is to meet us later behind the lodge gates.
- 14:34Speaker 2: What's our next move?
- 14:36Speaker 3: Go to the stables, dirt you up a bit and
- 14:38get your change of clothes. Then we'll return to the attack.
- 14:41There's desperate work ahead.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Of us.
- 14:56Speaker 4: Here.
- 14:57Speaker 2: This wayser what my man so alarmed?
- 15:00Speaker 4: Lord Mande not watch now, I wouldn't have recognized you.
- 15:03What's happened, trouble?
- 15:05Speaker 2: I had consume a disguise too. You brought an answer
- 15:08to Holmes's telegram?
- 15:09Speaker 3: Yes, in my pocket?
- 15:11Speaker 2: Where is he? He went over to the main school
- 15:13building and asked me.
- 15:14Speaker 3: To do the things that the second cook and the
- 15:16siitulated woman of dubious charms is most susceptible to fattery.
- 15:20Over a glass of stout sheet quite inadvertently gave me
- 15:23three vital clues. What were they? Firstly that all five
- 15:26of the unfortunate boys dined in the same small room. Secondly,
- 15:30that that fatal room is directly under the room of
- 15:32missus Archreich.
- 15:33Speaker 2: And she's capable of anything if you ask me.
- 15:35Speaker 3: Third clue makes our next tape an urgent one. A
- 15:38boy by the name of Carruther's Miner was moved into
- 15:40that room yesterday. He's supposed to have an extremely bad cold.
- 15:44Doctor Punsonby is afraid it might turn into pneumonia. Good heaven, exactly, Watson.
- 15:49I suggest we lose no time in visiting Corruther's Miner,
- 15:52though I'm sure doctor Punsonby would consider it unethical. This
- 15:55is one occasion when another doctor's opinion is absolutely vital.
- 16:15They are there carothers. This is doctor Watson. He's come
- 16:18to make you well.
- 16:19Speaker 2: You can't make me.
- 16:20Speaker 6: Who will.
- 16:21Speaker 2: Doctor parson Bie says I've gotten amonia. Oh nonsense, my boy,
- 16:26You're gonna side gold at all. If Doctor poyson Be
- 16:29says I've got pneumonia, the moonia is what I've got.
- 16:34Nothing of the kind, my boy, Nothing of the kind.
- 16:36Speaker 3: Watson. You've noticed this bed is anchor to the floor.
- 16:39It can't be moved. What does that suggest you?
- 16:42Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me of tut Bran dtr Rilott. But
- 16:45I don't see any.
- 16:46Speaker 3: Bell pull, no, Watson, no bell rope is needed because
- 16:49no murderous snake is involved in this plot. But look
- 16:52up there, directly above the bed a small trap door
- 16:55leading from Missus Arkwright's room. Now the whole picture is clear.
- 16:58The trap door is strange marks on the dead boys,
- 17:01the beaded bag that you saw, What was that? I
- 17:05don't know. Lord Manders is standing guard in the hallway.
- 17:08This is doctor possibly he's come to look.
- 17:10Speaker 2: At my pneumonia.
- 17:12Speaker 3: Missus Arkwright, I know you were expecting Lord Manders.
- 17:16Speaker 2: He's lying in the hallway.
- 17:17Speaker 6: He was looking in the wrong direction, and fortunately for him.
- 17:24Speaker 3: Missus Arkwright, I put that revolver away. If I were you,
- 17:27I doubt if you know how to handle it. I
- 17:28assure you that I do. Having used the button of
- 17:31Brittania friends so successfully, should prove that fact.
- 17:36Speaker 7: Revolver, Missus Arkwright, rob the revolver, I say, Holmes, he's faked.
- 17:46Speaker 3: Good help me carry out to a room.
- 17:48Speaker 2: Well, what about young Carrothers, Lord Manders.
- 17:50Speaker 3: We must remove them to a place of staty, and
- 17:52then Watson. All that remains is to call on the
- 17:55giggling doctor Punson day.
- 18:10Speaker 2: It's very dark in here, Holmes. I don't like this
- 18:13at all.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Quiet some it is coming good evening. Doctors, let me
- 18:22light your desk lamp for you.
- 18:23Speaker 5: You start with me, Who are you?
- 18:25Speaker 3: What are you doing in nice study? My name is
- 18:27Sherlock Holmes. Doctor Watson, you've already met Yes, we've met.
- 18:31Speaker 2: You, scoundrel.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Oh, yes, my friend Scotston.
- 18:34Speaker 5: I was expecting you both.
- 18:36Speaker 4: And by the way, please put that revolver away if
- 18:39fire alarms make me nervous.
- 18:41Speaker 3: And doctor Panson beIN. I know how those five boys
- 18:44were murdered. I would venture the opinion that you once
- 18:46spent some time for the sake of your health, in America,
- 18:49in Arizona Territory, I'd say.
- 18:51Speaker 4: I wonder what makes you think that, mister Holmes. I've
- 18:54never been in America in my life.
- 18:56Speaker 3: And yet I'm certain that someone here spent some time
- 18:59in the vicinity of the healer River Well.
- 19:02Speaker 4: I understand that missus Arkwright was in America a few years.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Ago, Missus Artwright, Doctor Punsonby, is it possible you're hoping
- 19:11to transfer our suspicions to your accomplice, My.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Accomplice, You talk in riddles, mister Holmes, is most confusing.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Then shall we be more specific? You consider Corulla's minder
- 19:22to be quite ill. I understand this.
- 19:24Speaker 5: I'm dreadfully worthy about it.
- 19:25Speaker 7: And then let me tell you, doctor Partivill, that I
- 19:27examined the boy only a few minutes ago, and as
- 19:29a medical man, I.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Say that he only has a slight cold.
- 19:32Speaker 5: And obviously we disagree in our diagnosis.
- 19:34Speaker 4: Doctor once and after all, you're just a general practitioner,
- 19:37whereas I specialize.
- 19:39Speaker 2: We know what you specialize in.
- 19:41Speaker 3: Gentlemen, I suggest the three of us go over to
- 19:43Corrulla's room and hold a consultation. It's just possible that
- 19:47his health has taken a sudden turn for the better.
- 20:02Speaker 2: But the bed's empty has gone Yes.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Doctor pansonby, and suppose you take his place?
- 20:09Speaker 2: I leave me alone.
- 20:11Speaker 3: What do you want you to lash? You to this
- 20:13bed and see if you can come at your own
- 20:15filthy medicine. This is, of course, I think that if
- 20:18we were to reconstruct your crimes with you as the victim,
- 20:21we might persuade you to confess.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Missus arklight, missus darkl like help.
- 20:24Speaker 3: I'm afraid you can't help you. She's in her room
- 20:26with a door locked from the outside.
- 20:28Speaker 2: There are homes less, absolutely can't move. What you don't understand,
- 20:33missus art like great heymns. What was that?
- 20:39Speaker 3: This is art right? It came from the room above.
- 20:41Speaker 8: Come on, Watson, quick up the stairs. She's fainted again.
- 20:52Speaker 3: Feel her puse.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Homes, There is no pulse. She's dead.
- 20:59Speaker 3: Poison works by Observe those marks on her wrist.
- 21:02Speaker 2: It's some animal admitment it.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Has, and that means the animals loose in this room,
- 21:06Great heavens. Somehow it must have escaped from its cage
- 21:09and turned on them. Guard the door, Watson, Our lives
- 21:11are not satan until we've found this month.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I don't understand.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Look look under that's stand there, Good Heavens.
- 21:18Speaker 7: It's set set beaded handbag again and it's moving.
- 21:21Speaker 3: Give me a walking stick, watt yea there, This diabolical
- 21:30creature has done enough damage for one lifetime.
- 21:32Speaker 2: It's dead, homes, But what in thunder is it? It
- 21:35looks like some sort of lizard.
- 21:37Speaker 3: It's all pink and cover it all over with black scales.
- 21:41Speaker 2: That's what made me think it was a handbag. But
- 21:43I've never seen a lizard as large as that.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Of course you haven't, so let me introduce you to
- 21:48the peculiar villain of this piece. His name is he
- 21:51Will Derma suspect him better known as the HeLa monster,
- 21:54indigenous to the Helo River in America.
- 21:56Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it before. How enough did
- 21:58you recognize at homes?
- 22:00Speaker 3: When mister Coffin, the undertaker, mentioned those strange marks on
- 22:02the dead boys, I was reminded of an article I'd
- 22:05read recently on venomous lizards. So that telegram you said
- 22:08was to the Museum of Natural History. Their answer confirmed
- 22:11my suspicions. The Healer Monster's bite produces almost instantaneous death,
- 22:16and yet it's a poison that would be extremely hard
- 22:18to identify. The fixed bed in the room below us,
- 22:20the trap door directly above it in this room, and
- 22:23the help of an unscrupulous accomplice like missus Artwright makes
- 22:26the rest of the picture very clear.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Now that the monster's dead, how are you going to
- 22:29frighten doctor Pansley into a confession?
- 22:31Speaker 3: And doctor Pansonvie need not know the animal's dead. Examine
- 22:35the floor, Watson, see if you can find that trap door. Meanwhile,
- 22:38I'll see if I can find some core or string.
- 22:41Uh huh, here's a ball of twine on the dressing table.
- 22:44Placed there for use in the intended murder of Corrubber's minor, No.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Doubt, Homes. There's a ring here in the floor section
- 22:51of the cab. It's been cut out.
- 22:52Speaker 3: Gordon now to attach the twine to the body of
- 22:56the healer monster. So all right, Watson, open the door. Well,
- 23:04doctor Panson, Bay, have you changed your mind? He is dead,
- 23:09Doctor Penson, Bay, you're here. The monster turned on her.
- 23:12I'm going to lower the animal. Watson. There we are.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Two more people do the trick Homes.
- 23:19Speaker 3: Yes, there, you'll sign a confession. We'll be down, doctor Panson.
- 23:30Speaker 2: Then well, Holmes, thank Heaven's that's done with. What a
- 23:36shocking affair.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Yes, Watson, but not without a note of poetic justice.
- 23:41What do you mean, Well, isn't it poetic justice that
- 23:45a dead red tile should be instrumental in bringing a
- 23:47live one to the gallows.