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- 0:00Speaker 1: And now I'm sure our old friend doctor Watson's ready
- 0:02Speaker 1: for us, so let's go in and join it.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Come good evenings.
- 0:09Speaker 1: But aiding doctor, all the puppies seemed very happy to tonight.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Yes, but you should have seen him this afternoon. I
- 0:16Speaker 3: doctreferre two more frightened little dogs in the whole of California.
- 0:20Speaker 1: You could what happened, actor, well, I took him.
- 0:22Speaker 4: For a walk on the beach.
- 0:24Speaker 3: As we were scrambling around the rocky Point, a seal
- 0:27Speaker 3: popped his head.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Up the water quite close to us.
- 0:29Speaker 1: What the puppies did.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Both of them bucked at it furiously.
- 0:32Speaker 3: And the seal blew a few bubbles and then barked
- 0:35Speaker 3: right back. Don't know what the world speed record is
- 0:37Speaker 3: for short late dogs. I'm sure they broke you know.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Actually, I'll have to join you on one of those
- 0:43Speaker 1: afternoon strolls of yours. You always seem to be having
- 0:46Speaker 1: such exciting adventures. Oh and talking of that, that's about
- 0:50Speaker 1: tonight's new show.
- 0:50Speaker 5: I coms.
- 0:51Speaker 4: I'm already for you, my boy.
- 0:52Speaker 3: In fact, I was looking over my notes on the
- 0:54Speaker 3: case before you arrived. This is another story in with
- 0:56Speaker 3: Shollock Holmbs's elder brother, Microft important Microft Homes was seven
- 1:01Speaker 3: years older than shell Uck, and some said that his
- 1:05Speaker 3: superior in fires of observation and deduction.
- 1:08Speaker 1: That sounds like heresy, doctor.
- 1:09Speaker 4: No, no, no, young woman. Holmes himself was the first
- 1:12Speaker 4: to admit it.
- 1:13Speaker 3: In fact, if it hadn't been for a securable laziness,
- 1:16Speaker 3: Microft could have been a formidable rival to his younger brother. However,
- 1:20Speaker 3: Microft behold a position of considerable importance at the Foreign Office,
- 1:23Speaker 3: and it was there that the Night's story begins. It
- 1:26Speaker 3: in the winter of eighteen hundred and ninety nine, and
- 1:30Speaker 3: Microft Homes, after gourmet's lunch, was reclining full length on
- 1:33Speaker 3: a levi sattee. His eyes were closed, his hands were
- 1:37Speaker 3: folded across his stomach, and his breath came rhythmically. The
- 1:40Speaker 3: cynic would have declared that Microft Holmes was taking it
- 1:43Speaker 3: after lunch and snooze, but mister Holmes, Secretary, jentleman by
- 1:47Speaker 3: the name of God No, was the realist. He tapped
- 1:50Speaker 3: on the door discreetly, then he raped on it, and
- 1:55Speaker 3: still there was no response. So he opened the door
- 1:57Speaker 3: and entered. Moment he gave what he thought was a
- 2:01Speaker 3: discreet column microft Homes opened his eyes and holded.
- 2:10Speaker 6: His hands, said, must you come in here and dark
- 2:16Speaker 6: at me?
- 2:16Speaker 5: So soon after lunch.
- 2:18Speaker 7: I'm sorry, mister Holmes.
- 2:20Speaker 6: You thought that, as I was lying down with my
- 2:22Speaker 6: eyes closed, that I must be.
- 2:23Speaker 5: Bored, and soon you came galloping. Oh well, what do
- 2:28Speaker 5: you want?
- 2:29Speaker 8: There's no lady outside, sir, She insists onthing you personally.
- 2:32Speaker 2: I'd tried to get rid of her. But what's her name,
- 2:35Speaker 2: Missus Hudson, Sir, Missus Hudson.
- 2:38Speaker 5: Show her in, gardener, show her in.
- 2:40Speaker 6: Very good, sir, Undoubtedly a message from young Sherlock.
- 2:45Speaker 5: How are you, missus Hudson.
- 2:47Speaker 7: Good day, mister Hums.
- 2:49Speaker 8: I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I want to cut
- 2:51Speaker 8: much of your time.
- 2:52Speaker 5: Sit down.
- 2:53Speaker 6: Won't you don't leave us gardner? I may need you
- 2:55Speaker 6: in a few minutes.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Very good, sir.
- 2:58Speaker 5: Now, missus Hudson. What's the message?
- 3:00Speaker 7: Message?
- 3:00Speaker 5: Sir?
- 3:01Speaker 6: My brother sends you with some message that he was
- 3:03Speaker 6: in afraid to infusperate the ordinary channels.
- 3:05Speaker 5: He's always so confounded and dramatic.
- 3:08Speaker 7: O'll bless your heart.
- 3:09Speaker 8: No, sir, I've come to you with a little problem
- 3:13Speaker 8: of my own.
- 3:14Speaker 7: I didn't like to bother. Mister Shellock homes with it.
- 3:16Speaker 7: He's been so busy.
- 3:17Speaker 8: Lately, and and he's looking very tired.
- 3:20Speaker 5: And so you came to me. I'm delightful.
- 3:23Speaker 7: I thought you wouldn't mind, sir.
- 3:24Speaker 8: You've always been so nice and friendly to me.
- 3:27Speaker 5: Pure laziness.
- 3:28Speaker 6: It is less effort to keep an old friend than
- 3:30Speaker 6: to make a new enemy.
- 3:31Speaker 5: But tell me your problem.
- 3:33Speaker 8: Well, it's really my sister's problem, said. She's a boarding
- 3:37Speaker 8: house at fourteen Kensington Garden Square in these butchers, and
- 3:41Speaker 8: she's convinced one of her boarders, a man who has
- 3:45Speaker 8: a room and of first floor back.
- 3:47Speaker 7: She's convinced that he's a birdman.
- 3:49Speaker 5: And what in Heaven's name is a bird man? Do
- 3:51Speaker 5: you know, gardener?
- 3:53Speaker 2: No, sir, I can imagine.
- 3:54Speaker 8: Oh, it's like a wedwolf gentleman, except that the man
- 3:57Speaker 8: turns into a bird.
- 3:58Speaker 5: Oh come now, this is Oh.
- 4:00Speaker 8: I know it sounds draft, but my sister's in a
- 4:03Speaker 8: dreadful state. Of course, I've been with your brother long enough,
- 4:06Speaker 8: sir to know that such things are nonsense.
- 4:08Speaker 7: But how can I prove it to her?
- 4:11Speaker 6: What reason does your sister give for holding a strange belief?
- 4:13Speaker 8: She keeps finding pigeon feathers in the room. Now the
- 4:16Speaker 8: man doesn't he keep pigeons, Sir? My sister knows that.
- 4:19Speaker 7: For a fact.
- 4:20Speaker 6: Has she found any traces of scattered food on the
- 4:23Speaker 6: window ledge?
- 4:23Speaker 8: Nonswir, no signs of any pigeons except the feathers.
- 4:28Speaker 7: My sister's a wee bit fae, mister Holmes.
- 4:30Speaker 8: She's the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. And you
- 4:32Speaker 8: know what that means.
- 4:34Speaker 7: It's the same. She's not imagining things, sir. She's shown
- 4:37Speaker 7: me the feathers herself.
- 4:39Speaker 8: Where were they, Missus Hudson, somewhere on the floor at
- 4:41Speaker 8: the end of the bedstead, Sir. I brought some along
- 4:44Speaker 8: with me here, sir, and we've found some more in
- 4:47Speaker 8: the gentleman's cover where.
- 4:48Speaker 5: He keeps his clothes by George.
- 4:51Speaker 2: I wonder what is it, sir.
- 4:53Speaker 6: I'll tell you in a moment, Gardner, Missus Hudson, this
- 4:56Speaker 6: matter will require a little private investigation.
- 4:58Speaker 5: They return to your sister, Tell her not to worry.
- 5:01Speaker 6: I shall get in touch with you as soon as
- 5:02Speaker 6: my inquirers are completed. Good day to you, good and
- 5:05Speaker 6: you're very much obliged to you well, Gardener, what do
- 5:09Speaker 6: you make of it.
- 5:10Speaker 2: An old wives tale?
- 5:11Speaker 7: Sir?
- 5:12Speaker 2: You're not treating it sidiously, are you?
- 5:14Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
- 5:15Speaker 6: One of these feathers shows evidence of having had string
- 5:18Speaker 6: titaned rounded. That suggests a captive bird. Now, a captive
- 5:22Speaker 6: bird smuggled into an obscure boarding house, will point to
- 5:25Speaker 6: something of the greatest importance to us.
- 5:27Speaker 9: Gardener by George, sir, you mean petty your pigeons exactly.
- 5:31Speaker 5: And remember that we're at war under the Boers.
- 5:33Speaker 6: Have obtained several important and highly confidential suitars lately.
- 5:37Speaker 5: We know there's a leak somewhere.
- 5:39Speaker 6: This requires an active investigator who could work with discretion.
- 5:43Speaker 6: Now I could work with discretion, but I don't feel
- 5:45Speaker 6: too active at the moment. Ah, I have it.
- 5:50Speaker 5: I want you to write this letter to my brother.
- 5:52Speaker 6: This guy's your hand used playing cheap notepaper, and don't
- 5:55Speaker 6: sign the letter. He won't be able to resist that combination.
- 5:59Speaker 6: Are you ready, God, yes, very well, then, my dear
- 6:03Speaker 6: mister Sherlock Holmes, we know of your proposed investigation of
- 6:08Speaker 6: the tenant and the first floor back at fourteen Kensington
- 6:11Speaker 6: Gardens Square. We warn you, as you value your life,
- 6:14Speaker 6: keep away.
- 6:26Speaker 9: We warn you as you value your life to keep
- 6:30Speaker 9: away from the case, and that, my dear watsmith is whie.
- 6:33Speaker 9: We are driving towards fourteen Kensington Gardens Square disguised just
- 6:36Speaker 9: building Inspectors of the London County Council.
- 6:38Speaker 4: I must say it's a very challenging.
- 6:40Speaker 9: Letter, Homes, I'm tied, written on cheap notepaper and in
- 6:45Speaker 9: a disguised hand, no clue that I'm afraid we're entering
- 6:49Speaker 9: the square Homelet'll stop the cap here.
- 6:52Speaker 2: You can drop us here, Kebby, rock you up cap here.
- 6:55Speaker 9: It seems looking congruous in these costumes supposed to arrive
- 6:58Speaker 9: at a cab.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Hey or Kebby, Oh thank you Governor.
- 7:07Speaker 3: Supposing this mysterious turne to the first draw back should
- 7:10Speaker 3: be in his room when we get there.
- 7:11Speaker 9: And we must hope about his guys as a convincing
- 7:14Speaker 9: about this and this may be a trap.
- 7:16Speaker 4: It's just what I was.
- 7:17Speaker 9: Going to say.
- 7:17Speaker 4: After all, you've never heard of fucking.
- 7:18Speaker 3: Kensington guns until you received an unsigned letter two hours ago.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Wanting you to keep away from it. I don't like
- 7:24Speaker 4: to look of it.
- 7:24Speaker 9: We are a number fourteen. I suggest that you let
- 7:32Speaker 9: me do most of the talking.
- 7:33Speaker 5: Good gord ess, my cut me accent doesn't compare with you.
- 7:37Speaker 5: Who do you want to say?
- 7:38Speaker 9: That way? From the London County Council, we are we've
- 7:41Speaker 9: had complaints about a legal guess jet in the first
- 7:44Speaker 9: gold back.
- 7:44Speaker 2: Oh that's mister Green's room, ain't.
- 7:47Speaker 6: That don't madam?
- 7:47Speaker 9: My dear, we'll come out and take a look.
- 7:49Speaker 5: Come on, Bertie right.
- 7:50Speaker 4: You are elf. We want me to show you the way.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Now, thanks deary.
- 7:56Speaker 6: If Bertie can't, can we, buddy?
- 7:59Speaker 5: Of course we tell look at him laughing.
- 8:04Speaker 9: Come on, Bertie, I do love to babyside the sea
- 8:09Speaker 9: side there. Oh, I do lots of babyside. Say nice
- 8:17Speaker 9: as Bertie.
- 8:17Speaker 4: And yourself nice that can pay this?
- 8:20Speaker 9: Do lock the bit beside the same side there? I
- 8:23Speaker 9: do lock the baby beside us. Yeah, first of all, beck,
- 8:28Speaker 9: that'll make sure the blow came down. Oh I do
- 8:32Speaker 9: lovey down Malfy. Now all right that's going.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Yeah mm hmm.
- 8:42Speaker 9: So this is a mysterious romm looks perfectly ordinary suppressing
- 8:46Speaker 9: example of the square recording house, like hello, what's this
- 8:48Speaker 9: on the bedspread?
- 8:50Speaker 4: To come out of?
- 8:52Speaker 9: Here's a bidgeon stepper's whole chap look at Watson attached.
- 8:56Speaker 5: To the bedroom piece of straight.
- 8:58Speaker 9: Yes, but that's metal ring on the end, rings such
- 9:02Speaker 9: as is used to place around the homing pigeons lakes.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Why should someone keep carrying pigeons and an obscure boiling
- 9:07Speaker 3: house like this, whydeed?
- 9:08Speaker 9: Why? Indeed, the answer could be that the tenant of
- 9:10Speaker 9: this room is engaged in some sinister activity that requires
- 9:13Speaker 9: the use of carrier pigeons and sending messages.
- 9:15Speaker 3: There's no evidence of the birds being kept here.
- 9:17Speaker 9: That's true, a lot of that true. And possibly the
- 9:19Speaker 9: owner of this room is given to they're given a
- 9:22Speaker 9: pigeon by one of his superiors. But is it here
- 9:24Speaker 9: that fixes his message and releases the bird?
- 9:26Speaker 3: Why couldn't we just take the message to where they
- 9:28Speaker 3: keep the birds?
- 9:29Speaker 9: In that way, he would run the risk of being
- 9:31Speaker 9: picked up with the dangerous and incriminate, incriminating messages on
- 9:34Speaker 9: what kind of.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Skultially involves the use of carrier pigeons?
- 9:37Speaker 9: You spirth where at war with the boys in South Africa? Watson?
- 9:40Speaker 9: What could be more logical than that the spy in
- 9:42Speaker 9: their pay should be using this smuggle important information out
- 9:45Speaker 9: of the country.
- 9:46Speaker 5: Cure of yourselves?
- 9:47Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind somebody coming. Who are you?
- 9:52Speaker 2: What the devil do you think are doing in my room?
- 9:54Speaker 4: Well, my name's come here to look at your guest part.
- 9:57Speaker 4: Don't lie to me.
- 9:58Speaker 5: Who are you? It's not my name's women.
- 10:01Speaker 4: I came from the landing Carl.
- 10:02Speaker 10: Cats very well, then you won't tell me the truth.
- 10:05Speaker 9: Perhaps this revolve wi and make you change.
- 10:11Speaker 2: His bather?
- 10:12Speaker 4: What's right, Holmes?
- 10:14Speaker 5: Where were you?
- 10:14Speaker 9: And I sliped behind the doors? This gentleman opened it? Yeah,
- 10:16Speaker 9: you say, your overcoat coat seems extraordinarily well filled with chest,
- 10:20Speaker 9: doesn't it. Why not slip it off? It's a bit
- 10:21Speaker 9: warm in here.
- 10:22Speaker 4: Let me alone?
- 10:24Speaker 9: So you were right, Homes? He had a pigeon under
- 10:27Speaker 9: his coat. Yes, if you can catch their right here?
- 10:29Speaker 4: Come on, come on, come on, come along. Pity he comes,
- 10:34Speaker 4: that's it.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Look at the little fellow smuggled up on my arm.
- 10:38Speaker 4: Bring the little fellow's knee.
- 10:39Speaker 9: Yes, I took out Watson. The gentleman's going on when
- 10:42Speaker 9: I get it up, a beautiful uppercut home. I'm uh,
- 10:50Speaker 9: I'm afraid he'll be unable to talk to us for
- 10:51Speaker 9: some time. Fortunate he told us where the mess was
- 10:55Speaker 9: hidden before we indulged in this little said to me
- 10:57Speaker 9: anything about a message? No, not verbally that I was
- 11:00Speaker 9: watching his reflection in the mirrors. Entered the room. His
- 11:02Speaker 9: eyes first glanced at this top draor on the dresser
- 11:05Speaker 9: here to see if we touched it. It was obviously
- 11:08Speaker 9: the most important spot in the room. Let's see. Ah,
- 11:12Speaker 9: here we are a message already rolled up and in
- 11:15Speaker 9: its container.
- 11:16Speaker 5: Oh what is it?
- 11:18Speaker 9: It's in code, which is not surprising, and I don't
- 11:20Speaker 9: think it will be very difficult to decipher.
- 11:22Speaker 5: Yes.
- 11:23Speaker 9: And when you've done that, then, my dear fellow, I
- 11:25Speaker 9: shall compose a code message of my own and persuade
- 11:27Speaker 9: this pigeon to read.
- 11:28Speaker 4: Us to its master.
- 11:50Speaker 9: I can see your puzzled expression, Watson, that you're wondering
- 11:53Speaker 9: why I brought you to Dexter's Music Hall.
- 11:55Speaker 4: Well, I must confess. I confuse homes. First of all,
- 11:58Speaker 4: we go to Baker Street.
- 11:59Speaker 3: And you spend hours poring over some obscure.
- 12:01Speaker 4: Book, and you write out a message, attach it to
- 12:03Speaker 4: a pigeon.
- 12:03Speaker 5: Let it loose.
- 12:04Speaker 4: Now you bring me here. I hate to question you
- 12:06Speaker 4: when you're working, but i'd begad if you'd give miss
- 12:09Speaker 4: some idea.
- 12:09Speaker 9: What's going on, I've got it, old Chap. At times
- 12:11Speaker 9: I'm seem confunded and mysterious. I'm sure here's the situation.
- 12:15Speaker 9: The obscure book I've be studying was the table of ciphers.
- 12:18Speaker 9: I was trying to decode the message we found in
- 12:19Speaker 9: the room on the first floor.
- 12:21Speaker 4: So you succeeded or we wouldn't be here.
- 12:23Speaker 9: Yes, the key word was Louis Botha, the name of
- 12:28Speaker 9: the poor leader. A message was at the pot on
- 12:30Speaker 9: the number of troops now in training at all the
- 12:32Speaker 9: shot and then you were right.
- 12:33Speaker 4: They mixed up with the ring of Anima agents.
- 12:35Speaker 9: Obviously old Chab, so I kept the original message and
- 12:38Speaker 9: composed another using the same code and dispatched it by
- 12:41Speaker 9: carrier pigeon.
- 12:42Speaker 4: Well, what did you say in your message?
- 12:43Speaker 9: Meet me at tonight eight o'clock till number three at
- 12:46Speaker 9: Dexter's Music Hall.
- 12:47Speaker 4: What made you choose this place?
- 12:49Speaker 9: As arondozvoll, I happen to know that it's a common
- 12:51Speaker 9: meeting place for our world characters.
- 13:01Speaker 4: And which is table number three?
- 13:03Speaker 9: I went over there in the corner, I reserved it, and.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Why don't we go and sit down there instead of
- 13:07Speaker 4: standing at here?
- 13:07Speaker 3: Back?
- 13:08Speaker 9: And I thought to give our visitor the opportunity of
- 13:10Speaker 9: showing his hand first. He won't be expecting. Sherlock Combs
- 13:13Speaker 9: and Dr Watson, I answering.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Good lord, look at this woman coming on the sing.
- 13:28Speaker 3: You haven't see so many troubles you.
- 13:35Speaker 5: Yesterday?
- 13:41Speaker 9: A man just sitting down at table number phrase, said Trimble.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Said Trimble, who's here?
- 13:47Speaker 9: Dangerous criminal who once worked for the Mariotic gang. We've
- 13:50Speaker 9: caught the price pigeon. Watson, have you a handy old
- 13:53Speaker 9: Japan undoubtedly recognize tomorrow and.
- 14:09Speaker 2: I'm hoping you're able to keep your appointment. Save Sherlock Holmes.
- 14:14Speaker 4: This is the trap I'm trying to pick. Jog on
- 14:16Speaker 4: Amola Heiston, how do.
- 14:17Speaker 2: You like this time on your basis? Watch him?
- 14:23Speaker 5: He didn't shut him to do no, no.
- 14:25Speaker 4: He knocked my hands and revolve and went on. But
- 14:27Speaker 4: the shot was well, I've heard it as.
- 14:29Speaker 9: Cross of the woman. I don't know. Powder burns shot
- 14:32Speaker 9: with fire from some distance home.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Homesees, he's dead, out of the way, out of the way,
- 14:40Speaker 6: please now, then, what's going on here?
- 14:41Speaker 9: I'm comfortable this medicine killed, yes, and it's easy to
- 14:44Speaker 9: see who did it.
- 14:45Speaker 4: Well. I didn't be comfortable.
- 14:46Speaker 6: If that's what you're thinking, Oh why are you standing
- 14:48Speaker 6: here with the smoking revolver in your hands?
- 14:51Speaker 5: Come on you, you're under arrest if.
- 14:52Speaker 4: You've got the rest now, and if you're watching them,
- 14:54Speaker 4: this is mister.
- 14:54Speaker 6: Sherlock holmb I don't care if you're the King of
- 14:56Speaker 6: Siam and the Bishop of London himself, you're under arrest
- 15:00Speaker 6: and I'm taking you both to Scotland Yard.
- 15:15Speaker 1: You hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
- 15:17Speaker 1: a second, and if you don't mind, I'll take that
- 15:19Speaker 1: second to say just one word to the ladies, and
- 15:22Speaker 1: that word is muscatel, Petrie California muscatel. I want you
- 15:28Speaker 1: women to know about it because Petrie Musktel is one
- 15:31Speaker 1: wine that practically every woman likes. Maybe because it's such
- 15:34Speaker 1: a beautiful color, like well, like pale gold, but I
- 15:39Speaker 1: guess really because Petrie Musketel brings you the wonderful flavor
- 15:42Speaker 1: of luscious sun ripen muscat grapes. And that's a flavor
- 15:47Speaker 1: fried Petrie muscatel after dinner or anytimes a change from
- 15:51Speaker 1: Petri port have a bottle of each on hand when
- 15:54Speaker 1: you buy Petri wine. Don't buy one by two. Remember
- 15:58Speaker 1: if it's a petri wine you, oh, it's a good wine,
- 16:02Speaker 1: doctor Watson. That was really one of the books. So
- 16:05Speaker 1: you got yourself arrested on a murder charge.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Yes, the humiliating experience I was taking off to Scottland,
- 16:11Speaker 3: the yard and the black mirale.
- 16:13Speaker 5: It's like in a common criminal.
- 16:15Speaker 9: That it constable wouldn't listen to a word that I've
- 16:18Speaker 9: gotta say, well, show our cons up with you.
- 16:20Speaker 4: Of course we arrived at Scottland Yard.
- 16:23Speaker 3: My mortification was complete, and I found that I was
- 16:26Speaker 3: let into the presence of our old friend inspect of
- 16:28Speaker 3: Stard Holmes.
- 16:30Speaker 4: Spoke to him at some length. But I could see
- 16:32Speaker 4: from the scharge expression my position.
- 16:39Speaker 2: I can see what it is mister Jones. You see,
- 16:42Speaker 2: I know you both. But I must say there are
- 16:44Speaker 2: lots of a mirror at the Yarders don't like what
- 16:47Speaker 2: they called your eye and it methods.
- 16:49Speaker 9: Must our personal likes or dislikes have nothing to do
- 16:51Speaker 9: with it.
- 16:51Speaker 4: And of course I haven't got.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Amount of evidence, and I know that, doctor Watson, and
- 16:56Speaker 2: the comfortable evidence was as clear as the nose on
- 16:59Speaker 2: your face. The dead man was shot through the aid
- 17:02Speaker 2: and you were standing in front of the body with
- 17:04Speaker 2: a drawn revolver.
- 17:05Speaker 9: My yellows, my dearest Dard, there were no powder burns
- 17:08Speaker 9: on the wound.
- 17:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you tells me, mister Elmes. But I'll
- 17:11Speaker 2: have to wait for the official report on that. The
- 17:14Speaker 2: police surgeon's examining the body. Now you understand, gentlemen, I'm
- 17:19Speaker 2: not saying I'm sorry that Sid Trimble is dead. He's
- 17:23Speaker 2: been a thorn in our side for a good many
- 17:25Speaker 2: years in Ferret h He is the police surgeon. Now,
- 17:29Speaker 2: doctor Hendicks, this is mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson.
- 17:33Speaker 9: How do you do, gentlemen.
- 17:35Speaker 10: I'm a great admirer of you both, and I'm sorry
- 17:38Speaker 10: to see you in such a very unfortunate plight.
- 17:41Speaker 2: What for your all findings, Doctor Hendrix.
- 17:43Speaker 10: Well, I've just extracted the bullet, leastrade, and I'm very
- 17:47Speaker 10: much afraid it's the same making caliber as the one
- 17:50Speaker 10: missing from doctor Watson's revolver.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Yes, that doesn't prove that I fired the fatal shot.
- 17:54Speaker 9: For if I have cults a very common weapon, Douctor,
- 17:56Speaker 9: it proves nothing. And Doctor Hendrickson, as I was just saying,
- 17:59Speaker 9: miss peck Lustrabo, you came in the only effect sure
- 18:01Speaker 9: my friend guilty, would be powder burns on the wound,
- 18:04Speaker 9: thereby giving proven the bullet had been found from close range.
- 18:07Speaker 9: I entirely agree with you, mister h then as there
- 18:10Speaker 9: were no powder burns, but powder burns mister very distinct
- 18:15Speaker 9: ones too, Lord, I just I don't understand.
- 18:19Speaker 10: I'm sorry, gentlemen, A bear of bad tidings, but I
- 18:22Speaker 10: have my duties to perform.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Yes, And I'm sorry too, Dr Watson. I'm afraid I'm
- 18:28Speaker 2: not going to be able to let you leave here.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Of course, who you misconsider yourself under wrist.
- 18:46Speaker 9: Holmes, I never felt more pond in my life your approach.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Can I locked up in the prisoner's soul if I
- 18:52Speaker 3: might end love the girls.
- 18:54Speaker 9: Not wonry watch and you'll be out of here before
- 18:55Speaker 9: the night is over.
- 18:56Speaker 5: I promise you the fullest as you do.
- 18:58Speaker 9: Are you proposed to do it all with the aid
- 19:00Speaker 9: of a little hard thinking thinking?
- 19:03Speaker 3: I won't unlock in his soul doors thinking.
- 19:05Speaker 9: Will know, Fellow, it's obvious someone's deliberately trying to incriminate us,
- 19:10Speaker 9: trying to instruct killing. Logically, said Trimble was a member
- 19:14Speaker 9: of an espionage ring. I sent him a false message
- 19:18Speaker 9: after he'd left keep the appointment, and his colleagues trailed
- 19:21Speaker 9: him to the music hall and killed him before he
- 19:23Speaker 9: could be betray anything to us. Yes, yes, that's indirectly
- 19:28Speaker 9: the way it happened.
- 19:29Speaker 3: The powder burned homes, how do you count for them?
- 19:31Speaker 9: The ma none just after the shop is fired. We
- 19:33Speaker 9: know that, and yet doctor Hendrix assures us that there
- 19:36Speaker 9: are very distinct powder burns. Now there we come in, gentlemen, Yes,
- 19:39Speaker 9: just of course you can't after Hendrix.
- 19:41Speaker 10: Oh god, I.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Thought we'd come and check with you.
- 19:45Speaker 9: Doctor.
- 19:47Speaker 5: That's just very nice of you, gentlemen.
- 19:49Speaker 9: Not a bit of it.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Doctor. You know it hurts me to see you in here,
- 19:54Speaker 2: and that's a fact.
- 19:55Speaker 10: And I can't better see a fellow Medica in such
- 19:57Speaker 10: flight outcoming inst us what I can the help?
- 20:00Speaker 9: Watson? You're very quiet, Misterones, and Manstrada was thinking, you see,
- 20:06Speaker 9: what's the chap?
- 20:07Speaker 5: Have it?
- 20:08Speaker 1: You have?
- 20:08Speaker 5: What the answer?
- 20:09Speaker 9: You'll sleep in facasy tonight if.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Draw mister Jones, what are you talking?
- 20:13Speaker 9: In? A murder of said Trumble, incriminating powder burns were
- 20:17Speaker 9: obviously faked, Watson, and I know that, whether you and
- 20:20Speaker 9: doctor Hendrix believe it or not. The question is how
- 20:23Speaker 9: were they faked? I think I have the answer, and
- 20:26Speaker 9: doctor Hendrix, Yes, mister Arms, if a blank concert were
- 20:29Speaker 9: fired at the wound after death, it would produced powder burns,
- 20:32Speaker 9: wouldn't it?
- 20:32Speaker 10: Undoreedly?
- 20:33Speaker 2: Yeah, who could have done that?
- 20:35Speaker 9: Mister that's the point of start. Who had the opportunity,
- 20:38Speaker 9: the comfortable who brought the body here?
- 20:40Speaker 3: Channa?
- 20:40Speaker 10: Also you, doctor Hendrix, that's perfectly true.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Well, I had the opportunity to mister nes I spent
- 20:46Speaker 2: off an hour in the morgue alone with the body
- 20:49Speaker 2: when it first come in.
- 20:50Speaker 3: Well, you narrowed it down to three suspect terms. I
- 20:53Speaker 3: hope I don't hang before you find the real killer,
- 20:55Speaker 3: I watson why? The answer is simple, Astrid. The power
- 21:00Speaker 3: burns were certainly fied by a blank cartridge. Now, if
- 21:02Speaker 3: a blank cartridge was fired into a wound, the wadding
- 21:05Speaker 3: would have penetrated and destroyed the wound.
- 21:08Speaker 2: In the person had removed the wadding from the black
- 21:11Speaker 2: mister owns, its.
- 21:12Speaker 9: Effect would still be quite a talent to the police
- 21:14Speaker 9: surgeon who removed the bullet. Am I correct, doctor Hendrix, entirely.
- 21:18Speaker 10: Surgeon couldnot failed to identify the Marksmister exactly, and.
- 21:21Speaker 9: That for only one person could have filed that blank
- 21:24Speaker 9: cartridge without detection. The same person who made the incision
- 21:27Speaker 9: necessary to remove the cartridge would also remove all traces
- 21:30Speaker 9: of a shot. You yourself, doctor Hendrix, you hoped.
- 21:34Speaker 4: I believe you're right.
- 21:36Speaker 5: That's an insenious theory, Holmes. Surely a joking, am I?
- 21:40Speaker 9: And how do you account for the pits betters on
- 21:42Speaker 9: the cover of your coat? The devil with you?
- 21:46Speaker 2: Dear here?
- 21:46Speaker 5: Come back here, stable.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Got Scott and the yard itself harboring an enemy agent
- 21:57Speaker 3: on my soul. You've done it again, and I must
- 22:00Speaker 3: say you've got sharp eyes. I didn't see those pigeon
- 22:03Speaker 3: feathers on on Hendrick's collar.
- 22:05Speaker 9: Confidentially, my dear fellow needed to die, but Hendrick's guilty
- 22:07Speaker 9: conscience knew they might be there. It was a shot
- 22:10Speaker 9: in the dark, and I had to take it. If
- 22:12Speaker 9: you would spend the night in a prison cell, I
- 22:14Speaker 9: should never have heard the end of it. I'm sure never.
- 22:27Speaker 7: I want to see mister Microft. Holmes, please befollow me,
- 22:30Speaker 7: Missus Hudson.
- 22:31Speaker 5: He's expecting you. I said, Ah, there you are, Missus Hudson,
- 22:37Speaker 5: Come and sit down.
- 22:39Speaker 7: We thank you, sir. I got your message, came over
- 22:41Speaker 7: right away.
- 22:43Speaker 6: In the first place is Hudson. You may tell your
- 22:44Speaker 6: sister that she needn't worry anymore. I'm sure she'll find
- 22:48Speaker 6: no more pigeon feathers in her room on the first floor.
- 22:50Speaker 8: There no, soir, thank you, but she knows the fact
- 22:54Speaker 8: because the bird man left her used to be for good.
- 22:57Speaker 8: Some strange men came and took him away, and she's
- 23:00Speaker 8: led the room to a nice young commercial traveler.
- 23:04Speaker 7: I'm really sorry to have bothered you with her trouble, sir.
- 23:07Speaker 5: I'm very glad you did, missus. Thanks for your information.
- 23:10Speaker 6: An enemy espionage ring has been broken, and the British
- 23:13Speaker 6: government is deeply grateful to you.
- 23:16Speaker 8: You're always one for a joke, mister Holmes. Well, I'm
- 23:20Speaker 8: glad you're not angry with me.
- 23:22Speaker 7: I'll be going now, sir.
- 23:24Speaker 9: Just one more favor I'll ask before I go through anything.
- 23:28Speaker 5: What is it?
- 23:29Speaker 8: Please don't tell your brother about this, sir.
- 23:31Speaker 7: He'd be so angry with me for wasting your time.