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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now doctor watch and I want to hear about the
- 0:01Speaker 1: strange case of the protecuted millionaires.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Well withsa Belle.
- 0:05Speaker 3: That adventure began in Baker Street on a gray November
- 0:08Speaker 3: day at the turn of the century.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes and I had just finished our lunch, I remember,
- 0:14Speaker 2: and were sitting each side of a blazing fire, just
- 0:16Speaker 2: like you and I are to night. The great man
- 0:19Speaker 2: his feet Thrush sat before him, was lying back in
- 0:21Speaker 2: his chair, his long thinged hands locked behind his head,
- 0:25Speaker 2: and a curved pipe jutting out the corner of his
- 0:28Speaker 2: mouth was emitting great clouds.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Of gray blue smoke. After a few moments, I noticed that.
- 0:35Speaker 2: He was gazing at my boots.
- 0:37Speaker 5: It was very masked a sense, but white Turkish Watson
- 0:41Speaker 5: boots are English.
- 0:42Speaker 2: I got him at Latimer's in Oxford.
- 0:44Speaker 5: Street, not the boots, the bar. Why the relaxing and
- 0:47Speaker 5: expensive Turkish bath rather than the invigorating homemade article.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Because for the last few days I've been having some
- 0:53Speaker 3: masty twinges of rheumatism. By the way, I'm sure the
- 0:56Speaker 3: connection between my boots and the Turkish bath is personally
- 0:59Speaker 3: off theos.
- 1:01Speaker 4: I'm completely mystifized.
- 1:03Speaker 5: And you're in the habit of doing up your boots
- 1:05Speaker 5: in a certain way. I observe that on this occasion
- 1:08Speaker 5: they're tied in a double bowl. You have therefore had
- 1:11Speaker 5: them off. Who has retied them? A boot maker or
- 1:15Speaker 5: the boy at the Turkish bath? But your boots are
- 1:17Speaker 5: nearly new? Then what means the bath? Absurdly simple, isn't it?
- 1:22Speaker 2: When you explain it?
- 1:24Speaker 5: Come in, yes, missus Hutton, it's a not for.
- 1:28Speaker 6: You, mister Holmes. And this says your boy, yes, braught it?
- 1:31Speaker 5: Thank you, missus Hutson.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Who's it from? H?
- 1:36Speaker 5: I swear that only reigning royals it can be as
- 1:38Speaker 5: presumptuous as an American businessman. Read it for yourself.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I be at your lodgings at two tomorrow, Be there,
- 1:47Speaker 2: Sank John V.
- 1:48Speaker 4: Harden Be there, h and an.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Extremely elegant fellow. What makes you think that he's an American?
- 1:56Speaker 3: The use of the initial for the middle name is
- 1:58Speaker 3: peculiar to that country.
- 1:59Speaker 4: A Jorge. It's not at two o'clock now, homes.
- 2:02Speaker 5: Yes, let's see what we can find out about the gentleman.
- 2:05Speaker 5: Where's that Encyclopedia of American biography?
- 2:09Speaker 4: Ah?
- 2:09Speaker 5: Here he is h H. A. Hanley handsome. Pardon, here's
- 2:15Speaker 5: our man Watson, John Vincent Harden.
- 2:17Speaker 2: What does it say about him?
- 2:18Speaker 5: Born in Chicago, forty five years old, unmarried, chiefly noted
- 2:24Speaker 5: for his tremendous tobacco interests and his addiction to fishing.
- 2:27Speaker 2: It's an odd combination.
- 2:29Speaker 5: And this is otter. He made his professional debut as
- 2:32Speaker 5: a violinist thirty years ago.
- 2:34Speaker 2: A millionaire musician must be him now, Yes, sir, the
- 2:38Speaker 2: most impressive broom and fair outside.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Then, since my client is a violinist, I think i'll
- 2:43Speaker 5: welcome him appropriately. Hand me my instrument.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Willia Chapman a home funny way to start a business interviewer, and.
- 2:51Speaker 5: Mister Harden sounds like an aggressed man, and music hath
- 2:58Speaker 5: charms to sooth.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Come in, mister Harden to see you, sir.
- 3:13Speaker 5: Thank you, missus Hutson. Come in, mister Hardon. I'm sher
- 3:17Speaker 5: Mack Holmes and this is my friend and colleague, doctor
- 3:19Speaker 5: w How do you do?
- 3:20Speaker 7: How do you do?
- 3:21Speaker 5: If we're to do business?
- 3:22Speaker 1: Mister Holmes by having sight put that violin a way?
- 3:25Speaker 1: I heard you swiping away as I came up the.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Status, So you you don't care for my friends playing?
- 3:32Speaker 5: I don't care for anyone's playing. I love the fiddle.
- 3:35Speaker 5: Curious I was under being praised. Listen to, mister Holmes.
- 3:38Speaker 1: I haven't come here to discuss your musical impressions. I've
- 3:41Speaker 1: come here to talk about my personal safety and my sanity.
- 3:46Speaker 5: Then pray talk about it, mister Harden. I'm being persecuted.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Somebody's trying to drive me crazy religious. What form does
- 3:53Speaker 1: this persecution take, mister Harden, it'll beget about a month
- 3:57Speaker 1: ago my horse ran away and row and throw me.
- 4:01Speaker 5: Maybe it was an accident, maybe not. I've heard of
- 4:04Speaker 5: burrs under saddles. And then last night something else happened.
- 4:11Speaker 5: Someone destroyed Methus Mathosla, an old retainer of yours, mister Harden,
- 4:17Speaker 5: or a pit No.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Mathooslo was the finest, largest, oldest taberne ever.
- 4:22Speaker 5: Cost the stop fish. You are, slock Homes. I'm sure
- 4:27Speaker 5: that the great new moral lies behind us. Please continue,
- 4:30Speaker 5: mister Harden.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Everything was going fine, mister Holmes, until these persecutions started.
- 4:36Speaker 5: Early this year.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I bought a fine old house in Cavendish Place. I'm engaged,
- 4:41Speaker 1: me married to Alish Edwards, the Honorable Alish Edwards. She's
- 4:45Speaker 1: Lord Brentwood's daughter. My life was perfect until I began
- 4:50Speaker 1: to get these notes. What sort of notes, mister Hardon?
- 4:53Speaker 1: As they kept turning up in odd places, my coat pockets,
- 4:56Speaker 1: under my pillows. At night, I found them on the
- 4:58Speaker 1: oppost in my carriage.
- 5:00Speaker 5: You brought these notes with you, of course, all in
- 5:06Speaker 5: the same handwriting, and all the messages seem to have
- 5:09Speaker 5: the same fee homes.
- 5:11Speaker 4: The first one says you thought he.
- 5:14Speaker 5: Had no one to avenge him, didn't you? And this
- 5:18Speaker 5: one says you murdered him. You will pay for it.
- 5:22Speaker 5: And this is curious. It will have blood, they say
- 5:26Speaker 5: blood will have blood. That quotation is from Macbeth.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Oh that that means the note was written by an Englishman.
- 5:32Speaker 5: Not necessarily Watson. It's possible that they've heard of Shakespeare
- 5:35Speaker 5: in America, you know, mister Harton, all these messages threaten
- 5:40Speaker 5: your death. Can you think of anyone who might wish
- 5:43Speaker 5: to kill you? No?
- 5:45Speaker 1: I can't. I've never heard anyone much less killed a person.
- 5:49Speaker 1: The notes don't make any sense if.
- 5:51Speaker 2: You recognize the handwriting.
- 5:52Speaker 5: I've never seen it before in my life. You maketioned
- 5:55Speaker 5: that your prize Tartan was mutilated. What members of your
- 5:59Speaker 5: household might have had the opportunity of performing that act
- 6:02Speaker 5: of vandalism.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Three people my secretary, Margaret Bits, Stephen, my brother, my fiance.
- 6:10Speaker 5: They were all at the house last night. There seems
- 6:13Speaker 5: to be a care pattern of this case, mister Harden,
- 6:15Speaker 5: I suggest that you will return to your home in
- 6:17Speaker 5: obtain for me samples of the handwriting of the three
- 6:20Speaker 5: people you've mentioned. When i've examined those, I shall be
- 6:23Speaker 5: in a better position to advise you in this matter.
- 6:37Speaker 3: Holmes, you've spent three hours with the magnifying arsenal samples
- 6:41Speaker 3: of handwriting when mister.
- 6:42Speaker 5: Harden brought back, if you find the clue nothing positive, Watson,
- 6:48Speaker 5: it's quite curious. The handwriting of the threatening note seems
- 6:51Speaker 5: to be that of a male with an American education.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Oh why do you say that?
- 6:56Speaker 3: Observe this note, you guys, and avenge you never sleep
- 7:01Speaker 3: with honor.
- 7:01Speaker 5: You will notice that honor is spelt without a yule.
- 7:04Speaker 5: That's the American way, and that means that his fiance
- 7:07Speaker 5: didn't write them. She might have deliberately spelt it that
- 7:10Speaker 5: way to remove suspicion from herself. No, I'm afraid these
- 7:13Speaker 5: samples prove nothing.
- 7:15Speaker 2: And we're no nearer finding out who is responsible.
- 7:17Speaker 5: Well, at least we've ruled out an obvious possibilities. Come in, Yes,
- 7:22Speaker 5: missus Hudson.
- 7:23Speaker 6: It's a telegrap list at homes.
- 7:25Speaker 5: Thank you. Yes, better get your coat and hat wotsom
- 7:30Speaker 5: from mister Harden. Yes, he says, a worse blow has fallen.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Come at once.
- 7:47Speaker 6: On Marcus Baps, mister Harden's secretary.
- 7:50Speaker 5: What happened, Miss Babs. We left as soon as we're
- 7:52Speaker 5: received as wire.
- 7:53Speaker 6: I don't know what happened, mister Holmes, but I'm terribly worried.
- 7:57Speaker 6: He rushed out here and dictated that telegram and then
- 8:00Speaker 6: went back and locked himself in the study. He says
- 8:03Speaker 6: he'll see no one but too Hello Margaret, Oh, Stephen,
- 8:07Speaker 6: he's startling.
- 8:07Speaker 5: It's the matter. Do you think I was listening at
- 8:09Speaker 5: the keyhole? Introduced me to our visitors watching.
- 8:13Speaker 6: This is Stephen, mister Harden's brother, mister Sherlock Holmes, and
- 8:17Speaker 6: doctor Watson.
- 8:18Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes and his Freenda I've heard about you. Don't
- 8:22Speaker 5: tell me brother John is falling foul of the law
- 8:25Speaker 5: and that he needs its protection.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Ifea, don't be too sure.
- 8:29Speaker 5: I'm thinking of taking him to court myself on a
- 8:31Speaker 5: charge of woman stealing.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Your brother or kidnapped us Great Scott.
- 8:34Speaker 5: No, no, doctor Watson, it's perfectly legal. It's just that
- 8:38Speaker 5: I saw Alsia Edwards first. But then, of course I
- 8:41Speaker 5: don't control the hardened millions.
- 8:43Speaker 6: Let's go to the study, shall we, mister Holmes, excellent dear.
- 8:48Speaker 5: Perhaps we'll see you later. So perhaps, and don't take
- 8:50Speaker 5: John too seriously.
- 8:52Speaker 6: He's hateful, always making fun of John, his brother, and
- 8:57Speaker 6: yet Stephen's never done a day's work in his life.
- 9:01Speaker 6: This is the door to the study, and mister Holmes
- 9:05Speaker 6: and doctor Watson are here.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Come in.
- 9:12Speaker 6: Thank you mother, How see you gentlemen later?
- 9:16Speaker 5: What form did the new attack takes? Mister harton?
- 9:19Speaker 7: This time?
- 9:19Speaker 5: It's set.
- 9:21Speaker 1: My safe was rifled last night, an extremely valuable document.
- 9:25Speaker 1: It was the key to my agreement with the British
- 9:27Speaker 1: Tobacco Trust. The loss of the paper represent a million
- 9:30Speaker 1: dollars to me. That isn't what upsets me. Most money
- 9:34Speaker 1: I can afford to lose, but my sanity is more valuable.
- 9:38Speaker 1: In the safe I found another.
- 9:40Speaker 5: Note homes May I see peers here? Mmm? The coffin
- 9:46Speaker 5: is made. The funeral parlor is ready, the time is ripe.
- 9:50Speaker 5: The proking raven below for a them writing message, and
- 9:54Speaker 5: once again observed the odd combination of Shakespeare and American idiom.
- 9:59Speaker 5: Funeral parlor is what we refer to as an undertaker's,
- 10:02Speaker 5: and the croaking raven comes from Hamlet Holmes.
- 10:05Speaker 1: I'm not awake, man, but I'm frightened. You've got to
- 10:09Speaker 1: protect me. I shall do my best.
- 10:11Speaker 5: Mister Harden, who was here last night, my secretary of
- 10:15Speaker 5: my rebate, my fiancee. She went back to London this morning.
- 10:20Speaker 5: I make your brother Stephen just now. I noticed that
- 10:23Speaker 5: he was carrying a release. Was he leaving the house
- 10:26Speaker 5: or returning to it? Returning? He went out of town
- 10:29Speaker 5: last night, and that ruled him out, not until we
- 10:32Speaker 5: investigated that by Watson. Mister Harden, I'm a constant and
- 10:37Speaker 5: thorough reader of the times. The engagement of a Pierre's
- 10:40Speaker 5: daughter to a prominent American would be striking news, and
- 10:44Speaker 5: yet I've read nothing about it.
- 10:46Speaker 1: We're announcing it formerly to morrow. I'm giving a party
- 10:50Speaker 1: at clarity Is to celebrate the event.
- 10:52Speaker 5: Then I think it would be a wise precaution if
- 10:54Speaker 5: doctor Watson and I attended that party I was.
- 10:57Speaker 1: About to suggest the same thing, Holmes. I need to
- 11:00Speaker 1: have men about me, I can trust.
- 11:03Speaker 5: I think this is a deliberate plata drive me Mass Holmes,
- 11:17Speaker 5: Doctor Watson, I want you to meet my fiance, Miss
- 11:20Speaker 5: Alicia Edwards. Alicia, my dear, Yes, John, I want to
- 11:25Speaker 5: introduce mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Wat.
- 11:28Speaker 2: How are you doing? May I congratulate you on your engagement?
- 11:32Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, are you a hearing between the old world
- 11:35Speaker 5: and when you is them encouraging sign of the time.
- 11:37Speaker 6: I wish you could convince the Paul that mister Holmes,
- 11:40Speaker 6: whenever he needs John, he always behaves. He expected him
- 11:44Speaker 6: to be wearing feathers and calling and helping knife.
- 11:48Speaker 2: That's very funny.
- 11:50Speaker 5: I don't find it. So excuse me. I want to
- 11:54Speaker 5: talk to the office Journey now.
- 11:57Speaker 6: I don't test John again. He's ridiculous. Please thank you.
- 12:01Speaker 6: Americans are really rather touching.
- 12:03Speaker 5: And yet you're going to marry one Papas'.
- 12:06Speaker 6: Stakes to read, not a lot of money. And that's
- 12:08Speaker 6: the comodity with this John. Things round out. I think
- 12:12Speaker 6: if you understand me.
- 12:13Speaker 5: Mister Home, I'm sure I do. Personally, I may say
- 12:17Speaker 5: that I'm always glad to meet an American. I'm one
- 12:20Speaker 5: of those who believes that the folly of a monas
- 12:22Speaker 5: can be blundering of a minister, and found one years
- 12:25Speaker 5: could not now stand between two men in the homes.
- 12:28Speaker 6: I find you comfort, insult.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Goodbye, Oh my soul, what an unpleasant half. The young woman.
- 12:36Speaker 2: She's obviously a hardened.
- 12:38Speaker 5: His money, obviously, though I don't think she has an
- 12:41Speaker 5: aversion to all Americans.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Oh why do you say that?
- 12:45Speaker 5: She is being dancing with mister Hardon's brother's season most
- 12:48Speaker 5: of the evenings. At this moment he joined at the
- 12:50Speaker 5: door and they're beating together.
- 12:53Speaker 2: God, you think the seed?
- 12:56Speaker 5: Hello, what's happening up there.
- 13:00Speaker 2: In the violinist? I won't take a look. Look, he
- 13:05Speaker 2: snatched the instrument out of his hand. Get out of here.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I wait.
- 13:13Speaker 3: Now, I tell you God's way.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Home. He hitting like a man, and he's rushing after
- 13:20Speaker 2: the musician and brandishing the violiness if he if he's
- 13:22Speaker 2: gonna brain him with it?
- 13:23Speaker 5: Yes, watching that quarrel with a violinist was not a
- 13:27Speaker 5: totally same act. If the anonymous correspondence motive is to
- 13:32Speaker 5: undermine Harden's wagons, he may be succeeded.
- 13:35Speaker 2: But who has a motive might be the brother Stephen.
- 13:38Speaker 2: He's off jealous of the girl and he probably next
- 13:40Speaker 2: in nine five minutes. But I checked his.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Annibi the last night he was out of town.
- 13:47Speaker 2: What's the devil's on now? O? O's for ao?
- 13:52Speaker 5: Here amaster harden for a cow a? What's wrong for Solicia?
- 13:57Speaker 5: I found her in the car he's been in just
- 14:11Speaker 5: a moment.
- 14:11Speaker 1: We'll find out what happens next in the strange case
- 14:14Speaker 1: of a persecuted millionaire. Hair specialists constantly advise us to
- 14:19Speaker 1: take better care of the hair we've got, and men
- 14:22Speaker 1: don't forget that. If you want your hair handsome and
- 14:25Speaker 1: healthy looking, one of the first requirements.
- 14:27Speaker 5: Is a hygienic scalp.
- 14:29Speaker 1: So why settle for just any hair dressing when you
- 14:31Speaker 1: can enjoy the extra advantages of this highly specialized cremal
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- 14:52Speaker 1: right in the surface of your stealth and leaves your
- 14:55Speaker 1: scalp feeling so alive and invigorated, as fresh as a daisy.
- 14:59Speaker 1: At the same time, Kremmel removes dander plates. It's excellent
- 15:03Speaker 1: to lubricate a dry scalp. And if your hair is
- 15:05Speaker 1: so dry that it breaks and falls when you call it,
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- 15:11Speaker 1: it feel softer, more pliable. So men, take better care
- 15:15Speaker 1: of the hair you've got. Buy a bottle of Cremel
- 15:18Speaker 1: at any drug counter, ask for an application at your barbershop.
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- 15:25Speaker 1: hygienic scalp.
- 15:27Speaker 5: K R E. M. L.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Kremmel Hair. Tonic Well got to watch him. So the
- 15:40Speaker 1: Honorable Alicia Edwards had been strangled at her engagement party.
- 15:44Speaker 1: What happened next?
- 15:45Speaker 2: I tried first, said mister bellin founds. The girl was
- 15:48Speaker 2: not dead.
- 15:48Speaker 3: We rushed to the hospitals and a few hours later
- 15:51Speaker 3: we were.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Able to talk to her. But we found that you
- 15:55Speaker 2: gives no clue. When we left the room, was waiting
- 16:00Speaker 2: person in the corridor.
- 16:03Speaker 4: How is she?
- 16:04Speaker 5: Is she going to be all right, But don't.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Why mister Harden. She'll be all right, but she's she
- 16:07Speaker 2: had a very narrow escape.
- 16:09Speaker 7: But why attack her?
- 16:11Speaker 5: Why not me? The pattern becomes increasingly claire. Mister Harden.
- 16:14Speaker 5: Your enemy has struck at your fishing, your business, now
- 16:18Speaker 5: at your chiance, so every blow is at your wealth
- 16:21Speaker 5: and position and my sanity. Mister Holmes, you've got to
- 16:24Speaker 5: find out who's behind all this. On the occasion of
- 16:26Speaker 5: the mutilation of the fish, three people have the opportunity.
- 16:30Speaker 5: Your brother Stephen is clear on the second attack, and
- 16:32Speaker 5: on this last one, I think we may reasonably assume
- 16:35Speaker 5: that your fance did not strangle her.
- 16:36Speaker 2: So's our wager, my medical reputation on that fact.
- 16:40Speaker 1: And that means that only one person who was present
- 16:42Speaker 1: on all three occasions was.
- 16:45Speaker 5: No, you can't mean your secretary, mister Bates. Where is
- 16:48Speaker 5: she in the waiting room? Splendid? Then doctor Watson and
- 16:52Speaker 5: I will take her back to Baker Street. I have
- 16:55Speaker 5: an idea that she can be of invaluable help to.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Us a little montem space.
- 17:10Speaker 6: No, thank you, doctor Watson.
- 17:12Speaker 5: Then please go on with your story.
- 17:13Speaker 2: As I was.
- 17:14Speaker 6: Saying, mister Holmes, I've known mister Harden. All my life
- 17:18Speaker 6: my father was the Hardened coachman, and as I grew up,
- 17:22Speaker 6: I thought John Vincent Harden was the most wonderful man.
- 17:25Speaker 4: In the world.
- 17:26Speaker 2: Well, I imagine that he was quite different then my death.
- 17:29Speaker 6: Very different. He was young and romantic, and he loved music.
- 17:34Speaker 6: He took violin lessons, and it turned out that he
- 17:36Speaker 6: was a prodigy.
- 17:37Speaker 5: I understand that he made his professional debut at the
- 17:39Speaker 5: age of thirteen.
- 17:40Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes, I was only a little girl then,
- 17:44Speaker 6: But he used to tell me that he wasn't John
- 17:47Speaker 6: Vincent Hardened, the heir to the tobacco, the lean. He
- 17:50Speaker 6: was Giovanni Vincenti, the great.
- 17:52Speaker 5: Violinist, Giovanni Vincenti odd pray continuous dates.
- 17:58Speaker 6: For five years. It seemed that he would be a
- 18:00Speaker 6: great musician. Then on his eighteenth birthday, his father gave
- 18:05Speaker 6: him a lecture on his family obligation, told him that
- 18:09Speaker 6: it was his duty to go into the business.
- 18:11Speaker 2: John broke his violin across.
- 18:13Speaker 6: His knee, mister Holmes, and he's never played said mistake.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I don't need to be a detective to reduce that
- 18:21Speaker 2: you love him.
- 18:23Speaker 6: Of course I do, or at least I loved you
- 18:28Speaker 6: as it instanty. Then maybe he's still there somehow somewhere, of.
- 18:35Speaker 5: Course, or he's been a legiot, a nun scol What
- 18:38Speaker 5: do you mean home? The case is solved, comers Bates.
- 18:40Speaker 5: When must return to mister Hartn as fast as we can.
- 18:43Speaker 5: I only hope we're not too late.
- 18:54Speaker 6: But why doesn't he answer?
- 18:55Speaker 3: The survey said he lost himself in.
- 18:57Speaker 2: The study again, Jew's lot.
- 18:59Speaker 5: I don't like them this, come on, watch, we'll break
- 19:01Speaker 5: it in on more.
- 19:08Speaker 2: There's an a half of the time in house.
- 19:10Speaker 5: If they please leave us, my friends and doctor. He'll
- 19:12Speaker 5: take care of him. She's only wounded.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Yes, just raise his scout, okay, Kevin, I'll be waiting outside.
- 19:21Speaker 4: This is attempted suicide.
- 19:23Speaker 2: They finally succeeded in driving mad.
- 19:25Speaker 5: Did they read this note lying here? It's in the
- 19:28Speaker 5: same handwriting as the other messages.
- 19:30Speaker 7: I might try to fool another detective, but doc you,
- 19:33Speaker 7: mister Sherlock Holmes, I admit I shut John Simpson Harden.
- 19:37Speaker 7: I'm sure you'll have no difficult to discovering high escape from.
- 19:40Speaker 4: A locked room. Good lord, you will observe.
- 19:43Speaker 5: That the note was written and blotted on this desk Watson,
- 19:47Speaker 5: I'll see you to getting mister Harden to bed and
- 19:49Speaker 5: summoning his own doctor. I want you to return to
- 19:51Speaker 5: Baker Street. Baker Street, why tho all the cases solved?
- 19:54Speaker 5: I have some heavy thinking to do and I must
- 19:57Speaker 5: do it here. So be a good fellow and go
- 19:59Speaker 5: back to our lodging is. Get me two ounces of
- 20:00Speaker 5: shank tobacco and my violin. How are you feeling now,
- 20:17Speaker 5: mister Houghton, we calls, did I'm all right?
- 20:21Speaker 2: He was still can't remember anything.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Sir No.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I felt half out of my mind since that attack
- 20:27Speaker 1: was made of militia.
- 20:29Speaker 7: I told me should be all right.
- 20:31Speaker 1: I do faintly remember coming home from the hospital and
- 20:35Speaker 1: blocking myself in the study.
- 20:39Speaker 5: The rest is a blank. What did happen, mister Holmes,
- 20:44Speaker 5: And I'll give you the complete answer very shortly, mister Houghton,
- 20:47Speaker 5: Colin Watson, you.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Know well, try and rest. Mister Harten, You've been through
- 20:51Speaker 2: quite an ordeal outside.
- 20:53Speaker 5: I'm just out sry.
- 21:01Speaker 2: Home.
- 21:02Speaker 5: You left your violin and Harden's room. Did you mean
- 21:04Speaker 5: to I meant to him. And in the meanwhile, we
- 21:08Speaker 5: must talk more seriously to miss Bates.
- 21:10Speaker 2: She's down here in the sitting room.
- 21:12Speaker 5: Is and brother Stephens first know the good news, Margaret
- 21:18Speaker 5: and may Win. Why what the good news is, Sir?
- 21:20Speaker 5: Didn't see you fellas coming down the stairs. Well it
- 21:23Speaker 5: is no reason why you shouldn't hear it too. I've
- 21:26Speaker 5: just come from the hospital. Alicia's broken off her engagement
- 21:28Speaker 5: to John. She's going to marry me. Indeed, my congratulations.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Yes, sir, but I suggest you don't tell your brother
- 21:35Speaker 2: the news. He's a very sick man.
- 21:37Speaker 5: I won't now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to celebrate.
- 21:41Speaker 2: Miss Sparkling. You're a Miss Bates.
- 21:43Speaker 4: I can see that you're just as excited as Stephen's is.
- 21:46Speaker 6: Of course I am, But tell me that to Holmes.
- 21:49Speaker 6: Have you found out who attacked John?
- 21:51Speaker 5: Yes, Miss Bates, at last, I know the name of
- 21:53Speaker 5: mister John Vincent Harden's enemy. On the incident of the
- 21:57Speaker 5: mutilated fish, you or Stephen or Alicia might have been guilty.
- 22:02Speaker 5: On the stolen document, you or Alysia, and on the
- 22:06Speaker 5: attack on this lady you or Stephen, which seemed to
- 22:10Speaker 5: leave only you.
- 22:11Speaker 6: But I was having tea with both of you in
- 22:13Speaker 6: Baker Street when John was shot precisely.
- 22:16Speaker 5: As perfect in alibi as I've ever known, and no
- 22:18Speaker 5: one person was responsible, there must have been accomplishing Noah Watson.
- 22:23Speaker 5: Remember another fact, The note supposedly written after the attempted
- 22:27Speaker 5: murder was blotted at the very desk which the wounded
- 22:29Speaker 5: man was slumped over. Isn't it clear, franklin Er, the
- 22:33Speaker 5: persecutor and the would be murderer of John Vinson Harden
- 22:36Speaker 5: is Giovanni Vincenti, but.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Tauana and the same man mismates ter, Sir.
- 22:42Speaker 5: They were the same man. But Harden forced the dominant
- 22:45Speaker 5: part of his character into annihilation when he destroyed his violin.
- 22:49Speaker 5: He thought he had destroyed Giovanna Vincenti, that his alter
- 22:52Speaker 5: ego was still dormant, giess, And after the shock of
- 22:55Speaker 5: the writing accident in Rotten Row, Giovanni Vincenti emerged hunting
- 22:59Speaker 5: for revenge.
- 23:00Speaker 6: You mean poor John really has a dual personality to home.
- 23:05Speaker 5: Yes, my dear. No one person seemed to have the
- 23:08Speaker 5: opportunity of committing all the attacks, But we left one
- 23:11Speaker 5: person off our list, John vincent Hardening.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Why homes and sake?
- 23:16Speaker 5: Why Jiovan Evincenti struck at the fish, the document and
- 23:20Speaker 5: at the fiance. All symbols of what Hardened had gained
- 23:24Speaker 5: for himself. Finally, he attacked Harden's.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Life, goodness to homes.
- 23:30Speaker 6: What will happen now is out of his mind that they.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Won't send into an asylum, will be?
- 23:36Speaker 5: I think not, this bates. There's a possibility that this
- 23:39Speaker 5: second shark, this self inflicted wound on the skull, may
- 23:43Speaker 5: cure him. Don't you agree, Watson?
- 23:45Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
- 23:46Speaker 3: Except the possible, there'll be a complete reintegration of personality.
- 23:51Speaker 6: Listen, it's John and he hasn't touched the violent brages,
- 23:56Speaker 6: so that's.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Why you left your violin in his room.
- 23:59Speaker 5: Home. Now, Giovanni Vincenti and John Vincent Harden are again
- 24:05Speaker 5: one man, one whole and sound man. I trust he
- 24:10Speaker 5: may create a new life for himself, and I'm convinced
- 24:14Speaker 5: that he has here the woman who will help him.