Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear

<v Speaker 1>From the BBC The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>It makes sense.
<v Speaker 3>Watson's fare is Danger Douglas now at Burlston House, Birlston.
<v Speaker 2>Inspector McDonald's here, sir, come in, Come in.
<v Speaker 3>I hear this means that there is some mischief afoot.
<v Speaker 3>Great headens, I wasn't a thriller that paper. Those names
<v Speaker 3>just a little cipher. Dr Watson and I have been
<v Speaker 3>amusing ourselves with. What I came here to tell you
<v Speaker 3>was that mister Douglas of Billstone Manor House, Bidlestone was
<v Speaker 3>muddered late last night. It was a good coincidence. Watson's
<v Speaker 3>my name, Dr Watson, privileged.
<v Speaker 2>To share the adventures of Sharlock Holes. I'll tell you about.
<v Speaker 3>The value of fear, which began with home being rather bad.
<v Speaker 2>Mallard. You'll see what I mean in a moment.
<v Speaker 3>Hmm, I'm inclined the thing I should do, so Watton.
<v Speaker 3>I came myself one of the most long suffering immortals
<v Speaker 3>with them. But what's my dear Watson, Well, guess you're
<v Speaker 3>you're ready to crying at times. You'll sit there eye
<v Speaker 3>on breakfast untasted.
<v Speaker 2>If Poorlock's writing, there can be no doubt of it.
<v Speaker 3>The Greeky with a peculiar tough fladish is distinctive.
<v Speaker 2>Then who is poorock Er Pollock?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, Paulock Watson is an under plum and their identification
<v Speaker 3>mark behind it lies a shifty evasive personality.
<v Speaker 2>They knew something in common. Whoever he is. The point
<v Speaker 2>is taken.
<v Speaker 3>A Pollack is an important man one well, not for himself,
<v Speaker 3>but for the great man with whom.
<v Speaker 2>He's in touch. You heard me speak of professor Moriarti.
<v Speaker 2>Heard of Moriarti. He must be about as famous one Crooks.
<v Speaker 3>He's the greatest schema of all time, the controlling brain
<v Speaker 3>of the underworld.
<v Speaker 2>But look here you were talking about this champ Paula.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, the so called Pollock is my link. And
<v Speaker 2>this letter is something of the same kind of don't
<v Speaker 2>that only we had the key to the cipher cipher then.
<v Speaker 3>He will look at the letter, so you know, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>thank you? Name groups of figures into a three name. No,
<v Speaker 3>not you sending a cipher message to someone who hasn't
<v Speaker 3>the key?
<v Speaker 2>Is it?
<v Speaker 3>Five key four C two thirteen twenty seven four Douglas
<v Speaker 3>venteen twenty six, Birdstone forty six Birlstone m it's clearly
<v Speaker 3>a reference to the words in the page of some book.
<v Speaker 2>Well then, why hasn't he indicated what book it is?
<v Speaker 3>My dear Watson, your native shrewdness, that innate cunning, which
<v Speaker 3>is the delight of your friends, would surely prevent you
<v Speaker 3>from enclosing both the message and it's key in the
<v Speaker 3>same mondolaw and I shall be surprised at our second person, lemen,
<v Speaker 3>Missus Hudson, the second hostess of come to Holmes a
<v Speaker 3>letter for you, sir as I expected.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Missus s nothing for you.
<v Speaker 1>Dr Watsons, Oh well, thank you, thank you, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 3>I think this button the same, yes, by getting on. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>dear me, this is very disappointing. I trust Paula won't
<v Speaker 3>come to any harm. Why what do you say, dear
<v Speaker 3>mister Holmes. I will go no further in this matter.
<v Speaker 2>I can see that he suspects me.
<v Speaker 3>I had actually addressed this envelope to send you the
<v Speaker 3>key to the cipher, but he came on me quite unexpectedly,
<v Speaker 3>and I was only just able to cover it up.
<v Speaker 2>Pull him.
<v Speaker 3>Please burn the cipher message. It can be of no
<v Speaker 3>use to you now, Paulack.
<v Speaker 2>I presume the other hours moriarty, when any of that
<v Speaker 2>party talk about he, you know whom they mean.
<v Speaker 3>Anyway, Friend Paulocke is evident, plea scared out of his wits.
<v Speaker 2>It's pretty bad. Leave me at homes to think.
<v Speaker 3>That maybe an important secret hidden on this piece of paper.
<v Speaker 3>And we haven't the part of penetry. Yes, but then
<v Speaker 3>I wonder, but yeah, the cipher message begins with a
<v Speaker 3>large five three four. We take it as a working
<v Speaker 3>hypothesis that five hundred and thirty four at the page
<v Speaker 3>to which the cipher affairs. So our book has already
<v Speaker 3>become a large book.
<v Speaker 2>Well what else is? The next sign is C two?
<v Speaker 2>But you make of the book chapter two? No, hardly
<v Speaker 2>if the page number is given.
<v Speaker 3>The chapter numbers in material. In any case, a page
<v Speaker 3>five hundred and thirty four only finds us in the
<v Speaker 3>second chapter. The first chapter must have been August intolerable.
<v Speaker 3>Oh column then column too, brilliant, Watson, you're scintillating this morning.
<v Speaker 3>Those thanks, So now we begin to visualize a large
<v Speaker 3>book printed in double columns.
<v Speaker 2>Well, have we reached the limits of what reason can
<v Speaker 2>supply raso book? Shureley, you do yourself an injustice. If
<v Speaker 2>the volume had been an unusual one, he would have
<v Speaker 2>sent it to me. So, don't you see he used
<v Speaker 2>a book he thought I'd have no difficulty in finding
<v Speaker 2>for myself, a very well known book Watson, large.
<v Speaker 3>And printed in double columns, a book in very common
<v Speaker 3>use the Bible.
<v Speaker 2>Good Batson word that's not, if I may say so,
<v Speaker 2>quite good enough.
<v Speaker 3>Why, even if I accepted the compliment for myself, I
<v Speaker 3>could hardly name any volume less likely to lie at
<v Speaker 3>the elbow of one of Mariati's associates.
<v Speaker 2>Besides the editions of earlier riticerent humorous.
<v Speaker 3>But he could hardly suppose that two copies would have
<v Speaker 3>the same page content. No, this is clearly a standardized book.
<v Speaker 3>He knows for certain that his page five three four
<v Speaker 3>will exactly agree with mine. The Almanac are the Almanac excellent?
<v Speaker 3>Watson excellent? May be does anything? It has a large
<v Speaker 3>number of pages, Yes, and it's a double column if
<v Speaker 3>I remember correctly, It's reserved in its early vocabulary, but
<v Speaker 3>becomes quite garrulous towards the end.
<v Speaker 2>Well, let's quiet home. Yes, n here is page fifty
<v Speaker 2>first thirty four, column two. Word number thirteen is there,
<v Speaker 2>But it done. Wasn't there the.
<v Speaker 3>Word twenty seven is there is yes that and next
<v Speaker 3>we have we have dinger. This is hit Watson, I'm
<v Speaker 3>sure of it. The word Douglas comes next, Yes, and.
<v Speaker 2>Then sixteen sixteen seventeen, the seventeenth word now twenty one,
<v Speaker 2>twenty five, twenty six act.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, there is danger Douglas now at oh at Burst
<v Speaker 3>and the word comes next, Inn. There's another number then
<v Speaker 3>then Boston again. Right, what forty s for four forty
<v Speaker 3>five forty sixth house? It makes sense, botsm there is
<v Speaker 3>danger Douglas now at Burston House.
<v Speaker 2>First. Well, well, Holmes, we did it. We did, indeed,
<v Speaker 2>my dear Watson, we did. Indeed. Oh McDonald's here, sir,
<v Speaker 2>come in, come in and eli today.
<v Speaker 3>Watson, harmonying inspector.
<v Speaker 2>I fear this means that there is some mischief a footing.
<v Speaker 2>Great heavens, I wasn't an area that paper those names.
<v Speaker 3>Eh? Oh, this is this just a little cipher. Doctor
<v Speaker 3>Watson and I have been amusing ourselves with We exhausted
<v Speaker 3>it possibility just before you came into Hell. I hate
<v Speaker 3>to spoil your pleasure, gentlemen. Only Yes, what I came
<v Speaker 3>here to tell you was that mister Douglas of Bidlestone
<v Speaker 3>Manor House, Biddlestone was muddered late last night.
<v Speaker 2>What remarkable, remarkable, and the reason I came to tell
<v Speaker 2>you of it is that her own.
<v Speaker 3>We close so far as a card found beside the
<v Speaker 3>body with what appears to be a cipher written on it,
<v Speaker 3>the letters the the three four one, And I know
<v Speaker 3>your interest in ciphers, mister Holmes, mister mac I receive
<v Speaker 3>a communication from a quarter which I know to be important.
<v Speaker 2>It walls me the danger threatens a certain person.
<v Speaker 3>Within the hour I learned that this danger has actually
<v Speaker 3>materialized and that the person is dead. I was going
<v Speaker 3>down to Billstone this spawning. How it seems we might
<v Speaker 3>perhaps be doing better work in London.
<v Speaker 2>Poso.
<v Speaker 3>Well, since I take it that end applying there is
<v Speaker 3>the one your message came in your egal eye noted
<v Speaker 3>it was Persted in Kemberware exactly. Well, i'd better tell
<v Speaker 3>you at once. My correspondence name is Paulock. It's an
<v Speaker 3>assumed name. I promised when he first wrote that I
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't try to trace it. Do you think there's someone
<v Speaker 3>behind him?
<v Speaker 2>I know there is. This professor has heard dimension exactly.
<v Speaker 3>I might have known, And mister Wrongs, I won't consume
<v Speaker 3>from you that we in the c idea inclined to think.
<v Speaker 2>You may have a wee bit.
<v Speaker 3>Of a a bee in your bonnet over this professor
<v Speaker 3>chap Oh, Dear mister Meck, you've read about Jonathan Wilde.
<v Speaker 3>I take it there, yes, yes, sir, some sort.
<v Speaker 2>Of criminal in the old days.
<v Speaker 3>Everything comes in circles, mister mec even Professor Moriarty. Jonathan
<v Speaker 3>Wilde was the hidden force of the London criminals in
<v Speaker 3>the seventeen fifties.
<v Speaker 2>Are there about? He sold them his brains and his
<v Speaker 2>organization on a fifteen percent commission.
<v Speaker 3>The old wield turns and the same spoke comes up
<v Speaker 3>some time when you were here or two.
<v Speaker 2>To spare mister Meck, I commend to you the study
<v Speaker 2>of Professor Moriarty very well.
<v Speaker 3>He'll keep in the meantime of what really accounts is
<v Speaker 3>that remark of yours about some connection between the professor
<v Speaker 3>and this claim at Middlestone. Mariarti rules his people with
<v Speaker 3>a rod of iron.
<v Speaker 2>There is only one punishment in it code. It is dead.
<v Speaker 2>So we might suppose that.
<v Speaker 3>This murdered man, this Douglas head in some way betrayed
<v Speaker 3>the chief Paula could know he was about to be punished. Well,
<v Speaker 3>that's an idea. Or Mariati may have been engaged to engineer.
<v Speaker 3>If I'm the promise of a part of the spoils,
<v Speaker 3>either as possible and everything, it could be something entirely different.
<v Speaker 3>Whatever it may be, we must look for the solution
<v Speaker 3>down at Bolsters.
<v Speaker 2>Then let's be going. Oh, good lord, it's later than
<v Speaker 2>I thought.
<v Speaker 3>You've got five minutes to get ready, gentlemen, little do
<v Speaker 3>what'sn't be good enough? Touring for our boots right away
<v Speaker 3>while I changed out of this pressing gown. Oh, mister
<v Speaker 3>mac the temptation.
<v Speaker 2>To form premature theories is the bait of our profession.
<v Speaker 2>So let's make a bargain about that from the start, Jowy,
<v Speaker 2>no theory is from me. I can support them with
<v Speaker 2>the theater very well, a bargain with the homes. God. Now,
<v Speaker 2>I can only see two things.
<v Speaker 3>For certain at present, a great train in London and
<v Speaker 3>a dead man in Sussex.
<v Speaker 2>It's the chain between that were good to trace. Oh passively,
<v Speaker 2>that dear stalker.
<v Speaker 3>There's a good fellow Watson, and I don't get a
<v Speaker 3>trip into the country.
<v Speaker 2>Everything. I please to see you and mister Holmes locing watter.
<v Speaker 3>Meet mister White's Mason cheap detective of this Sussex contabulary.
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad to have you with us, gentlemen, very glad,
<v Speaker 3>indeed ru downright snort that we have on our hands
<v Speaker 3>here and no mistakes.
<v Speaker 2>Well, there's a carriage outside and sage of us and
<v Speaker 2>waiting and he's the local man down here posting on
<v Speaker 2>this business and he can give us the details as you.
<v Speaker 3>That's it, so come on, gentlemen, I'll lead the ways. Excellent, excellent, well, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 3>It was eleven forty five last evening. The first word
<v Speaker 3>reached me at my house. It was mister Barker competing
<v Speaker 3>like mad at the bell and told me there'd been
<v Speaker 3>a horrid murder of the matter of mister Barker Prey
<v Speaker 3>and mister Cecil James Barker, Sir of Hale's large hamsteads,
<v Speaker 3>were particular as I got.
<v Speaker 2>He's well known down here, often comes.
<v Speaker 3>Down to start the manner with mister and missus Douglas,
<v Speaker 3>thank his Admilson the big Yes, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>Well, there was a little past twelve When I got there,
<v Speaker 2>the signs were hale standing about in the hall proper
<v Speaker 2>shake and they looked. I see well, justin.
<v Speaker 3>Dr Woods from the villager road, and mister Barker led
<v Speaker 3>us into the room where the buddy lay. It was
<v Speaker 3>mister Douglas's study. You find you outen straight into the halls.
<v Speaker 3>Just a moment, Sagan. When you say mister Barker led
<v Speaker 3>us into the room, the room accepted. Does the ass
<v Speaker 3>prefa adjust me? And doctor Woodson?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? And Eames the butler, he has he come.
<v Speaker 3>In the eye us and closed the door after you'll
<v Speaker 3>stop the maid servants see and what did you teeth?
<v Speaker 3>Has it with the sea sleigh in the center of
<v Speaker 3>the room, Sir. He was on his back with his
<v Speaker 3>arms and legs outstretched. He was wearing only a pindressing
<v Speaker 3>gown with his nine seams undreds. There were carpet slippers
<v Speaker 3>on his bare feet. His head had been barely blown
<v Speaker 3>to pieces.
<v Speaker 2>Have wants some learn about them? Something shocking, sir? Any weapon?
<v Speaker 2>I guess?
<v Speaker 3>There was a shot gun lying across his chest. The
<v Speaker 3>barrels have been sawn off short, and the figures were
<v Speaker 3>wired together so they'd go off together. Doctor said he'd
<v Speaker 3>had the locks pray in his face.
<v Speaker 2>Go through and this job, sir, as you will see.
<v Speaker 3>Well, while doctor would went upstairs to see them, Missus Douglas,
<v Speaker 3>I got me notebook out and asked mister Barker a
<v Speaker 3>few questions.
<v Speaker 2>I got the notes with re air. Yes, this is
<v Speaker 2>it now.
<v Speaker 3>First of all, I harsh whether anything I had been
<v Speaker 3>touched since the business was discover.
<v Speaker 2>If anything has been touched since this business was discovered?
<v Speaker 3>Nothing has been touched in this room thousand You see
<v Speaker 3>it exactly as I found it?
<v Speaker 2>And what exactly was that? So it was just half
<v Speaker 2>past eleven? How long from hearing the report before you
<v Speaker 2>entered the room? Thirty seconds?
<v Speaker 3>At the outside thirty card Douglas was lying just as
<v Speaker 3>you see him.
<v Speaker 2>His bedroom candle was burning on the table.
<v Speaker 3>I see the lamps burning those, heir, That was little later,
<v Speaker 3>no doubt the lamp ah, yes, sir, I let that
<v Speaker 3>humans after I came into the room.
<v Speaker 2>Did you see anyone, sir? No one.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Missus Douglas coming down the stairs, and I
<v Speaker 3>rushed out to prevent her from seeing this dreadful sight.
<v Speaker 3>Missus Allen, the housekeeper came and took her away. The
<v Speaker 3>butler Ames had arrived and we.
<v Speaker 2>Ran back into the room again together.
<v Speaker 3>I say, Ames came with you then, yes, Constable sideand
<v Speaker 3>the Goodlins. I know this moke that runs right round
<v Speaker 3>the house. Here, Yes, woke the drawbridge across be hop
<v Speaker 3>or down at the time. It was that until I
<v Speaker 3>loaded myself to come and get shoes out.
<v Speaker 2>And see. Ah, you're wondering how anyone could have got
<v Speaker 2>away from my house after shooting mister Douglas. Wow, sir,
<v Speaker 2>less unless mister Douglas shot himself. Oh no, that is
<v Speaker 2>out of the question.
<v Speaker 3>If you'll step over to this window, yes, sir, when
<v Speaker 3>I called back to this captain, you'll.
<v Speaker 2>See the window. It's poor and it's just how him
<v Speaker 2>and I are. And here on the window ledge a
<v Speaker 2>smear of blood and.
<v Speaker 3>This marks, my guest, best mark made by the soul
<v Speaker 3>of someone's.
<v Speaker 2>Boot if he was getting out wall. See what you mean, sir,
<v Speaker 2>God Joe, here's the long why it across to be
<v Speaker 2>what you see? And I closed the cerain again. Windows
<v Speaker 2>quite screened up. Now can you tell me, sir what
<v Speaker 2>time the job bridge would have been raised for the night?
<v Speaker 2>Ms good head of that And it was nearly six o'clock.
<v Speaker 3>If anyone come from outside, they must have got in
<v Speaker 3>across the bridge before six and here it somewhere, s
<v Speaker 3>will mister Douglas come into the road and the man
<v Speaker 3>was waiting for him in here he shut Mister Douglas
<v Speaker 3>left the gun behind him and got away through the window.
<v Speaker 2>That's how I read it, Sergeant, Very likely, very likely,
<v Speaker 2>doctor would how is she, missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, she's being up remarkably will in the circumstances, i'd say, oh, hell,
<v Speaker 3>the sergeant, you will found something?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this faster dead man's shoulder. You haven't spotted it? Why?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>I never noticed it at all. But what's that written
<v Speaker 2>on it? The the three four one screable? And what
<v Speaker 2>on earth can that mean?
<v Speaker 3>Beyond me for the moment, sir. Oh by the way, sergeant,
<v Speaker 3>is this hammer on the rugs here? I wanted me
<v Speaker 3>to examine. It might just be a bloodstain, you know, hmmm, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this looks quite clean.
<v Speaker 2>Though to me.
<v Speaker 3>Put it back on the rug where you've found it, please,
<v Speaker 3>doctor oil cassidy if anything's gotten long before the detectives
<v Speaker 3>got here.
<v Speaker 2>For I'm sorry, sergeants, I should have known better. I
<v Speaker 2>wonder what it was dream on the floor.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Douglas was also in the pictures yesterday. That's the
<v Speaker 3>hammer he was using that song. I see, well the
<v Speaker 3>pets have make a close and look over the body.
<v Speaker 3>New mass of violence is what the head would never
<v Speaker 3>know though, right you are, doctor, No, I had better
<v Speaker 3>think a good.
<v Speaker 2>Look around this Roy too, Yes, but i'd have thought, ah,
<v Speaker 2>what is it? Silent Master? Where here? Mark goose Joe?
<v Speaker 3>Yes?
<v Speaker 2>But why were these cards be gone last night?
<v Speaker 3>And the four o'clock said when the lamps were lit?
<v Speaker 3>And that is a bad argmentary, doesn't it a bad lab?
<v Speaker 2>Perhaps? I say, you never seen a mark like this before?
<v Speaker 2>What have you found? Doctor? Yea, let me see well
<v Speaker 2>sort of tattoo that's m bull inside the circle? Yes, sir,
<v Speaker 2>many a time I've seen that mark when the Master
<v Speaker 2>rolled his teas up to watch. He never told me.
<v Speaker 2>But where strike me? Ms? I do beg pardon, sir
<v Speaker 2>Mosa the Master's wing me. It's gone. Good Lord, you're
<v Speaker 2>sure about that designs no doubt at all.
<v Speaker 3>Tageant always worried that ring with the rough nuggets on
<v Speaker 3>it was a pudget Now quite right.
<v Speaker 2>Am just a minute, now, just a minute. Did you
<v Speaker 2>say the nugget ring was always wore above the wedding.
<v Speaker 3>Ring, always never changed. But that means the murderer or
<v Speaker 3>whoever it was, took that nugget ring off him to
<v Speaker 3>steal the wedding ring, and then put the nugget ring
<v Speaker 3>back on again.
<v Speaker 2>There's the nugget, the wedding ring's gone. Well, that makes
<v Speaker 2>sister rummis Jewel I ever struck. They said to you,
<v Speaker 2>too thick for the lights of me, And I did.
<v Speaker 2>And that's about as fair as I can report to you, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 2>For remarkable must remarkle.
<v Speaker 3>Do you know I can hardly recall any case in
<v Speaker 3>my experience where the features have been more protused.
<v Speaker 2>I rather thought you'd say that we're well up with
<v Speaker 2>the times in Stutis. You can see. Yes, I arrived
<v Speaker 2>to take over from Sargon Wison between three and four
<v Speaker 2>this morning. I examined the gun. There's no complete his
<v Speaker 2>name on it, just the first three letters on the
<v Speaker 2>fluting between the barrels, the rest being cut off by
<v Speaker 2>the sword. But three letters pree n. I can't think
<v Speaker 2>of what that comes from.
<v Speaker 3>Pennsylvania Small Arms Company, American. First I heard about saw
<v Speaker 3>those shotguns in the States. It might mean the chap
<v Speaker 3>who broke in and killed Douglas was an American, sir.
<v Speaker 3>There is one other thing, yes about America, sir, But
<v Speaker 3>he ceased in his wife spent a long time living
<v Speaker 3>there in California.
<v Speaker 2>No, that's interesting an any sudden. I was just that
<v Speaker 2>mister Sistel Barker was an America too, he told me
<v Speaker 2>was a friend of mister Douglas there. Oh, by the way,
<v Speaker 2>mister houns Ames says he's never seen a gun of
<v Speaker 2>this sort in the house. Before the gun was made
<v Speaker 2>to conceal it would fit into readit box.
<v Speaker 3>But why would a murderer carry a shotgun in with him?
<v Speaker 3>If he'd any sense, he'd choose the.
<v Speaker 2>Quietest weapon he could find, something he can kill with
<v Speaker 2>and not make a sound.
<v Speaker 3>Be through the moat and roll clear of the place
<v Speaker 3>ours before anyone find what's happened. You're right there, ah,
<v Speaker 3>I think if this is our destiny, this is Boston,
<v Speaker 3>manor I say, the place then the seventeenth century.
<v Speaker 2>Most of it. They told me. That's our celebrated merch.
<v Speaker 2>Muddy looking mud.
<v Speaker 3>The water brings down the clay generally about this color,
<v Speaker 3>you know, a.
<v Speaker 2>Tamping the drowning, and couldn't he never spull him under
<v Speaker 2>the not much likelihood of that? Oh, not more than
<v Speaker 2>a foot deep near the edges, and prove the most
<v Speaker 2>in the middle.
<v Speaker 3>Well, then here we are, yeah, sardon Wilson, Sir, you
<v Speaker 3>can take the carriage and get away home.
<v Speaker 2>Because some red Thank you, mister mea why brought two
<v Speaker 2>sings last night? All right? Then how's we get close
<v Speaker 2>the door? Will you please him? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Inspector McDonald and mister Holmes would like to ask you
<v Speaker 3>a few questions.
<v Speaker 2>And I understand you to have said that you often
<v Speaker 2>saw this mark on your late master's forum frequently, s
<v Speaker 2>you never had anyone refer to its meaning, never serve.
<v Speaker 2>I noticed that a small piece of pluster at the
<v Speaker 2>angle of the deceased job here do you see? Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I I see it, Sir. She cut himself shaving yesterday morning?
<v Speaker 2>Did he? If you're nervous at all? Could that be
<v Speaker 2>why he cut himself? It struck me he was a
<v Speaker 2>little restless and excited. So that mister Holmes anything to
<v Speaker 2>add thank you?
<v Speaker 3>As this card will VB three four one scrolled on
<v Speaker 3>the Sir, I noticed that in this room there is
<v Speaker 3>only blacking in the inquies always.
<v Speaker 2>But this writing is purplish in color.
<v Speaker 3>It's been done with the broad page and the ones,
<v Speaker 3>and here fine obviously that he wasn't written in here?
<v Speaker 2>Point can you make anything of the inscription? Names? Nurse
<v Speaker 2>are nothing? It makes me think want to some society
<v Speaker 2>or of us, And.
<v Speaker 3>I'm inclined to agree with you, Doctor Russon. What about
<v Speaker 3>that mister Holmes, an agent from this society, get into
<v Speaker 3>the house, waits for Douglas to kills him, and escaped
<v Speaker 3>by way of the boat. But he leaves miss Carr behind,
<v Speaker 3>so that when the case is reported in the papers,
<v Speaker 3>the other members of the society will know the deeds
<v Speaker 3>be done vengeance or something plausible.
<v Speaker 2>But why this clumes a weapon? Well? And why the
<v Speaker 2>missing ring? And why no arrest its past two? Now?
<v Speaker 2>I think it that since.
<v Speaker 3>Dawn, every comfortable within forty miles radius has been out
<v Speaker 3>looking for signs of a wet stranger.
<v Speaker 2>They certainly hard mister Holmes, unless he's got to hide
<v Speaker 2>away nearby or a change of clothes, they can hardly listen.
<v Speaker 2>And yet they have missed him up to now. Well,
<v Speaker 2>aims I think that is all. I think you're saying
<v Speaker 2>to serve well one moment gains Yes, mister her what
<v Speaker 2>is this under the five table?
<v Speaker 3>Those are mister Douglas's Dumbdell's for exercise dumb bell.
<v Speaker 2>I think you mean there's only one there were to sir,
<v Speaker 2>they are I must be somewhere about. I haven't noticed
<v Speaker 2>the dumblans one dumb bell very well.
<v Speaker 3>Their names, Bett says, oh, mister Barker's na names. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I'm gentlemen, but by all means, mister Barker, I don't
<v Speaker 3>wish to interrupt you, but not at all. So your
<v Speaker 3>fellows are found a bicycle where in a clump of evergreens,
<v Speaker 3>not one hundred yards from the hold door, obviously hidden,
<v Speaker 3>Night saying, now that's a new line of right, come
<v Speaker 3>on the soon we'd better take a look at once.
<v Speaker 2>Yes you coming, mister.
<v Speaker 3>Holmes, of course. Now what in the name of all
<v Speaker 3>this wonderful make the chap leader behind? And how well
<v Speaker 3>they got away? We don't seem to get a game
<v Speaker 3>of light in this case, doing, mister Holmes, doubt famous
<v Speaker 3>to me, I wonder I won. The Venios Fear was
<v Speaker 3>one of the stories about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur
<v Speaker 3>Kerlan Doyle. We're presenting it in three parts. You've just
<v Speaker 3>been listening to part one in real life. My name
<v Speaker 3>is Norman Sheddy. My friend Carton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes,
<v Speaker 3>and I was doctor Watson. Michael Hardwick read our script
<v Speaker 3>for this BBC production from London. When you look forward
<v Speaker 3>to the pleasure of your company again very soon for
<v Speaker 3>part two of the Valley of Fear, The Adventures of
<v Speaker 3>Sherlock Hols.
<v Speaker 2>I remember one saying, in particular the value of fear. Fear, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he said more than once. I've been in the Valley
<v Speaker 2>of Fear. I'm not answer a kid. Of course. You
<v Speaker 2>asked him what he meant by that, Oh I did.
<v Speaker 2>He would only shake his head and tell me it
<v Speaker 2>was bad enough for one of us to have been
<v Speaker 2>an ex shadow. He once said, Please God, it shall
<v Speaker 2>never fall upon you.
<v Speaker 3>Yere for the beautiful missus Douglas. The shadow had fallen
<v Speaker 3>in the shape of murder, and it was still a
<v Speaker 3>mystress for my friend Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>My name is.
<v Speaker 3>Watson, doctor Watson, and it was my privilege to sell
<v Speaker 3>the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. If I may summarize the
<v Speaker 3>case so far, I will then tell you what happened next.
<v Speaker 3>In the valet of fear, I sat down exactly what
<v Speaker 3>Homes said in my note books, My dear, what I
<v Speaker 3>can hardly recall any case where the features have e
<v Speaker 3>more peculiar. My friend fell at Holmes said to me
<v Speaker 3>down bare fling, I have said. Holmes had received a
<v Speaker 3>warning from an informer the danger of saddened the man called.
<v Speaker 2>Douglas, and both in Sussex.
<v Speaker 3>Within a few moments we'd had Inspector McDonald the scotton
<v Speaker 3>yard around to tell us that one John Douglas of
<v Speaker 3>Boston Manner had been murdered, and a sort of code
<v Speaker 3>message left on a card beside the body.
<v Speaker 2>Vv. Three four one. It had said just Vv. Three
<v Speaker 2>four one.
<v Speaker 3>When we got to Boston, we learned that the dead
<v Speaker 3>man had been found with his face almost blown the
<v Speaker 3>bits and an American sawn out shotgun across his body.
<v Speaker 3>The murderer had taken the wedding ring from his finger,
<v Speaker 3>but to do so he'd had to remove another ring,
<v Speaker 3>which Douglas had been wearing a buet.
<v Speaker 1>And yet this other ring was still on the dead
<v Speaker 1>man's finger when he saw him. Well, there were a
<v Speaker 1>clues of.
<v Speaker 2>A sort of brand mark on the dead man's arm.
<v Speaker 3>Or in the home seemed to be interested that one
<v Speaker 3>of a pair of dumbbells was missing from the room
<v Speaker 3>currently why though, And then Douglas's friend, Cecil Barker, who
<v Speaker 3>found the body, came in to tell us at the bicycle.
<v Speaker 2>Had just been found hidden near the manor house, as
<v Speaker 2>though the murder had meant to get away and it
<v Speaker 2>would help we had a little bit. There was nothing
<v Speaker 2>to help us, common enough, mate, nothing in the saddle bag.
<v Speaker 3>So we went back into the house and Inspector Mason
<v Speaker 3>of this that it's in February rating for the butler
<v Speaker 3>aim coming on through.
<v Speaker 2>Oh excuse me, gentlemen, Oh you heard the chas and
<v Speaker 2>mister Rains is round with the kitchen garden for a minute.
<v Speaker 1>Can I do anything? Oh?
<v Speaker 3>This is missus Allen, the house keeper, Inspector McDonald Scotland
<v Speaker 3>yard out, mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. The wonder
<v Speaker 3>word with you later. But now if you no, no,
<v Speaker 3>never mind for the moment we speak to missus Allen.
<v Speaker 2>Know she's here. Take a seat, ma'am. Oh, yes, sir,
<v Speaker 2>thanks you, sir. No, Missus Allen, take you came and
<v Speaker 2>tell us what happened here last night? Where you working? Then? Yes, sir, well,
<v Speaker 2>I was in my room when the bell rang.
<v Speaker 3>It rang very violently, so that was the first sound
<v Speaker 3>you heard. Yes, mister Hubbs, I didn't hear the gun
<v Speaker 3>go off.
<v Speaker 2>Is that's what you mean? My room's right at the
<v Speaker 2>back of the house, I see. Did you notice the
<v Speaker 2>time when the bell rang? No, sir not.
<v Speaker 3>Then I came out to see what it was about,
<v Speaker 3>and I met mister Ames coming from his pantry.
<v Speaker 2>At the back of the house. Go on, then, Missus Allen.
<v Speaker 2>We came up to the front of the house together.
<v Speaker 1>Just at the foot of the stairs, we saw Missus.
<v Speaker 2>Douglas coming down in a hurry, No, just walking normally.
<v Speaker 2>Then mister Barker came rushing out of the study with
<v Speaker 2>this room. He rushed up to Missus Douglas and said,
<v Speaker 2>for God's sake, go back to your room. Poor Jack
<v Speaker 2>is dead. You can do nothing. For God's sake, go back.
<v Speaker 2>Did you think, No, sir, didn't scream or anything. Mister
<v Speaker 2>Barker turned to me and told me to take her
<v Speaker 2>back to her room and I did, missus Allen, you're
<v Speaker 2>quite sure you have no sound.
<v Speaker 3>Of a gun going off, nothing which you might have
<v Speaker 3>thought at the time, of something else, Nothing at all, sir,
<v Speaker 3>as I saved.
<v Speaker 2>My room's a long way back, and I'm a little
<v Speaker 2>hard of hearing. Quite Oh, I did hear something a
<v Speaker 2>while before, and like your a door slamming, and thought
<v Speaker 2>of the time, How long before? Oh? Half an hour
<v Speaker 2>before the bell rang? I see easily half an hour
<v Speaker 2>without a doubt.
<v Speaker 3>Any more questions, mister Holmes, No, thank you, well, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Then I'm perhaps you'll ask mister Barker.
<v Speaker 2>To step this way. Oh very good, sir hm singularly interested. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>thank you, mister Butcher. It doesn't as much to what
<v Speaker 2>we've already heard from your good but we have to
<v Speaker 2>have ours. I understand that, mister Barker.
<v Speaker 3>I understand that mister Douglass emigrated from Ireland to America
<v Speaker 3>and eventually reached California.
<v Speaker 2>Where you met him. You became partners in.
<v Speaker 3>A successful mining venture at a place called the Nito Kenyon.
<v Speaker 2>That is so, mister Douglas was a widower. I believe
<v Speaker 2>he was now. When mister Douglass left America to come home.
<v Speaker 2>Was it a Southern decision? Yes?
<v Speaker 1>It was.
<v Speaker 3>And the more I think about it, mister Holmes, the
<v Speaker 3>more I'm convinced that secret society idea has got something
<v Speaker 3>to tell us about all this, some port of fuel
<v Speaker 3>perhaps agreev them from the days who we're marrying? That maybe,
<v Speaker 3>doctor I understand thatter. Douglas's marriage took place in this
<v Speaker 3>country about five years ago.
<v Speaker 2>Have you returned here by then? I was his best man,
<v Speaker 2>I see. Did you know missus Douglas before of marriage?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 2>I did not. But you've seen a good deal of
<v Speaker 2>her since.
<v Speaker 3>I've seen a good deal of him since, mister Barker,
<v Speaker 3>did mister Douglas entirely approve of.
<v Speaker 2>Your friendship with his wife? If you are nothing, I
<v Speaker 2>have had to do nothing.
<v Speaker 3>We only want to fight some inquiries. Are our cancers
<v Speaker 3>are not meant to be said? I must repeat my question.
<v Speaker 3>I must refuse to answer. You can refuse to answer,
<v Speaker 3>but that might be taken as an answer in itself. Now,
<v Speaker 3>did mister Douglas approve your friendship with his wife?
<v Speaker 2>You can take it from me, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 3>No man ever had the more lying, faithful wife. But
<v Speaker 3>I can pay no friend of them are loyal than
<v Speaker 3>I was. You're away said that the dead man's wedding
<v Speaker 3>ring has been taken from his finger.
<v Speaker 2>So it appears under the circumstances, it wouldn't it.
<v Speaker 3>Appear to most people that don't make this on link
<v Speaker 3>between the marriage and the mother.
<v Speaker 2>I cannot profess to say what it suggests. There is
<v Speaker 2>one more small point, mister Baker.
<v Speaker 3>When you entered the room last night, there was only
<v Speaker 3>a candle lighted on the table was under that is,
<v Speaker 3>so you ran for help at once?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and it's a ride very still with an a
<v Speaker 2>minute or so.
<v Speaker 3>And yet, according to AIM's estatement to the police sergeant,
<v Speaker 3>when he arrived in the room, the candle was out and.
<v Speaker 2>The lamp been lit. Why did you pause to do
<v Speaker 2>all that as such a startling cresity before you?
<v Speaker 3>I have, Well, the candle threw a very bad light.
<v Speaker 3>The lamp was on the table, so imt it and
<v Speaker 3>blew out the candle. Yes, we better see missus Douglas. Yes, yes,
<v Speaker 3>of course I'll fetch her oil. Have you.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing yet, ma'am? Well, we're pressing ahead with our inquiry
<v Speaker 2>is set Uh, every possible effort must be made.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, rest ashured, ma'am, it would help us if you
<v Speaker 3>could answer a few questions now, Oh, thank you, missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>We've had from.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Baker that you didn't enter this room after the
<v Speaker 2>tragedy of Captain. No, he turned me back on the stairs.
<v Speaker 2>He begged me to go back to my room. That's
<v Speaker 2>quite so, you had had the shot and you had
<v Speaker 2>come down at once.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, how long would it be after hearing the shot
<v Speaker 3>that you were stopped from the stairs by mister Baker?
<v Speaker 2>Oh, it may have been the couple as minutes.
<v Speaker 4>It's so hard to reckon the time exactly.
<v Speaker 3>It was all like some dreadful dream, of course, But
<v Speaker 3>can you give us any idea how long your husband
<v Speaker 3>had been downstairs before you had the shot?
<v Speaker 4>Right, I can't say I didn't hear him lee as
<v Speaker 4>his dressing room. He did the rhymes of the house
<v Speaker 4>every night.
<v Speaker 2>He was so nervous, nervous, ma'am, nervous of what while far?
<v Speaker 2>Anything else? No? Nothing, Why should there be During the five.
<v Speaker 3>Years you weren't married to him, did you ever hear
<v Speaker 3>him speak of anything that happened in America.
<v Speaker 2>Something that might still bring danger to him?
<v Speaker 5>Well?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I wasn't thought.
<v Speaker 4>There was something, well, something dangerous hanging over him. I
<v Speaker 4>asked him about it more than once, but he wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>tell me anything.
<v Speaker 2>But he knew I knew. How did you know, Missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 2>Oh how did a woman know there's something on a
<v Speaker 2>ausband's mind?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>I knew it by the way he wouldn't talk about
<v Speaker 4>past of his life in America.
<v Speaker 2>I knew it by the way he looked as unexpected strangers.
<v Speaker 2>I knew it by words he'd let fall. Might I
<v Speaker 2>ask what the words?
<v Speaker 4>Well, Missus Douglas, I remember wanting, in particular the valley
<v Speaker 4>of fear value.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, yes, he said, more than once. I've been in
<v Speaker 2>the Valley of fear. I'm not out of a kid.
<v Speaker 2>Of course. You asked him what he meant better? Oh,
<v Speaker 2>I hed.
<v Speaker 4>He would only shake his head and tell me it
<v Speaker 4>was bad enough for one of us to have been
<v Speaker 4>in a shadow.
<v Speaker 2>You once said, Please God, it will never fall upon you.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing more, No, nothing more, Missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>No doubt you've had about this strange business of yet
<v Speaker 3>late husband's wedding green.
<v Speaker 4>Oh God, it's been taken from his finger. Yes, it's
<v Speaker 4>certainly a most extraordinating.
<v Speaker 5>Why he couldn't even get it off himself.
<v Speaker 2>It was much too tight. It suggests nothing to you, No, no,
<v Speaker 2>nothing at all.
<v Speaker 3>Well, missus Douglas. We won't detain you any longer, No, don't.
<v Speaker 3>It'll be some other points later, but we can refer them.
<v Speaker 2>To you as they arrived. Thank you, gentlemen, Thank you.
<v Speaker 2>I'd like to see Ames again, mister Mack.
<v Speaker 3>If you don't mind, or write mister home, I'll ring.
<v Speaker 3>She is as lovely woman. Yes, and this fellow Barker
<v Speaker 3>been down here a good deal. He's a man who
<v Speaker 3>might be attractive to women.
<v Speaker 2>You yis?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Sames, I'd like you to recall for me what
<v Speaker 3>mister Barker had on his feet last night when you
<v Speaker 3>joined him. Is yeah, after the crime, sir, that's right,
<v Speaker 3>why he had his bedroom slippers, arm sat, I remember
<v Speaker 3>I brought him his boots to go for the police.
<v Speaker 2>Aware are the slippers now? You don't under the chair
<v Speaker 2>in the hall. Mister Holmes saw them just a while.
<v Speaker 3>But sir, it's important for us to know which marks
<v Speaker 3>may be made by mister Barker's feet and which are
<v Speaker 3>from someone else.
<v Speaker 2>Always see Lisa, I.
<v Speaker 3>May say sir, that I noticed mister Barker's slippers were
<v Speaker 3>pained with blood.
<v Speaker 2>So were mine when I looked at them later.
<v Speaker 3>Best natural enough, considering the condition of the room. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>by the way, where is mister Barkerer? He's out in
<v Speaker 3>the gardens. Well they're just ain't bothering him. Perhaps you
<v Speaker 3>just bring those slippers in here before you go certain lessa.
<v Speaker 2>What's all this about? Homes? Have you got? Lad?
<v Speaker 3>We must leave no possible clue unsifted madea w ah,
<v Speaker 3>thank you ames, they're probably all. We'll replace the slippers ourselves,
<v Speaker 3>Very good, sir.
<v Speaker 2>Now let's have a look at these slippers. It's strange.
<v Speaker 2>That is strange, indeed. And now let's have a look
<v Speaker 2>at that window full this stepper over the state, and
<v Speaker 2>it's exactly looking. Never done of it then definite came
<v Speaker 2>from the bottom and sleeper.
<v Speaker 3>But what's the game, mister hob Time, mister Howes, what's
<v Speaker 3>the game? And doctor Watson's left.
<v Speaker 2>My colleague stood for a little while. I would I
<v Speaker 2>take a turn around the garden if it is the
<v Speaker 2>garden I'm hearing from, yes right, keeping on his heads
<v Speaker 2>till just down there there were that for you, I
<v Speaker 2>see there's a break in the heads there, pleasy, Thank you, very.
<v Speaker 3>H Scott, Doctor Watson, mister Barker, Missus Douglas, Doctor Watson,
<v Speaker 3>Missus Douglas and I were just sitting here talking with
<v Speaker 3>this terrible business.
<v Speaker 2>Over, and would you be so good as to come
<v Speaker 2>and have a word.
<v Speaker 1>With a lady for a moment, little will if you wish,
<v Speaker 1>I have no doubt heard is laughing now, I'm afraid
<v Speaker 1>you're thinking me challous and hard.
<v Speaker 2>It is no business of mind memory. Perhaps someday, doctor
<v Speaker 2>you'll give me more justice. Oh if only you real life.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe there is no reason why doctor Watson should realize,
<v Speaker 3>as he says, it is no business of his exactly.
<v Speaker 3>And so I'll go leave to resume my wafers.
<v Speaker 4>One moment, doctor him, there's one question you can answer
<v Speaker 4>with more authority than anyone else in the world, and
<v Speaker 4>it may make a great difference to me to care
<v Speaker 4>It's all right, settle, doctor Watson, please hear me. Well,
<v Speaker 4>you know mister Sherlock Holmes better than anyone else. And
<v Speaker 4>now supposing supposing a matter of walk confidentially to his knowledge,
<v Speaker 4>is it absolutely necessary him to pass it on to
<v Speaker 4>the detectives it would.
<v Speaker 3>Not conceal from them anything which would help bring a
<v Speaker 3>criminal to justice.
<v Speaker 2>That, maam, I'm not prepared to go. If you want
<v Speaker 2>full of information, might prefer your with.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Sherlock Holmes himself now, if you will be kind
<v Speaker 3>enough to excuse me him.
<v Speaker 2>And I will be on my way. No, Watson, I
<v Speaker 2>want none of their confidence. You know I order you
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't you? Actually quite correctly? No confidence is.
<v Speaker 3>And they can prove mighty awkward and it comes to
<v Speaker 3>an arrest for conspiracy and murder.
<v Speaker 2>You think it's going to come to at home?
<v Speaker 3>My dear Watson, when I had exterminated this fourth egg,
<v Speaker 3>I will be ready, will put you in put for
<v Speaker 3>the whole situation?
<v Speaker 2>Are you you fell them? Little way in?
<v Speaker 3>I don't say we've felled them, it's exact and far
<v Speaker 3>from it. But when we placed that missing dumbbell, you
<v Speaker 3>see dumbbill, one dumb beaill.
<v Speaker 2>Once consider an athlete put on one dumb bell. The
<v Speaker 2>picture to us of the unilateral.
<v Speaker 3>Development the imminent danger of a spinal curvature through using
<v Speaker 3>one dumb bell shot an a nice quiet type. Oh
<v Speaker 3>WA's it all about them?
<v Speaker 2>Ma'am?
<v Speaker 3>A lie Watson what Barker's whole story is a great, big,
<v Speaker 3>something obtrusive, uncompromising lie. But it's corroborated by missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>Therefore at both side and.
<v Speaker 2>In a conspiracy rye.
<v Speaker 3>According to the story we've been given, the murderer had
<v Speaker 3>less than a minute after he'd committed the crime to
<v Speaker 3>take that type fitting ring from Douglas's finger, and that
<v Speaker 3>meant taking the.
<v Speaker 2>Toppling off first and putting it back in. He had
<v Speaker 2>to do all that and get Pean out of it
<v Speaker 2>before Barka came in. I said it was impossible, and
<v Speaker 2>impossible now about the.
<v Speaker 3>Candle, with all the other things he had to do,
<v Speaker 3>would the murderer also blow out the candle and light
<v Speaker 3>the lamp before leaving?
<v Speaker 2>Hardly?
<v Speaker 3>Indeed, bark is lying when he says he lit the
<v Speaker 3>lamp after he found the body.
<v Speaker 2>It was little already.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I hears your rooms, except Ames, he was in
<v Speaker 1>the tantrail also, he said, we'll accept that.
<v Speaker 2>For the moment James says he heard no sound. We'll
<v Speaker 2>accept that. Also, the pantry is a long way.
<v Speaker 3>Back, and there are several doors between it and his room.
<v Speaker 3>But the housekeeper's room isn't so far. I've been down
<v Speaker 3>to see it, and there's no reason for not hearing
<v Speaker 3>the two barrels of a shotgun fired here in the
<v Speaker 3>study from there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's rather death thones if she should told us.
<v Speaker 3>Even so, she also told us she remembered hearing a
<v Speaker 3>sound like a door slamming half an hour before the
<v Speaker 3>alarm was given.
<v Speaker 2>That would be a quarter to eleven. There's no doubt
<v Speaker 2>in my mind that it was the.
<v Speaker 3>Actual shot she had and death at the time it
<v Speaker 3>was fires a quarter to a little. I don't quite
<v Speaker 3>follow homes. Both Barker and Missus Douglas admit they heard
<v Speaker 3>the shot. How if it was half an hour before
<v Speaker 3>Barker gave the alarm, what.
<v Speaker 2>Were they doing all the time, assuming they are the
<v Speaker 2>actual murderers? Exactly what were they doing? Now? I'm hanged?
<v Speaker 2>I can give them the midius of the doubts. What
<v Speaker 2>innocent woman would sit there laughing like I saw her
<v Speaker 2>and heard a few hours after her husband had been murdered.
<v Speaker 3>No, it was badly stage managed, but if there had
<v Speaker 3>been nothing else, this would have been enough to suggest
<v Speaker 3>conspiracy to my mind. Then you say, homes of Barker
<v Speaker 3>and Missus Douglas are definitely the murderers. If you put
<v Speaker 3>it that Missus Douglas and Barker know the truth about
<v Speaker 3>the murder and are conspiring to conceal it.
<v Speaker 2>Then I'm in full agreement.
<v Speaker 3>But just for the mental exercise, let's suppose that there
<v Speaker 3>was a guilty secret, a really shameful secret.
<v Speaker 2>Of some kind in this man Douglas's life. This leads
<v Speaker 2>to his murder by someone from outside, an.
<v Speaker 3>Avenger perhaps, or so this avenger murders him before he
<v Speaker 3>gets away.
<v Speaker 2>Barker and Missus Douglas reach the room.
<v Speaker 3>The murderer convinces them that any attempt to arrest him
<v Speaker 3>will lead to the publication of some hideous scandal.
<v Speaker 2>They let him go. They may even have lowered the
<v Speaker 2>drawbridge going to escape by her, and then raised it again.
<v Speaker 3>Yes. Well, now, after the murderer has gone, they realize
<v Speaker 3>that they placed themselves in a position where it may
<v Speaker 3>be difficult to prove.
<v Speaker 2>That they were not the murderers. So they go to
<v Speaker 2>work quickly and rather clumbs so lay to cover up.
<v Speaker 2>They mark the window.
<v Speaker 3>Silver Barker's blood tain slapper to indicate how the murderer
<v Speaker 3>is supposed to have escaped. Then missus Douglas creeps back
<v Speaker 3>to her room. Barker stays downstairs and raises the alarm
<v Speaker 3>half an hour after the gun was actually fired.
<v Speaker 2>Now, Watson, how will that suit you? Very good? Homes,
<v Speaker 2>very good?
<v Speaker 3>Indeed, yes, the only thing to do after building up
<v Speaker 3>such an elaborate supposition, of course, is to prove it
<v Speaker 3>and Himn's name when you do that, well, I think
<v Speaker 3>an evening alone in the study will help me.
<v Speaker 2>Evening alone now, while I've already arranged it to the.
<v Speaker 3>Estimable aim, I shall sit in the study and see
<v Speaker 3>if its atmosphere brings me inspiration.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, home you laugh, friend Watson, Well we
<v Speaker 2>shall see.
<v Speaker 3>Oh.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, you have that big umbrella of yours
<v Speaker 2>with you?
<v Speaker 3>Have? You know?
<v Speaker 2>Yes I have. I'll borrow it by me. I'll remind
<v Speaker 2>me to collect it this evening before I shut myself
<v Speaker 2>away with you.
<v Speaker 3>So, and meanwhile, we'd nothing much to do but wait
<v Speaker 3>for our colleagues to come back from Tunbridge Worlds, where
<v Speaker 3>they've been trying to get bicycle identified.
<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid they're shooting in the back.
<v Speaker 3>I don't admitting we were taking a shot in the
<v Speaker 3>dark mister Holmes, But we've hit our target all the same.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I dentified the bicycle impact that we.
<v Speaker 3>Have Dr Watson, and got a description of our man,
<v Speaker 3>great and gratulations. Well, we started from the fact that
<v Speaker 3>mister Douglas had been in Tunbridge well the day before
<v Speaker 3>the murder.
<v Speaker 2>He've seemed nervous the morning after he'd been there, and
<v Speaker 2>it seemed possible that while they had become conscious of
<v Speaker 2>some danger.
<v Speaker 3>Very sound reasoning, indeed, well, we took the bicycle over
<v Speaker 3>with us and did the rounds of the hotels. It
<v Speaker 3>was identified at once yes by the manager of the
<v Speaker 3>Eagle Commercial said it belonged to a man named Hargrave
<v Speaker 3>who had taken a room the two days before.
<v Speaker 2>The landlord had no doubt that chat was an American. Well, well, you've.
<v Speaker 3>Done some really solid work while I've just been sitting
<v Speaker 3>here spinning theories with my friend. That's just bites the homes.
<v Speaker 3>Practical measures are what get the results.
<v Speaker 2>Says, remain sitting with your serisms. That may be, but
<v Speaker 2>let's hear the end. How about his descriptions the neck, Oh,
<v Speaker 2>I've got it here such as it is a hugual Nobody.
<v Speaker 3>Seems to have taken much notice of him, about five
<v Speaker 3>foot nine in high page, about fifty here, slightly grizzled,
<v Speaker 3>grayish mustache, curd knowing over rather forbiddings on to face
<v Speaker 3>the record. He'd been seem to wear a heavy gray
<v Speaker 3>soup with a reef of jacket, in a short overcoat
<v Speaker 3>yellowish and a soft cup.
<v Speaker 2>What about the shotgun?
<v Speaker 3>And no one saw that it could have fitted in
<v Speaker 3>his valise or under each overcoat quite easily.
<v Speaker 2>Well, mister mat how do you think this bears on
<v Speaker 2>the general case? Well, my recond he may have cycled
<v Speaker 2>over here. That morning.
<v Speaker 3>They hung about keeping an eye on the house, hoping
<v Speaker 3>mister Douglas would come out. You see, mister Holmes, I
<v Speaker 3>reckon he intended using that shotgun outside the house, not
<v Speaker 3>in doors. Oh, no, one had said twice about a
<v Speaker 3>sporting gun going off in these parts then he could indeed,
<v Speaker 3>mister Neck, he.
<v Speaker 2>Wasn't twin obvious conding of it. Well, mister Douglas didn't appear.
<v Speaker 2>What was hard great to do?
<v Speaker 1>Next?
<v Speaker 3>He left his bicycle and approached the house at twilight.
<v Speaker 3>The drawbridge was down and nobody about. He took a
<v Speaker 3>chance and slipped across and into the first room he
<v Speaker 3>came to. No one saw him, all right, so far
<v Speaker 3>keet it, pray go home. He got in behind the
<v Speaker 3>curtains and waited there till quarter past eleven when mister
<v Speaker 3>Douglas came in.
<v Speaker 2>He shot him and got clear.
<v Speaker 3>He thought the bicycle might be identified, so he left
<v Speaker 3>it and made straight off to London, off some other
<v Speaker 3>place where he got.
<v Speaker 2>A safe hiding place.
<v Speaker 3>Very good and clear so far as it goes, Eh,
<v Speaker 3>So you mean my versions a different ending?
<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid ohefully it has has it will let hear it?
<v Speaker 2>Remember bug In, mister meht No theory is until I
<v Speaker 2>had the text to support job. But no, mister Mack,
<v Speaker 2>I intend to go ahead with a little investigation of
<v Speaker 2>my own tonight.
<v Speaker 3>It's just possible it may contribute something to our common cause.
<v Speaker 2>Want us to help, anything to get us on a bit?
<v Speaker 2>Do I know? Thank you? I want are simple darkness
<v Speaker 2>and Dr Wuston's umbrella. What's that? I don't know what
<v Speaker 2>you're talking about, mister Holmes, do you, Doctor Watson? I
<v Speaker 2>haven't the plain this idea. No, well, there's not much
<v Speaker 2>to it really, just a few lines of thought leading
<v Speaker 2>back to one basic question, and what's that?
<v Speaker 3>Then? Why should have the athletic man develop his frame
<v Speaker 3>but so unnatural? An instrumental, a single dumb there? Oh yeah, well,
<v Speaker 3>perhaps I shall find out tonight. Have The Value of
<v Speaker 3>care was one of the stories about Sherlock Holmes by
<v Speaker 3>Sorothacan Doyle, representing it in three parts.
<v Speaker 2>You just heard part two in real life.
<v Speaker 3>My name's Norman Shelley and it was my friend Carlton
<v Speaker 3>Hobbes who played Sherlock Holmes. I was Doctor Watson and
<v Speaker 3>Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this BBC production from London.
<v Speaker 3>I hope you may have the pleasure of your company
<v Speaker 3>again very soon for that third and last part of
<v Speaker 3>the Valley of Fear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>Me too.
<v Speaker 1>It might be so bad if you'd tell us what
<v Speaker 1>we've been doing here for the past two hours, mister
<v Speaker 1>Holme basons gentlemen's statient.
<v Speaker 2>Before as to what it is. We ah, that, gentleman,
<v Speaker 2>is what we've been waiting for. We need what what's
<v Speaker 2>happening in my cousin? Yes, as someone started to walk
<v Speaker 2>about in that lighted room, then that what means to.
<v Speaker 3>Holmes, that's it. That room is the standish for the
<v Speaker 3>matter was dat let's see what happens here. Sometimes it
<v Speaker 3>was cold as well as puzzling, sharing adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
<v Speaker 3>Watson's my name, Dr Watson, and they'll be first some
<v Speaker 3>of events so far, and then I won't tell you
<v Speaker 3>the astonishing solution to the.
<v Speaker 2>Valley of Fear. Polices were as careful as I was.
<v Speaker 2>Over the murder at Birlston Manor in Sussex.
<v Speaker 3>A current message v the three four one beside the
<v Speaker 3>corpse he's waiting taken.
<v Speaker 2>There really been wearing above it, carefully replaced by the murderer.
<v Speaker 3>And there was something that he fishy going on between
<v Speaker 3>the window and the deceased best friend, Cecil Barker.
<v Speaker 2>Watson.
<v Speaker 3>Holmes said to me their line they're in a conspira
<v Speaker 3>said alive, had struck me too. But Holmes wouldn't be
<v Speaker 3>don't wanted to spinning any more theories, and he got
<v Speaker 3>some more facts in his hands.
<v Speaker 2>He just kept on dropping hints about a.
<v Speaker 3>Bressed dumbbell who was missing from the murdered man's study.
<v Speaker 2>Onody knows what. He was giddy at his latest idea.
<v Speaker 2>I was to spend an evening alone in the study
<v Speaker 2>and think things out. Why he needed my umbrella though
<v Speaker 2>with my guard thing on the way to the local
<v Speaker 2>police station. Next morning.
<v Speaker 3>He wouldn't say a word about it, but I knew
<v Speaker 3>he'd found something out.
<v Speaker 2>I'd seen that look in his eyes before. Good morning doing,
<v Speaker 2>mister Holmes, Good morning you sit, bicyclist. What is the
<v Speaker 2>latest news? That ruption? Oh? What a pile of correspondence,
<v Speaker 2>because just to look at it let us telegram. Do
<v Speaker 2>you know what they are?
<v Speaker 3>I think I can guess the post of this murder
<v Speaker 3>about having been seen in the tones of this country.
<v Speaker 3>Oh dear me, now, mister Meck and you, mister white Mason,
<v Speaker 3>I wish to give you a very earliest piece of advice.
<v Speaker 3>Advice what advice? A bend in the case? Now look here,
<v Speaker 3>mister Holmes, you're holding something by now Now.
<v Speaker 2>Mister mec you know my methods. Once I've verified my details,
<v Speaker 2>I'll make my bar and return to London.
<v Speaker 3>My findings will be entirely at your service than the
<v Speaker 3>credit will be yours. I owe you too much prey
<v Speaker 3>to me any other way. In all my experience, I
<v Speaker 3>cannot recall a case that's interested me more so.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry I was.
<v Speaker 3>Sharp, but it's all clean beyond me. We talked to
<v Speaker 3>you when we got back from Tunbridge Wells last night,
<v Speaker 3>and your idea seemed to match up pretty well with.
<v Speaker 2>Old That's right. What happened since then to give you
<v Speaker 2>a completely new idea? Well? Since suppressed me? Yes? Oh,
<v Speaker 2>by the way, I've been reading a short but very
<v Speaker 2>interesting account of the manner.
<v Speaker 3>Oh I got him for one day from the local
<v Speaker 3>the Bacons. Here it is, you know, mister mec it
<v Speaker 3>ad no end to the zest of an investigation when
<v Speaker 3>one is in conscious sympathy with the historical atmosphere of
<v Speaker 3>once surrounded.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, oh, pray, don't.
<v Speaker 3>Look so impatient, even so bold, on account as this
<v Speaker 3>can raise quite a digit picture of the.
<v Speaker 2>Past in one's mind. If they give you an example.
<v Speaker 3>There is a minute pass here erected in the fifth
<v Speaker 3>year of the reign of James the First. The manor
<v Speaker 3>Huse Burston is one of the finest surviving examples of
<v Speaker 3>the molded jack of the end RESI.
<v Speaker 2>You're playing games with us, mister Holmes, Well, I won't
<v Speaker 2>read itservative since you feel so strong, ants, ain't you? No?
<v Speaker 3>I'll simply tell you that there's some accounts in here,
<v Speaker 3>the taking of the place by Parliamentary Colonel in sixteen
<v Speaker 3>forty four, of the concealments of Charles for some days
<v Speaker 3>in the Civil War, and finally of a visit there
<v Speaker 3>by George the second. Do you see, as you'll admit,
<v Speaker 3>there are plenty of interesting associations with the old place.
<v Speaker 2>But there are no business of our Oh, oh they not.
<v Speaker 2>You get your points simmer or later. But you've had
<v Speaker 2>du sit round the corner way of doing it.
<v Speaker 3>Very well, I'll drop past history and get out of
<v Speaker 3>a present dayffect good. I left Watson at that hotel
<v Speaker 3>last night and visited the manor house. I didn't see
<v Speaker 3>either Missus Douglas or Barker. I saw no necessity to distern.
<v Speaker 3>My visit was made especially to the good mister Ames,
<v Speaker 3>who allowed me, without reference to anyone.
<v Speaker 2>Else, to sit alone for a time in the studying.
<v Speaker 2>What were you doing? Well? Not to make a mystery
<v Speaker 2>of so simple a matter. I was looking for the
<v Speaker 2>missing dumb bell. Oh not that again. It was always
<v Speaker 2>about rather large in my estimate of the case. I
<v Speaker 2>ended by finding it well home, Ah, well, it's Greek
<v Speaker 2>to me. We're bound to take you in your own towns.
<v Speaker 2>We know that. But when it comes to telling.
<v Speaker 3>Us to abandon the case at least in trouble to
<v Speaker 3>trace the mysterious gentlemen whose bicycle got left behind, it
<v Speaker 3>won't tell.
<v Speaker 2>And what do you suggest?
<v Speaker 3>Then?
<v Speaker 2>I suggest you take a nice, cheery conclude walk what
<v Speaker 2>they can get the views over the wheels.
<v Speaker 3>That's quite remarkable, though, that you could get lunch at
<v Speaker 3>some suitable fustory, though my ignorance of this part of
<v Speaker 3>the world prevents me from recommending here.
<v Speaker 2>Then in the evening tired, But let's just getting past
<v Speaker 2>a joke if you think Bason and I've got nothing
<v Speaker 2>better to do than sit here and let me to
<v Speaker 2>you going on, dear me, mister Macca, I'm sorry if
<v Speaker 2>I've offend you there.
<v Speaker 3>Will spend the day as you like, but meet me
<v Speaker 3>here before dusk without faith. Now that sounds more to
<v Speaker 3>the point, mister Holmes, Oh so over the rest of it.
<v Speaker 3>But I didn't insist you take it, so long as
<v Speaker 3>you're here when I need you, I agreed, mister math
<v Speaker 3>Very well, mister Holmes. Now before me part, i'd like
<v Speaker 3>you to do something for me. Well, I'll dictate a
<v Speaker 3>note to mister Barker.
<v Speaker 2>I want you to write it right you are again,
<v Speaker 2>dear sir. It has truck me that it is our
<v Speaker 2>beauty duty.
<v Speaker 3>To drain the moat in the hope. But that's impossible,
<v Speaker 3>mister Holmes, it can't be drained.
<v Speaker 2>Never mind that. Please go on inspect that I'm with
<v Speaker 2>you up to drain the moat.
<v Speaker 3>Drain the moat in the hope that we may find something,
<v Speaker 3>something which may bear upon our investigation. Investigation, all right,
<v Speaker 3>the workmen will divert the stream, not mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>It just can't be done. Divert the stream early tomorrow tomorrow.
<v Speaker 3>So I thought it best to explain matters beforehand, before hand.
<v Speaker 3>That's all right, And now get this sent up right away. No,
<v Speaker 3>wait a little, please send it by hand about four o'clock.
<v Speaker 3>Is our not befall so to me, don't forget to
<v Speaker 3>sign it.
<v Speaker 2>And I think four o'clock would be an admirable time
<v Speaker 2>for us all to meet here at the police station. Again,
<v Speaker 2>this is all beyond me.
<v Speaker 3>Cheer up, mister mc take my advice today in this
<v Speaker 3>bracing winter, ever, do you more good than worrying? Over
<v Speaker 3>that pile of reports. But please yourself come along, Muttons
<v Speaker 3>came for a brisk walk.
<v Speaker 2>Like spend it. Then we'll see you here at four o'clock.
<v Speaker 3>Now, gentlemen, it's a chilly evening and I don't know
<v Speaker 3>how long our expedition's got to last.
<v Speaker 2>You'd better wear your warm MiSTings.
<v Speaker 3>And what expedition may this be, mister Holmes, I'll ask
<v Speaker 3>you all to go get me now to the outer
<v Speaker 3>bounds of the manor house park. That's a gap in
<v Speaker 3>the ratings where we can get through to the shrubbery
<v Speaker 3>near the opposite the main door of the drawbridge.
<v Speaker 2>That's where I'm afraid we must spend.
<v Speaker 3>A good deal of this exceptionally chilly evening already, of course,
<v Speaker 3>so well then let.
<v Speaker 2>Us be alive. I'm perished me too.
<v Speaker 1>Mightn't be so bad if you'd tell us what we've
<v Speaker 1>been doing here for the past two hours, mister Holt
<v Speaker 1>Grayson's gentleman's statience.
<v Speaker 2>Oh as to what it is with that, gentleman, is
<v Speaker 2>what we've been waiting for. Need from what's happening in I.
<v Speaker 3>Come, yes, Let someone started to walk about in that
<v Speaker 3>lighted room there, that's what who means to homes. It
<v Speaker 3>said that room is the study for the murder is done,
<v Speaker 3>and let's see what happens next.
<v Speaker 2>It's a man. He's coming to the window. He's opening it.
<v Speaker 2>What's he doing now? He's been looking out? No, he's
<v Speaker 2>looking down down into the mood. He's leaning out.
<v Speaker 5>Please listen, sis your part, little one.
<v Speaker 2>Just as very you leave the property staff, I would
<v Speaker 2>be talking free times. Listen, sir, I'll go away.
<v Speaker 5>Come on my wife Undy, believe me.
<v Speaker 6>This the far homes still going on, say Bursted like this,
<v Speaker 6>but be came to find something in a hot half
<v Speaker 6>here it is a bottle consuming Why this bundle you've
<v Speaker 6>just fished.
<v Speaker 2>Up from the bottom of the boat waiting down.
<v Speaker 3>Gentlemen, with this dumb bear worked gone, yeah, admitting dumb
<v Speaker 3>bell turns up at last? How in dunder as you
<v Speaker 3>know about this comfortable? I put it there shore well,
<v Speaker 3>I should say I replaced it there. You'll remember, gentlemen,
<v Speaker 3>I was rather stuck by the extence of the other
<v Speaker 3>half of that bear of dumbbells. I did draw your
<v Speaker 3>attention to it there, for so many other things on
<v Speaker 3>your mind, you had hardly the time to consider it.
<v Speaker 3>But how did you read warfare is near and awaited missing?
<v Speaker 3>Mister Mason, it's not too far this to wonder if
<v Speaker 3>something has been soaked in the water. The idea was
<v Speaker 3>worth testing at Illert. So with the help of dames
<v Speaker 3>were busied me to this room and the crook of
<v Speaker 3>doctor Watson's umbrella, I was able to fish up this
<v Speaker 3>bundle last night and inspect.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm wrong.
<v Speaker 3>So of course it was most important to be able
<v Speaker 3>to prove who has sunk it there on the first place.
<v Speaker 2>We accomplished this by the very simple device of announcing
<v Speaker 2>that the.
<v Speaker 3>Moat will be drained tomorrow, so that whoever he was
<v Speaker 3>would have to act on the cover of darkness tonight
<v Speaker 3>to get it.
<v Speaker 2>Out before it was part. Very clever, very clever. Indeed,
<v Speaker 2>it's a bit you didn't know. We couldn't have drained
<v Speaker 2>the motive. We tried, mister barfo what's in the bottles?
<v Speaker 2>I as show you first the dumb bell. We can't
<v Speaker 2>eat that it more.
<v Speaker 3>Now here we had a pair of boots note for
<v Speaker 3>toecaps distinct the American.
<v Speaker 2>Then this knife and it nasty looking object and it shut.
<v Speaker 3>And finally this tolling a complete set in fact, socks underglows,
<v Speaker 3>grape wheat soup commonplace enough.
<v Speaker 2>But this overcurt, this yellow overcurt. Now this is full
<v Speaker 2>of suggestive pat Hello, what's done in the lining? But
<v Speaker 2>nothing in the lining, mister MACKI, it's.
<v Speaker 3>Just a special part long enough to accommodate that sawn
<v Speaker 3>of filing pieces are already familiar devil that is. And
<v Speaker 3>though here at the neck is the tailor's tab meal outfitter,
<v Speaker 3>the mister Usa, the Missa, the the mister Delli, if
<v Speaker 3>I'm not mistaken? And what was it on that visiting
<v Speaker 3>card beside the body VB three four one VD, the
<v Speaker 3>Missa Deli, I.
<v Speaker 2>Wonder ah, but I'm forgetting you, mister Arthur. I mustn't
<v Speaker 2>stand on the way of your explanations, that's so. But
<v Speaker 2>all I have to say is that if there is
<v Speaker 2>any secret here, it isn't my secret. If that's the
<v Speaker 2>line you want to take, it will be my duty,
<v Speaker 2>and that damn pree, Please no, no, please keep out
<v Speaker 2>of this.
<v Speaker 3>Please.
<v Speaker 2>You've done enough. Whatever's going to come a bit, You've
<v Speaker 2>done enough enough and more than enough. Missus Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>I think the moment has come to me to urge
<v Speaker 3>you to take the police into your comforts.
<v Speaker 2>I am at fought myself.
<v Speaker 3>And not taking up the hint you passed through my
<v Speaker 3>friend doctor Watson, or you might have come forward.
<v Speaker 2>Then.
<v Speaker 3>The fact is I had every reason to believe you
<v Speaker 3>were directly concerned in the crime. Now, I'm sure this
<v Speaker 3>is not just a moment, mister Holmes, missus Douglas. There
<v Speaker 3>remains a good deal that is unexplained of this case.
<v Speaker 2>I would strongly.
<v Speaker 3>Recommend that we should hear it in his own words
<v Speaker 3>from mister Douglas.
<v Speaker 2>Homes is right, dagly, my dear, who his best way?
<v Speaker 2>I know it is, mister mister Douglas. I am John Douglas.
<v Speaker 3>But how long if you've been looking towards the five
<v Speaker 3>page you go seeing for yourself inspectim, I am mister math.
<v Speaker 3>You would not read that excellent look compilation which told
<v Speaker 3>the story of Charles.
<v Speaker 2>The seconds confimers, would you?
<v Speaker 3>People didn't hide in those days without reliable hiding places.
<v Speaker 3>I persuaded myself we should find mister Douglas under this
<v Speaker 3>very route, So you let.
<v Speaker 2>Us waste their time subject for some ni that one.
<v Speaker 3>Instant was wasted, my dear, mister Meth I did not
<v Speaker 3>for my views of this case completely.
<v Speaker 2>Till last night. They could not be put to the
<v Speaker 2>proof until this evening, so I invited you and your
<v Speaker 2>colleague to take a day off. What more can I do?
<v Speaker 3>Then? Do we understand that this man's been hiding just
<v Speaker 3>off this room for the past two days. That's correct,
<v Speaker 3>and that it's the time I wanted to sing out
<v Speaker 3>and set you right, Very considered, inspector, I understand what
<v Speaker 3>you must be feeling about me.
<v Speaker 2>Let me tell you my story very well, sir, But
<v Speaker 2>there's just one thing I'd like to know first from
<v Speaker 2>mister Holmes. Well, mister men, you knew mister Douglas was.
<v Speaker 3>Alive all the time, But how known you all the
<v Speaker 3>time by any means? Not until I found the suit
<v Speaker 3>of clothes in the mood They were obviously those are
<v Speaker 3>the see cyclist from Tunbridge World. So it was fairly
<v Speaker 3>obvious to me at once that the body for today
<v Speaker 3>mister Douglas was really better for the seen. Then I
<v Speaker 3>see what had did.
<v Speaker 2>He determined then, was where mister Douglas could be. The
<v Speaker 2>balance of.
<v Speaker 3>Probability was that with the connivements of his wife and
<v Speaker 3>his best friend, he was concealed in this house, waiting
<v Speaker 3>for quieter times when he could make his escape. Quite right,
<v Speaker 3>mister Holmes, well all right for the moment. And mister Douglas,
<v Speaker 3>I ought to caution himself that anything you say, Agenster,
<v Speaker 3>I give you nothing but the truth. Well, at the
<v Speaker 3>beginning of the beginning. There are some men who good
<v Speaker 3>call to hate me. Oh that's the way they see it.
<v Speaker 3>It goes back to my days in America. We're all
<v Speaker 3>tied up with mining rights and my breaking the code
<v Speaker 3>of the brotherhood, a secret society. It's right, the ancient
<v Speaker 3>order of freemen large three for one. But mister Valley,
<v Speaker 3>mister Holmes, gets right there. Well, the mine was all
<v Speaker 3>about labor reckets. They will intrigue their sort of thing.
<v Speaker 2>Kind of does it work for seeing it smiles as form.
<v Speaker 3>In this country over there, the stakes us so high
<v Speaker 3>they'll kill to make things go their way. And there
<v Speaker 3>are some phonetics who will hunt a man to the
<v Speaker 3>world's end to shut his mouth.
<v Speaker 2>Hope, But I give it you in detail in writing.
<v Speaker 2>Find yoursel. We'll need that later. Write where he's gone.
<v Speaker 2>When I left the States, I changed my name, married
<v Speaker 2>and brought my wife to live in this out of
<v Speaker 2>the waste spot.
<v Speaker 3>After a while everything seemed so peaceful, I thought they'd
<v Speaker 3>given me up. Then the day before all this happened here,
<v Speaker 3>I was over Tunbridge Wells. I got a gimpse of
<v Speaker 3>a man in the street. I recognized him at once,
<v Speaker 3>a man called Hardgrave.
<v Speaker 2>He was the worst of a lot. I'd no doubt why.
<v Speaker 3>He happened to be in these parts, or what did
<v Speaker 3>you do? Simply came back here and stayed indoors all
<v Speaker 3>next day. There was still a chance he wouldn't be
<v Speaker 3>able to track me down to the house itself. Well
<v Speaker 3>he did, yes, doctor Watson. When nothing happened all that day,
<v Speaker 3>and once the drawbridge was up and the doors and windows.
<v Speaker 2>Locked in evening, I felt much more secure.
<v Speaker 3>But when I made my rounds of the house before
<v Speaker 3>going to bed, I always went around myself.
<v Speaker 2>I smelt danger the moment I came into this study.
<v Speaker 2>What did you notice? Danger? Nothing is pressed? And then
<v Speaker 2>I spotted the two of a boot sticking out under
<v Speaker 2>the curtain. Are I just the one candle that was
<v Speaker 2>in my hand? But there was a good light coming
<v Speaker 2>through the doorway from the hall.
<v Speaker 3>I put the candle down and jumped straight for the
<v Speaker 3>hammer i'd left lying after I'd hung some pictures.
<v Speaker 2>At the same moment he sprang out at me with
<v Speaker 2>a knight. We'd caught up the little lays hardly well,
<v Speaker 2>this kind of made it funny. Come, let's your time,
<v Speaker 2>Come your life. Oh God, Jack Brazes is up. Listen.
<v Speaker 2>He came off straight in his face were we were faking?
<v Speaker 2>He managed to pull that gun out of his pocket,
<v Speaker 2>the trigger about pulling her to Which of us did
<v Speaker 2>it gusty or was it wasn't there from America? I
<v Speaker 2>knew they'd catch up with me school or later. God
<v Speaker 2>id no idea those coming of a stick. I wanted
<v Speaker 2>to do what has me? A man has been shocked
<v Speaker 2>a terrible size. He's broken in here. I promise I'll
<v Speaker 2>come and tell you about it as soon as I
<v Speaker 2>can look you. I'm quite all right. I'll go back upstairs,
<v Speaker 2>so he he is, and not a word to a
<v Speaker 2>soul till I'd be love to see you. Say well,
<v Speaker 2>but but how soon is I will? Jack? What do
<v Speaker 2>you make of this?
<v Speaker 1>What?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? White is safe for now? A brand bark the
<v Speaker 2>same as yours, and trying on a setter where it's
<v Speaker 2>not surprising. We're all headed, just red it. Yes, I
<v Speaker 2>can't hear anything. That's just it. No one else is string,
<v Speaker 2>No one.
<v Speaker 3>But idea high her well. No one knows what's happened
<v Speaker 3>here but the fears Jack. We've got to work quickly, unsafe,
<v Speaker 3>what you're talking about? Don't you see?
<v Speaker 2>The fellow's face is unrecognizable. He's about your height and building.
<v Speaker 2>He's got the same brand mark on his arm. Off
<v Speaker 2>you go upstairs, get summers on night joes and addressing them.
<v Speaker 2>But what are you high? And don't get anyone see you.
<v Speaker 2>It's all his clothes. Wait the bundle with this dumb
<v Speaker 2>and drop it down into the mart. Where's her card?
<v Speaker 2>He added his book? Four? One thing is here, you
<v Speaker 2>better put it under the body, tend to one of
<v Speaker 2>the ideas for it to get mentioned in the newspaper reports.
<v Speaker 2>So they had proved their mend in his dog right.
<v Speaker 2>What about the rings? Rings? Your rings?
<v Speaker 3>You're waiting even the one would a nugget, and you
<v Speaker 3>don't believe it's you without those aims are shorter, notice
<v Speaker 3>because I had to put them on him.
<v Speaker 2>And there's the nuggies right done. Afraid this waiting ring
<v Speaker 2>will never come off. Hasn't been a since the dates
<v Speaker 2>put on mother? What I have to do with just
<v Speaker 2>the other one? Then nothing else? That's how I look
<v Speaker 2>at your Ah, What is it that's plaster on your chin?
<v Speaker 2>Cut yourself to shaving this morning? Yes? Better let me
<v Speaker 2>have it right right? Put it on him a past?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>How long has it take us? Yeah? Now, Jack, you
<v Speaker 2>go into the secret room buying the fireplace.
<v Speaker 3>Then I'll give myself five minutes to tell I what
<v Speaker 3>it's all about before I raise the alarm. As no
<v Speaker 3>one else heard the shot, it won't matter. It's as
<v Speaker 3>holy day. Ye at this time sess that I.
<v Speaker 2>I have to thank you properly. Data When all this
<v Speaker 2>is cleared up, I am still pretty to day. I
<v Speaker 2>think nothing of it. In a few days you'll be
<v Speaker 2>able to get away somewhere safe. I'll bring Ida to
<v Speaker 2>join you.
<v Speaker 3>You change your name, and again again you'll think Hardy
<v Speaker 3>did is job and disappeared.
<v Speaker 2>Off I disappeared.
<v Speaker 3>Now, well that's how it was, Inspector, I see, but
<v Speaker 3>perhaps you'd better hear the rest from mister Barker. Yes, peace, well,
<v Speaker 3>I just made a mark on the windows hill, and
<v Speaker 3>having planted that false clue. I rang the bell like
<v Speaker 3>mad when missus Douglas came down again as arranged. That's
<v Speaker 3>old genda. Every word you've heard is the truth. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>it's the truth. This matter will have to go forward officially.
<v Speaker 3>You understand her.
<v Speaker 2>It will get into the papers. Whoever they are, they'll know,
<v Speaker 2>so do or later how you trick them? I understand that, inspector.
<v Speaker 3>We make our preparations to leave the country, and the
<v Speaker 3>minutes it's all over, we can get away.
<v Speaker 2>Oh she is a very appear forever myke dog, Oh.
<v Speaker 3>Helms sailed by now, and no one but ourselves, and
<v Speaker 3>mister Barcco.
<v Speaker 2>Knows wat I wonder, Watson?
<v Speaker 3>I wonder, Oh, surely homes after all those precautions, to
<v Speaker 3>all intents and purposes. When he walked under that a
<v Speaker 3>size court of free men, the earth opened and swallowed
<v Speaker 3>him up. You forget who we're dealing with, Watson. It's
<v Speaker 3>my guess he was underresponsible for tracking Douglas down.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think the engage my ardy to help him,
<v Speaker 2>and now you're asking him to.
<v Speaker 3>Do the whole job he did? Any agree that they don't.
<v Speaker 3>You'll have read by now how his work has been wasted. Ah,
<v Speaker 3>missus Hudson.
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot for you, mister hawkson how it pushed
<v Speaker 2>under the street door. Thank you, missus Hudson. Now what's
<v Speaker 2>every here? Written with a j pain on expensive paper,
<v Speaker 2>cultivated but disguised head. Oh, who's problem?
<v Speaker 1>What is it?
<v Speaker 2>There's no signature.
<v Speaker 3>He doesn't need one, It simply says dear me, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 3>dear me Moriarty exactly.
<v Speaker 2>Can't you make any move against him? On what grounds?
<v Speaker 2>But what proof?
<v Speaker 3>Then?
<v Speaker 2>Must he always have the opening gambit while you follow
<v Speaker 2>a move behind. That's sick Watson. But I shall beat
<v Speaker 2>him in the end, Never do that.
<v Speaker 3>There have been devils like Mariarty loose in the world
<v Speaker 3>since a long before our time, and they always will be,
<v Speaker 3>and someone's always got the better of.
<v Speaker 2>Them, sooner or later. Always been a sull comes about eh.
<v Speaker 3>And the doctor Watson complete of course that the vital
<v Speaker 3>umbrella along, my dear Watson, pass me my standard area.
<v Speaker 3>And you like the film, well, now you've heard part three,
<v Speaker 3>you'll know the ending of the Day of Fear. It
<v Speaker 3>is one of the stories of Shelock Holmes, from the
<v Speaker 3>inspired pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name My
<v Speaker 3>real name is Norman Shelley bel friend Carlton Hobbes stayed
<v Speaker 3>Shelock Holmes, and I was Dr Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote
<v Speaker 3>our script for this BBC production from London, and of
<v Speaker 3>course I look forward as a pleasure of your company
<v Speaker 3>again soon for more.
<v Speaker 2>Of the adventures of Charlock Holmes.
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