WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:13.960 From New York, the makers of flipper Craft clothes from Men, 2 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.760 and two hundred and thirty six leading retail stors from 3 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:22.719 coast to coast present the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. 4 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.439 Our stories are based upon the character of Sherlock Holmes, 5 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.280 created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is portrayed 6 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.759 by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Alfred Shirley, and the 7 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:47.719 dramatations are by Edith Miser. 8 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.759 Well, here we are, once again, settled comfortably in front 9 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:00.520 of doctor Watson's cheerful fireplace outside the winter, with whale's life. Well, 10 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.600 let's see, what does the wind sound like tonight, doctor Watson? 11 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:05.560 A last soul or a baffle vanshy? 12 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.480 What we said, he, mister Harris, that wind sounds rather 13 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:14.599 like bast the ancient Egyptian cat goddess sometimes called u Bastists. 14 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:17.439 She howls, they say, if anyone understands the graves of 15 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.879 those who have consecrated themselves to her. 16 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:22.480 Oh, come now, doctor Watson, you don't believe that sort 17 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.480 of nonsense. You I'm not so sure, mister Harris. I'm 18 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:26.400 not so sure. 19 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.680 One fell and autumn night as Holmes and I crossed 20 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.319 the wind swept was that surround the King's Thailand? We 21 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.959 heard such a cry, a strange, harsh jutulation that struck 22 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:42.000 a chill to our marrow bones. And it's for good heavens, 23 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.400 there I go again, forgetting my manners. 24 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.799 After all, you have something rather important to say, I believe, 25 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.680 mister Harrison. Well, I generally have doctor Watson. And speaking 26 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:51.359 of wind. 27 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.640 And chill, there's nothing like a clipper craft over good 28 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.000 to keep mouching on correct pity. 29 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.359 Holmes and I went wearing a kipper craft that night 30 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.239 of dark Moya. Now, doctors, this is my part of 31 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.760 the entertainment. Oh sorry, old men, pussy. 32 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.200 Thank you. There are now ten hundred thirty six fine 33 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.120 stores across the nation that sell clippercraft clothes. Then a 34 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.520 tribute to the efficiency of the Clippercraft plan. And that's 35 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.840 a tribute also to the tremendous demand that an alert 36 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.719 American public is built for clippercraft. In the Clippercraft plan, 37 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.680 you see these ten hundred thirty six stores concentrate their 38 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.879 buying power, affecting tremendous savings the year round. 39 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:33.080 In manufacturing and distribution, costs. These savings are all yours, 40 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:33.960 and it's a. 41 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.319 Mighty nice thing to be able to outfit yourself with 42 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.680 values so exceptional at your own local independence store where 43 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:45.360 you get real service and friendly personal tension. Clippercraft suits 44 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:48.919 are only forty and forty five dollars, Clippercraft top coats 45 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:52.759 and overcoats only forty dollars, and sport jackets. 46 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:53.840 Only twenty six to fifty. 47 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.680 Seeing is believing to convince yourself beyond the shadow of 48 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:01.680 a doubt. Simply compare clippercraft with clothes selling for many 49 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:11.319 dollars more And after return to that icy wind on 50 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.719 the Morris, Doc Watson. 51 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.680 When, as a matter of fact, mister Harris, that's not 52 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.319 where this adventure had its inception. It was a brisk 53 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:22.479 all day rather early in the century. After could deal arguments. 54 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.960 I had persuaded Holmes to accompany me on a constitutional 55 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:30.879 through Kensington Gardens our listeners doubtless, No, Holmes was never 56 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.439 a man who took exercises if he could avoid it. 57 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:38.159 Lethargic sorted fellow. He doctor Watts were necessarily needless to say. 58 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:39.879 When we returned to Baker. 59 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.680 Street somewhere around five I was the one who was 60 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.080 popping like a grampus, while Holmes downed up the steps 61 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.240 as easily as a greyhound. Were met at the front 62 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.840 door by Missus Hudson, the Shepherdine and general fact tutum 63 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.199 of our bachelor domain. 64 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.800 Ah, Missus Hudson, what's up? 65 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:02.680 It's way past your tea time. 66 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.879 Mister Holmes, Oh the places with team Adam. Give us 67 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:05.520 an early supper. 68 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.039 What's more, a gentleman was dear white It upstairs half 69 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.919 an hour he stamping up and down on my ceilings. 70 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.800 I thought the chandelier would come loose. 71 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:16.399 Sounds like a client day Watson. Well, we could do 72 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.319 with a case hose. The exchequer is getting a bit low. 73 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:25.279 Bother the exchequer. Oh he's sake, Oh, relaxed, we're home, 74 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:25.720 you know. 75 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.040 Instead, it'd be best if it's a case. See that 76 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.759 he pays. Looks like he had money. 77 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:37.439 Yes, yes, missus Hudson's correct. Darley visitor undoubtedly had money. 78 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.839 He got away. But what made you think the blighter 79 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:42.800 was acquent to? Can't you smell it? He smoked the 80 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.839 very best tobacco. The matter he came to consultants about 81 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.600 must have been earli he's left his pipe here on the. 82 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.279 Table, a nice brier with a longish stem of what 83 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.199 the tobacco is funding for amber. Yes, he must have 84 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.079 been thoroughly disturbed to leave behind a piping value so highly. 85 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.480 Oh boy dash, how can you possibly know how he 86 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.959 values his sick pie and the benry. 87 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.399 My dear Watson elementary. The pipe has been twice mended, 88 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.279 once in the wooden stand and once in the amber, 89 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.680 each time with a silver band costing more than the 90 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.199 pipe originally. What's more, he's been here before because, having 91 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.279 run out of his own mixture, he's helped himself to 92 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.360 a pipe for from the Persian slipper on the mantelpiece. 93 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.879 No casuals Craine, you would know that's where I keep 94 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.560 my tobacco. But but here's a step up stairs. Come in, 95 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.839 Come in, confounded man. Why don't you stay at home? 96 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.120 Way of a long hose? It's colonel Rough. I'm viercely, 97 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:28.879 my dear Watson. 98 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.759 Or bring our visitor a chair and a slight sedative, 99 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.040 some sort of Saint brandy and soda. I don't need 100 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.120 a brandy, Yes I do, confounded, a double brandy. But 101 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:40.160 don't tell me you've had another disaster on the boors 102 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:40.920 at King's Pyland. 103 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:42.959 Will you have that, mister Holmes. But this time is 104 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.399 not man that's been murdered. It's a horse worse, much worse. 105 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.600 Let me tell you there are many men equal of 106 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:49.439 Blazing Star. 107 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.839 Good Lord, Blazing Star. Isn't that your entry for the 108 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.560 Wessex Cup, Sir? It was dofter Watson. 109 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.040 It was ha Blazing Star. Watson was reading me an 110 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.160 item about it just the other day. I believe he's 111 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.759 the son of the famous Silver Blaze. 112 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:02.600 Out of lady luck. 113 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:05.160 You were able to rescue his side before me, mister Holmes. 114 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.399 He's time to in the Wessex Cup. What a race, that, Holmes. 115 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.920 But it's too late to do anything for poor Blazing Star. 116 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.560 By the rod, Harry, I mean to catch up with 117 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.800 the scum of the killer. And when I do, war 118 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.680 was contented. There's a special reservation in the last hell 119 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:19.959 for any man who miss tree. 120 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.959 Dnimiles quite but tell me exactly what happened at King's Pilon, 121 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:23.920 Colonel Ross, you. 122 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.480 Remember ned Hunter, mister Holmes. He was in charge of 123 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.560 the stable at the time Silver Blaze was adopted. Yes, 124 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.720 fine fellow, reliable and trustworthy. 125 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.279 It's been promoted to the post of trainer since Uras 126 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.000 saw him, but he still sleeps in. 127 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.639 The stable, doesn't does anyone else to do it. 128 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.680 Blazing Star, like his sire of Forton, was the favorite 129 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.680 for the West Cup. I believe that's right, mister Holmes. 130 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.439 So Ned was being extra particular. None of those stable 131 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:45.759 boys were allowed to go near the horse. Ned groomed 132 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.120 and exercise him himself. No one else laid a hand 133 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.639 on the work. Can't take too many precautions with a winner, Holmes. 134 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:52.560 Donned rock Watson Well. 135 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.480 Yesterday afternoon I went down to the stables myself to 136 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.000 watch Blazing Star workouts. 137 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:57.759 Haha. 138 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.040 I wish you could have seen him. 139 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.560 The sunshine glint on his chestnut coat like a fiery streck. 140 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.000 He was coming down the stretch. Never went better in 141 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:05.519 his life. 142 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.759 Well, I went into supper and cleared a place off 143 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:11.160 the mantel, the same place we kept the Whissex camp 144 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:12.120 when Silver Plays went it. 145 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:14.439 Then I went to bed and slept the sleep of 146 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.319 the just. But along about two o'clock in the morning, 147 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.879 I was awakened by Ned Hunter. As I lift the lamp, 148 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:21.680 I could see. 149 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:25.319 His face white as a sheet, and his hands shook 150 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:26.560 as though he had. 151 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:27.160 The possy. 152 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:33.600 Day Dad, what's up? 153 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.639 What's the matter? Man? It's the star, sir. He's took bad. 154 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.360 I better go for the vets. Good Lord, what happened? 155 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.199 He seemed in great shape this afternoon. I can't explain it, sir, 156 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:45.519 unless it was that cat upset him. You know how 157 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:47.800 he always hated cat, A white cat. We don't keep 158 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.680 any cats. Well, black cat it was, sir. 159 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.360 Can't say I've ever seen it before, but when I 160 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:54.480 was taking in his bunk of carrots, I always gives 161 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:56.519 him before I touched him in for the night. A 162 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.879 black cat goes out of nowhere and slips into the 163 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.040 store between the lakes. Well, sir, you know how the 164 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.839 Star is about cats. He started stamping and winning like 165 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:13.160 he was possessed. Hey, you to me, no, I'll we 166 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:14.959 get this cat out here before she's killed. 167 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:23.360 Oh, easy, star, You. 168 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.480 See that cat came out of here like a bad out, 169 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:27.600 bell blazing like the devil himself. 170 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.160 And hell, hell, she's waked the star on the flag. 171 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:36.799 She's drawn blood, easy boy, easy, Hey, Tommy, bring the ointment. 172 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:37.440 The stars hurt? 173 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.639 Well, mister Holmes, did hunters down the scratch and tried 174 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:49.600 to quiet the horse, but Star was restless. Wrong about midnight, 175 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.840 theyd noticed his breathing was getting heavy and labored, and 176 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.320 he put up quite a sweat. They had rubbed him 177 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:57.720 down again, but he kept getting worse instead of better. 178 00:08:58.080 --> 00:08:58.879 So I went for the bit. 179 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.480 He's a new man in the district and supposed to 180 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.080 know all is to know about animals, and I brought. 181 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:08.519 Him back with me. Ned looked like he'd seen a coached. 182 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.240 Ned. This is mister peoples new veterany sarcheon. He'll bring 183 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.159 this Star around for us. I'm afraid the stars past 184 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.000 helps her. I've never seen the lake just seemed to 185 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.320 collapse him from my eyes. His bets sort of sad, 186 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.960 and his niece gave way. Pretty soon. He couldn't stand 187 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:33.720 up no more. He's lying in there on the straw pretty. 188 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:37.120 He had gone, dah, you better take mister Peebles right in. 189 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:43.600 Ned, yes, sir, this way, said, can't found it if 190 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:44.879 anything happens to that horse. 191 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:51.120 He was so fit this afternoon. Oh it's quiet around here. 192 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.720 If I could just hear the old boy breathing. 193 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:02.679 Three o'clock where these roes that blasted cat came from 194 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.639 brah rubbish. No one dies for can't scratch and then 195 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.639 the cats around him a year certainly on the black cats. 196 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.440 Well, mister Feebles, how is he? 197 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:16.919 What's the verdict? 198 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:23.519 I'm sorry, Colonel ross He's cancer died very quietly of 199 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:28.559 old age. 200 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.000 Say the bet pronounced Blazing Star dead of old age, 201 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.759 Colonel Rossa, that's impossible at homes to with this cup 202 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.039 is a race for five year old ex Actually. 203 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.840 Basing Star w five year old last month. Yet when 204 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:43.679 I when did. 205 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.480 To look at his body, is it lay there in 206 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.919 this tall I'd have sworn he was the oldest horse 207 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.639 I'd ever seen. 208 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.559 Temples caved in, coat dry and grayish hip bones protruding. 209 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.000 You don't think anyone could have switched horses while dead 210 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:58.919 hunter came to inform you the horse was taken sick. 211 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.919 No, mister Holmes, I know racing star anywhere. The star 212 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:03.919 on the forehead, he'd interrot it from his father. 213 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.480 The white of four foot in a long scar has 214 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.120 left hide leg where he'd cut himself, and a bit 215 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:08.399 of wire. 216 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.799 Where As a two year ago that horse was star 217 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.320 full five years ago last month, he couldn't have died 218 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:18.039 of old age. Fantastic in the cabs, toys and quite 219 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:21.120 many people. Of course, will Propit by his death had 220 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.200 the bit of the strangers. In the neighborhood of King's Pilum. 221 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.279 These last few weeks, Cone Rosser, there has been a 222 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.840 band of wandering Gypsies camping on the moors. 223 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.279 Of course, gypsies have many curious and little gnome poisons. 224 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.879 They'd be quite apt to keep a black cat. 225 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.519 Once more, and his claws had been dipped in some 226 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.039 obscure venom they. 227 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.600 Possibly Watson, possibly toy Culross. 228 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.480 What's become of your erstwhile neighbor and rival, Lord Blackwater, 229 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.519 who owned the Britain stables Sat Braggar. 230 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.080 Haven't seen him since the Fair of silver Blace. He 231 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.200 was ruled off the turf off that town. Foster sell 232 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.120 his horses serves him jollywill ride. Maypleton has been unoccupied 233 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.720 until recently. Fart a month ago, I understand, was leased 234 00:11:58.759 --> 00:11:59.720 to a professor in Egypt. 235 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.639 Just I believe these a recluse. 236 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.039 Spends most of his time in laboratory, fixed up for 237 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.279 himself in the old study. Mary Baxter, our maid sister 238 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.000 kings hous Fen, says to a queer sort of a 239 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.440 chap works behind locked doors all night and sleeps all day. 240 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.159 Unhealthy sort of life, Hey, homes, Yes. 241 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.240 There are several factors around King's Pylon that don't sound 242 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.320 healthy to me. Cone Once I suggest that Watson and 243 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:25.279 I take the morning train for Exeter to investigate the situation. 244 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:29.080 I hoped you'd say that, mister Holmes, I've told him 245 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.039 not to dispose of Star's body until you arrive. 246 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.320 Spending. I suppose you want me to take mere revolver, Hey, Holmes, 247 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:36.320 your revolver. 248 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.279 And that little black satul that contains your medical kit. 249 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.480 This sum as I'm very much mistaken as the kids 250 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:53.000 in which we should be prepared for anything. Well, Watson, 251 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.759 now that you've finished farough examination of the cadama, what's 252 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:56.279 your verdict? 253 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.919 That was right? Hose? The horse obviously a holy But 254 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.519 I tell you that it's impossible racing Star was only 255 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.879 a little over five years old. Ned here will bear 256 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:06.200 me out. 257 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:08.799 That's right, gentlemen, horse doesn't die of old eight and 258 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:09.639 five years. 259 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.279 Looks like Blazing Starring going to be the other one neither. Aw, 260 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.320 don't tell me another one of the horses has caught 261 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.919 the Meladay. It's not one of the horses. Sir, it's 262 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.320 the sheep. I noticed it when I went out to 263 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.320 the pedagraphter you left this morning, they stood there, all 264 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:27.639 addled together, shivering. Then gradually, all day long they kept 265 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.399 getting older and older. You could first see them do it. 266 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:34.200 Their eyes are roomy, and their voice is weak. And oh, 267 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:35.960 some of them can hardly keep on their feet, like 268 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.480 those sheep. We're young. Most of them are dropped in 269 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:41.559 this year's leaving season. What do you make of it, 270 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.320 Doctor Watson? Have you ever heard of old age being contagious? 271 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.799 There have been isolated cases, Colonel Ross, where young and 272 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.159 healthy individuals have developed a wasting way that Robert resembles 273 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:53.480 the appearance of age. 274 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.080 I hardly think it possible. Who's this running across the 275 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.879 moors in the sunset? Looks like a woman, a hair 276 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.639 flying loose, a shawl flapping in the wind. She's staggering 277 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.120 as if she would runk. It's Maddie, Colonel Ross. Her 278 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.519 that works over at Mapleton. She is not suffering from 279 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:11.240 the effects of alcohol. It's pipe that's upset her. It's sheer. 280 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.559 Terror comes cut Ross. Will you take me in this night? 281 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.440 I'm never going back. I'm never going back that again. 282 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:20.919 I knew he was even the minute dilaid eyes on 283 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.440 the man, and now I've seen him. The butcher hears. 284 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.639 Is of Google always Mattie. 285 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.320 The Master him at least mapletons. 286 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.320 It's so the house full of human statues, the lower 287 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.919 part man and the upper part beef. 288 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.679 Those would be the statues of the ancient Egyptian gods 289 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:38.120 Ra the hawk, and you miss the dog and bust 290 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:39.440 the cat against us. 291 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.159 That's what he calls her, the blast that rides everywhere 292 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:43.159 with him on his shoulder. 293 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.279 Sad eyes are alike him and the cats, both green, 294 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.080 and they both can look at you without even blinking. 295 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:52.480 Only his head moves through side to side while he 296 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.759 stays at you. I said, his head. It don't never 297 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.159 olds two. He's a ghoul, that's what it is. They've 298 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.480 been bringing him boxes for weeks now. 299 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.200 Six boxes, big like coffins a lot. He drives up 300 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.720 in the day of night, and they carry the. 301 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.039 Box into his study and he locks the door behind it. 302 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.440 The last anyone ever seen of them boxes or what's 303 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:12.799 in them. 304 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.039 Never seen them in traces when you go into Cleveland Study. 305 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:16.039 I've never been allowed in. 306 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.000 No one's ever been allowed in that study except the 307 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.399 man what brings the boxes, and then only for a 308 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:25.120 minute while he puts them down. Today the men come 309 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.399 with another big box. Only they brought it before it 310 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.200 was dark. The master fell in a rage when he 311 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:31.960 saw him bible. 312 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:34.799 When they brought the box in and set it down 313 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.200 in the study. He was that worked up. There were 314 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:38.879 flex the foe on his lips. 315 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.000 You widiots, how often have I told you not to 316 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.919 come here by daylight? Our governor shurns your boat. 317 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.720 Down, and there's a store coming up, maybe partner of 318 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:51.200 the wrong way to drive back to Tome. 319 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.559 We don't like them recurting the moors in the storm 320 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.720 at night. Oh you don't. Well, this is the last 321 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:57.320 time you need to come here. People who are for 322 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.799 me a pain in my orders, your pain get out. 323 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.360 You'll be going have a fear. 324 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:11.279 He Oh, he's a terror with getting one of his rages. 325 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.039 Or you were here. 326 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.279 I I'm the housemaid. 327 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.639 I know what it is. He's gotten them boxes we 328 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.240 bring him. 329 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.720 Haven't a notion that room's always kept locked. 330 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.879 He never so much as looks so killed. Oh, I'd 331 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:28.360 never do that. It's not right, maybe not, but I 332 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.159 better be interesting. Hey, come along theres wire we recording 333 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:33.480 the Moors. Heard at heart? All right? 334 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.080 Lit the lamp in there. It shows through the keyhole 335 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:51.039 he's taking the lid off the box. I can hear 336 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:55.279 the neighbors s creak. I would sort of like to 337 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:02.600 know what's in it. One peak wouldn't hurt. I guess, Hello, there's. 338 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:06.039 Another box inside of the first one. It's got a 339 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:12.680 painted face and hands. Now he's taken that little too. 340 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:18.119 There's something lying inside. It's got a face too and hands. 341 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:23.160 All it's a woman, she said. It's a woman's body, 342 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:32.759 great Scott. 343 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.359 A woman's body, then the man is a goal a 344 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.680 body natural worsh Unless I'm very much mistaken. He's much worse, 345 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.960 Colonel Ross. As for the body, I imagine it's been 346 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:43.119 dead a long long time. 347 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:45.960 Yes, I think Watson and I will take a stroller 348 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.319 with a mapleton later this evening. 349 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:48.759 I like to take a look at the contents of 350 00:17:48.839 --> 00:18:00.759 that box myself. What a knight to go talking about 351 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.960 the Moor's homes. I'm soaked to the skin. 352 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.000 Yes, the equinoxial reign seemed to be especially biggous this year. 353 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.839 I want some big second hardly say good Lord, what 354 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.000 was that that time? 355 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:13.240 Agin? 356 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.039 Just a member of a feline or cat family? I 357 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.839 was half wildly homes. It's unusual for a cat to 358 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.640 be out in this weather. Seems to be getting closer. 359 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:23.720 Hangled the Latin of them. 360 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.640 Yes, there it is in that treat left, good Lord. 361 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.079 His eyes shine like fire. Maybe she's caught up that 362 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.359 and can't get down here, pussy. 363 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:38.759 What's the full of him looking into that cat? 364 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:39.079 Why not? 365 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:44.200 Because one scratch from her claws and you would decline 366 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:45.960 and die of old age. 367 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:50.359 You, Professor Riarty, you. 368 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.119 Look surprised to see me. Doctor Watson. I heard you 369 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.519 were expected at King's Pilon Homes, And when that stupid 370 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.000 serving girl runs screaming out of my house this evening, 371 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.200 I rather expected it wouldn't be long before you came 372 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.279 over to Mapleton to pay your respects to the Princess 373 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.920 hut Shepherd, Princess Hardchepnut. So that's who you have in 374 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:10.960 your latest money case. 375 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:11.400 Mariotte. 376 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:16.599 Yes, in the most perfect state of preservation, but of absolutely. 377 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:16.519 No use to me. 378 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:20.119 Unfortunately, why not if she was still slender when she died, 379 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:22.480 the artisans who in bound her didn't. 380 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.240 Need to age the body to prepare it for burial. 381 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.920 Age to body. Have you ever seen a fat mummy, 382 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:29.119 doctor Watson. 383 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:31.160 Come to finger it? Conseer I have. 384 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.000 In ancient Egypt, it took upward of seventy days to 385 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:35.240 prepare the body for mummy. 386 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:36.920 Rare gums, resins and. 387 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.960 Spices were used, and if the deceased was fat, a 388 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:43.279 fluid was injected which aged and shrived the body after death. 389 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.279 And it's your fary of Doc Mariotte, that that same 390 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.920 fluid extracted from those mummies, would, if injected into human beings, 391 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:51.079 produce premature old. 392 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:51.480 Age and death. 393 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.359 For so far, mister Holmes, I have only experimented with animals, 394 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.839 but I believe the process has been sufficiently perfected so 395 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.359 that I may now indulge in a few human experiments. 396 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.720 How fortunate that you and doctor Watson should have decided 397 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:12.440 to drop in this evening. Not so fast, doctor Watson, 398 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.480 my servant act Bar has had you covered for some time. 399 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:19.799 Is an expert shot. I promise you bluff, pure bluff 400 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.400 of your soul. At Bar is rather dark. He doesn't 401 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:25.119