Speaker 1: It's no use.
Speaker 2: Holmes will never joice now. I'm a faintness fool that
life was not to allow for the end of well,
probably all right. Nothing's happened to her, and have happened
been truck with me? Her quite child? What's he looking?
What she tribal it? She did abducted Wilder, but knows
what when his advice led others into danger.
Speaker 3: My friend Sherlock Holmes was always the first to suffer
for regardless of the true cause, he always blamed himself.
My name is Watson, doctor Watson, and it was my
privilege to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I will
tell you what happened in the case of the solitary Cyclist.
The details were in my notebooks, if I may refer
to them a moment. I'm referring to my notebook for
the eating ninety five. I find that you've been on
Saturday for the tended third the Charlotte Holmes and I
first heard of miss Violet Smith, the solitary sectist of Charleston,
the young and beautifulman who presented herself for two to
one b.
Speaker 2: Baker Street late that evening and implored his assistance and advice.
At least, it can't be your health that's troubling you,
miss Smith. So aren't a bicyclist must be full of energy?
Speaker 4: Bicycle Smith, how do you mean that, mister Holmes?
Speaker 2: A slight rightening of the cells of your shoes at
the size the fiction of the edge of the pedal?
Speaker 4: Well, yea, I do bicycle, Oh homes, you will excuse me,
I'm sure, miss Smith.
Speaker 2: I took your hand out of curiosity. Curiosity, it's my business.
I nearly fell in today, and I supposing that you
were typewriting. But it's objects, of course, that is music.
Do you see what's observed the specular finger, and it's
common to both professions.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's a as plituality about the face which the typewriter.
Speaker 2: Does not generate. No, this lady is a musician, Yes,
mister Holmes, I tis music in the country, I presumed
from your complexion.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Nia farmon on the border to Surrey.
Speaker 2: What has happened to you? Near Farnham on the borders
of Salay.
Speaker 4: My father is dead, mister Holmes. My mother and I
were left with that religion in the world except for
uncle Ralph Ralph Smith. He went to South Africa twenty
five years ago, and we've never had a work. From instance,
when father died we were left very poor. But one day,
about four months ago we were told that there was
an advertisement in the Times inquiring for our whereabouts where
You can imagine how excited we was. We had it
off to the lawyer whose name was given in the paper.
In his office he introduced the two other gentlemen, and
mister Carruthers and a mister Woodley, and then withdrew, leaving
us alone.
Speaker 5: Well, man, I'll explain right away that mister Woodley here
and I a home on a visit from South Africa. Oh, yes, yes,
so we were all friends that are of a relative
of yours, mister Ralph Smith. Oh indeed, I regret to
say that mister Smith died some little while ago.
Speaker 4: Mark, I see that we had heard nothing.
Speaker 5: Of course, he died in poverty, ma'am, oh Bodley and
I visited Ralph Smith at his death bed.
Speaker 2: He asked us, almost with his last breath.
Speaker 5: To look up his relations here in the old country
and see that they were in no want. You'll excuse
the question now, but how exactly are you placed?
Speaker 4: I don't know why you're asking, gentlemen, but if you
want the truth.
Speaker 2: With barely two pennies to run together, I have a
proposition to put to you.
Speaker 5: A proposition, Missus Smith. I have a daughter aged ken
down their father in Surrey.
Speaker 2: I am a widower and the child needs a woman's
care and attention.
Speaker 5: I don't know whether miss Smith has ever considered the
position of governess.
Speaker 4: I am a music teacher, sir, I am saying, yes,
I'm out of a position.
Speaker 2: What's more a music teacher? But that couldn't be better.
My little guardian shows every musical promise they tell me.
Speaker 5: I never dream that Miss Smith do come down to
Surrey and teach my pet.
Speaker 4: You said you? Alas, yes about My household is managed
by my housekeeper, Missus Dixon, a lady of the highest respectability.
I shouldn't like to leave my mother alone in London.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about me.
Speaker 5: But there'd be no question of it now Miss Smith
could come home for you every weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm with a good way to her body. Say ThReD
pounds a year?
Speaker 5: Hundred?
Speaker 4: Oh please dear say you'll go? Oh why, oh, very
well done? It shall be as you wish and so
you went down to Farlow, Miss Smith. But then it
was much less than i'd be Madge, mister Holmes. The
first floor in my happiness came when mister Woodley arrived
to visit for a week.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 4: Oh yes, he made odious love to me. He boasted
it as well and said that if I married him,
I should have the fines starlings in London who It
made no difference when I told him about still Cyril Martin.
He's an electrical engineer in coverage. We hope to be
married at the end of the summer. But this didn't
stop mister Woodley. He's he seized me in his arms
and saw that he wouldn't make me go.
Speaker 2: Until I've getting me found.
Speaker 4: Luckily, mister Carrathers came in and towardly phone me. Mister
carrad has apologized to me next day and well, I've
never seen mister.
Speaker 2: Woodisson's very distressing for you, Miss Smith, but such incidents
are not unknown. What special thing has caused you to
receipt my advice? It is this.
Speaker 4: Every Saturday morning I ride my bicycle to Farming Station
to get the twelve twenty two to town.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 4: The road from Chiltern Granges is lonely, and it's quite
rare to meet so much as a cart along one
street of it, where Charlington Heath lies on one side
and the woods around Charlington Hall on the other. Well,
two weeks ago I was passing this place when I
chanced to look back over my shoulder, and about two
hundred yards behind me, I saw a man or also
on a bicycle, and I looked out. I thought I
reached Farnham, but man was gone, so I thought no
more about it. But imagine my surprise, mister Holmes, when
on my return on Monday, I saw the same man
on the same get your road or even more astonishing,
the incident occurred again exactly before on the following Saturday
and Monday.
Speaker 2: Can you describe this man well?
Speaker 4: As far as I could see, he was middle aged,
and he had a short, dark fear that he always
kept a distance from me.
Speaker 2: Did you miss him to yes?
Speaker 4: Well, he seemed very interested and told me he had
ordered a horse and trap. Willard inciature, I shouldn't have
to pass over that lonely road without a compenion.
Speaker 2: Very considerate of him. What next?
Speaker 4: The horse and trap would to have come this week,
but for some reason they were not delivered, and again
I had to cycle to the station. But that was
this morning. Yes, was sure enough there was the man
following me for however, today I wasn't alarmed, but still
with curiosity, and I was determined to find out who
he was and what he wanted.
Speaker 2: What else did you do? I laid a.
Speaker 4: Trap for him. The road turned sharply just past the
entrance to Charlington Hall. I peddled very quickly around it,
and then I stopped and waited. I expected him to
shoot around and passed me before he could stop, but
he never appears. I went back and looked round the corner.
I could see a mile of road, but he wasn't
on it, and there was no side road that he
could have gone.
Speaker 2: Down, Miss Smith, have you any admirers other than mister
stle Morton.
Speaker 4: It may be my fancy things sometimes that my employer,
mister car is quite interested in me. We are thrown
rather together. I play his accompaniments in the evening. Oh
he didn't said anything. He's a perfect gentleman. But the
girl always knows.
Speaker 2: I see well, Miss Smith. I'm very busy just now,
but I'll find time to make some inquiries into your own.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you, mister.
Speaker 2: Take no step without letting me, now, I promise you.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Charming little thing home? Emp you sleep? Charming. It's part
of the settled order of nature that such a girl
should have followers. Yeah, but not for choice on bicycles
in the lonely country road. And why should he appear
only that one point? Exactly? Our first effort must be defined.
Who are the tenets of Charlington Hall?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Then again, how about the connection between Corutheras and Woodley.
Speaker 3: It seemed to be totally different types here They were
both keen on looking up Ralphsmith's relations.
Speaker 2: And what sort of a menage is it which pays
double the market price for the governess but doesn't keep
a horse and clap of its own? Although six miles
from the station, ard Watson, there they are. Are you
going down? No, my dear fellow. You will go down
on Monday. You will arrive early at Farnham. You will
conceal yourself near Charlington Hall. You will observe these facts
for yourself, inquire as to the occupants of the hall,
and then come back to me in report.
Speaker 1: Oh well, very well, home, very well.
Speaker 3: And there he was following behind e just as he
told us home. She tried flowing down and stopping that
he did the same, but then she suddenly whisked her
wheel around.
Speaker 2: And dashed straight at him.
Speaker 3: Really well post us up, but he simply turned his
machine and darted off in desperate flight. See when she
turned again to carry on the way she'd been going,
he turned too, and they both passed me in their
respective sessions. However, I stayed where I was, behind the
Gospels on the heath, and it was just as well
that I did. After a while, the henry had paid
around the corner, so I cleaned slowly.
Speaker 2: He turned in at the hall gates as you thought, ah,
And then I lost Simon, Oh you did.
Speaker 3: However, it seemed to me that I had done a fellow.
Speaker 2: Good morning's work.
Speaker 3: So I walked back into Farnam and called at the
house agels By, making out that I wanted to know
Charlington Hall was on the market for a summer let.
I found out that it had been led about a
month ago when an elderly gentleman named Williamson.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't say anymore. Their homes. How is that you
really have done remarkably bed homes for a trip, and
then you go to a house agent to find out
who he is?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 2: Should I have got to the nearest public house, that's
the center of country gossip. They'd have told you every
name from the masters of the scullery. Maid, Well, I
got his name, Williamson. Come in the post or just
put it down over there, missus Hudson. Oh no, wait, sir,
there might possibly be Yes, there is, Thank you, missus Hudson,
Thank you, sir. Ah, Yes, yes, what did it? I
have rather thought I might receive some accounts of this
latest episode from miss Smith herself. Did it? Yes? I
am sure that you will respect my confidence, mister Holmes,
when I tell you that my place here has become
difficult owing to the fact that my employer has proposed
marriage to me. I am convinced that his feelings are
most deep and most honorable at the same time, and
my promise is, of course given. He took my refusal
very seriously, but also very gently. You can understand, however,
that the situation is a little strained. Our young friend
seems to be getting into deep waters. Watson, I should
be none the worse for a quiet, peaceful day in
the country. I'm in tied to run down this afternoon
and test one or two theories I found. Oh, and
the best of good luck to your homes.
Speaker 1: That's what I can say.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, hear you, sir? What will be your pleasure?
Well let me see now, fear, I think, yes, dear,
I will do nicely. You won't find a bit of
drop anywhere in England, I'm sure, I say, sir, a
capital will you join me? World? Thank you, sir, your
best health, sir, and yours landlord. Oh, by the bye,
I came down on the absence to seeing an old
friend who told me he was taking Charlington Paul for
a sum. Oh, mister Williamson would that way? Yes, he's
in residence day. He's there all right, sir. I should
know he clibs his way in here for Dolton man.
You know, mister Williamson, Sir, what with all those weekend
visitors of his? A warm lot be sir. I can
see he hasn't changed here here you know him long, sir, Oh,
quite some time? It is easy, true, Dad is not true.
City used to be a clergy man. You know unfropped
lotch well to tell the true Slandlord, I have heard
some such tail myself. I'm afraid that the princess doesn't
go far back for me to ti oh pitty, Yeah,
you're agreed. Is there's something about his men? Oh quiet,
I don't mind some of his behavior when he gets
in here well an ecclesiastical newsand.
Speaker 5: You it's especially when he's on the whiskey with mister Woodley.
Speaker 2: Mister Woodley, one of these we can get always game
with me. Oh, mister Woodley, I fancy I may haven't
said I didn't. Perhaps you can refresh my memory of
mister Woodley, Landlord.
Speaker 6: Refresh uner man never met her in my life, mister
Woodley is all right?
Speaker 1: Why do you want asking us?
Speaker 2: I busy about the questions about it. I beg your
pardons that I'm failing mistake. That's right, mister Woody. This
Jim's a friend of mister Williamson. Ah. So that look here,
don't you look?
Speaker 1: Hear me?
Speaker 2: House never a yard a pup warner toss that way
in a rod in Jack Woodley up.
Speaker 7: Now, yeah, mister Woodley, there's one the start. Well, if
you good.
Speaker 2: Gracious holds your faith your lip, my dear Hella, sit
down quickly and tell me what happened. A vicious bath
gander from the odious mister Woodley has started it. Woodley Watson,
I have to contest that, however enjoyable my country clip,
it was scarcely more profitable than your home. Never mind that.
Speaker 3: Oh there's another letter from miss Smith.
Speaker 2: It came a while ago than be good enough to
post me up immediately.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, she says, you will not be surprised to hear.
On Saturday, I shall come up to town and will
not return to Farnham. Mister Carruthers has got a trap,
and so the dangers of the lonely road, if.
Speaker 1: They ever wear any dangers, are now.
Speaker 3: Over as to the special cause my leaving it there
not merely my strength situation with mister Carruthers, but the.
Speaker 2: Reappearance of that vile Woodley, who must be saving in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: He had long talk with mister Carrado, who's he much
excited up with a loathe.
Speaker 2: And fear Woodley more than I can say.
Speaker 3: How can mister Caruthers jose at the creature for a moment? However,
all my tubles will be over on Saturday.
Speaker 2: I think we must spare time to run down together
on Saturday morning and make sure that this curious investigation
has no untoward envy.
Speaker 5: Oh what the music of the birds and the fresh
breath of the spree.
Speaker 2: What better way to occupy our though.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very well for you.
Speaker 3: You know we can get all your energy from anyway
we've come found out. Surely lobers are all in those peaces.
Speaker 2: We can see the whole stretch roads from here. No,
we must be classical of horses to see this same
care before he turns up into the ground. Watson here
from moving along the road looks like a clap. If
that's her cat, she must be made earlier.
Speaker 6: Treking, and she'll be past challenge and form before we
can read it exactly. And if she's in any danger,
that's where it's going to spike. Come on, it's no use, homes,
We will never do it. Now, I'm a saying that
fool that I was not to allow for.
Speaker 2: The earlier play. Well, it'll probably be all right. Nothing's
happened to her. Tap hasn't been stopped for me, so
quite true. But what center look the TlAP SENTI what
is driv it? She's been adapt people murder? He knows
what type of top a horse corner? Let good boy,
well done, jump in. We must drive that stuff in
his homes.
Speaker 1: Here comes up man on his cycle. Stop stop her.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand home. The nation is approaching the ice.
Bead you there?
Speaker 1: Where did you get that horse?
Speaker 2: And tack the other man? We want to see where
is miss Pilets. That's why I'm asking you.
Speaker 3: Let her tat you know where she is. We made
the tap on the road empty. We were about trying
beck to help the young ladies. By him, it means say,
got up, bud, quickly. We mus drive down to collage
of all as spot as we can go.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll leave the cat here or they'll be ready
for us.
Speaker 2: We can make our way through the shubbery, all.
Speaker 3: Right, yat on't.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, heavens, what is it you easy to get though?
Speaker 2: No, it's Peter the groove.
Speaker 1: They must have cut him and they're tegnan it here.
Speaker 2: Let me see his head. Yeah no, no, not serious anyway,
as you come.
Speaker 5: Around soon and come on, gentlemen, we may still be
in time to save her.
Speaker 1: Not hurry.
Speaker 2: This way, this way. There they are and.
Speaker 3: Woodley and what's happen?
Speaker 2: There's a clergyman talking to him. Can't you see? Great
heaven she found and caged quickly? Watson, you're over.
Speaker 1: An answer man?
Speaker 2: And why stop there? Brad Willielmson just in time? Well, well,
Bob Carlos in his spose Bear Woodland. They can take
it off.
Speaker 3: Bob, you and your pals have just come in time
to the interviews to missus wood would'tly?
Speaker 5: I told you when I do it, you will listed.
Speaker 2: This woman even if I had to swing for it's right.
She's my wife.
Speaker 1: Oh she's your widow.
Speaker 2: You can't help the body on too? And I this
William not that revolver. What's then take it from him
while I can here take the blasted thing. T tut
Williams in Turgiman. Shouldn't swear now, mister carrad I'll have
your revolver to it you can love and your who
are you anyway? My name is Sherlock Holmes shell uckuck
Oh good lord? Handed over? Please? Yeah, here you are, Watson,
see what you can do for Woodley and then release
miss Smith. Now all of you listen to me. I
will represent the official police until they can be summoned.
I detain you all under my personal custody. We live
homes and.
Speaker 1: Now see the miss Smith.
Speaker 2: Why are you telling me that girl that angel is
to be kind to Roaring jet Woodley for life. You
needn't concern yourself about death, mister carrother We're very safe
in questioning mister Williams's right to columnize their name marriage.
In any case, a fourth marriage is no marriage at all.
It's the very scariest felony as you'll discover. No shoot yourself.
You'll have time to think to point over during the
next ten years or so. And there As to you, Carrothers,
you'd have done better to have kept your.
Speaker 1: Pistol and yourself.
Speaker 2: God be good to think so.
Speaker 5: But I love her, mister Holmes. It's the only time
I've ever known what love was. You'd hardly credit.
Speaker 2: It ever since she's been in my employment.
Speaker 5: I'd never let her go past his house once without
following her on my bicycle to see that she came
to no harm from that brute.
Speaker 2: Oh so that was why?
Speaker 1: Oh miss all right, I told her to sit down.
Speaker 2: And write flend it. But why did you not simply
tell miss Smith of the danger, because she might have
left my house for good.
Speaker 3: Do you call him out love, mister coronve, I should
call her selfishness.
Speaker 2: Maybe that two things go together. Anyway, I couldn't better
let her go. And then when the cable came up,
I knew they were boundling conveniently cable cars. You can
blink her back. The girl and your hearts can take.
But if you squeal, your reference need not be so excited.
The case is clear enough. Again he's plucking. I do
the talking, Williamson, and then you will see how far
you have a chance of holding back your secrets. God.
In the first stag, the three of you came together
from South Am game you Williamson, you Carrothers and Woodley.
There lie about one. I never saw either other Jim
a couple of months ago. So what decond your pipe
has smoke it, mister busy Bobby ho So it reverences
our own home laid article that you Carrathers and Woodley
came over from barb Africa. You'd known Ralph Smith there.
You had reason to believe he wouldn't live long. You
found out that his lease would inherit his for you.
If it's true your plan was that one and you
should marry and the other should share the count. For
some reason, they would show them to my husband. Now,
why was it we played cards for her on the
voyage over? He wam well rarely, I see you got
the young lady into your service, and Woodley came to
courser that she saw what a drunken brute was and
had had nothing to do with him. Meanwhile, your arrangement
was rather upset by your having fallen in love with
there your so you could no longer bear the idea
that Russian. Oh, by George, I couldn't you quarrel up?
He left you in a rage and began to make
his own plans independently with Williams.
Speaker 5: Do you see Williamson hes it all without my telling him, Yes,
mister Holmes, that was when he picked up with this
so called padre.
Speaker 2: They set up out here, and as I told you,
I was fayful in my way.
Speaker 5: They miss Smith as the cycled passed, so I kept
following her as far as these grounds.
Speaker 2: And then two days ago Woodley brought a cable to
show me tell you that Draelph Smith was dead at
last and reminding you to keep your part in the bargain, just.
Speaker 5: That you refuse well, of course, so he asked me
to marriage the girl myself and give him a share
of her money. Why should I do that willingly? But
that she wouldn't have me, he said, Let's get her
married first, and after a week or two she may
see things a bit different.
Speaker 2: Mister Carrothers, you had a share in an evil plot.
I am aware of that, sir. However, I think you've
done what you could to make amend. If my evidence
can be have helped you in your trial, it shall
be at your disposal.
Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Holmes. However, there she is violence that
Miss Smith in the first place, I wronged you deeply.
I hope you will find it possible to forgive me.
Speaker 4: I have done so, sir. You did all you could
to rescue from this distint.
Speaker 2: I forgive you, and now Miss Smith, if your sufficiency recovered,
my friend doctor Watson will be happy to what's caught
you back to conk lead with joy. And if in
your medical opinion, and Miss Smith should seem not quite convalescent,
my dear Watson, that might I suggest that a telegram
to a certain young electrician in the Midlands would probably
completely the case of the solitary practice was one of
the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name,
my real name is Norman Sheneff. My friend Carton Hobbs
played Sherlock Holmes and I was dot what.
Speaker 3: Michael Hardrich rostars script for this BBC production from Nondon.
I look forward to the pleasure of your company again
soon for more of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.