1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: The Eagle's Claws by Ellis Parker Butler. As Filo Gubb 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,800 boarded the train for Riverbank. After recovering the silver loving 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,440 Cup from the interior of the petrified man, he cast 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,920 a regretful glance backward. It was for Cyrilla. There was 5 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:25,079 half a ton of her pink, white beauty, and her 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:29,079 placid cow like expression touched an echoing cord in Philo 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:34,679 Gubb's heart. Philo felt, however, that his admiration must be hopeless, 8 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:38,039 for Syrilla must earn a salary in keeping with her size, 9 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:41,439 and his income was too irregular and small to keep 10 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,560 even a thin wife. Five hundred dollars was a large 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,079 reward for a loving cup that cost not over thirty dollars. 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,679 It is true, but mister Jonas Meadowbrook had afford to 13 00:00:52,759 --> 00:00:55,640 pay what he chose, and as he was passionately fond 14 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:59,479 of golf and passionately poor at the game, and as 15 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:02,439 this was probably the only golf prize he would ever win, 16 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,680 he was justified in paying liberally, especially as this cup 17 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:09,840 was not merely a tankard, but almost large enough to 18 00:01:09,879 --> 00:01:13,959 be called a tank. Detective Gub hastened to the home 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,280 of mister Meadowbrook. But when the door of that palatial 20 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,400 house opened, the colored butler told mister Gubb that mister 21 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,159 Meadowbrook was at the golf club, attending the annual banquet 22 00:01:24,239 --> 00:01:28,200 of the fifty worst Duffers. Mister Gubb started for the 23 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,719 golf club. As he walked, he thought of Sorilla, and 24 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:33,959 he was at the gate of the golf club before 25 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,640 he knew it. He walked up the path toward the clubhouse, 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,599 but when halfway he stopped short. All his detective instincts aroused. 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,239 The windows of the clubhouse glowed with light, and sounds 28 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,400 of merriment issued from them. But the cause of Philo 29 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,799 Gub's sudden pause was ahead, silhouetted against one of the 30 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:57,200 glowing windows. As mister Gubb watched, he saw the head 31 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:00,680 disappear in the gloom below the window. Only two reappear 32 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,760 at another window. Mister Gubb, following the directions as laid 33 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:08,560 down in less than four of the correspondences, Lessons, dropped 34 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,439 to his hands and knees and crept silently toward the 35 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,080 Paul Prye. When within a few feet of him, mister 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,759 Gubb seated himself tailor fashion on the grass. As Filo 37 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:22,439 sat on the damp grass, The man at the window 38 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,479 turned his head, and mister Gubb noted with surprise that 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,840 the stranger had none of the marks of a sodden criminal. 40 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:33,039 The face was that of a respectably benevolent old German 41 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,800 American gentleman. Kindliness and good nature beamed from its lines, 42 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:41,439 but at the moment the plump little man seemed in trouble. 43 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:46,599 Good evening, said mister Gubb. I presume you are taking 44 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:49,520 an observation of the dinner party within the inside of 45 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,800 the club. The old gentleman turned sharply. Jess, he said, 46 00:02:55,199 --> 00:02:58,759 I look at their people's eating and drinking, as I 47 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,039 like to see that unsouch good at e thes dot 48 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,280 Man mit Der Blackbeard, he vas es splendid e There 49 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,280 mister Gubb raised himself to his knees and looked into 50 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,360 the dining room. That he said, is the honorable mister 51 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:20,919 Jonas Meadowbrook, the wealthiest rich man in Riverbank Metterbrook Mehta Krook, 52 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:26,840 said the old German American. Not Chon's ah not Jones 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,560 to my present personal knowledge at this time, said Philo Gubb. 54 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:36,719 Not Chons repeated the plumply benevolent looking German American dot 55 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,080 vas strange, you vas sure I vas not Johns. I'm 56 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,159 quite almost positive upon that point of knowledge, said Philo Gubb. 57 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,120 For I have under my arm a golf cup. I 58 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:51,360 am returning back to mister meadowbrook to receive five hundred 59 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,159 dollars reward from him. For so queried the stranger fife 60 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,759 hundr dollars. Wouldn't it is his cup? It is, said 61 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:03,639 Filo Gubb. He raised the cup in his hand that 62 00:04:03,759 --> 00:04:06,680 the stranger might read the inscription, stating that the cup 63 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,240 was Jonas Meadowbrooks. The light of the window made the 64 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,199 engraving easy to read, but the old German American first 65 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:16,399 drew from his pocket a pair of gold rimmed spectacles 66 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,879 and adjusted them carefully on his nose. He then took 67 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,399 the cup and moved closer to the window and read 68 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:27,800 the inscription. Jez jesz, he agreed, nodding his head several times, 69 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,600 and then he smiled at mister Gubb, a broadly benevolent smile. 70 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,560 Excuse me, he added, and with gentle deliberation, he removed 71 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,240 mister Gubb's hat. Just a minute, please, he continued, and 72 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,120 with his free hand, he felt gently on the top 73 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,839 of mister Gubb's head. He turned mister Gubb's head gently 74 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:53,279 to the right, so he exclaimed, dat vaskuld. He raised 75 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,360 the cup above his head and brought it down on 76 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:57,680 top of mister Gubb's head in the exact spot he 77 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,879 had selected. For two moments, mister Gubb made motions with 78 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,920 his hands resembling those of a swimmer, and then he 79 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,199 collapsed in a heap. The kindly looking old German American gentleman, 80 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,360 seeing he was quite unconscious, tucked the golf cup under 81 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:15,480 his own arm and waddled slowly down the path to 82 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:19,720 the club gates. Ten minutes later, a small automobile drove 83 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,720 up and young doctor Anson Briggs hopped out. Mister Gubb 84 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,279 was just getting to his feet, feeling the top of 85 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:29,120 his head with his hand as he did so. Here 86 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:33,279 said doctor Briggs. You must not do that. Why can't 87 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:36,279 I do it? Mister Gubb asked Crossley. It is my 88 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,160 own personal head, and if I wish to desire to 89 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,000 rub it, you are not concerned in the occasion. Whatever, 90 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:45,639 Oh rub your head if you want to, exclaimed the doctor. 91 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,240 I say you must not stand up a man that 92 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:51,600 has just had a fit must not stand up. Who 93 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,000 had a fit, asked Filo Gub. You did, said doctor Briggs. 94 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,120 I am told you had a very bad fit and 95 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:01,959 fell and knocked your head against the building. You're dazed, 96 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,000 lie down. I prefer to wish to stand erect on 97 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,439 my feet, said mister Gubb firmly. Where's my cup? What 98 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,399 cub who told you I was suffering from the symptoms 99 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:19,000 of a fit, demanded Philo Gubb. Why a short, plump 100 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,839 little german did, said the doctor. He sent me here 101 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:24,920 and he gave me this to give to you. The 102 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,160 doctor held an envelope toward mister Gubb, and the detective 103 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:30,759 took it and tore it open. By the light of 104 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,480 the window, he read received of J. Jones golf cup 105 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:41,519 worth five hundred dollars p H. Schrekenheim. Filo Gubb turned 106 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,959 to doctor Briggs. I am much obliged for the hastiness 107 00:06:45,959 --> 00:06:48,879 with which you came to relieve one you considered to 108 00:06:48,959 --> 00:06:52,480 think in trouble, Doctor, he said, but fits are not 109 00:06:52,639 --> 00:06:57,279 in my line of sickness, which mainly is dyspeptic to date. Now, 110 00:06:57,519 --> 00:07:01,160 what is all this, asked the doctor. Suspicion. What is 111 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:05,240 that letter anyway? It is a clue, said Filo Gubb, 112 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,240 which connected with the bump on the top of the 113 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,680 cranium of my skull, will no doubt land somebody into jail. 114 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,439 So good evening, doctor. He picked his hat from the 115 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:18,319 lawn and in his most stately manner, walked around the 116 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,839 clubhouse and in at the door. Inside the clubhouse, mister 117 00:07:22,879 --> 00:07:25,519 Gubb asked one of the waiters to call mister Meadowbrook, 118 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:29,480 and mister Meadobrook immediately appeared. As he came from the 119 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:32,680 dining room rapidly, the napkin he had tucked in his 120 00:07:32,879 --> 00:07:36,480 neck fell over his shoulder behind him, and mister Meadowbrook, 121 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,000 instead of turning around, bent backwards until he could pick 122 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:43,720 up the napkin with his teeth, after which he resumed 123 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:48,279 his normal upright position. Excuse me, Gub, he said, I 124 00:07:48,399 --> 00:07:51,439 didn't think what I was doing. Where's the cup, the 125 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,279 detective explained. He handed mister Meaderbrook the receipt that had 126 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:58,959 been sent by mister Schrekenheim, and the moment mister Meaderbrook's 127 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:03,600 eyes fell upon it, he turned red. That infernal dutchman. 128 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:07,360 He cried, although mister Schrekenheim was not a Dutchman at all, 129 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:12,120 but a German American. I'll jail him for this. He 130 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:17,040 stopped short, Gubb. He said, did that fellow tell you 131 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,199 what his business was? He did not, said Filo Gubb. 132 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:25,360 He failed to express any mention of it. That man, 133 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,920 said mister Meadowbrook bitterly. Is Schrekenheim the greatest tattoo artist 134 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,200 in the world. He is the king of them all, 135 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:36,200 a connoisseur in tattooish art Cantella Schrekenheim as easily as 136 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,679 a picture dealer Cantella corot. But no matter, mister Gubb. 137 00:08:40,879 --> 00:08:42,879 You are a detective, and I believe what is told 138 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:48,080 detectives is held inviolable. Yes, you and all Riverbanks see 139 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:52,480 me an ordinary citizen. Wealthy perhaps, but ordinary. As a 140 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,159 matter of fact. I was once, he looked cautiously around. 141 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,639 I was once a contortionist. I was once the contortionist, 142 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,080 and now I am a wealthy man. My wife left 143 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,360 me because she said I was stingy, and she took 144 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:11,279 my child, my only daughter. I have never seen either 145 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,919 of them since. I have searched high and low, but 146 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,120 I cannot find them. Mister Gubb, I would give the 147 00:09:17,159 --> 00:09:19,879 man that finds my daughter, if she is alive, a 148 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,639 thousand dollars. You don't object to my attempting to try, 149 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,919 said Filo Gubb. No, said mister Jonas Meadobrook. But that 150 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:33,559 is not what I wished to explain in my contortion act. 151 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,519 Mister Gubb, I was obliged to wear the most expensive 152 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,840 silk tights. Wiggling on the floor destroys them rapidly. I 153 00:09:40,919 --> 00:09:44,360 had a happy thought. I was known as the man serpent. 154 00:09:44,799 --> 00:09:47,720 Could I not save all expenses of tights by having 155 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:51,919 myself tattooed so that my skin would represent scales? Look, 156 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:56,039 mister Meadowbrook pulled up his cuff and showed mister Gubb 157 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,879 his arm. It was beautifully tattooed in red and blue, 158 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:04,279 like the scales of a cobra. The cost continued, mister 159 00:10:04,399 --> 00:10:09,080 Meadowbrook was great. Herr Schreckenheim worked continuously on me, and 160 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,120 when he reached my manly chest, I had a brilliant 161 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,799 thought I would have tattooed upon it an American eagle. 162 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,360 Imagine the enthusiasm of an audience when I stood straight, 163 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,440 spread my arms and showed that noble emblem of our 164 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,360 nation's strength and freedom. I told Herr Schreckenheim, and he 165 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,240 set to work. When and the contract price, by the way, 166 00:10:30,279 --> 00:10:33,120 for doing that eagle was five hundred dollars. When the 167 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:37,120 eagle was about completed, I said to Herr Schreckenheim, of 168 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,919 course you will do no more eagles. More eagles, he said, 169 00:10:42,039 --> 00:10:45,720 questioningly on other men. I said, I want to be 170 00:10:45,759 --> 00:10:49,159 the only man with an eagle on my chest. I 171 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,120 am doing an eagle on another man now, he said. 172 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:56,080 I was angry at once. I jumped from the table 173 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,960 and threw on my clothes cheater. I cried, not another 174 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,480 spot or dot shall you make on me? Go? I 175 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,279 will never pay you a cent. He was very angry. 176 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,440 It is a contract, he cried, five hundred dollars you 177 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,399 owe me. I owe it to you when the job 178 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,039 is complete. I declared that was the contract. Is this 179 00:11:17,159 --> 00:11:21,720 job complete? Where are the eagle's claws? I'll never pay 180 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,399 you a cent. We had a lot of angry words. 181 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,519 He demanded that I give him a chance to put 182 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:30,759 the claws on the eagle. I refused. I said I 183 00:11:30,759 --> 00:11:33,000 would never pay. He said he would follow me to 184 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,480 the end of the world and collect He said he 185 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:38,159 would do those eagle claws if he had to do 186 00:11:38,279 --> 00:11:42,240 them on my infant daughter. I dared him to touch 187 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,200 the child. And now, said mister Meadowbrook, he has taken 188 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,039 the golf cup I value at five hundred dollars. He 189 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,440 has won. At the mention of the threat regarding the child, 190 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,679 Filo Gubb's eyes opened wide, but he kept silent. Gubb 191 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:02,039 said mister Meadobrook. Suddenly, I'll give you one thousand dollars 192 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,960 if you can recover my poor child. The detecative profession 193 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,919 is full of complicity of detail, said mister Gubb. And 194 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,519 the impossible is quite possible when put in the right hands. 195 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,279 The cub bother the cup, said mister Meadowbrook carelessly. I 196 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,679 want my child. I'll give ten thousand dollars for my child. 197 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:27,960 Gub with difficulty, could Filo Gub restrain his eagerness to depart. 198 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,600 He had a clue. Ordinarily, mister Gubb would have taken 199 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:35,320 any disguise that seemed to him best suited for the 200 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,559 work in hand. But now he was going to see 201 00:12:38,639 --> 00:12:43,519 and be seen by Sorilla. Mister Gub ran down the 202 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,399 list number seven card sharp number nine Minister of the 203 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:53,960 Gospel number twelve, Butcher number sixteen, Negro hack driver number seventeen, 204 00:12:54,120 --> 00:13:01,440 Chinese laundryman number twenty. Cowboy Filo Gub paused he would 205 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:07,080 be a cowboy, for it was a jaunty disguise. Chaps, sombrero, spurs, 206 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:12,519 buckskin gloves, holsters and pistols, blue shirt, yellow hair, stubby mustache. 207 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,559 He donned the complete disguise, put his street garments in 208 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:19,600 a suit case, and viewed himself in his small mirror. 209 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,399 He highly approved of the disguise. He touched his cheeks 210 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:28,840 with red to give himself a healthy outdoor appearance. Early 211 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,320 the next morning, before the earliest merchants had opened their shops, 212 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,960 Filo Gubb boarded the train for West Higgins, for it 213 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,519 was there the world's greatest combined shows were to appear. 214 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,360 The few sleepy passengers did not open their eyes. The conductor, 215 00:13:44,399 --> 00:13:47,639 as he took mister Gubb's ticket, merely remarked joining the 216 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:52,320 show at West Higgins and passed on. Boys were already 217 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,480 gathering on the West Higgins station platform when the train 218 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,679 pulled in, and they cheered mister Gubb, thinking him part 219 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,360 of the show. This greatly increased the difficulty of mister 220 00:14:02,399 --> 00:14:06,279 Gubb's detective work. He had hoped to steal unobserved, to 221 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,799 the circus grounds, but a dozen small boys immediately attached 222 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,519 themselves to him, running before him and whooping with joy. 223 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,559 Boys said mister Gubb sternly, I wish you to run 224 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,639 away and play elsewhere than in front of me, continuously 225 00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:25,360 all the time, and they cheered because he had spoken. 226 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,080 Only the glad news that the circus trains had reached 227 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:33,879 town finally dragged them reluctantly away. Detective Gub hurried to 228 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:36,879 the circus grounds. The cook tent was already up and 229 00:14:36,879 --> 00:14:40,480 the grub tent was being put up presently, the side 230 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,960 show tent was up and the big top rising. It 231 00:14:44,039 --> 00:14:46,639 was not until nine o'clock, however, that the side show 232 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,200 ladies and gentlemen began to appear. And when they arrived, 233 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,039 they went at once to the grub tent and seated 234 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,919 themselves at the table. From a corner of the big 235 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,679 top's side wall, Detective Gub watched them. Look there, deary, 236 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:05,399 said Marilla suddenly to Princess Zozo. Don't that cowboy look 237 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,120 like mister Gubb that was at Bardville and got the 238 00:15:08,159 --> 00:15:12,000 golf cup. It don't look like him, said Princess Zozo. 239 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:14,679 It is him. Why don't you ask him to come 240 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,480 over and help at the eats? You seem to like 241 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,879 him yesterday. I thought he was a real gentlemanly gentleman, dearie, 242 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:26,679 if that's what you mean, said Sorilla, and raising her voice, 243 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,440 she called to mister Gobb. For a moment, he hesitated, 244 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,720 and then he came forward. We knowed you the minute 245 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,639 we seen you. Mister Gubb, Come and sit in beside 246 00:15:36,639 --> 00:15:39,480 me and have some breakfast. If you ain't dined, I 247 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,200 thought you went home last night. You ain't after no 248 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:47,120 more criminals, are you. There are variously many ends to 249 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,159 the detecative business, said mister Gubb, as he seated himself 250 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,039 beside Sorilla. I'm upon a most important case at the 251 00:15:55,159 --> 00:15:59,679 present time. Sorilla reached for her fifth boiled potato, and 252 00:15:59,679 --> 00:16:02,840 as her her arm past mister Gubb's face, he thrilled 253 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,960 he had not been mistaken. Upon that arm was a 254 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:11,840 pair of eagle's claws tattooed in red and blue. How 255 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,879 little these had meant to him before, and how much 256 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,559 they meant now? I presume you don't hardly ever long 257 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:22,600 for a home in one place, miss Sorilla. He began, 258 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:26,080 with his eye fixed on her arm, just above the elbow. 259 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:31,200 Well believe me, dearie, said Sorilla. You don't want to 260 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,559 think that just because I travel with a side show, 261 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:36,240 I don't long for the refinements of a true home 262 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,840 just like other folks. Some folks think I'm easy to 263 00:16:39,919 --> 00:16:43,200 see through and that I ain't nothin but fat and appetite. 264 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:46,720 But they've got me down wrong, mister Gubb. I was 265 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,600 unfortunate in getting lost from my father and mother when 266 00:16:49,639 --> 00:16:52,840 a babe. But many as the time I've said to Zozo, 267 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,320 I've got a refined strain in my nature, haven't i? Zozo? 268 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,519 You say it every time we begin to rag you 269 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:03,960 about falling in love with every new thin man you see, 270 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,480 said Princess Zozo. You said it last night when we 271 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:11,759 was joshing you about mister Gubb. Here, Sorilla colored, but 272 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,200 mister Gubb thrilled joyously just the same, Deary Sorilla said 273 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,000 to Princess Zozo, I've got myself listed right when I 274 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:24,359 say I got a refined nature, I've got all the 275 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,000 instincts of a real society lady, and sometimes it irks 276 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:30,400 me awful not to be able to let myself loose 277 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:36,240 and bant like pant, asked mister Gubb. Bant was the 278 00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:40,359 word I used, mister Gubb, Sorilla replied, maybe you wouldn't 279 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,599 guess it looking at me shovelin' in the etibles this way. 280 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,599 But eating food is the cruelest thing I have to do. 281 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,240 It charged me something terrible, yes, dearie. What I longed 282 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,599 for day and night is a chance to take my 283 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,759 place in the social stratums I was born for and 284 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,799 bant off the fat like other social ladies, is to 285 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,400 ride along. I don't eat food because i'd like it, 286 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,440 mister Gubb, but because a lady in a profession like 287 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:10,079 mine has got to keep fat it up. My outside 288 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,720 may be fat, mister Gubb, but I got a soul 289 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,759 inside of me as skinny as any fashionable lady would 290 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:18,720 care to have. And as soon as possible, I'm going 291 00:18:18,759 --> 00:18:21,400 to quit the road and bant off six or seven 292 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,559 hundred pounds. Would you believe it possible that I ain't 293 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,319 dared to eat a pickle for over seven years because 294 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,799 it might start me on the thin word road. I 295 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,720 presume to suppose, said mister Gubb politely, that if you 296 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,839 was to be offered a home that was rich with wealth, 297 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,160 and I was to take you there and place you 298 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:46,839 beside your parental father, would you refuse. Mister Gubb awaited 299 00:18:46,839 --> 00:18:49,839 the reply with eagerness. He tried to remain calm, but 300 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:54,319 in spite of himself, he was nervous. Watch me, said Marilla, 301 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,839 if you could show me a nook like that, you 302 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,079 couldn't hold me in this show business with a tense 303 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:03,480 steak and a bull. But that's a rosy dream. You 304 00:19:03,599 --> 00:19:06,480 ain't got a locket with the photo of your mother's 305 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,720 picture into it, asked mister Gubb. No, said Marilla. My 306 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,240 pa Ma was unknown to me. I dare say they 307 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:17,519 got sick of hearin me ball and left me on 308 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:20,359 a doorstep. The first I knew of things was that 309 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,720 I was travelin with a show representing a new born 310 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:27,599 babe in an incubator machine. I was incubated up to 311 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,960 the time I was five years old and got too 312 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:33,759 long to go into the glass case. But some one 313 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,519 was your guardian in charge of you, no doubt, asked Gub. 314 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:42,000 I had forty of them, deary, said Sorilla. Whenever money 315 00:19:42,079 --> 00:19:44,640 run low, they quit because they couldn't get paid on 316 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:49,359 Saturday night. Huh, said mister Gubb. And does the name 317 00:19:49,519 --> 00:19:53,799 Jones bring back the memory of any remembrance to you? No, 318 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:58,039 mister Gubb, said Sorilla, regretfully, seeing how eager he was. 319 00:19:58,519 --> 00:20:02,279 It don't in that state of the case of things, 320 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:04,359 said mister Gubb. I've got to go over to that 321 00:20:04,559 --> 00:20:07,920 wagon pole and sit down and think. Awhile, I've got 322 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,680 a certain clue. I've got to think over and make 323 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,400 sure it leads right, and if it does, I'll have 324 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,319 something important to say to you. The wagon pole in 325 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,599 question was attached to a canvas wagon near by, and 326 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,359 Detective Gub seated himself on it and thought the side 327 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,759 show ladies and gentlemen, having finished, entered the side show tent, 328 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,400 with the exception of Sorilla, who remained to finish her meal. 329 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,240 She ate a great deal at meals. Before meals and 330 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,559 after meals, Mister Gubb, from his seat on the wagon pole, 331 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,480 looked at Sorilla thoughtfully. He had not the least doubt 332 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:47,920 that Sorilla was the lost daughter of mister Jones, or Meadowbrook, 333 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,759 as he now called himself. The German American tattoo artist 334 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:54,640 had sworn to complete the eagle by putting its claws 335 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,240 on mister Jones's daughter if need be, And here were 336 00:20:58,279 --> 00:21:01,720 the claws on Marilla's arm. But just as it is 337 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:04,920 desirable at times to have a handwriting expert identify a 338 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,960 bit of writing, mister Gubb felt that if he could 339 00:21:08,039 --> 00:21:10,960 prove that the claws tattooed on Marilla's arm where the 340 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,119 work of mister Schrekenheim, his case would be complete. He 341 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,000 longed for mister Schreckenheim's presence, but lacking that, he had 342 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:23,279 a happy idea. Mister Enderberry, the tattooed man of the 343 00:21:23,319 --> 00:21:26,480 side show, should be a connoisseur and would perhaps be 344 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:31,359 able to identify the eagle's claws. Leaving Marilla still eating, 345 00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:35,960 mister Gubb entered the side show tent. Mister Enderberry, seated 346 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,799 on a blue property case, was engaged in biting the 347 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,319 entire row of finger nails on his right hand, and 348 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,240 a frown creased his brow. He was enwrapped by a 349 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,559 long purple bathrobe which tied closely about his neck. As 350 00:21:50,599 --> 00:21:53,480 he caught sight of mister Gubb. He started slightly and 351 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:56,680 doubled his hand into a fist, but he immediately calmed 352 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:01,119 himself and assumed a nonchalant air. As a matter of fact, 353 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,200 mister Endburry led a dog's life for years. He had 354 00:22:05,279 --> 00:22:08,640 loved Sorilla devotedly, but he was so bashful he had 355 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,400 never dared to confess his love to her. And year 356 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,759 after year he saw her smile upon one thin man 357 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:19,279 after another. Now it was mister Lonardon. Again it was 358 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,920 mister Winterbury, or it was mister Gubb, or Smith, or 359 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,960 Jones or Doe. But for mister Enderberry, she seemed to 360 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,160 have nothing but contempt. Mister Enderberry had first seen her 361 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,599 when she was posing in the infant incubator, and had 362 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,799 loved her even then, For he was twenty when she 363 00:22:38,079 --> 00:22:41,880 was but five. The coming of a new rival always 364 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,000 affected him, as the coming of mister Gubb had, But 365 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,480 for good reason. He hated mister Gubb worse than any 366 00:22:48,519 --> 00:22:53,359 of the others. Excuse me for begging your pardon, said 367 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,039 mister Gubb. But in the detecative business, questions have to 368 00:22:57,079 --> 00:23:00,440 be asked. Have you ever chanced to happen to notice 369 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,440 some tattoo work upon the arm of Miss Sorilla of 370 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:09,119 the side show, I have, said mister Edinbury. Shortly a 371 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,920 pair of eagle's claws, said mister Gubb. Can you tell me, 372 00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:16,119 from your knowledge and belief if the work they're done 373 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,400 was the work of mister Harrer Schreckenheim. I can tell 374 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,559 you if I want to, said mister Enderburry. What do 375 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:26,880 you want to know for? If those claws are the 376 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,839 work of mister Harrer Schreckenheim, said mister Gubb. I am 377 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,240 prepared to offer to miss Sorilla her daughterly place in 378 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:37,960 a home of wealth at Riverbank, Iowa. If those claws 379 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,480 are Schrekenheim clause, Miss Sorilla is the daughter of mister 380 00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:45,240 Jonas Meadowbrook of the said Bergh. Beyond the question of 381 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:49,720 a particle of doubt. Mister Enderburry looked at mister Gubb 382 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:56,039 with surprise. That's not he began. And if Schrekenheim did 383 00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:59,240 those claws, You'll take Sorilla away from this show forever, 384 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,559 he asked. Asked, I will, said Filo Gubb. If she 385 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:07,319 desires to wish to go, then I have nothing whatever 386 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,279 to say, said mister Enderburry. And he shut his mouth firmly, 387 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:15,839 nor would he say more. Do you desire to wish 388 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,240 me to understand that they are not the work of 389 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:23,960 mister Herr Schreckenheim persisted mister Gubb, I have nothing to say, 390 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,359 said mister Enderberry. I consider that conclusive, circumstantial evidence that 391 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,039 they are, said Detective Gubb, and he clanked out of 392 00:24:33,079 --> 00:24:37,400 the side show. Marilla was still seated at the grub table, 393 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,359 finishing her meal, and mister Gubb seated himself opposite her. 394 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,480 As delicately as he could, he told of Jonas Meadowbrook 395 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,480 and his lost daughter, of the home of wealth that 396 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:52,240 awaited that daughter, and finally, of his belief that Cyrilla 397 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:55,960 was that daughter. It was clear that Marilla was quite 398 00:24:56,039 --> 00:24:58,799 willing to take up a life of refinement and dieting 399 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,319 if she was given an oper tunity such as mister 400 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,440 Gubb was able to offer in the name of Jonas Meadowbrook. 401 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,359 And this being so, he questioned her regarding the eagle's claws, 402 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,240 Mister Gubb, she said, I wish to die on the 403 00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:16,039 spot if I know how I got them claws tattooed 404 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:18,359 on me. If you ask me, I'll say it was 405 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,200 the mystery of my life. They've been on me since 406 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,400 I was a little girl, no bigger than why who 407 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,200 is that? Mister Gubb turned his head quickly, but he 408 00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:30,839 was not in time to see a plump, good natured 409 00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:34,119 looking little German Americans slip quickly out of sight behind 410 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,480 the cook tent. Neither did he see the glitter of 411 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:40,640 the sun on a large silver golf cup the plump 412 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,319 German American carried under his arm. But the German American 413 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,319 had recognized mister Gubb, even through his disguise of a cowboy. 414 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,880 No matter, said Marilla. But these claws have been on 415 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,880 my arm since I was a wee little girl, mister Gubb. 416 00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:59,079 I always thought they was a trade mark of a hospital. 417 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,880 I was not knowingly aware that hospitals had trade marks, 418 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,319 said mister Gubb. Maybe they don't, said Zyrilla. But when 419 00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:10,559 I was a small child, I had an accident and 420 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,920 had to be took to the hospital, and it wasn't 421 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,160 until after that that anybody saw the eagle's claws on me. 422 00:26:16,759 --> 00:26:19,279 I considered that maybe it was like the mark the 423 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,640 laundry puts on a handkerchief it has laundered. I don't 424 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,480 know much about the manners of the ways of hospitals, 425 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:29,680 admitted mister Gubb. And that may be so, but I 426 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:34,160 have another idea. Did you ever hear of mister Harrer Schrekenheim, 427 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,680 Only that mister Enderburry has always cross on the days 428 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,440 of the month that he gets mister Shrekenheim's statements of 429 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,200 money too. Mister Shrekenheim is the man that tattooed mister 430 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,279 Enderburry so beautiful, but poor mister Enderberry has never been 431 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:53,240 able to pay him in full. Filo Gubb arose, I 432 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,920 am going to telegraph mister Meadowbrook to come on to 433 00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,039 wes Higgins immediately by the three p m. Afternoon train, 434 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,799 he said, and you will meet him as your perternal father, 435 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,480 and arranged to make your home with him as soon 436 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:09,839 as you desire to wish it. At five o'clock that afternoon, 437 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,519 mister Meadobrook, escorted by mister Gubb, entered the side show tent. 438 00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:18,000 The lady and gentlemen freaks were resting. Before evening, Grubb 439 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:21,240 and all were gathered around Marilla's platform for the news 440 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:23,440 that she was to leave the show to enter a 441 00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:27,960 home of wealth and refinement had spread quickly. Marilla herself 442 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:30,960 was in tears. Now that the time had come, she 443 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,640 was loath to part from her kind companions. I tell you, 444 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,839 mister Gubb, mister Meadobrook said, as they entered the side show. 445 00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:41,759 If you have indeed found my daughter, you have made 446 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:44,920 me a happy man. You cannot know how lonesome my 447 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:49,599 life has been. Now which is she? She is the 448 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,839 female lady in the pink satin dress on the platform, 449 00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:57,920 said mister Gubb. Mister Meadobrook looked towards Marilla and gasped, 450 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,319 Why that that's the fat woman. That's the fat woman 451 00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:06,119 of a side show, he exclaimed. I thought, I why 452 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,920 my daughter wouldn't be a fat woman in a side show. 453 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:17,119 But she is, said mister Gubb. Great Scott, exclaimed mister Meadowbrook. 454 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:20,839 For years, mister Meadobrook had retained a memory of his 455 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,400 daughter as he had seen her last, a tender babe 456 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,079 in long clothes as he rode toward West Higgins. However, 457 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,640 he had thought about his daughter, and he had revised 458 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,039 his conception of her. She was older now, of course, 459 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,920 and he had finally settled the matter by deciding that 460 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,359 she would be a dainty slip of a girl, probably 461 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,240 a tight rope walker or one of the toe dancers 462 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,759 in the Grand Spectacle, or perhaps even engaged as the 463 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:52,799 ten thousand dollar beauty. But a fat lady, jes said 464 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:56,160 a voice. Suddenly, you'll bet i've us here. Well, I 465 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,720 fand my money years I have been collecting dot bill 466 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,519 un Still you owe me. Now I come and you 467 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,000 pay me all that you owe me, or I make trouble. 468 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,359 The voice came from outside the tent, and with surprising agility, 469 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,920 Detective Gubb dived under the platform and wriggled under the 470 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,160 canvas wall. I don't know you a cent, exclaimed the 471 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,279 voice of mister Enderburry. I've paid you for every bit 472 00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:24,319 of tattoo I have on me. Seven hundred dollars vas 473 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,000 der contract, cried the voice of Herr Schreckenheim. Ound ten 474 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:32,920 dollars is due me? Yet I wanted? Well, you'll keep 475 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,880 on wanting it, said mister Enderberry's voice. Look here, look 476 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,480 at my chest. There's the eagle you did on me. 477 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,680 Do you see any claws on it? No? You don't. Well, 478 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,599 I'm not going to pay for claws that are not 479 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:50,519 on me. No, sir, claws. I'd do some claws on you, 480 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:56,000 don't I ven i'd do that eagle, asked the German American. Yes, 481 00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:59,400 but they're not on me now are they asked mister Enderburry. 482 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:02,559 You can go and collect from the person that has them. 483 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,359 What do I care for her? Now? She's going to 484 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,559 quit the circus business. I've paid for all the tattoo 485 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:10,839 that's on me. You go and collect ten dollars for 486 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,160 those claws from Cyrilla. Und how does she get those 487 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,400 claws on her, asked harr Schreckenheim. Shrewdly, I'll tell you how, 488 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,559 said mister Enerbury. You remember when Griggs and Barton's circus 489 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:28,559 burned down years ago. Well, Sorilla was burned in that fire, 490 00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:31,200 burned on the arm, and they took her to a 491 00:30:31,279 --> 00:30:34,480 hospital and her arm wouldn't heal. So somebody had to 492 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,559 furnish some skin for a skin grafting job. And I 493 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,839 did it. The piece they took had those claws on it. 494 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:44,880 That's what happened. I gave those eagles claws to cure her. 495 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,319 And I've hung around her all these years like a 496 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:49,640 faithful dog, and she don't care a hang for me. 497 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:52,880 And now she's going away. Go and collect for those 498 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,279 claws from her. I haven't got them. She's going to 499 00:30:56,319 --> 00:31:00,640 be rich. She can pay you. Simultaneously, there was an 500 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,759 exclamation from mister Meadowbrook, a cry from Syrilla, and a short, 501 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,880 sharp yell from outside the tent. Mister Gubb entered, spurs first, 502 00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:14,240 creeping backward under the canvas. As he backed from under 503 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:16,880 the platform, it was observed that he held a shoe 504 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,240 about number eight size in one hand, and that a 505 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:23,160 foot was in the shoe, and the foot on a leg, 506 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,720 and the leg on a short, plump elderly German American, 507 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:29,160 who yelled as he was dragged into the tent on 508 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,680 his back. In one hand of the German American was 509 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,880 a large silver golf cup with a deep dent on 510 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,799 one side. As mister Gubb arose to his feet, still 511 00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:43,039 holding the German American tattoo artist's foot in his hand, 512 00:31:43,119 --> 00:31:47,519 he said, mister Meadowbrook, the detecative business is not always 513 00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:51,720 completely satisfactory in all kinds of respects. And it looks 514 00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:54,240 as if it appeared that the daughter I found for 515 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:57,480 you is somebody else's. But if you will look at 516 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,519 the other end of the assaulter and batterer I have 517 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,839 in hand. You will see that I have recovered the 518 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,519 silver golf cup trophy once again for the second time. 519 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,680 And that, said mister Meadowbrook as he took the cup 520 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,279 from the German American's hand, is remarkable work. The ordinary 521 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:19,079 detective is usually satisfied to recover stolen property once, but 522 00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:23,680 you have recovered this cup twice. The motto of my 523 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:28,960 detecative business, said mister Gubb, modestly is perfection. No matter 524 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,759 how many times mister Gubb might have said more, but 525 00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:36,440 he was interrupted by Princess Zozo, the snake charmer, who 526 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,559 had walked around Soyrilla and unhooked two of the hooks 527 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:44,319 at the top of Sorilla's low necked gown. Look, she exclaimed, 528 00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:47,559 and she pointed to a second pair of eagle's claws 529 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:52,039 tattooed between Marilla's shoulder blades. Without a word, mister Meadowbrook 530 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:54,720 took five hundred dollars from his purse and handed them 531 00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:58,400 to mister Schrekenheim. That pays you for the cup, he said, 532 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,039 and then turning to Cyril, come to my arms, my 533 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,799 long lost daughter. After Sorilla had hugged her father affectionately, 534 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:09,680 mister Gubb and the freaks laid him on the ground, 535 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,680 and by fanning him vigorously, were able to bring him 536 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,279 back to life. Mister Meadowbrook's first act, upon opening his 537 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:18,920 eyes was to hold out his hand to mister Gubb. 538 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,200 Thank you, Gub, he panted. It's a big price, but 539 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,160 I'll keep my word. The ten thousand dollars shall be yours. 540 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:32,880 Into ordinary circumstances, said mister Gubb gravely. Ten thousand dollars 541 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,440 would be a largely big price to pay for recovering 542 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,160 back a lost daughter, mister Meadobrook. But into the present case, 543 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,839 it don't amount to more than ten dollars per pound 544 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,759 of daughter, which ain't a largely great rate per pound. 545 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,480 And of the eagle's claus by Ellis Parker Butler