Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, may we have a look into
Speaker 1: the fabulous windmill.
Speaker 2: The windmill was on the isle of Vulkra in the
Speaker 2: Dutch province of Zieff. It was just behind the huge
Speaker 2: sea dykes. The windmill stood silhouetted against the moon, while
Speaker 2: just beyond the earth and ridges of the dikes, a sea.
Speaker 3: Lashed the coast curiously.
Speaker 2: A man wrapped in an oil skin and wearing gigantic
Speaker 2: boots was pounding at the door of a windmill.
Speaker 3: Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 4: I am the dike inspector. My name is Vaness.
Speaker 3: What do you wish, Inspector?
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you very important.
Speaker 3: You can tell me here. You don't have to come in.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 4: This windmill is supposed to be abandoned, it is I
Speaker 4: just stopped by for a moment, did job?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: I was thinking of purchasing the mirr of restoring it
Speaker 5: to an active basis. I see, this is the first
Speaker 5: opportunity I've had to look at the mill.
Speaker 3: I'm leaving in a moment. I shall return tomorrow in
Speaker 3: the daylight for a clear of you.
Speaker 4: Have you finished lying?
Speaker 3: What do you mean, inspector?
Speaker 4: I will tell you the truth. The arms of the
Speaker 4: windmill are stationary. The mill does not show any lights.
Speaker 4: Everyone in the neighborhood has believed the mill is useless, desertive.
Speaker 4: So it is during the day till I continue.
Speaker 3: By all means, go on, Do go on.
Speaker 4: One night on my patrol, I came here to the window.
Speaker 4: I look, I listen. You are using this mill for
Speaker 4: some kind of criminal business. People come here to see you.
Speaker 4: You give them papers, money. They are strange. They sneak in,
Speaker 4: they sneak out, they carry weapons.
Speaker 5: I'm terribly sorry I was so rude when you first knocked.
Speaker 5: Do come in, inspector. I have an office upstairs. Perhaps
Speaker 5: we can discuss your discovery up there.
Speaker 4: All right, let us go upstairs.
Speaker 5: Yours must be a pleasant task inspector.
Speaker 4: In the spring years, but in the winter no.
Speaker 5: I should imagine the position is not very lucrative, inspector,
Speaker 5: not very Then you might be interested in a few
Speaker 5: guilders too, shall we say, supplement your weekly pittance?
Speaker 4: I might be.
Speaker 5: I would be grateful if you would forget about this
Speaker 5: particular wind mirror. I have a few gilders in a
Speaker 5: chest at the top of this stairway. I'd be delighted
Speaker 5: to give them to you. How much here we are
Speaker 5: chest is over there? Say thousand guilders satisfactory?
Speaker 4: No, how much? Then five thousand.
Speaker 3: You will elaborate notions, Inspector.
Speaker 4: Five thousand, not one gilder less.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be difficult to value you.
Speaker 4: You cannot frighten me. I drive the bargain. I have
Speaker 4: only to report you to the police. I said five
Speaker 4: thousand gilders.
Speaker 5: You're a stupid meddling idiot. It would not be worth
Speaker 5: one gilded by your silence. I haven't any way of
Speaker 5: knowing that you would not betray me. After you've collected
Speaker 5: the money, get out.
Speaker 4: You will not pay my prize.
Speaker 3: I will not.
Speaker 4: I shall go to the police on.
Speaker 3: Police headquarters is less than a mile away.
Speaker 4: You do not want to reconsider.
Speaker 5: No, good night, inspector, good night. I must apologize for
Speaker 5: not accompanying you downstairs.
Speaker 3: Again. I'm rather busy.
Speaker 4: You do not have to be polite charming.
Speaker 5: These long winding stairways in your Dutch windmills most picturesque.
Speaker 4: Convenient, too convenient.
Speaker 5: Yes, if I should want to do away with someone,
Speaker 5: for instance, if oh, that's necessaries for me to push some.
Speaker 3: My name is diviet, mister Holmes, Cornelius.
Speaker 6: Dit be seated town. This is my friend and colleague,
Speaker 6: doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: How do you know, doctor Watson?
Speaker 6: May I ask mister de Witt, what brings you here
Speaker 6: to Baker Street.
Speaker 5: I am the chief of police on the island of Vulcar,
Speaker 5: and mister Holmes, he's on the western shore of the Netherlands.
Speaker 3: The Netherlands.
Speaker 6: Mister de Witt, in addition to your police duties, you
Speaker 6: have a dominating wife, and you are once employed by
Speaker 6: a railway.
Speaker 5: Your reputation, mister Holmes, he's evidently homes How do you
Speaker 5: know these intimate details about mister de.
Speaker 6: Witt Because he's making a desperate effort with his hand
Speaker 6: to conceal his cravat, which obviously embarrassed because if it's garishness,
Speaker 6: it's clear that.
Speaker 3: He must possess a dominating.
Speaker 1: Mate who has forced him to spot the article of
Speaker 1: a patrol although he disapproved of it.
Speaker 4: Correct sir, absolutely, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: As for your railway background, you take an extraordinarily long
Speaker 6: step for a man of your struture, the characteristic of
Speaker 6: railway employees who've spent many years walking over times. However,
Speaker 6: I assume you haven't come to Baker's Feet to discuss yourself.
Speaker 3: You have a case, I.
Speaker 5: Should say, a very difficult case, mister Holmes. That is
Speaker 5: why I have come to you. We had a Dyke
Speaker 5: inspector named Finesse. He's vanished real under what circumstance?
Speaker 3: He left on his.
Speaker 5: Usual tour of duty One afternoon He patrolled a few
Speaker 5: miles to the shore.
Speaker 3: He was never seen again. Did anyone along his customary
Speaker 3: route see him that day? Oh? No one. Have you
Speaker 3: examined the patterns of his private life?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Very carefully, mister de whip Is said, yielded nothing nothing.
Speaker 5: He was happily married, He had no offspring. He owed
Speaker 5: a few small debts, that is about all it.
Speaker 3: Couldn't he have fallen into the sea by accident? Oh?
Speaker 5: I hardly think, told doctor Watson Vaness, with a thoroughly
Speaker 5: experienced handed strolling along the Dyke road, I cannot help
Speaker 5: feeling he met a band of thieves or murderers. I
Speaker 5: would you come to valcar In, mister Holmes, and help
Speaker 5: us find the poor chap.
Speaker 6: Most certainly, mister de Witt, the disappearance of Inspector van
Speaker 6: Ness has a pungent, irresistible odor of deep intrigue.
Speaker 3: By T. Holmes. I've never seen his fouler night as this.
Speaker 2: It's no wonder The Dutch a hardy folks, but with
Speaker 2: the way the sea roars at them constantly threatening their lives, wrapped.
Speaker 3: Your great coat.
Speaker 1: Well about you, Watson, we must examined the entire length
Speaker 1: of the road along the dyke the root of the
Speaker 1: missing inspector.
Speaker 2: I didn't think you were a bit undiplomatic and rejecting
Speaker 2: mister de Witt's offer to accompany us.
Speaker 6: But he would be an encumbrance when we are stroking
Speaker 6: our prey. I spoke to him privately and requested that
Speaker 6: he keep his distance, but.
Speaker 3: The police would over this area homes. I don't see
Speaker 3: why we.
Speaker 6: Evidently our missing Inspector van Nest reached this far on
Speaker 6: the road.
Speaker 3: How'd you know?
Speaker 6: Because of a piece of rope where that road sign.
Speaker 6: Clearly it was shaken loose by the force of the wind.
Speaker 6: A hasty improposation was devised. The sign is now held
Speaker 6: to that wooden post by a piece of rope.
Speaker 3: The Dutch are an order in nation, Watson.
Speaker 1: This would have been repaired had the damage occurred more
Speaker 1: than a few days ago, I should say the inspector
Speaker 1: found the sign upon the ground and repaired it temporarily
Speaker 1: in this fashion. Therefore, on the day of his disappearance,
Speaker 1: he must have progressed this far.
Speaker 3: How shouldn't we continue our search tomorrow and broad daylight?
Speaker 1: Definitely not, Watson, like the lantern you've brot along. Whatever
Speaker 1: evil force cause the downfall of the dike, Inspector is
Speaker 1: still at large. It must be stopped before it strikes again.
Speaker 2: Ah, oh, really, homes With, we've walked quite a distance. Now,
Speaker 2: we've poked about in a dozen barns and windmills. Isaoh,
Speaker 2: it's repair to the nearest tavern. The crackling fire some
Speaker 2: brandy rest. I won't hear of it? Watson, Hello here
Speaker 2: that que listen?
Speaker 3: What the dickens? Could that be?
Speaker 1: It originates to our lift? Perhaps from that windmill come
Speaker 1: off the dike across this meadow?
Speaker 3: Must you death so quickly? Homes Yes, it does come
Speaker 3: from that windmill. To the closer look, it looks abandoned
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: The windows are boarded up, the arms don't move, the
Speaker 2: wood on the sides is running away.
Speaker 1: There's the cause of the sound. We heard the door
Speaker 1: of the mill. It's open and swinging back and forth
Speaker 1: in this wind till we.
Speaker 3: Have a look inside.
Speaker 1: Not just yet, it's conceivable we've more to learn by
Speaker 1: examining the surroundings the lantern, Watson, turn it about very well.
Speaker 3: See the mill better now.
Speaker 1: Yes, no distinctive markings to the right, Watson, So the
Speaker 1: beam falls to the right.
Speaker 3: Grants has grown over the pathway leading to the mill.
Speaker 3: Of course, it has the mills abandoned homes. That's Deacon
Speaker 3: one moment.
Speaker 1: What is the earth? You see the earth? Step over here?
Speaker 1: Notice that earth, Watson, what do you see?
Speaker 2: We'll sort of a patch of earth that looks much
Speaker 2: lighter than the rest of the earth.
Speaker 1: There can be only one reason for that, by dear Watson,
Speaker 1: the earth being freshly turned. There's less organic matter in
Speaker 1: some soils. Notice how much more tightly packed the earth
Speaker 1: is all around that patch.
Speaker 3: Someone's been digging in the spot to conceal something.
Speaker 1: Eh, we shall soon know. Look about you. These farmers
Speaker 1: often leave a shovel or two lying by the mill.
Speaker 1: Done here, homes, Try closer to the mill.
Speaker 6: There's that found one excellent. Now we shall dig for whatever.
Speaker 6: See crit lies deep below the seemingly innocent glass.
Speaker 7: We've we've done terribly deep. Host Are you're sure there
Speaker 7: might be something here?
Speaker 3: I have no doubt.
Speaker 7: Fantastic Rodert turn the black night, digging into the wait
Speaker 7: for shovel. I think, I feel so quickly. Then the
Speaker 7: shovels earth away? Did it feels soft?
Speaker 3: There we are? It's it's a human face. There's a
Speaker 3: body here.
Speaker 1: Yes, from the description provided us by mister de Witt,
Speaker 1: I should say it's the body of the missing inspector.
Speaker 3: I'll push the earth away, get it off of.
Speaker 1: Them, bodies bruised, lacorated.
Speaker 3: Yes, fine, snapped in two, there's monstrous death.
Speaker 2: Well, you've found band this Holmes so who did away
Speaker 2: with him and buried his body?
Speaker 3: The answer to that question life Just before? You want
Speaker 3: from me inside the abandoned windmill.
Speaker 1: Quite?
Speaker 3: You going in there now? Immediate man? Or shouldn't we
Speaker 3: summon their thoughts? That is not necessari but at.
Speaker 2: Holmes there's probably a homicidal maniac somewhere on that awful mill.
Speaker 3: Only a fiendish mine could have caused a to debt. Yes,
Speaker 3: and we've a rendezvous with that mind. How we step
Speaker 3: inside here's the door.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, I'm curious to know what will become
Speaker 1: mister Holmes when he steps inside of the fabulous windmill.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, I'm impatient to learn what you discovered
Speaker 1: inside the windmill.
Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris Holmes and I left the body of
Speaker 2: Inspector van Ness and in the did of night, with
Speaker 2: just a flickering lantern to guide us, We've cautiously opened
Speaker 2: the door of the deserted mill.
Speaker 3: What do you see in their host?
Speaker 1: A table, a few chairs, millstones, coming Watson closed the door.
Speaker 3: Think there's anyone upstairs. It's likely the killer. Guess Look
Speaker 3: there's a captain.
Speaker 1: I opened it, Pipers, it's passports, bag passports.
Speaker 6: Yes, if I fought false passports, Watson hols. Yes, this
Speaker 6: is not the water mark of the official papers used
Speaker 6: for this purpose. Look there it is money counterfeit, I should.
Speaker 3: Say, let's see. Yes.
Speaker 1: Note the finer lines on a pound note of the
Speaker 1: genuine a broken line. These are actually minute dashes. What
Speaker 1: the devil is? A man with India.
Speaker 2: This seems to be a list of hotels in the
Speaker 2: United States. I must admit I'm utterly battled homes. I
Speaker 2: suppose it makes sense to you? Of course, certain name.
Speaker 2: This leather book names and addresses him Leopold muncatzie Zurich,
Speaker 2: Florence MacDonald, Glosko.
Speaker 3: What is all this?
Speaker 6: These seemingly peculiar items Watson possessed one characteristic in common travel?
Speaker 3: And what sort of travel?
Speaker 6: Illicit travel by fraudulent passports, by worthless currency, the travel
Speaker 6: of criminals. What we have here is a magnificent display
Speaker 6: of criminal talent. It requires considerable ingenuity to create these
Speaker 6: items so beautifully. The creator, I should say, a witness
Speaker 6: at the top of the stairs, So let us mount them.
Speaker 6: Do you know who it is?
Speaker 1: Only one mile has the fertility to conceive of the
Speaker 1: plan that I believe this is, and that the nest.
Speaker 3: To execute it. It's the mind of the one man
Speaker 3: whose intellectual promise I respect.
Speaker 1: It's the mind of Professor Moriarty, Lorioty, it's after him.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, we shall steal up quiet unless we
Speaker 3: disturb him. This right you are? But what are you
Speaker 3: pulling that rope for?
Speaker 6: I'm moving upon Watson in my endless game? Viza be mariati?
Speaker 6: Shall we go up this?
Speaker 2: Indeed, this confounded wouldn't stair with it creaks? So get
Speaker 2: a conversation home.
Speaker 1: Yes, do not proceed to the top of the stair.
Speaker 1: Stop approximated three corners of the way up. We can
Speaker 1: even drop this capital.
Speaker 3: Here we are sh and how did you reach Harandlona? A?
Speaker 9: Didn't Professor Moriarty? It was a macabre journey. After the
Speaker 9: funeral when we buried my dear parted husband, I rode
Speaker 9: off in the usual black draped carriage, but my driver
Speaker 9: did not return to my home. Instead, we ashed for
Speaker 9: the border. The police were unpleasantly close to learning how
Speaker 9: my husband had died. Yes, I then made my whale
Speaker 9: by rail on foot, by hiding in wagons to Bratislava,
Speaker 9: to Vienna, the northward across Germany to Dortmund, and so
Speaker 9: into the Netherlands.
Speaker 5: My dearly loner, The police of the entire continent have
Speaker 5: been notified by a telegraph that you're wanted for the
Speaker 5: murder of your husband.
Speaker 3: Amazing, isn't it hurt Sidon's Watson?
Speaker 9: That is why I've come, Professor.
Speaker 3: You must help me certainly.
Speaker 5: Of course, before we may continue, there is the matter
Speaker 5: of reimbursement for my services.
Speaker 9: I have brought money.
Speaker 3: My fee will be five thousand pounds.
Speaker 9: What five thousand pounds a.
Speaker 5: Trifling sun for what I should do alone? I should
Speaker 5: present you with twenty thousand pounds in counterfeit notes, splendidly camouflaged.
Speaker 5: I have a passport for you to Argentina and steamer
Speaker 5: tickets reserved under an assumed name. But five thousand ps
Speaker 5: my fees is unacceptable. You leave me without an alternative.
Speaker 5: I shall have to notify the police that you're here.
Speaker 9: Oh no, no, I do not want.
Speaker 4: You to do that, Professor.
Speaker 9: It is just that it is so much money. Could
Speaker 9: we not settle my debt to you on some other basis?
Speaker 5: H come, come five thousand pounds and.
Speaker 3: Be quick about it. Oh, very well, here you are.
Speaker 5: Thank you now everything that you requires in this envelope,
Speaker 5: including your instructions and an address in Buenos Aires where
Speaker 5: associates of mine will accommodate you.
Speaker 3: You'd better leave now. Your ship sails in the morning.
Speaker 3: Sho'll be coming down these stairs home. She'll see us.
Speaker 3: I really like.
Speaker 9: That's good night, Professor Moriati. I shan't thank you. Thank you,
Speaker 9: You've been more than compensated.
Speaker 3: Good night to Lona boy.
Speaker 5: Oh on your way downstairs, you might send up mister
Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes, who's waiting just below.
Speaker 3: It's party off here. I did step into your cap.
Speaker 5: The door I deliberately left flapping in the wind to
Speaker 5: attract your attention, homes and draw you into the mirrle.
Speaker 5: I thought you'd find it magnetizing. Elana, my dear, This
Speaker 5: is the celebrated detective mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3: Detective never fear, never fear.
Speaker 5: As long as I have this gun, mister Holmes will
Speaker 5: not be a problem. His companion is doctor John Watson.
Speaker 3: What are you up to, Professor, Be on your way, loner,
Speaker 3: Holmes and I've business together. Good night, my dear, good night.
Speaker 2: Careful Holmes. He'll shoot at the slightest publication.
Speaker 5: Oh no, doctor Watson, I have much better plans. At
Speaker 5: the window, Homes, I could not mistake the two figures
Speaker 5: on the road of the dyke.
Speaker 6: Let the door of the mill open, MARIARTI a lure
Speaker 6: us turret to it. I realized this was a trap
Speaker 6: from the moment I heard the door swinging.
Speaker 3: In the wind.
Speaker 6: In so secret a places, this extra precaution would always
Speaker 6: be taken to see that the door was locked securely.
Speaker 5: Your eagerness to meet me again, Homes, will cause.
Speaker 3: Your demise, will it?
Speaker 5: Mariotti and I have devised a special means for you
Speaker 5: to die.
Speaker 6: I must compliment you, sir, on the magnificent criminal structure
Speaker 6: you built in this mill. This windmill is an emergency
Speaker 6: exit for the men and women of the continent who
Speaker 6: are wanted by the police, Is it not, yeses, for
Speaker 6: an enormous sum, you provide them with passports, money, entry visas, customs, decorations, information, arms,
Speaker 6: devious roots to the farthest and darkest corners of the earth,
Speaker 6: where they may find welcome obscurity.
Speaker 5: Even more, I've clothing for them, disguises, chemical and medical
Speaker 5: equipment in this windmill to change their appearance. An endless
Speaker 5: cavalcade of forgers, traitors, arsonists, major and minor thieves, kidnappers,
Speaker 5: murderers pass through this windmill, and thanks to my genius,
Speaker 5: they will allude the stupidities of law and live on.
Speaker 5: Now descend the stairs, holes, go on. Surely you would
Speaker 5: not choose the ignominious death of being shot by an
Speaker 5: ordinary pistol.
Speaker 3: Such as I have in my hand. Very well, I
Speaker 3: shall descend. What is that horrible noise?
Speaker 5: The wooden gears of the windmill, Doctor, The tremendous, powerful
Speaker 5: gears like a dragon's chief, turning slowly as the wind
Speaker 5: makes the arms of the mill revolve. You may see
Speaker 5: them as you go down. Look at them closely. They
Speaker 5: are relevant to your death.
Speaker 3: Oh inspiring sight? Aho, Yes quite? Shall I tell you
Speaker 3: how you will die tonight?
Speaker 5: I shall force you, later, doctor Watson, to step closely
Speaker 5: enough to those gears so that you become caught in them.
Speaker 3: You will be.
Speaker 5: Slowly crushed to death, each portion of your body being
Speaker 5: ground to pout by the teeth of the mill.
Speaker 6: And load some idea worthy of you, Marie Auntie.
Speaker 5: Eh, here we are at the bottom of the stairway,
Speaker 5: the perfect spot for you to step toward the gears.
Speaker 2: Homes, perthy, Homes. You may have inflementations, but it's for me.
Speaker 2: I'm what's not your put his show turn Homes.
Speaker 3: It's just a few steps toward the wooden gears.
Speaker 5: Once a portion of your clothing is caught, the rest
Speaker 5: is inevitable.
Speaker 3: Doctor Watson. Don't turn away when he's caught. Even if
Speaker 3: you do not see what happens, you'll hear it now.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting, Homes, walk toward the gears.
Speaker 3: Just a few steps. That's it. One step, two s
Speaker 3: Your time, police is to do it until then. If
Speaker 3: you move towards me, I shall kill doctor Watson my
Speaker 3: gun at his back. He's an ideal. She just don't
Speaker 3: fire the wit you'll kill Watson. I'm leaving by the
Speaker 3: same door through which you entered. Officer, back up, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: So kind of you to protecting his way. Go on
Speaker 3: fire him. I'll resk you. You don't too dangerous. Good night, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Homes until we need again, should offer him the witch
Speaker 3: kiss him.
Speaker 2: It's too dark out there, very gals running along the
Speaker 2: road on top of the dyke.
Speaker 3: I'll have my men with you him. That would be tootile,
Speaker 3: mister de Witch.
Speaker 1: He's disappeared already, as you may well observe, your men
Speaker 1: would never find him.
Speaker 6: Money Off is far too clever up in an ordinary
Speaker 6: police boss.
Speaker 1: It requires a brain equal to his. In shots mine
Speaker 1: and mine low.
Speaker 2: Well, hos is most real assuring to be safely back
Speaker 2: here in the planet Bakers Street.
Speaker 3: Have you heard from the vulturin police?
Speaker 1: Yes, Watson, in accordance with my suggestion, they confiscated the
Speaker 1: entire contents of the windmill and that lever book of
Speaker 1: names and addresses. Mariarty's personal list of his clients will
Speaker 1: be an infallible guide for the police of half a
Speaker 1: dozen nations to pick up.
Speaker 3: Divers, scoundrels. Elona the murderers, whatever became of her.
Speaker 6: When she left the mill, she walked instantly into the
Speaker 6: hands of de Witt and his constable.
Speaker 3: For that what I wanted to ask Combs, how did
Speaker 3: they find us of the mill.
Speaker 6: You'll recall my saying, Watson, that I spoke to de
Speaker 6: Wit and requested that he keep his distance. I was
Speaker 6: not foolhardy enough to embark on the venture without expecting
Speaker 6: his assistance. We agreed that he and his men would
Speaker 6: patrol the original three miles of the Late Dike Inspector's post,
Speaker 6: which they did. I promised to supply a signal as
Speaker 6: to our whereabouts the moment help was required, I.
Speaker 3: See, and you did that by pulling the ropes in
Speaker 3: the mill.
Speaker 6: The rope releases the mechanism of the arms. Watson, there
Speaker 6: was a good wind. I knew the arms would then
Speaker 6: stop spinning. That mill was supposed to be abandoned. I
Speaker 6: knew when the Witt and his men saw the arms
Speaker 6: revolving in the deserted mill, they'd come a running.
Speaker 3: Splendid splendid.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'll never know why each step as we
Speaker 2: go along is so difficult for me yet so obvious
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: It depends upon your definition of the word obvious, my
Speaker 1: dear Watson, The obvious is that which is hardest to discern. Well,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, the adventure of the fabulous windmill was just
Speaker 1: as hair raising as you'd promise, even more so. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact. Now, may we have a hint
Speaker 1: about the adventure you've planned for next week.
Speaker 2: Yes, next week I shall relate to you the adventure
Speaker 2: of the Uddington Witch, mister Harris, a Micawbo tale, I
Speaker 2: assure you, involving a strange oak tree, a shrink in
Speaker 2: the night, and an unpressed pair of trousers,