Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, you've entitled to Night's story, the Adventure of
Speaker 1: the Blood Salt Wagon. Why why it must have been
Speaker 1: a hideous spectam.
Speaker 2: It was, mister Harris began one awful night in the
Speaker 2: fall of eighteen ninety nine on the outskirts of London,
Speaker 2: on a vast, desolate meadow in the dead of night,
Speaker 2: a huge series of bonfires was blazing, surrounded by the
Speaker 2: silhouettes of armed men. Some men were shoveling what seemed
Speaker 2: to be piles of paper into the flames. Others stood
Speaker 2: about revolvers at the sizes. Holmes had invited me to
Speaker 2: meet him at the gateway to the meadow. Well, so,
Speaker 2: sir enough, why have you asked me to come out
Speaker 2: here at this sar? What is this weird ceremony?
Speaker 3: I had no doubt you find it most intriguing, my
Speaker 3: dear Watson, lest what is it? You know? Our British
Speaker 3: bank notes become dirty and mutilated from constant use.
Speaker 2: Of course, the.
Speaker 3: Bank of England periodically calls in such currency and replaces
Speaker 3: the old banknotes with new issues. The old currency is
Speaker 3: then destroyed by fire.
Speaker 2: Then what those men are shoveling into the fires is
Speaker 2: currency exactly astonishing their burning fortunes. But Holmes, why are.
Speaker 3: You here the bank? Watson, foresighted as ever, realizes that
Speaker 3: this operation has its dangers. If anything were to go wrong,
Speaker 3: the financial stability of the empire would be gravely threatened. Therefore,
Speaker 3: they invited me to be present, stating that they'd feel
Speaker 3: more secure. Their sentiment was easily understood, and the invitation
Speaker 3: quickly accepted.
Speaker 2: A fascinating operation.
Speaker 3: This wagon the forest, for instance, it's typical three men
Speaker 3: on it, the driver and two guards.
Speaker 4: All armed.
Speaker 2: Those others carrying the bundles from the wagon.
Speaker 3: Or they've removed the lower denomination bundles, the very highest
Speaker 3: value notes still remain in the wagon.
Speaker 2: Yes, I see, they'll be extra cautious now. I imagine
Speaker 2: you see the driver's taking out his revolved The guards
Speaker 2: are going to step down, Holmes. The driver shot the guards.
Speaker 2: It looks as if these killed bundle them. Yes, Watson,
Speaker 2: good lord, he's driving off up.
Speaker 3: You want a man fire wagon?
Speaker 2: The wagon homes, but not the driver after him, Watson,
Speaker 2: the carriage I came in homes. We can use that
Speaker 2: as over there. Come off the driver about I told
Speaker 2: him to way so difficult to find a cab out here. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: he is driver. We want to puddle that wagon.
Speaker 5: Drive my fine, no carriage after that madman me drive
Speaker 5: after him, says we can all have our hedge blown up.
Speaker 3: Perhaps this will change your mind. Five yes, there's five
Speaker 3: more if we catch that wagon. Hal the war gentlemen quickly,
Speaker 3: man quickly, right up, set up here.
Speaker 2: But who can the steamsh murder be home?
Speaker 3: I have no idea Watson, except that his name is
Speaker 3: Robert something. I distinctly heard him call to his horses.
Speaker 3: Get up from master Robert. If Robert was clever, he
Speaker 3: knew it had be black as pitch along this road.
Speaker 3: He's doused his wagon lights. Faster, driver, fastery, this is
Speaker 3: the best weekend those We must catch up with him.
Speaker 3: That insane criminal is racing across the countryside with two
Speaker 3: corpses and thousands of pounds of currency.
Speaker 2: Can he dispose of the money home? Indeed he can,
Speaker 2: as but how the nose will recorded? The warning will
Speaker 2: be out, yes.
Speaker 3: Just as in counterfeit currency. But it's impossible to prevent
Speaker 3: Roberts using it anywhere in the world. He can find
Speaker 3: countless persons who won't know that the currency is invalid,
Speaker 3: and it isn't counterfeit in manufacture, it's genuine.
Speaker 2: I have in my service revolver homes. But if we
Speaker 2: do find the bloodsoak wagons, Driver of the raids, how
Speaker 2: should we season?
Speaker 3: It will not be a struggle of physical objects, Watson,
Speaker 3: I should do battle with my wits favorite weapon, Your
Speaker 3: humble servant, we must do that. At Driver, in Heaven's name, Watson,
Speaker 3: there's an inn.
Speaker 2: See the sign, says the dancing lady.
Speaker 3: There's the chance Robert stopped here to water his horses.
Speaker 3: He couldn't have gone much farther. The beast would be exhausted.
Speaker 3: You should stop an inquire.
Speaker 2: Stand at the dancing lady. Driver, Yes, sir. Perhaps Roberts
Speaker 2: hitting his wagon behind the inn the head homes. He
Speaker 2: might be stalking about with his revolver, waiting to dispose
Speaker 2: of anyone who's followed him in Perhaps that whoa hey.
Speaker 3: Wait here in front of the inn, Driver, step down, Watson,
Speaker 3: see the wagon anywhere? No precious few lights in the inn?
Speaker 2: Oh, looky buildings half rodding away? Shall we go in?
Speaker 3: By all means? Open the door?
Speaker 2: Well, just dessert, no sign of life, So for the
Speaker 2: candles flickering by the bar.
Speaker 3: The innkeeper must have heard our carriage. You'll be down.
Speaker 2: Someone's coming down the stairs.
Speaker 3: Maybe the innkeeper, but it may be Robert. Stand by
Speaker 3: the Hello, Watson in the shadow as iron, so we
Speaker 3: see him first. Wait?
Speaker 6: Wait, allow, oh, here.
Speaker 3: You are the innkeeper.
Speaker 6: So I am what might be the idea? Stand in
Speaker 6: the shadows try to frighten a man of death.
Speaker 3: I regret the necessity. I have no more room.
Speaker 6: Pull up, bars closed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: We do not wish to utilize your facilities.
Speaker 1: Sir.
Speaker 3: We are looking for someone who may have passed this way.
Speaker 2: He answers to the name of Robbed. He was driving
Speaker 2: a huge wed and with four horses.
Speaker 6: I don't know anyone of that description. I don't mind
Speaker 6: other men's business, even if I didn't know about this, Robert,
Speaker 6: I'm not the one for tator tattle Ah, be.
Speaker 3: Off, my gracious host. This is extremely serious. The man
Speaker 3: we're seeking as a thief and a murderer.
Speaker 6: And find him. If that's your business, tain't any of mine.
Speaker 3: Might we look into your cellar? He may have taken
Speaker 3: refuge there without your knowing it.
Speaker 6: Curdie now with a cellar door locked in the kear
Speaker 6: in my apron.
Speaker 3: You might be concealing him there, and I shall report
Speaker 3: this the yard that you've impeded justice unless we're permitted
Speaker 3: in the cellar.
Speaker 6: Very well missed opped. Talk about step this way. Here's
Speaker 6: a door.
Speaker 2: Oh step down first.
Speaker 3: Wait stops a board sticking up from the first step.
Speaker 2: I might have tripped on the fallen downstairs, struck.
Speaker 3: My hand and been killed.
Speaker 2: Watson said, well, mister innkeeper, was that an unfortunate accident
Speaker 2: or did you arrange arrange that Robert couldn't have passed
Speaker 2: us in and bribed you to do away with us?
Speaker 3: Kood, he'll get out of here.
Speaker 2: Take bread nutthose he's taking it from the taper help me.
Speaker 3: I had no intention of leaving until we've seen that cellar.
Speaker 6: All right, and I'll just take that throat of yours
Speaker 6: and this knife and do what I promised to do
Speaker 6: night prialersy. This knife's very sharp and I'll do the
Speaker 6: job nicely.
Speaker 7: Now we'll see how it cuts.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, you and mister Holmes were caught
Speaker 1: with a furious innkeepers striding toward you with a bread
Speaker 1: knife while you lost precious moments in pursuit of the
Speaker 1: killer who'd run off with the blood soaked wig.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris, is that innkeeper droop closer and closer?
Speaker 3: I told you lassness likelihood an accident, Sir, the night
Speaker 3: put in my hand O simple technique of jujitsu. Take
Speaker 3: the night watch. I'll force it from his hand fingers.
Speaker 3: I have at home excellent Now, mister innkeeper, if you'll
Speaker 3: step aside, you shall have a look at your cellar.
Speaker 3: Push this board aside.
Speaker 2: I'll go down homes.
Speaker 6: Enter lopers, that's what you're I'll call a police.
Speaker 3: I have an absolutely amazing faculty for remaining a considerable
Speaker 3: distance ahead of the police.
Speaker 2: It's a very small cellar, homes empty, the few winds
Speaker 2: and flowers, no sign.
Speaker 3: Of rather come up. Then Watson quickly Brexton. That's where
Speaker 3: you'll put on. You too should be in Brexton. Pressure
Speaker 3: to the carriage, watsonons continue along this road. Yes, good night,
Speaker 3: mister innkeeper. I return your knife with thanks for your
Speaker 3: dazzling hospitality.
Speaker 2: Alright, driver, we'll move along now. Yes, sir pops tea
Speaker 2: driver tops pay mister ow.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: Robert may be very far away by our homes, out
Speaker 2: of our hands, free of justice, prepared to flood the
Speaker 2: world with worthless currency. Then your pardon, gentlemen, that there's
Speaker 2: a prospers up ahead bout George. We wonder which four
Speaker 2: Roberts take it?
Speaker 3: We may Watson book on the road ahead.
Speaker 2: A chap walking there, Yes, miserable looking creature than the
Speaker 2: bondy pull up beside him.
Speaker 3: Drive on. Hell hello there, you have you seen a
Speaker 3: large wagon with four horses go racing by? I didn't
Speaker 3: see nothing so open? How long have you been in
Speaker 3: this vicinity? Sleep by that pitch?
Speaker 6: He could a job and a circus down a road,
Speaker 6: buton't no use.
Speaker 3: This wagon was driven by a criminal. Aiding him constitutes
Speaker 3: a serious offense. I didn't didn't do nothing. I didn't
Speaker 3: enough an honest surely someone with the prison pallor has
Speaker 3: pronounced as yours. It's familiar with the law. Shall we
Speaker 3: escort you to the police as a suspect. Shall we
Speaker 3: examine your pockets, for instance, where we'd find currency, it'd
Speaker 3: be a special type. I imagine he did dirty stolen
Speaker 3: by the driver of that wagon, and presented it was
Speaker 3: a pride all right.
Speaker 6: The bluff could pay me keep quietly, but didn't work
Speaker 6: the sully five pound notice slip me. I won't risk
Speaker 6: one back the person good work.
Speaker 3: When did he pass here? Where's he gone? Here? About
Speaker 3: ten minutes ago?
Speaker 2: Took the left fork in the road toward the village.
Speaker 6: Wi me, and will you be a can't stole government?
Speaker 3: No, we shan't turn you in the left fork driver
Speaker 3: toward the village.
Speaker 2: Well with the past the village homes. Still can't find Robert,
Speaker 2: you know, look homes there?
Speaker 3: Yes, what's in his wagon? He's abandoned by the road top. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: the abandoned wagons of no venue. And let's find a man.
Speaker 3: And since that traveling circus the bag upon mentioned is
Speaker 3: just ahead of us, I'd say that Roberts lift his
Speaker 3: wagon here and race to the circus grounds. Pull up
Speaker 3: by that entrance to the sircus driver, you will wait
Speaker 3: here by this main gate driver. I understand, mister ol
Speaker 3: I stepped down. Watson. I'm in somewhere of the second.
Speaker 2: Keep a sharp eye on that gate driver, you miss,
Speaker 2: for our mayor short fat.
Speaker 3: And carrying huge parcels. I'd say, parcels of high denomination currency.
Speaker 2: Oh, watch for him, doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: If I see this Robert Sylvester, whoop helloo, and hang
Speaker 5: on to him for dear life.
Speaker 2: Come on, Watson, that's the ticket proof beautiful bride lights
Speaker 2: at homes. Oh, that killed the There's so many people.
Speaker 3: I'll explain in the passible media there area.
Speaker 9: You two to the end of the queue if you
Speaker 9: don't mind, confortable.
Speaker 3: I am Sherlock Holmes, and this is doctor John Watson.
Speaker 9: Yes, and I mean his excellency the prime minute. Now
Speaker 9: I'll get along to the end of the queue.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Constable homicidal maniac is finished with a fortune and the
Speaker 3: royal mint. He's somewhere inside these circus grounds.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 9: You you shut up and wait your turn.
Speaker 3: But I am shutlock home.
Speaker 10: It so happens that I'm a very close friend of
Speaker 10: that great detective. I am told everyone in the village
Speaker 10: about it. I helped him out on many a case.
Speaker 2: Oh you have have you, Constable, This gentleman standing before
Speaker 2: you with a pipe in the cape is home.
Speaker 9: Stay in line you we're losing Christmas time home?
Speaker 3: Yes, confounded, Then cashier of the ticket bop is business
Speaker 3: stupid and slow. Constable did a short stout chap pass
Speaker 3: into the pair a few minutes ago, probably carrying large puzzles.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, friend of yours, he's.
Speaker 3: The criminal, went after, Oh, yes.
Speaker 2: Sure it's all true, Constable. Won't you join us break
Speaker 2: through this gate and pursue the murder? Well, Constable, stay
Speaker 2: in line, I said.
Speaker 3: If you won't allow us through instantly, is ready for
Speaker 3: us at last? To please? All right, come, Watson, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna search every boot and pretent.
Speaker 2: Hadn't we better take the Constable along that him the
Speaker 2: see what.
Speaker 3: Means for t be. Now, let's look for Robert very carefully, Watson.
Speaker 3: Remember he's squatting out a father, and he's already killed
Speaker 3: two men. An additional two would mean nothing to him,
Speaker 3: nothing at all. Begin the search.
Speaker 2: Well, no sign of Robert Holmes.
Speaker 3: We haven't inspected beyond the ground, Watson. There that would
Speaker 3: sight might have dashed into those ones, then had strive.
Speaker 3: Wait what is it? The dart came? What he was
Speaker 3: passing slowly, the stocky chap swaring the darts.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, he too might be and this was Robert.
Speaker 2: If Robert's hiding in the woods, our dark playing friend
Speaker 2: might send up one our way, just one could easily
Speaker 2: be fatal.
Speaker 3: The air to the bread what passed him? Axiously, there's
Speaker 3: a dead shot. Walk toward the woods and keep watching him.
Speaker 2: Just a few more steps of rage.
Speaker 3: He's looking this way for mind.
Speaker 2: Walk on, he's losing a dot, stirring at us.
Speaker 3: Where past his range? Now over the ropes, across the
Speaker 3: road to the woods. Rump. It's not much life, Watson,
Speaker 3: just the moon pick foliage. It's clearing a head. I
Speaker 3: see water. Yes, there's the Thames.
Speaker 2: There's the Thames.
Speaker 3: Stand away. You are about it. You've let us most
Speaker 3: intriguing chase Robert here to this river bank.
Speaker 6: You're going to die now, don't know.
Speaker 3: You're waiting for a small boat day, Robert, with your
Speaker 3: dreams in those great parcels. If your feet the stolen currency,
Speaker 3: the boat will be headed across the river to fresh horses.
Speaker 3: I presume you want to live to spread an alarm.
Speaker 6: You don't ask my whereabout? You're going to die like
Speaker 6: the two gods.
Speaker 2: I still have my revolving you, Sae. We must stop him.
Speaker 3: Oh, we have a moment, Watson. Robert must wait for
Speaker 3: the boat and for his masters.
Speaker 2: Master, what do you know of that?
Speaker 3: A great deal? You must be joined by the man
Speaker 3: who defines this scheme, your employer.
Speaker 2: Who is the innkeeper, the vagabond? Someone back of the middle.
Speaker 3: There someone no Watson ahead of this operation, has been
Speaker 3: with us ever since this chase began. He's what the
Speaker 3: man behind this criminal maneuver. It's the driver of our carriage, Watson,
Speaker 3: our drive. He's not an ordinary carriage driver, however, not
Speaker 3: an ordinary criminal. This clime is the brainchild of the
Speaker 3: one man for whose powers I have a certain degree
Speaker 3: of respect, the most dangerous man in England, Professor Moriarty.
Speaker 5: You again justified life faith in your cause of deduction.
Speaker 3: Homes pleasant to reach you by your correct name, Mariotti.
Speaker 3: I see you, but dropped your disguise.
Speaker 5: It's no longer necessary. Robert will now kill both of you.
Speaker 3: I admit to having been deceived earlier. Mariarty but you
Speaker 3: committed an error too. I as we left you at
Speaker 3: the carriage by the fair gate, you referred to this
Speaker 3: man as Robert Sylvester. No one mentioned or even knew
Speaker 3: this chap's last name, but you did. It meant that
Speaker 3: our driver had a direct connection with the estate criminal.
Speaker 3: At the same moment, I realized that this was my
Speaker 3: first opportunity to night to look at our driver. Firstly,
Speaker 3: under the fair bright lights, Witch Watson, admire, and.
Speaker 2: You saw through my disguise.
Speaker 3: There precisely a superb I dear to be the carriage
Speaker 3: driver who brought Watson to the meadow. You could observe
Speaker 3: every effort to apprehend Robert.
Speaker 5: It is an inspiration, I thought. One commits a crime,
Speaker 5: yet one is with the forces of law as they
Speaker 5: seek to sulm the crime. Delightful experience for me, it
Speaker 5: appeased my appetite for new adventures in the world being
Speaker 5: you see the lights of our boat approaching one.
Speaker 2: Robert, You're killed, Doctor.
Speaker 5: Watson, and Hose, now empty your revolver into those two.
Speaker 4: Yes, ready, Robert, ready.
Speaker 5: I have always warned you, Hose, that the ultimate triumph
Speaker 5: in our years of combat.
Speaker 3: Would be mine. Oh there you are the constable from
Speaker 3: the circuses.
Speaker 2: I haven't home, No stay where you are on? What
Speaker 2: would nurse? This all about?
Speaker 3: Mariati hiteshed back into the world.
Speaker 2: Is gone. That's about those trees Like a jack ribbon,
Speaker 2: Shall I offer him home?
Speaker 3: Mariarty as a party is more adducive than your quickest animal.
Speaker 2: Well, so you came to rescue us, A constable rescue you? Yes,
Speaker 2: Now there's our prisoner, Robert with his stolen currency, stuff
Speaker 2: and nonsense.
Speaker 10: I came here to arrest you and your friend with
Speaker 10: the cape do what she didn't afford cashier of a
Speaker 10: proper change. Eh, she sent me after you. Took a
Speaker 10: while to find you. But the jig's up now.
Speaker 3: I deliberately cheated the cashier Watson, you may recall I
Speaker 3: noticed she was dull, easy pray. I knew we'd need
Speaker 3: a policeman to save us where we in trouble. I
Speaker 3: knew she'd send this lumbering woodenhead after us. Probably the
Speaker 3: only way to come along.
Speaker 10: Lumber and wooden ed is it you whistle a different
Speaker 10: June at the village jail?
Speaker 2: You will, Constable, don't you realize what's happened? Look at
Speaker 2: those pasts, rip one open.
Speaker 9: Why there's a fortune in him?
Speaker 3: Now you can tell your friends the truth. You did
Speaker 3: work with Sherlock Holmes and doctor John Watson, and you've
Speaker 3: helped us capture the thief and the killer. You've eliminated
Speaker 3: an awful threat to the economic stability of the empire.
Speaker 3: Do you the leabus?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: I believe this fella's a criminal and that's stolen currency,
Speaker 10: and I've helped save the day. But as for him
Speaker 10: being doctor Watson, and you're being mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 9: Oh, that's a nightly story. A nightly story.
Speaker 8: Indeed, I helped doctor Watson pursuing the Blood Silk Wagon
Speaker 8: was an unforgettable experience.
Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, there are many such thrilling recollections of
Speaker 2: my adventures with Hose, and one of the most surprising
Speaker 2: was the one I've selected for next week.
Speaker 1: And what do you call it?
Speaker 3: Doctor?
Speaker 2: It's the Adventure of the Three Geradems. It concerns one
Speaker 2: of the queerest wills ever fired, a butterfly collector, and
Speaker 2: a gambler's duel to the dead