Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, will you go on with your story.
Speaker 2: It was in the summer of eighty nine, mister Harris,
Speaker 2: some little time after my marriage. After that important event,
Speaker 2: you remember, I abandoned homes and our Baker Street rooms
Speaker 2: and returned to civil practice.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I still dropped in on him, of course, now and
Speaker 2: then I even persuaded him to forego his bohemian surroundings
Speaker 2: and come and partake of a respectable Sunday dinner with
Speaker 2: Mary and be. And how did he and missus Watson
Speaker 2: get along? Splendidly? She adored him, mister Harris. Well, I
Speaker 2: had settled down and become a respectable married man, practiced
Speaker 2: steadily increasing and all that. My house was no great
Speaker 2: distance from Paddington Station, and I had a few patients
Speaker 2: from among the officials. One morning, a little before seven,
Speaker 2: I was awakened by the maid rapping frantically at my door.
Speaker 4: Doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: Watson, Oh hello, yes, come in, come in.
Speaker 3: Oh doctor Watson, come quick.
Speaker 2: What's what's happened?
Speaker 3: An accidents of a nasty accident?
Speaker 1: Is his card?
Speaker 2: Mister Victor Heavenly Idralic Engineer sixteen a victorious street w.
Speaker 1: Yes, so walked over from the station. He did. I
Speaker 1: let him in.
Speaker 3: He's downstairs now in the consulting room.
Speaker 2: Looks like he does well. It can't be too serious
Speaker 2: if he had the strength to walk over from the
Speaker 2: station by himself.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's at pains. It's his end's left hand.
Speaker 3: Then the stop of the handkerchief.
Speaker 2: It is, and it's all tripping with bloods sounds more
Speaker 2: serious than I suspected. Millie Magon. Heat some water and
Speaker 2: I'll go go right down to him. Yes, sir, mmmm,
Speaker 2: severe hemorrhage. Wonder what the accident was, Oh, mister Victor, heavenly,
Speaker 2: good morning morning.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to wake you up solutely has a serious
Speaker 5: accident during the night. I came in by train this morning.
Speaker 5: They told me at the station that you were a
Speaker 5: good duck.
Speaker 2: Tack came here and that journey that in itself is
Speaker 2: a rather tiring and the monotonous affair.
Speaker 3: You couldn't call my night monotonous monotonous.
Speaker 4: Never had a less monotonous night.
Speaker 2: Stop it, stop it, put yourself together.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I happy making a fool of myself.
Speaker 3: The relief, you understand, I apologize.
Speaker 2: All often happens in a case of shock. Yeah, take
Speaker 2: a swig of this grande.
Speaker 4: That's better.
Speaker 2: Now, let's have a look at your hand.
Speaker 5: It's my thumb, doctor Watson, or athor what used to
Speaker 5: be my thumb?
Speaker 2: Here, take a look. Ends. This is a terrible injury,
Speaker 2: less badly mangled.
Speaker 1: Will it have to be amputated?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I think you can save it. Unpleasant
Speaker 2: wound must have bled considerablace.
Speaker 5: It did, I guess I fainted when it happened. When
Speaker 5: I came to, I was still bleeding. So I tied
Speaker 5: one end of a hankcheef very tightly around the wrist
Speaker 5: and braced it with a tweet.
Speaker 2: Excellent. You should have been a surgeon.
Speaker 5: Just a question from hydraulics, Doctor Watson, were within my own.
Speaker 2: Must have been done by a very sharp and heavy instant,
Speaker 2: Dr Watson.
Speaker 3: Accident, a murderous attack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dear, that sounds serious.
Speaker 5: Yes, I shall have to tell my story to the police,
Speaker 5: I suppose, But between you and me, I doubt if
Speaker 5: they believe my statement.
Speaker 2: Problem Eh, Well, if it's anything of that nature you
Speaker 2: want solved, I strongly recommend my friend mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 5: Mister Sherlock Holmes, I've heard of him, of course, do
Speaker 5: you think he'd be interested?
Speaker 2: Could you?
Speaker 4: Could you give me an introduction?
Speaker 2: I'll do better than that. I'll take you around to
Speaker 2: him myself. But first let's attend to this thumb and
Speaker 2: then we'll call a candle and dropping on Holmes for a.
Speaker 1: Bit of breakfast, another bit of missus Hudson's omelet. Mister No,
Speaker 1: thank you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: I feel a new man since Dr Watson banished my hand,
Speaker 5: and your excellent breakfast is completed.
Speaker 1: The cure good. Now you can tell us your story
Speaker 1: if you're sure you feel strong enough.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tap as little of your valuable time as possible.
Speaker 5: To begin with, I must tell you that I'm an
Speaker 5: orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings here in London.
Speaker 5: My professional a hydraulic engineer. I had seven years experience
Speaker 5: with a firm of Venner and Mathison before I decided
Speaker 5: to go into business for myself. Well, the start of
Speaker 5: any new firm is always rather slack, I suppose. So
Speaker 5: far I've had three consultations and one small job.
Speaker 1: Not what you call a rushing business.
Speaker 2: Well, no, not exactly.
Speaker 5: Every day from nine till four I waited in my
Speaker 5: little den until at last my heart began to sink
Speaker 5: and I began to feel I should never have any
Speaker 5: practice at talk.
Speaker 2: Well, I know that feeling. He would you believe it?
Speaker 2: The first two months up the resume my medical practice,
Speaker 2: I hated you, Watson. Watson turned it to run, oh sorry,
Speaker 2: onster heavily.
Speaker 5: It all began yesterday, just as I was thinking of
Speaker 5: closing up for the day, my clerk came in to
Speaker 5: say that there was a gentleman waiting to see me
Speaker 5: on business. His card gave me the name of Colonel
Speaker 5: Lysander Stark. Well, I told the clerk to show him
Speaker 5: in by all means.
Speaker 1: Colonel Lysander Stark. Picturesque name, hey, Watson, and what sort
Speaker 1: of man? He turned out to be?
Speaker 5: Slightly over middle height and exceedingly thin. I don't think
Speaker 5: I've ever seen a thinner man. His whole face sharpened
Speaker 5: away into nose and chin, and the skin was drawn
Speaker 5: tightly over his protruding cheekbones. No, mister Holmes, I should say,
Speaker 5: just naturally emaciated. His eye was bright, trifle too bright.
Speaker 5: I thought his step brisk, and his bearing ashore. He
Speaker 5: spoke with a slight German.
Speaker 4: Accent, I have to honor.
Speaker 3: This is mister Victor Hatheley nick twas.
Speaker 5: Yes, Colonel Stark, won't you sit down darker?
Speaker 3: You are recommended to me, sir, for a young man
Speaker 3: who is clever and also discreet.
Speaker 1: Thank you not at all.
Speaker 3: I know also that you are an orphan bachelor and
Speaker 3: you live alone, quite correct, But I don't see why
Speaker 3: that can possibly concern you.
Speaker 5: I understood that it was on a professional matter that
Speaker 5: you wanted to see me theagavis.
Speaker 3: I have a professional commission, but I must insist on secrecy,
Speaker 3: absolute secrecy, and that is easier from a man that
Speaker 3: has no family.
Speaker 5: If I promise to keep a secret, Colonel Stuck, you
Speaker 5: may depend on my doing so.
Speaker 2: You promise, then I promise.
Speaker 3: Now we can get down to business one moment, please, Yes,
Speaker 3: it is as it should be. These clerks, you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes they are so interested in the affairs of the master.
Speaker 3: Bring your chair close to mine very well. Yeah, now
Speaker 3: we can talk.
Speaker 5: With But if you don't mind, Colonel, my time is valuable.
Speaker 3: So to whom then I know how much work you
Speaker 3: have done lately, my young friend. You do not fool me.
Speaker 3: How does fifty guineas for a night's work strike you.
Speaker 5: That's very generous, Colonel Start.
Speaker 3: I have said a night's work, an hour's work will
Speaker 3: be more correct. Your opinion is already asked. I have
Speaker 3: a hydraulic press. It is in bad order. You show
Speaker 3: us what is wrong, we fix it ourselves.
Speaker 1: You will do that?
Speaker 2: Uh, of course good. You will come tonight by the
Speaker 2: last train where to.
Speaker 1: Air four That is in Berkshire.
Speaker 3: Your train arrives at eleven fifteen. A carriage will come
Speaker 3: to meet you.
Speaker 5: Oh your place is out in the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a good seven miles from the station. There's no
Speaker 3: train back. You will spend the night.
Speaker 5: Yes, But couldn't I come at a more convenient hour
Speaker 5: tomorrow in the daytime?
Speaker 3: Impossible. It is for your inconvenience that we pay the
Speaker 3: fifty guineas, and for the secrecy, of course.
Speaker 5: But perhaps if you could explain the reason for all
Speaker 5: this service.
Speaker 3: Caution, very well, I explain you know? Do you not
Speaker 3: that Fuller's Earth is a very valuable product and is
Speaker 3: to be found only in two places in England?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: Yes, I believe I have heard something of that effect
Speaker 5: some time ago.
Speaker 3: I have bought a place, so very small place. You
Speaker 3: understand well one day, I am so fortunate I discover
Speaker 3: a small deposit, a fuller's earth in my backyard.
Speaker 5: Congratulations.
Speaker 3: I investigate. I find it is a link between two
Speaker 3: so much larger deposits. But in the property which belongs
Speaker 3: to my neighbors. These people, they do not know the value.
Speaker 1: Of their land.
Speaker 5: So you bought it up?
Speaker 3: No, mister Hathley, I am not a rich man. I
Speaker 3: have not the money. So I speak to some of
Speaker 3: my friends and we work our little deposit in secret
Speaker 3: so we can earn the money to buy the land
Speaker 3: near us.
Speaker 5: Yes, but I don't understand what use you can make
Speaker 5: of a hydraulic press and excavating full of earth.
Speaker 3: We come press the earth into bricks so we can
Speaker 3: remove them without showing what they are. That is a detail,
Speaker 3: a mere detail. So I have taken you into my confidence.
Speaker 3: I expect you tonight, mister Happening.
Speaker 4: I shall be there.
Speaker 3: Colonel start Lood, not a word to a soul. It
Speaker 3: is best you do not even tell anyone that you
Speaker 3: are going away.
Speaker 5: Very well, if you wish it.
Speaker 3: I not only wish, I insist. Here's twenty guineas in advance.
Speaker 3: Were a reader saying, mister happily.
Speaker 2: Sounds fishy to me. It, Holmes, fifty guineas is a
Speaker 2: suspiciously large fee for a small job like that.
Speaker 1: Quite Watson, quite hydraulic presses. Eh, did this initiated German
Speaker 1: colonel have a scar on his forehead?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: Yes, now you mentioned it.
Speaker 4: I believe it there, I.
Speaker 1: Thought, so, then you know who he is home. I
Speaker 1: can guess. I can guess. But go on with your story,
Speaker 1: mister Happily. He reached afoot at eleven fifteen.
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes. As I passed through the station gate,
Speaker 5: I found Colonel Stark waiting for me.
Speaker 4: Without a word. He hurried me into a carriage, and
Speaker 4: he was waiting for us.
Speaker 5: Both we got in, he drew up the windows on
Speaker 5: both sides, tapped on the glass, and away we were
Speaker 5: as fast as.
Speaker 1: The horse could go, one horse or two only one,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes. Did you observe the color?
Speaker 5: Yes, I saw it by the carriage lamps as I
Speaker 5: was getting It was a chestnut, tired looking or fresh fresh, fresh,
Speaker 5: and glossy.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: We drove for the better part of an hour, and
Speaker 5: from the rate at which we were going, I should
Speaker 5: say the distance we covered was nearly twelve and seven miles.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. What did the country side look like?
Speaker 5: It was a dark night, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3: I saw nothing.
Speaker 5: Moreover, the carriage windows were made of a frosted glass.
Speaker 2: Sounds funny to me, Holmes.
Speaker 1: The roads were they smooth or pumpy?
Speaker 5: Decidedly bumpy, mister Holmes. We lurched and jolted terribly. Moreover,
Speaker 5: we seemed to be going continually up and down hill. Well,
Speaker 5: finally the bumpy road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness
Speaker 5: of a gravel dry The carriage came to it to
Speaker 5: stand still, and I got out.
Speaker 1: Can you describe the front of the house.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid I can't, mister Holmes. I was whisked into
Speaker 5: the front door so fast I could see nothing. The
Speaker 5: instant I crossed the threshold, the doors slammed behind us,
Speaker 5: and I heard the rattle of the wheels as the
Speaker 5: carriage drove away.
Speaker 3: Mina, Mina, yeah, bring a lamp. Ah, that is better.
Speaker 3: It is not nice to keep our guests standing in
Speaker 3: the dark, Garis, take the lamp into my study. Now,
Speaker 3: mister Hatteley, if you will be so good, come with me. Mena,
Speaker 3: you can go now, My sister. Mister Hattney a good girl.
Speaker 3: She does much she is told. And now you will
Speaker 3: excuse me a few minutes. Beleause I come right back.
Speaker 3: Make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 5: M gloomy looking hole smells musty, as though it hadn't
Speaker 5: been living for a long time.
Speaker 1: All the windows shuttered and burned.
Speaker 3: Confound that clock which she wouldn't tick like that give
Speaker 3: him the jumps.
Speaker 5: It is only me, geez, do not call out. I
Speaker 5: must tell you something. Please don't look so fright.
Speaker 6: No, no, it is not all right.
Speaker 2: You must go. You must not stay here.
Speaker 5: There is no good.
Speaker 2: For you to do.
Speaker 5: Yes, but I came to inspect the machine. I can't
Speaker 5: leave before.
Speaker 1: No, you must.
Speaker 5: You can do no good the last man who came here?
Speaker 5: What is too terrible?
Speaker 2: Inn Where are you?
Speaker 1: Goodness villain?
Speaker 5: Before it is too date this passage door, Mina, who
Speaker 5: are you talking? You run so you let him go? Jeez,
Speaker 5: you will not hurt him.
Speaker 4: I won't hurt him.
Speaker 3: Wait till I get hold of him.
Speaker 5: Wait he's coming. Run run.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: I got a glimpse in coming after me with a
Speaker 5: cleverer and I ran ran for dear life, but he
Speaker 5: ran to I just managed to scale a garden wall
Speaker 5: before he got to it. Even so, I wasn't quite
Speaker 5: quick enough that Clever came down on my left before
Speaker 5: I could get away. I called over to some bushes
Speaker 5: as best I could, and then promptly fainted.
Speaker 2: But he didn't come out to you and finish the job.
Speaker 5: They hold the bushes hit me, I guess. But someone
Speaker 5: must have found me sooner or later. It must have
Speaker 5: been the girl, or perhaps she bribed the coachman to
Speaker 5: help me.
Speaker 1: What ticks you say that?
Speaker 5: Well, when I came to the sun was just rising.
Speaker 5: I was lying in an angle of a hedge along
Speaker 5: the high road. It just a little lower down was
Speaker 5: a long building, the Earth Station.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm blessed.
Speaker 5: Half days I went to the station. The early morning
Speaker 5: train was just pulling in.
Speaker 2: I board.
Speaker 5: It didn't return to London. What I can't understand is
Speaker 5: why I should have been lured to that lonely spot,
Speaker 5: and what reason Colonel Stark can have had for making
Speaker 5: his murderous attack on me.
Speaker 1: Yes, interesting little problem. We shall have to look into it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: By the way, I have a newspaper clipping I think
Speaker 1: might interest you, and Watson hand me last year's index
Speaker 1: acted with manna. Here you are you see January the
Speaker 1: Limehouse Plague, Lady Waterfield's Pearls February March. Ah, Yes, here
Speaker 1: we are read this.
Speaker 5: Last and the ninth of May. Mister Jerrymyer Haling, aged
Speaker 5: twenty sixth hydraulic engineer. I say that's a coincidence. Left
Speaker 5: lodgings at ten o'clock at night has not been heard
Speaker 5: of since was dressed in great to eat soft black boots.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I suspect that represents the last time the
Speaker 1: colonel's machinery needed overhauling.
Speaker 5: And that explains what the girl was trying to tell me.
Speaker 1: Undoubtedly, your colonel is a cool and desperate man. Mister Heavenly,
Speaker 1: he lets nothing stand in the way of his little game,
Speaker 1: and like some of our early pirates, he believes in
Speaker 1: leaving no survivors behind from a captured ship.
Speaker 5: Good Heavens, I have had a narrow escape.
Speaker 1: Quite he'd have killed you sooner or later in any
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Well, Homes, sir, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: I think I shall run down and have a look
Speaker 1: at that machinery for myself.
Speaker 2: Homes, that's just putting your head into the lion's mouth.
Speaker 1: Yes, I only hope the lion hasn't run away.
Speaker 2: Well, at least let me go along.
Speaker 1: Well, you can come as far as Irford Station if
Speaker 1: you like. I may need reinforcements, and I'm coming too.
Speaker 5: But your wound is a labishaquil one hundred percent. It proved.
Speaker 5: After all, this is my problem and my curate posity.
Speaker 5: If nothing else, won't let me take a passive part
Speaker 5: in its solution.
Speaker 1: Very well, come along, both of you. We've barely time
Speaker 1: to catch the ten forty five train.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are homes Erford Station.
Speaker 1: Now what First of all, we must find Colonel Stark's house.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the name to the station agent in passing
Speaker 2: sid He never heard of it before.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's an assumed name, of course, the gentleman in
Speaker 1: question is famous for his adiases.
Speaker 2: We then, how we to find the house.
Speaker 1: I'd brought an ordnance map of the surrounding country.
Speaker 5: Of course, I drove ten miles at the most twelve
Speaker 5: in that carriage. All we have to do is draw
Speaker 5: circle with the radius of twelve miles, and this station
Speaker 5: is its center. Then visit all the places within that limit.
Speaker 1: Yes, rather a tiresome job, I think, I can lay
Speaker 1: my finger on it without all that podder.
Speaker 2: Oh you've formed your opinion. I bet I urge in
Speaker 2: the south it comes is more deserted there.
Speaker 3: No, I'd say east.
Speaker 5: I seem to remember driving.
Speaker 1: He's wrung again.
Speaker 4: It was west.
Speaker 5: There are several quiet little villages over there.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't west, and I am to the north.
Speaker 2: That the hills there, Mister Havin has said he drove
Speaker 2: up and down hills when you.
Speaker 1: Have completely boxed the compass between you. You're both wrong.
Speaker 1: That's impossible at all. This is my choice. It's here
Speaker 1: we shall find the house in the center of the circle,
Speaker 1: the starting point itself.
Speaker 2: For about the twelve mile drive.
Speaker 1: Six miles out and six miles back.
Speaker 5: Then that drive was just a hoax.
Speaker 1: And there, if I'm not mistaken, is the house almost
Speaker 1: across the road.
Speaker 5: You're right, mister Holmes, I'm sure you are. What that's
Speaker 5: the very same war I vaulted last night, and there
Speaker 5: further down the road of the bushes, I hid it.
Speaker 1: I thought, so well, I'll go over and have a
Speaker 1: chat with our friend Colonel Stark. Mister Hatherry, you and
Speaker 1: Watson stay here. Why can't give me go with your impossible,
Speaker 1: My dear Watson, I don't want to frighten Colonel stark
Speaker 1: Off before I have a look at that machine of his.
Speaker 5: Yes, but you're not a hydraulic engineer, mister Holmes, you
Speaker 5: wouldn't understand it. He'll suspect you immediately.
Speaker 1: I have a fairly good knowledge of hydraulics. I think
Speaker 1: you'll see me through. However, if i'm not back inside
Speaker 1: of fifteen minutes, you may come and get me. I
Speaker 1: may need assistance.
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Speaker 7: And now back to Sherlock Holds. We find him at
Speaker 7: the door of the mysterious Colonel.
Speaker 8: Stark, finding judents because he's made his get away.
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 3: What do you want?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: How do you do? Colonel Stark? I presume I've come
Speaker 1: to repair your hydraulic press.
Speaker 5: You you, how dare you?
Speaker 1: When you see a friend of mine? Mister Heavenn told
Speaker 1: me of his experience here last night. I said, I
Speaker 1: thought he was a fool to run away like that.
Speaker 1: That you must have mistaken him for someone else last
Speaker 1: night when you chased him in the dark.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, that is so a suitor of
Speaker 3: my sister, good for nothing, scoundrel. It was all a mistake,
Speaker 3: just as I suspected.
Speaker 1: And when mister heaven said he wouldn't come back, and
Speaker 1: when I learned what a fine fee you promised him,
Speaker 1: I thought, why not come and have a look for myself?
Speaker 2: Of course, why not?
Speaker 3: You too are a hydraulic engineer.
Speaker 1: Naturally very well.
Speaker 3: You may come in.
Speaker 1: Ah, trunks and boxes in the front hall. You're about
Speaker 1: to leave this neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, the English climate, it is bad for my
Speaker 3: sister's health. We go to the south of France. I
Speaker 3: wonder if I might see your sister. So sorry, she
Speaker 3: is in her room. She is not well.
Speaker 1: Oh, just for a moment, Heavenly seemed to be worried
Speaker 1: about her, said he thought you might have mistreated her
Speaker 1: last night after he got away. Ridiculous, of course, But
Speaker 1: if I could just see her, I could reassure him.
Speaker 1: Here seemed to want to call him the police.
Speaker 3: The foolish young man. But come, I let you see her.
Speaker 3: This way. She shall tell you herself that she.
Speaker 2: Is all right.
Speaker 1: That's very good of you. I'm sure I wouldn't dream
Speaker 1: of prepping you myself. But you see, young Heavely, is.
Speaker 3: This is her rule? Manna Mana, Yes, see, Mina, I
Speaker 3: bring a gentleman who is anxious to know if you
Speaker 3: are all right. Tell him how you feel an I, well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm delighted to hear it. You see, my friend,
Speaker 1: mister Heavenly was worried about you.
Speaker 3: Heave the young gentleman I mistook for someone else last night.
Speaker 3: Are you see he's all right?
Speaker 1: Why? Yes, of course, I'm so glad. Hold on a minute, Okay,
Speaker 1: those bruises on your neck and arms? Has anyone been
Speaker 1: treating you badly?
Speaker 3: That was from falling downstairs? You know?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: I see. Well, Colonel Stark, suppose we take a look
Speaker 1: at your highgarlic press.
Speaker 3: Certainly, of course, this way, please.
Speaker 1: Up, goodbye, Falling Stark. I hope you will enjoy the
Speaker 1: south of France. Yes, lovely climate. Well, goodbye.
Speaker 2: This way.
Speaker 3: The press is on this floor.
Speaker 1: Here we are hmm, gigantic affair, colonel.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is capable of exerting enormous pressure. Besides, are
Speaker 3: all of iron.
Speaker 1: Yes, very impressive.
Speaker 3: I pulled the lever so the water flows into the cylinders,
Speaker 3: you hear, But there's a leakage somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yes, loss of power. Yes, that third driving rod, the
Speaker 1: rubber banding around the top seems to have shrunk. It
Speaker 1: doesn't quite fill the socket.
Speaker 3: Of course, how stupid I may not to notice for myself.
Speaker 1: Yes, it would have saved you a lot of trouble,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. You can stop the machine now, let's have
Speaker 1: a look at the inside. Very well if you wish,
Speaker 1: you can't enter here.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 1: Very impressive, like a prison. Hello, what's this on the floor?
Speaker 1: Metallic deposit? Wasn't it full as earth? You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be mining?
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought you might see that.
Speaker 5: Good Bye, mister slocks.
Speaker 1: With thunder. He's locked me in. Start at the machine.
Speaker 1: The ceiling's coming down on me. Well, shallock, holones, you
Speaker 1: let yourself into something this time closer, closer. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: think of the move so fast in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: It'll grind me to a helpless pump. Better not think
Speaker 1: about it. I can reach it. Now down down, Naga,
Speaker 1: trying to push it back, you'll find it. I can't
Speaker 1: stand up any longer. Well, then sit down? Shall luck lower? Lower?
Speaker 1: If I lie on my face, the weight will crack
Speaker 1: my spine. No, the other way will be less painful. Please,
Speaker 1: mister Minna, where did you come from?
Speaker 3: Near the floor? A panel? It's open?
Speaker 1: Job another a hurry, Do not talk so much.
Speaker 5: You can get out.
Speaker 1: The opening is pretty small.
Speaker 3: I can just squeeze through there. Good, Thank you, sa
Speaker 3: pretty close.
Speaker 1: Shave hear that the pressor has just hit the floor
Speaker 1: another minute in there might have been grounded to a pulpe.
Speaker 1: So Minna was the good Angel a second time?
Speaker 2: Yes, the great girl that minner Heavenly took quite a
Speaker 2: fancy to her. In fact, she eventually became missus Henviley, oh,
Speaker 2: and her brother oh heavenly. And now I caught him
Speaker 2: on his way out as he was making his getaway.
Speaker 2: He's still in prisoned, serving a life sentence for attempted
Speaker 2: murder and counterfeiting.
Speaker 1: What a ghastly story, doctor, So that was what the
Speaker 1: hydraulic press was used for.
Speaker 2: Counterfeiting. Yes, of course Holmes suspected it from the first naturally.
Speaker 7: And now, Doctor Watson, would you like to give us
Speaker 7: a hint about next week's adventure.
Speaker 2: Next week, I think I shall explain why the ancient
Speaker 2: statue of Charles the First, which stands in Chatting Cross,
Speaker 2: holds a modern sword. I may even tell you how
Speaker 2: the original sword flitted the life of one of the
Speaker 2: premier Dukes
Speaker 1: Of England, and visit