Speaker 1: Ten and two men have a big fund or you
Speaker 1: instructed the sound and may stop all the homes. No,
Speaker 1: it must be silent.
Speaker 2: Oo, it's all clear.
Speaker 1: If no use, he's got a Leadlieve. The sheer speed
Speaker 1: of my friend Sharlock Holmes never ceased to amaze me.
Speaker 1: My name is Watts, doctor Watson, and I was privileged
Speaker 1: to share the adventures of Sharlock Homes. I will tell
Speaker 1: you about the Red Headed League. It is on in
Speaker 1: my notebooks. If I may consultant for a moment.
Speaker 3: I am into the city room two to one, be
Speaker 3: latest speak to a dun day to find a le
Speaker 3: of Holmes in deep conversation with an elderly man, a
Speaker 3: sort of hilary put down to the grounds and the
Speaker 3: average column day British place.
Speaker 1: The peace compos indectable, nothing remarkable about him, sat an
Speaker 1: expression of extreme fagrant and discontent upon his features.
Speaker 4: And head, the grazing red hair.
Speaker 1: Oh my dear one, let me introduce you to mister J. S. Wilson.
Speaker 1: I'll do that. This is doctor Buston. He'd been my
Speaker 1: pastor and helped her in many successful cases, and I've
Speaker 1: heard that he'll be at the admirashuse in your festivals.
Speaker 1: Oh well, how do you do? Doctor? And my friend
Speaker 1: Batson shares my love of all that it's bizarre outside
Speaker 1: the conventions and hand drum routine of everyday life. Where's
Speaker 1: his relish for it by the enthusiasm with which he chronicles,
Speaker 1: And if you'll excuse my sayings, there embellishes.
Speaker 4: So many of my little adventures.
Speaker 1: Your cases are the greatest interest in me, ah, but
Speaker 1: none more interesting than mine, or what you will remember.
Speaker 1: That's in my remarking the other day that for strange
Speaker 1: effects and extraordinary combinations we mustard to life itself, which
Speaker 1: is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Speaker 1: That's the proposition that I took the liberty of doubting
Speaker 1: you did. But you must come round to my view
Speaker 1: and under less or I shall keep piling fat run
Speaker 1: fat on you until you admit I'm right now. Mister
Speaker 1: James Wilson, here has a narrative which promises to be
Speaker 1: one of the most singular listen too for some time.
Speaker 1: It is indeed a single. Therefore, my friend doctor Watson
Speaker 1: has here it for himself. You will better webs. Doctor
Speaker 1: Watson had better read this here newspaper of British moda O.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Were through the Red Hided League.
Speaker 1: On account of the bequest of the league Isakah Hopkins
Speaker 1: of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA. There is now another vacancy in
Speaker 1: tackling a member of the League to several four pounds
Speaker 1: a week for purely nominal services. Red Headed League carry on.
Speaker 3: All red headed men above the age of twenty one
Speaker 3: years are eligible. Giant person on Monday eleven o'clock to
Speaker 3: Duncan Ross of the offices of the League, seven Pops Court,
Speaker 3: Fleet Street.
Speaker 1: It is a little after beaten Flack, isn't it. You've noticed,
Speaker 1: of course, that the newspaper is two month ago. Oh yes, now,
Speaker 1: mister worth Weller was, as I told mister Holmes, by
Speaker 1: the small pombroker's business at Saxe Coburg Square near the city.
Speaker 1: It just gives me a living. I can only afford
Speaker 1: an assistant because he's willing to take half whites to
Speaker 1: learn the business. Well, what is the name of this
Speaker 1: black enveloped Vincent's spawling? Who mind you? I couldn't wash
Speaker 1: A smarter man comes of a good family. He can
Speaker 1: get twice what I'm able to give him propos of
Speaker 1: my good ideas into his head. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: your assistant is not as remarkable as your advert. Oh
Speaker 1: he has his faults. There never was such a fellow
Speaker 1: for photography snapping away with a camera and then diving
Speaker 1: down into the cellar to develop his pictures or that
Speaker 1: is his main fault. But on the old he's a
Speaker 1: good worker. Well, one morning, just eight weeks ago, spailed.
Speaker 4: Him come into the office and showed.
Speaker 1: Me that advertisement that you've just read down. I wish,
Speaker 1: mister Wilson, why that vacancy is worth a little potroom?
Speaker 1: This is incredible spoiling. I've never come across such an
Speaker 1: advertisement as this in all my life. What you mean,
Speaker 1: you've never heard of the red Headed League as to worth? No? Never,
Speaker 1: Well you see this American and KaiA Hopkins as a millionaire,
Speaker 1: always getting ribbed when he was a lad for his
Speaker 1: red hair. So he had a sort of sympathy for
Speaker 1: red headed men all his life. And when he died
Speaker 1: his fortune went into the hands of trustees with instructions
Speaker 1: to use it getting easy jobs to red haired men.
Speaker 4: It's astonishing.
Speaker 1: What's even better. Old Hopkins was born in London, so
Speaker 1: the office confined to londoners. Well, but there must be
Speaker 1: thousands of red headed men who would have dried thousands
Speaker 1: with red hair, sir, But scarcely one in a hundred
Speaker 1: with hair to match old Azekiah Hopkins own. How did
Speaker 1: I hear it described?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Not light red, not dark, a sort of real bright
Speaker 1: blazing bed.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is you your hair, sir? If your partner limited,
Speaker 1: I should have guessed it was just the kind they're
Speaker 1: looking for? Really? Whoa? I don't know them? Of course
Speaker 1: four pounds a week scarcely be worth it a gentleman, Mike,
Speaker 1: you bother him? Oh well, it all sounds well interesting.
Speaker 1: They are an unusual experience, you might say, now learning
Speaker 1: my hair would change over at night. But things are
Speaker 1: a little slightlier just now, you know, spawling. I think
Speaker 1: I must step al under boat scot Now, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: and you can put up the shutters and come along
Speaker 1: with me. I experienced that pinas.
Speaker 4: Entertaining under to us.
Speaker 1: Did you waver hear anything to compare with it? Misholmes, Well, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I never hope to see such a sight as there again,
Speaker 1: fate stren itself with choked from both southeast and west.
Speaker 1: Every man Jack with a shade already in his air,
Speaker 1: advent into the city of Arts and a mursion coat's
Speaker 1: court like a costa's orangs bellock. I shouldn't have believed there,
Speaker 1: for so many nail country, straw colored lemon orange brick,
Speaker 1: Irish said, But as Spawning had said, my own the
Speaker 1: mid flame colored temple scarcely to be found if with
Speaker 1: him or not given up in de spair. But he pushed,
Speaker 1: and he pulled, and he budded until he got me
Speaker 1: through the crowd and right up to the steps which
Speaker 1: led to the doorway. And I said, what heaven when
Speaker 1: you got there? Eventually found myself in a large office
Speaker 1: with no furniture save for a couple of wooden chairs
Speaker 1: and a deal table. What was the man behind the
Speaker 1: table but an even bedder than mine? He said a
Speaker 1: few words to each candidators he'd come up, but one
Speaker 1: glance of there had seemed sufficient to disqualify them. Concrete nay,
Speaker 1: namely after a hole. His fir called that their rede
Speaker 1: being better up there. Net my name's rush with Benjamin
Speaker 1: ar Sir, rushed with Tom give him to under anything
Speaker 1: the ball Eddie league said yet tar, and I can
Speaker 1: assure you, my hen, this is mister Davis Wilson and
Speaker 1: mister Davis Wilton, and I feel, permit me, sir, that
Speaker 1: the most interesting head most interesting indeed you think so?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Do you know that? I don't think I
Speaker 1: can recall anything? So fine? Oh, well, a glance at
Speaker 1: your own sir, by the point, he won't mind if
Speaker 1: I take one of this precaution by now?
Speaker 2: Oh really should you have got me dressed?
Speaker 1: Forgive me? Mister Wilson, Ah your eyes or watering? All
Speaker 1: is as it should be? Oh will you TRYE been
Speaker 1: deceived by wigs and once by pace. But as for you, sir,
Speaker 1: will it God be an injustice to head take you?
Speaker 1: Will all go? The vys built a.
Speaker 2: Kindly part.
Speaker 1: The word is your glass. This is extremely good to you, mister,
Speaker 1: or not at all? Well? A warm welcome to the
Speaker 1: red headed Greek. Thank you sir. Now when will you
Speaker 1: be able to enter upon your duty? What are the
Speaker 1: alms ten till two every day accepting Sunday. That is
Speaker 1: the Nishimi service recruit for me on a pool brook.
Speaker 4: You see, so most of my own business she's done.
Speaker 1: To believe me, I can manage the shop while you're
Speaker 1: away in this room as splendid as you know. The
Speaker 1: pay is four pounds a week and the duties are
Speaker 1: purely nominal, purely no. What does that mean? Well, you
Speaker 1: have to remain in this office, or at least in
Speaker 1: the building, throughout the whole four out every day. If
Speaker 1: you leave, you'll forfeit your position for aport, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: think of doing No excuse will avail sickness, business nor
Speaker 1: anything else.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: You must stay and work to copy out the insight
Speaker 1: the Pedia Britannica. We have shut in what time your
Speaker 1: own ink pens and stationary, so then you start tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He'll certainly. Then goodbye, mister Javis Wilson.
Speaker 4: And let me congratulate you once more on the importance.
Speaker 1: I wish you have been you can imagine, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: But by the time I'd reached home, I was persuading
Speaker 1: myself the whole thing must be some great hopes or fraud.
Speaker 1: They seemed altogether past belief that anyone could make such
Speaker 1: a will.
Speaker 4: Ll pay some month so much for doing anything so simple.
Speaker 1: Yet you did not abandon the event, or nearly, but
Speaker 1: Vincent's spawning did what he could have persuade me, and
Speaker 1: the next morning I set out for Pop's court with
Speaker 1: a penny bottle of ink, a quill pen, and seven
Speaker 1: sheets of horsecap paper. To my surprise, and day night
Speaker 1: the first volume was set out ready for me, and
Speaker 1: mister Duncan Ross was there to see me get fairly
Speaker 1: to work. He started me off on the letter A,
Speaker 1: and then he left me that he dropped in from
Speaker 1: time to time to see the lawn was right with
Speaker 1: me and they say you. At two o'clock he bagged
Speaker 1: me good day and complimented me on the amount I'd written,
Speaker 1: and then he knocked me off his more after me,
Speaker 1: and this procedure continued for some time. Day after Danish times.
Speaker 1: Did you get paid? Oh yes, On Saturday, mister Loss
Speaker 1: come in and plump down four golden sovereigns for my
Speaker 1: week's work. It's the same the next week, and the
Speaker 1: same the week after. Every morning I was there at ten,
Speaker 1: and every afternoon I left it two find the goodies.
Speaker 1: Mister Loss took the coming in only once of the
Speaker 1: morning and then after the time, but he didn't come
Speaker 1: in at all. Still, of course I didn't dare to
Speaker 1: leave the room for an instant. I wasn't sure when
Speaker 1: he might come, and the building was such a good one,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Risk the mossoy you mean are still doing it?
Speaker 1: Oh, doctor watson An eight weeks passed him that present manner.
Speaker 1: I've written about abots, an archery, an armored, an architecture.
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to getting onder the letter b
Speaker 1: before long, when suddenly.
Speaker 4: The whole business come to an end.
Speaker 2: We didn't have or.
Speaker 1: It was this Monday morning and tomorrow it as usual,
Speaker 1: but the door was shut and locked.
Speaker 4: And this said to see a little square.
Speaker 1: Of cardbore the wastecked under the middle of the pedal.
Speaker 1: The red pitted league is dissolved. October the nineteen eighteen ninety.
Speaker 1: I was staggered, dumbfounded. I called the offices roundabout, but
Speaker 1: none of them say to know anything about it. And
Speaker 1: finally of it to the landlord. And he's in a
Speaker 1: count of living on the ground floor. He said that
Speaker 1: he never heard of any read eddied league. He told
Speaker 1: me that the read edded man at number seven was
Speaker 1: a solicitor named William Morris, who'd taken the room as
Speaker 1: a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. He
Speaker 1: moved out yesterday. I asked where I could find it.
Speaker 1: Did you know seventeen King Edward Street, near Saint Paul's.
Speaker 1: I went there. It was a manufactory of artificial lee caps.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I can't see there's anything figh you. Oh no, really, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: if you can do nothing better than not at me,
Speaker 1: I can go elsewhere. No, no, no, no, Miss Tilton,
Speaker 1: have any wouldn't miss your case for the world. Its
Speaker 1: refreshingly unusual what you've told me. I think it possible
Speaker 1: that graver he was hanging from this exceedingly remarkable case that.
Speaker 4: Night at first appears.
Speaker 1: But I want to know all of these people, and
Speaker 1: what is the object him playing this peck on me?
Speaker 1: We shall endeavor to tear up people by the first
Speaker 1: one or two questions. Now, this assistant of yours who
Speaker 1: caused your attention to the advantisement? How long had he
Speaker 1: been with you?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: A month? How did he come in answer to an advertisement?
Speaker 1: Was he earn air? Platano had a dozen? Why did
Speaker 1: you pick? He had told you because he was amy
Speaker 1: and would come for half wages. What's he like this
Speaker 1: Vincent's balding? Oh, he's a small and stealth built, but
Speaker 1: he quickened his ways, chet clean shaven, although he's not
Speaker 1: sure the thirty Oh, yes, he's a white mark of
Speaker 1: an assie splash on his forehead. Had he never noticed
Speaker 1: his ears? The pier, the ear ring. Yes, he told
Speaker 1: me that Gypsy did it for him when he was
Speaker 1: an I thought as much. And he's still with help.
Speaker 1: Certainly has your business being properly looked after in your absence?
Speaker 1: Nothing to complain?
Speaker 4: Overturn very well, mister Wilson.
Speaker 1: That'll do, thank you sir. Now today is Saturday. I
Speaker 1: hope that we may be able to give you an
Speaker 1: opinion by Monday. Much oblige if you can. Good eye, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: good good idea. Well what's what do you make of it?
Speaker 1: Though I make nothing of its mysteriousness. As a rule,
Speaker 1: the more bizarre thing is the less mysterious it proves
Speaker 1: to be. What are you going to do.
Speaker 4: To smoke?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's quite a free type problem. And I beg
Speaker 1: that you won't speak to me for this. M What
Speaker 1: what Saratopey tag and Chameses Hall the continent? Now? What
Speaker 1: do you think could your patients spare you for a
Speaker 1: few hours. No, no, nothing to do today. Then put
Speaker 1: on your hat and come I go to the city.
Speaker 1: I think we can have some lunch on the way.
Speaker 2: Come along, Yeah, La days.
Speaker 1: Will fool jewel u mm hmm. The three jim folds,
Speaker 1: the Scottish trade more accurately identity. You're learning about the
Speaker 1: home a number of things, My dear Watson. Just listen, quest.
Speaker 2: Were playing your pate for me.
Speaker 1: Now we'll try to go. We didn't see we'll see again.
Speaker 1: I trust not help you. Oh thank you. I only
Speaker 1: wished to ask.
Speaker 4: How you would go from here.
Speaker 1: To the ten the third ride four less garment.
Speaker 4: I'm much obliged.
Speaker 1: Good day, not at all, Good day, gentlemen. Your sister
Speaker 1: name Mark Llow. I rated him the four, not his
Speaker 1: name and runner, mister Darry. I'm not sure that he
Speaker 1: hasn't a claimed to be the third you name him.
Speaker 1: I've had experience that the condins folding before us. You
Speaker 1: knocked to the door just to get over him, not
Speaker 1: a thin at the needs of his clous and sister.
Speaker 1: What did you see? What I expected to say him?
Speaker 1: Why did you beat the pavement my dead after? This
Speaker 1: is a time for observation, not the folk here spies
Speaker 1: in an enemy's country. We want something of sex. Coburg Square.
Speaker 1: Let us now explore the p to slide. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: let's be see you. I should like to remember the border,
Speaker 1: the houses of the Baca. Here there's a Thebectiveness Morgners.
Speaker 1: There's a newspaper shop, the Kilberg branch of the city
Speaker 1: in suburban Bank, the vegetarian restaurant, and the Farland carried
Speaker 1: to the depot. That'll do. And now we've done our
Speaker 1: work for this time. We had some play, a sand
Speaker 1: ridge and a cup of coffee and then off to
Speaker 1: violin Land where all it's sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Speaker 1: So there are no red headed clients s Dexas for
Speaker 1: that number want to go home.
Speaker 4: But that doctor, I've some business to do. Because they've done.
Speaker 1: I shall want your help tonight. Come on me. Considerable
Speaker 1: crime is in contemplation. But I have any reason to
Speaker 1: believe that we shall be in time to stopping. What
Speaker 1: time will I be? Ten at Baker Street? And I think, okay,
Speaker 1: came they put your army revolver in your bucket. I
Speaker 1: think you know, Inspector Jones a Scottland yard. How do
Speaker 1: you do. And this is mister Merriweather, who's to share
Speaker 1: a night's adventure? How do you do, sir? I hope
Speaker 1: a wild goose may not prove to be the end
Speaker 1: of our chase. You can rely on this to home, sir.
Speaker 1: It's little methods are it's theoretical and fantastic, but it's
Speaker 1: the makings of a detective in think you inspector. But
Speaker 1: at past ten now and time it started? Now? If
Speaker 1: you and mister Merriweather will take the first hand, Watson
Speaker 1: and I will follow in the second we meet at
Speaker 1: the back of tact Coburg Square. Gentlemen, shall I need
Speaker 1: to way? Please do, mister Merriwethern. It's done a short passage.
Speaker 1: I'll lock the gate at the end, and then there
Speaker 1: are steps into a boat. Where are we now? Were
Speaker 1: in the cellar of the City branch of one of
Speaker 1: the principal London Days, mister merriweathers chairman of directors. There
Speaker 1: is so, sir, And as you can see, there's nothing
Speaker 1: vulnerable about the street. I to keep your voice downside and.
Speaker 3: Has a goodness to sit on one of those boxes
Speaker 3: while i've them in.
Speaker 1: This straw to my lends. Well, you know what to
Speaker 1: do about side. There's something to do with our French gild.
Speaker 4: We've had several womens that an attempt might be laid.
Speaker 1: We had occasions some months ago to borrow thirty thousand
Speaker 1: napoleons from the bank of fronts. We have never needed
Speaker 1: to unpeck lay. And it is still nine in this boat.
Speaker 1: Indeed very creeks.
Speaker 4: On which we are sitting.
Speaker 1: Good good ah, I thought as much, and one of
Speaker 1: your farms times details later inspected. The timely arranged that
Speaker 1: as of fans, we must put the screen over the
Speaker 1: dark land sues the dog. We cannot risk the presence
Speaker 1: of the light. I shall conceal myself behind this crate.
Speaker 1: The rest of it turns. They do likewise behind those.
Speaker 4: When I flash a bike on our those close in
Speaker 4: on them quickly.
Speaker 1: These are daring men, and if they fire, were to
Speaker 1: have no compunction about shooting them down. Oh what have
Speaker 1: they run?
Speaker 4: I have an inspector and two.
Speaker 1: Men up at the front doors. You have constructed suns
Speaker 1: get then be stopped all the home. Oh we must be.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm.
Speaker 4: It's all clear.
Speaker 1: Do you take the chickl and hand me the bag? No,
Speaker 1: you don't say he's got a garden. Read it to me.
Speaker 2: This before.
Speaker 4: Don't say alien in yoo.
Speaker 1: I'm about yeh. Head into the men at the door
Speaker 1: right now, still gray when I just fixed the derby
Speaker 1: so touched me, but go fuilt Their hands may not
Speaker 1: be aware that I have row blood in my veins.
Speaker 1: Have the goodness to address me as I'm to say? Please,
Speaker 1: Would you please sir march upstairs where we can get
Speaker 1: a cab to carry your highness to the police station.
Speaker 1: That's better lead on my good land.
Speaker 4: That sum in my time, mister.
Speaker 1: Holmes, I don't know how the band contempt you will
Speaker 1: repay by an empty repaid by having had an experience
Speaker 1: for it in many ways unique and by hearing the
Speaker 1: very remarkable narrative of the red Headed League.
Speaker 2: Whiskerham a thank.
Speaker 1: You, my dear button, your health and yours now if
Speaker 1: you'll kind of lisplen well, you see it was perfectly
Speaker 1: of this from the first of The only possible object
Speaker 1: of this rather fantastic business of the League and the
Speaker 1: copy of the encyclopedia must be to get this not
Speaker 1: over black form worker out of the way. For the
Speaker 1: same number of ours daily the care I where managing
Speaker 1: Can you suggested better? It was, no doubt suggested to
Speaker 1: Kay's ingenious mind by the color of his employer's hair.
Speaker 1: The four pounds a week was a lure which must
Speaker 1: draw Wilson. And what was it to them who were
Speaker 1: playing for thousands? They put in the advertisement Duncan Ross
Speaker 1: says potentporary office John Clay, he has been since Spaulding
Speaker 1: incites the man to.
Speaker 4: Apply to the job, and together they managed to secure
Speaker 4: his absence.
Speaker 1: Every morning in the week. I see, But how could
Speaker 1: you guess what the motive was? Well, Wilson's business was
Speaker 1: a small one and there was nothing in his house
Speaker 1: which could account for such elaborate preparation. I thought of
Speaker 1: the assistance from this for photography and his trick of
Speaker 1: vanishing into the cellar. Ah. Then I made inquiries as
Speaker 1: to this mysterious assistant and found, as I suspected that
Speaker 1: I had to deal with one of the coolest andness
Speaker 1: daring criminals in London. He was doing something in the cellar,
Speaker 1: something which took many hours a day for weeks on end.
Speaker 1: What could it be? I could think of? Nothing? Said
Speaker 1: that he was running a tunnel to some other building.
Speaker 1: Now I see when you beat the pavement with your stick,
Speaker 1: you were testing for a hollow sound. To be more precise,
Speaker 1: I was despertating whether the seller stretched out in front
Speaker 1: of Wilson's house or behind. It was not in front.
Speaker 1: Then knocked at Wilson's door, as I had helped. His
Speaker 1: assistant answered it. I hardly looked at his face. You
Speaker 1: wanted to see his knees. You said, you must have
Speaker 1: noticed yourself how Warren wrinkled and stained his trousers were Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: yes I did.
Speaker 4: They spoke of those hours of borrowing.
Speaker 1: The only remaining point was what was he borthering for
Speaker 1: the city in suburban bank right around the bank exactly?
Speaker 1: But how could you tell they would make their attempt
Speaker 1: to night? Well? When they killed their league offices, it
Speaker 1: was a sign that they cared no longer about mister
Speaker 1: Jada's Wilson's present. You really completed their tunnel, yes, but
Speaker 1: it was essential that they should use it soon as
Speaker 1: it might be discovered or or the bullion removed for
Speaker 1: Saturday would shoot them better than any other day, as
Speaker 1: it would give them two days for their escape. For
Speaker 1: all these reasons, I expected them to come to night.
Speaker 1: Beautiful reason the HM every link of the chain rings true.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, it saved me from boredom, unless my feel is.
Speaker 4: Closing in on me already.
Speaker 1: Holmes, you're a benefactor of the human race. When I
Speaker 1: spent in one long effort to escape from the common
Speaker 1: cases of existence, many are work. These are the problems.
Speaker 4: Help me docing.
Speaker 1: The Red Hiddy leave with one of the Sharlock Holmes stories,
Speaker 1: and we inspired pens through after Coman Doyle. My real
Speaker 1: name is normally Shedding. My friend calls him Hope. They
Speaker 1: Shallock Holmes, and I was doctor Rot. I'll script for
Speaker 1: this BBC production from London was by Michael Hardley. I
Speaker 1: need hard to say. I look forward the pleasure of
Speaker 1: your company again soon the more of the adventures of
Speaker 1: Charlockope