WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.399 It was a brisk all day rather early in the century. 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:06.599 After a good deal an argument, I had persuaded Holmes 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:11.000 to accompany me on a constitutional through Kensington Gardens as 4 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.240 our listeners. Doubtless, No, Holmes was never a man who 5 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:16.320 took exercise if he could avoid it. 6 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:18.800 Lethargic short of fellow he doctor Watts were. 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:21.039 Not necessarily needless to say. 8 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.760 When we returned to Baker Street somewhere around five, I 9 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.480 was the one who was puffing like a grampus, while 10 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.199 Holmes bounded up the steps as easily as a greyhound. 11 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:33.359 We were met at the front door by Missus Hudson, 12 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.079 the chatelaine and general fact tootum of our bachelor domain. 13 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.679 Ah, Missus Hudson's what's up? 14 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.280 It's way past your tea time, mister Holmes. 15 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.399 Oh the places with team Adam give us an early supper. 16 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.960 What's more, a gentleman was here white it upstairs half 17 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.840 an hour he stamping up and. 18 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.679 Down on my ceilings. I thought the chandelier would come loose. 19 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.240 Sounds like a client day, Watson were we could do 20 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.200 with a case. O the exchequer is getting a bit low. 21 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.239 Bother the exchequer ooh. 22 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:08.200 Hem's sake, Olmes, relaxed, we're home. 23 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.840 You know, if it's a case, see that he pays. 24 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.319 Looks like he had money? 25 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.280 Yes, yes, missus Hudson's correct. Our late visitor undoubtedly had money. 26 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.680 He got away, But what makes you think the latter 27 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.879 was affluent? Can't you smell it? He smoked the very 28 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.719 best tobacco. Ah, The matter he came to consultants about 29 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.400 must have been urgent. He's left his pipe here on 30 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.159 the table, a nice briar with a longish stem of 31 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.079 what the tobaccon is fondly called amber. Yes, he must 32 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.560 have been thoroughly disturbed to leave behind a pipe value 33 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.079 so highly, Oh, boor and dash, How can you possibly 34 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.959 know how he values his silly pipe? Eleventry, my dear 35 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.719 Watson elementary, The pipe has been twice mended, once in 36 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.920 the wooden stem and once in the amber, each time 37 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.599 with a silver band costing more than the pipe did originally. 38 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:52.959 What's more, he's. 39 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.400 Been here before, because, having run out of his own mixture, 40 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.359 he's helped himself to a pipe full from the Persian 41 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.599 slipper on the mantelpiece. No casual stranger wouldn't That's where 42 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.280 I keep my tobacco. But here's his step on the stairs. 43 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.560 Come in, Come in, confounded man, Why don't you stay 44 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:07.879 at home? 45 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.319 Way of along homes. 46 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.800 It's Colonel Roth obviously, my dear Watson. Or bring our 47 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.360 visitor a chair and a slight sedative of some sort, 48 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:17.439 say a brandy and soda. 49 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.199 I don't need a brandy, Yes I do, confounded, a 50 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:20.960 double brandy. 51 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:22.919 We don't tell me you've had another disaster on the 52 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:23.919 moors at King's Pyland. 53 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.960 Well we have that, mister Holmes. But this time is 54 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.240 not a man that's been murdered. 55 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.400 It's a horse worse, much worse. 56 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.599 Let me tell you there are many men equal of 57 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:32.479 Blazing Star. 58 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:36.680 Good lord, Blazing Star. Isn't that your entry for the Wessex. 59 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:36.800 Cup, sir? 60 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.520 It was doctor Watson. 61 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.280 It was Blazing Star. Watson was reading me an item 62 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.240 about it just the other day. I believe he's the 63 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.639 son of the famous Silver Blaze. Out of Lady Lucky. 64 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.120 You were able to rescue his sire for me, mister Holmes. 65 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.479 It's time to in the Wessex Cup. What a race 66 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:52.800 that glass homes. But it's too late to do anything 67 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:53.960 for poor Blazing Star. 68 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:56.520 But by the Lord Harry. I mean to catch up 69 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.439 with the scundre of the killer, and when I do. 70 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.400 War was contended as a sprecial reservation in the last 71 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.919 hell for any man who miss streets animals. 72 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.000 Was quite But tell me exactly what happened at King's Pardon, 73 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:06.960 Colonel Ross. 74 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.120 You remember Ned Hunter and mister Holmes. He was in 75 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:10.800 charge of the stable at the time Silver. 76 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.199 Blaze was adopted. Yes, fine fellow, reliable and trustworthy. 77 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:15.080 It's been promoted to the post of trainer since you 78 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.360 last saw him, but he still sleeps in the stable. 79 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:18.639 Doesn't cause anyone else to do it. 80 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.719 Blazing Star, like his sire before him, was the favorite 81 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:22.400 for the Wessex Cup. 82 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.599 I believe that's right, mister homes So Ned was being 83 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.240 extra particular. None of the stable boys were allowed to 84 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.960 go near the horse. Ned groomed and exercised him himself. 85 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:30.960 No one else laid a. 86 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:31.680 Hand on the animal. 87 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:33.879 Can't take too many precautions with a winner. 88 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.639 Holmes got into rot Watson. Well. 89 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.560 Yesterday afternoon I went down to the stables myself to 90 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.840 watch Blazing Star workouts. Aha, I wish you could. 91 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:42.120 Have seen him. 92 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.680 The sunshine glinting on his chestnut coat like a fiery streak. 93 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.039 He was coming down the stretch. Never went better in 94 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.319 his life. Well, I went into supper and cleared a 95 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.639 place off the mantle, the same place we kept the 96 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.240 Wessex cup when silver Blaze money. 97 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.479 Then I went to bed and slept the sleep of 98 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:58.960 the just, but a lot. 99 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.759 About two o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by 100 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:04.520 ned hunter. As I let the lamp, I could see 101 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.120 his face white does a sheet. 102 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:16.120 And his hand shook as though he had the potsy. Heayad, 103 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.560 what's up? What's the matter? Man? 104 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.000 It's the star, sir. He's took bad. Better go for 105 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.160 the beds. Good lord, what happened? He seemed in great 106 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.959 shape this afternoll. I can't explain it, sir, unless it 107 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:28.120 was that cat upset him. 108 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.319 You know how he always hated cats. Oh my cat. 109 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.759 We don't keep any cats. Well, black cat it was, sir. 110 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.480 Can't say I've ever seen it before, but when I 111 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.560 was taking in his bunch of carrots, I always gives 112 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.639 him before I tucks him in for the night, a 113 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.120 black cat comes out of nowhere and slips into the 114 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.279 store between the lakes. Well, sir, you know how the 115 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.120 Star is about cats. He started stamping and winning like 116 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:56.519 he was possessed. Hey, you to me, Joe, I'll we 117 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.639 get this cat o here before she's killed. Oh easy, Star, 118 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:08.000 easy boy. Now you see that cat come out of 119 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.160 here like a bet out of hell, blazing like the 120 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.600 devil himself. Hello, Hello, She swaked the Star on the flak. 121 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:15.839 She's drawn blood. 122 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:26.360 Easy boy, easy, Hey, Timmy, bring the ointment. The Star's hurt, well, 123 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.079 mister Holmes. Ned Hunter swamped down the scratch and tried 124 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:33.000 to quiet the horse, but Star was restless. Wrong about midnight, 125 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:36.240 theyd noticed his breathing was getting heavy and labored, and 126 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.759 he worked up quite a sweat. They had rubbed him 127 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:40.920 down again, but he kept getting worse instead of. 128 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.519 Better, So I went for the fit. He's a new 129 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:44.319 man in the district. 130 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.680 I supposed to know all there is to know about animals, 131 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:48.959 and I brought him back with me. 132 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:56.279 Ned looked like he'd seen a dast. 133 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.399 Ned. This is mister Peebles, the new veterinary surgeon. He'll 134 00:05:58.399 --> 00:05:59.800 brings tar around for us. 135 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:03.560 I'm afraid the stars past helps her. I've never seen 136 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.720 the like just seemed to collapse in front of my eyes, 137 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.319 his back sort of sag, and his niece gave way. 138 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.199 Pretty soon he couldn't stand up no more. He's lying 139 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.160 in there on the straw, pretty near gone. 140 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.839 You better take mister Peebles, right, isn't it? 141 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.439 Yes, sir? This way, sir. 142 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:26.439 Kind of found it. 143 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.319 If anything happens to that horse, he was so fit 144 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:31.319 this afternoon. 145 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.319 Lord, it's quiet around here. If I could just hear the. 146 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:42.519 Old boy breathing three o'clock. 147 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.319 Where do you suppose that blasted cat came from? 148 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:47.399 Rubbish? 149 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.279 No one dies for a cat scratch, and get any 150 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:55.279 cats around here for years, certainly only black cats. Well, 151 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.959 mister Peebles, how is he? 152 00:06:58.920 --> 00:06:59.839 What's the verdict? 153 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:07.000 I'm sorry, Colonel Ross. He's cancer died very quietly of 154 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:12.279 old age. 155 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:18.519 Say the vet pronounced Blazing Star dead of old age, 156 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:19.439 Colonel Ross. 157 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.759 That that's impossible. Homes to wessis Cup is a race 158 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.240 for five year old exactly? 159 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.399 Bracing Star was five year old last month. Yet when 160 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.199 I went in to look at his body as it 161 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.399 lay there in his stall, I'd have sworn he was 162 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:35.920 the oldest horse I'd ever seen. Temples caved in, coat, 163 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.120 dry and grayish hip bones, protruding. 164 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.560 You don't think anyone could have switched horses while dead 165 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.480 hunter came to inform you the horse was taken sick. 166 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.519 No, mister Holmes, I know bracing star anywhere. The star 167 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.000 on the forehead, he'd interet it from his father. The 168 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.319 white off four foot in the long star is left 169 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:51.959 hind leg where he cut himself in a bit of wire, 170 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.399 and he was a two year old. That horse was star 171 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:56.680 full five years ago last month. 172 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.519 He couldn't have died of old age. 173 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.120 Fantastic in the cab story, Holmes. 174 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.079 Quite many people, of course, will profit by his death. 175 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:06.240 Have there been in the strangers in the neighborhood of 176 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.000 kings Pilon these last few weeks, Colonel. 177 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.759 Ross, there has been a band of wandering gypsies camping 178 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:12.319 on the moors. 179 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:16.839 Of course, gypsies have many curious and little gnome poisons. 180 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.759 They'd be quite apt to keep a black cat. What's more, 181 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.199 if it's clause had been dipped in some obscure venom, 182 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:26.839 they possibly Watson, possibly Tony ConA Ross. What's become of 183 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.560 your Erstwhile Nahbort and rival Lord Blackwater, who owned the 184 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:30.800 Mapleton Stables. 185 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.360 Sat blagguard haven't seen him since the affair of Silver Blaze. 186 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.279 He was ruled off the turf. After that, you're known, 187 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.320 forced to sell his horses, serves him jolly will right. 188 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.240 Mapleton has been unoccupied until recently, about a month ago. 189 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.840 I understand it was leased to a professor and egyptologist. 190 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.320 I believe he's a recluse, spends most of his time 191 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:49.360 in the laboratory, fixed up for himself in the old 192 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.879 study made Baxter. Our maiden sister keeps house for him, 193 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.600 says he's a queer sort of a chance, works behind. 194 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.159 Locked doors all night and sleeps all day. 195 00:08:58.399 --> 00:08:59.679 Unhealthy sort of life. 196 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.720 Yes, there are several factors around King's Pylon that don't 197 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.919 sound healthy to me. Conn Ross, I suggest that Watson 198 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:07.159 and I take the morning train for. 199 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.559 Exeter to investigate the situation. 200 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.679 I hoped you'd say that, mister Holmes. I've told it 201 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:14.759 not to dispose of Star's body until you arrive. 202 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:15.279 Splendid. 203 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.679 I suppose you want me to take my revolvers, your revolver, 204 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.039 and that little black sexul that contained your medical kit 205 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:22.879 this summers. 206 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.559 I'm very much mistaken. Is a case in which we 207 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:37.320 should be prepared for anything well, Watson. Now that you've 208 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.080 finished a thorough examination of the cadavera, what's your verdict? 209 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:42.440 The bit was right, Hose. 210 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.240 The horse obviously died of holy But I tell you 211 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:46.039 that's impossible. 212 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.240 Amazing Star was only a little over five years old. Nay, dear, 213 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:49.960 will bear me out. 214 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.720 That's right, gentlemen, horse doesn't die of old age at 215 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.360 five years looks like Blazing Starr ain't going to be 216 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.120 the only one neither, Good Lord, don't tell me another 217 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:59.600 one of the horses has caught the malady. 218 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.240 It's not one of the uses, sir. It's the sheep. 219 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.600 I noticed it when I went out at the panic 220 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.600 after you left this morning. They stood there, all addled together, shivering. 221 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.759 Then gradually, all day long they kept getting older and older. 222 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:14.240 You could first see them do it. 223 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:18.039 Their eyes are roomy, and their voice is weak, and oh, 224 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:19.960 some of them can hardly keep on their feet. 225 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.360 The sheep, we're young. Most of them are dropped in 226 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:23.399 this year's lambing season. 227 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:25.360 What do you make of it? 228 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.159 Dr Watson? Have you ever heard of old age being contagious? 229 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.519 So there have been isolated cases, Colonel Ross, were young 230 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.639 and healthy individuals have developed a wasting way that Robert 231 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.399 resembled the appearance of age. 232 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:39.600 However, I'd hardly think it possible. 233 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.639 Whose running across the moors in the sunset looks like 234 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.360 a woman, her hair flying, loose, shawl flapping. 235 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.480 In the wind, and she's tagger ears if she would drunk. 236 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.360 It's Mattie Colonel Ross, he that works over at Mapleton. 237 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.840 She is not suffering from the effects of alcohol. It's 238 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:55.720 fight that's upset her. It's sheer terror. 239 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.559 Camera Ross came Ross, Will you take me in this night? 240 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:00.799 Never going back. 241 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.440 I'm never going back to that house again. I knew 242 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.399 he was evil the minute I laid eyes on the man, 243 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.639 and now I've seen him. 244 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:08.080 He's a butcher, hears. 245 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:12.360 He's a google, as matt the master him at least Mapleton. 246 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.480 He's filled the house full of heathen statues, the lower 247 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.080 part man and the upper part beast. 248 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.840 Those would be the statues of the ancient Egyptian gods 249 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.279 Ra the hawk, and you miss the dog and Bust 250 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:22.679 the cat. 251 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.159 I've fen us, that's what he calls it, the black 252 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.879 cat that rides everywhere with him on his shoulder. Bad 253 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.960 eyes are alike him and the cats, both green, and 254 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.279 they both can look at you without even blinking. 255 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.639 Only his head moves through side the side while he 256 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.320 stares at you. What's that I set his head? It 257 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:42.559 don't never holds two. He's a ghoul, that's what he is. 258 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.759 They've been bringing him boxes for weeks now, six boxes, 259 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.600 big like coffins a lot. He drives up in the 260 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.440 dead of night, and they carry the box into his 261 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.080 study and he locks the door behind it. That's the 262 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.440 last anyone ever seen of them boxes or. 263 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:57.000 What's in them. 264 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:58.879 You've never seen any traces when you're going to clean 265 00:11:58.879 --> 00:11:59.279 the study. 266 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.480 I've never been out into the one's ever been allowed 267 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.720 in a study except the man what brings the boxes, 268 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.159 and then only for a minute while he puts them down. 269 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.879 Today the men come with another big box. Only they 270 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.960 brought it before it was dark. The master fell in 271 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.000 a rage when he saw him driver. When they brought 272 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.960 the box in and set it down in the study. 273 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.639 He was that worked up. There were flex the foam 274 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:22.360 on his lips. 275 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.519 You widiots, how often have I told you not to 276 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:28.279 come here by daylight? 277 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.440 A urt governor decerns about down, and there's a stormer 278 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:32.000 coming up. 279 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.080 Me and me partner of the wrong way, to drive 280 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:35.919 back to town. We don't like to be caught in 281 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.399 the moors in the storm at night. 282 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:39.519 Oh you don't. Well, this is the last time you 283 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:40.080 need to come here. 284 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:41.720 People who work for me, baby, my owner. 285 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.120 There's your pay. Now get out where you be going. 286 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:46.159 Have a fear. 287 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:51.440 He done that. 288 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.200 Oh he's a terror when he gets in one of 289 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:54.879 his rages. 290 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:56.679 Poor you work here. 291 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:58.879 I I'm the housemaid. 292 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:00.000 I know what it is. 293 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.039 He's gotten them boxes we bring him. 294 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.320 Haven't a notion that room's always kept locked. 295 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.279 He never so much as looked so killed. 296 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.639 Oh, I'd never do that. It's not right. 297 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.039 Maybe be interesting. 298 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.200 Hey, come along there, Chrystal will be carding the moors. 299 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:23.639 Heard at arkright, he slit the lamp in there. 300 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:32.480 It shows through the keyhole he's taking the lid off 301 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:38.120 the box. I can hear the nails squeak. I would 302 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:42.000 sort of like to know what's in it. One peak 303 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:42.679 wouldn't hurt. 304 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:43.279 I guess. 305 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:49.480 Hey, there's another box inside of the first one. It's 306 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:55.480 got a painted face and hands. Now he's taken that 307 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:59.879 lid off too. There's something lying inside. It's got a 308 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:01.720 face too, and hands. 309 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:04.840 It's just dead. 310 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:18.759 It's a woman's body, great Scott, a woman's body, then 311 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:20.840 the man is a goler body snatcher. 312 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:21.320 Worse. 313 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.080 Unless I'm very much mistaken, he's much worse, Colonel Ross. 314 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:25.960 As for the body, I imagine it's been dead a 315 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:26.799 long long time. 316 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.639 Yes, I think Watson and I would take a stroll 317 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:31.639 over the Mapleton later this evening. I'd like to take 318 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:33.440 a look at the contents of that box myself. 319 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.639 What a night to go talking about the moor's homes. 320 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:47.720 I'm soaked to the skin. 321 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.879 Yes, the equinoxial reigns seem to be especially vigorous this year. 322 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:51.720 Watson vigorous? 323 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:56.480 I can hardly say, Good Lord, what was that that? 324 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.799 I imagine as a member of the feline or cat family 325 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.799 half wildly homes. 326 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.360 It's unusual for a cat to be out in this weather. 327 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.080 Seems to be getting closer. 328 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:10.440 Hangle the lantern over here, Yes, there it is in 329 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:10.919 that treat of. 330 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.759 The left, Good Lord. It's eyes shine like fire. 331 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.759 Maybe she's caught up there and can't get down here, 332 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.759 pussy sky. 333 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:22.639 What's the fun about them talking here? That cat? 334 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:22.960 Why not? 335 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:28.120 Because one scratch from her claws and you would decline 336 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:29.080 and die. 337 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:29.919 Of old age. 338 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:36.639 You Professor Moriarty, you look surprised to see me, Doctor Watson. 339 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.600 I heard you were expected at King's Pilot Homes, and 340 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.159 when that stupid serving girl ran screaming out of my 341 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.360 house this evening, I rather expected it wouldn't be long 342 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.559 before you came over to Mapleton to pay your respects 343 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.960 to the Princess hot Shepherd. 344 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.039 Princess had sheepnot, so that's who you have in your 345 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.480 latest money case, Marioti. 346 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.879 Yes, in the most perfect state of preservation. But absolutely no. 347 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.360 Used to me unfortunately, why not? She was still slender 348 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:06.360 when she died. The artisans who bound her didn't need 349 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:09.240 to age the body to prepare it for burial. Age 350 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:13.200 the body. Have you ever seen a fat mummy, doctor Watson. 351 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:15.240 Come to finger, it can't say I have. 352 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.120 In ancient Egypt, it took upward of seventy days to 353 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.039 prepare the body of a mummy. Rare gums, resins, and 354 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.080 spices were used, and if the deceased was fat, a 355 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.440 fluid was injected which aged and shriveled the body after death. 356 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.480 And it's your theory, no, Doc Mariotte, that that same 357 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.679 fluid extracted from those mummies would if injected into human 358 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.679 beings produce premature old age and death. 359 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.519 So far, mister Holmes, I have only experimented with animals, 360 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.000 but I believe the process has been sufficiently perfected so 361 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.480 that I may now indulge in a few human experiments. 362 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.840 How fortunate that you and doctor Watson should have decided 363 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:52.080 to drop in this. 364 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:53.879 Evening, homes Let's get out of here. 365 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:58.240 Not so fast, doctor Watson, my servant act Bar has 366 00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.600 had you covered for some time. 367 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.679 Is an expert shot, I promise you. 368 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.200 Bluff, pure bluff. Can't see your soul. 369 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.039 At Bar is rather dark. He doesn't show up very 370 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:08.440 well at night. 371 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.799 But to prove to you he is present, I shall 372 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:12.279 have him destroy the cat up there. 373 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.119 But it's no trouble at all. We came out here 374 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.079 for that purpose. 375 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:21.200 Unfortunately, yesterday I spilled some of the liquid I'm experimenting 376 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.559 with and the cat walked in it. It's no longer 377 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.039 safe to have it at large. You saw the results 378 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.720 when she scratched Colonel Ross's horse last night. You see, 379 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:32.319 I don't want to kill people. I should be satisfied 380 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:38.279 just to make them senile. Don't excite yourself, doctor Watson. 381 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.240 At Bar, the cat. 382 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:49.119 Such a pity, I was rather fond of the beast. Now, gentlemen, 383 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.119 if you will accompany. 384 00:17:51.519 --> 00:18:05.079 Me when you're in your favorite clothing store these winter 385 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.599 days and hear someone say how do they do it, 386 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:12.240 he's probably trying on a Clippercraft suit or overcoat. Because 387 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.119 in this era of higher prices, it's really startling to 388 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.240 see so much truly fine quality in clothes for such 389 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.920 a modest amount. For clipper Craft suits are only forty 390 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.759 and forty five dollars, Clippercraft top coats are only forty dollars, 391 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.039 and sport jackets are only twenty six fifty. The fabrics 392 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.640 are really long wearing, style and fit is superb because 393 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.799 clipper Craft clothes are expertly designed. Now you may ask 394 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.000 how all this is possible, Well, the answer is real 395 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:46.599 manufacturing genius and a plan. The famous Clippercraft Plan concentrates 396 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.920 the buying power of ten hundred thirty six of the 397 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.359 nation's finest stores from coast to coast. Thus, you get 398 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.640 the amazing advantages of the group buying at your own 399 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.920 local independent store, at the store you can trust selling 400 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:05.000 expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices. At the nation's finest 401 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:09.680