Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, who wielded the life of vengeance? And what
Speaker 1: was he trying to avenge?
Speaker 2: Those were the awful problems that faced Holmes, mister Hens,
Speaker 2: For this was a killer whose grizzly specter prowled the
Speaker 2: Sheffield area, whose black silhouette stopped in horrible outline against
Speaker 2: the blinding red glare of the steel thuxtus. It began
Speaker 2: at the home of Theodore Pickering, a partner in the
Speaker 2: Griswold Pickering Steelwax.
Speaker 3: Pickering was at.
Speaker 2: Home one twilight to relaxing alone in his steady Outside
Speaker 2: he heard a wondering tradesman hawking his way, chanting a
Speaker 2: familiar thing song as he rode.
Speaker 4: Back, studying any knives to be shopping with?
Speaker 3: Deck Well, I don't know the servants are off today.
Speaker 5: Early is something to be sharpened?
Speaker 6: I my stone in the cart.
Speaker 5: It's most inexpensive. Makes doing things about the house so
Speaker 5: much easier when you're well shopped knives.
Speaker 3: Look in the kitchen cupboard this way, what you've.
Speaker 5: Dozen denies that produce sharpening?
Speaker 6: I'll fetch myself.
Speaker 3: Wait, I will take for the moment, I say, how
Speaker 3: much do you charge shilling a knife?
Speaker 6: Bet card? I've wrongly stone, then right, easier kitchens. Yeah,
Speaker 6: here we are.
Speaker 5: You'll be very happy. I've egg you knives made shopper.
Speaker 5: I'll pick them to they're the Finnish pipe if you
Speaker 5: lend me that reread knife set. It was very well,
Speaker 5: thank you. That's good. I wanted to be as sharp
Speaker 5: as Candidas. Just what how smooth watch closes?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 5: There's a special reason why I wish you to notice
Speaker 5: how this bladey sharpened to appreciate its opestry. Whose witted
Speaker 5: is done?
Speaker 7: A special reason?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Why are you so anxious for me to watch closely?
Speaker 5: You are admiring the sharpening of the knife that will
Speaker 5: be used to cut your throat?
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 6: This is the knife I will use to kill you?
Speaker 5: Pickering to kill me?
Speaker 3: Are you insane?
Speaker 6: What all?
Speaker 7: What joke is this?
Speaker 3: How do you know my name?
Speaker 5: You know mine too? My name is Bennett.
Speaker 3: Good lord, you are in it? He said, I didn't
Speaker 3: recognize you.
Speaker 2: Now your chicks are hollow, your eyes are sunken, and
Speaker 2: you've grown a beard.
Speaker 3: Then where the devil could come from? What are you
Speaker 3: up to?
Speaker 5: I thought I made it very clear and happening this
Speaker 5: knife to cut your.
Speaker 3: Throat something gruesome, joking and onto me. I am not joking.
Speaker 5: You may shout all your life as no one about.
Speaker 5: I made sure of that. I locked the door when
Speaker 5: I fetched the stones, and no I've suffered years of
Speaker 5: ill health. I'm still twice as powerful a man as you,
Speaker 5: thanks to my ears helping the penace to the mills.
Speaker 3: This could be easy for me. Will you stop shopping
Speaker 3: that knife? Answer my question?
Speaker 5: Just a moment longer. I want the knife, so shop,
Speaker 5: Oh shop.
Speaker 1: There, Yeah, speak up, anut, this is your idea of
Speaker 1: an amusing weight to reappearance of You are not amusing.
Speaker 5: Simply jumped his pick inescapable just late. Perhaps it's been
Speaker 5: over ten years till I recall certain incidents to your memory.
Speaker 5: I created an ally process whispering, a method of manufacturing
Speaker 5: a new type of field, the Bennett process. When I
Speaker 5: offered it to you, the experiment with it was a failure.
Speaker 5: You and Whizzle persuaded me to leave England to forget
Speaker 5: my failure. Remember how I disappeared from Sheffield. Of course,
Speaker 5: I drifted a great deal to the Conference of South
Speaker 5: Africa to South America. I degenerated, I began drinking. I
Speaker 5: was introduced to Hashish. I was a degraded wasteful to
Speaker 5: be found more often than not enough doctors as some
Speaker 5: god forsaken village of the dear Feast. Those years had
Speaker 5: one beneficial effect, So what do you mean? It changed
Speaker 5: my appearance radically? One morning I came across the newspaper Pascal, Look,
Speaker 5: I haven't here fated, but still legendy. It describes how
Speaker 5: Pickers and missus Grisbook had become pangulously wealthy in check
Speaker 5: with a certain alloy process.
Speaker 3: You vanished, ben it. We believe you are day.
Speaker 5: I returned here to chat very fire. Some weeks ago
Speaker 5: I began making inquiries. I found Kennedy, a farmer assistant
Speaker 5: in number him. Yes, I forced him to confirm my desicion.
Speaker 5: You did betray me. You deliberately made that certain experiment
Speaker 5: of failure.
Speaker 3: Do you want money? We might compute your chair.
Speaker 5: No, No, I want my ten years back. I wanted
Speaker 5: ten years I spent wandering the face of the earth
Speaker 5: without purpose, nothing possible. So I'm settling for Danish. You
Speaker 5: a nice speaker.
Speaker 6: Let go my fruit, and now we.
Speaker 8: Will see if I shop and the nice well.
Speaker 6: Enough, We will see if it will got job.
Speaker 9: Rob oh m hm, yes, the knife is nice.
Speaker 5: Tell me picking, Tell me that painting.
Speaker 6: Was it bought with my money? Was it a traumatic
Speaker 6: setting for you?
Speaker 10: Then we must use the knife life the.
Speaker 6: Massive, priceless open tables and.
Speaker 10: The Venetian glasspons. Did it serve you well here? If
Speaker 10: you sat in my place, then we must fire.
Speaker 5: Can so.
Speaker 6: If they look splender to repeat the guests the knife,
Speaker 6: we must put the knife.
Speaker 8: I am done with your own steel, Pickering, you own magnificent,
Speaker 8: shining steel, just the way you and your life.
Speaker 6: Pattern should die.
Speaker 8: Find the steel that made you so glorious and an illlicic.
Speaker 1: Enquire told Superintendent Rodney, you say you found Pickering literally butchered.
Speaker 3: Here's mister Rowe. No sign, Superintendent of the murderer's knife.
Speaker 11: No sign, doctor Wat, not a clue of any sort.
Speaker 11: That is why I've come running here to Baker Street,
Speaker 11: mister Road. I offered the train from Sheffield as quick
Speaker 11: as I could. Of course, I reported the homicide to
Speaker 11: Scotland Yard. Do you know how long they'll be about it?
Speaker 7: An eternity, my dear sir, an eternity. The countryside is
Speaker 7: in a cold sweat.
Speaker 11: Why this this madman's liable to go after others with
Speaker 11: his knife.
Speaker 1: Yes, you were quite correct and hastening to meet you printendant.
Speaker 1: This case is not a matter of weeks, not of days,
Speaker 1: nor on possibly of hours. The madman must be identified
Speaker 1: an apprehended instance.
Speaker 3: There, show off the Sheffield host.
Speaker 1: You must pack our luggage this minute, Watson, and dash
Speaker 1: for the railway station. The sheer violence of this crime
Speaker 1: indicates no ordinary homicide. This is the work of a
Speaker 1: deranged manevolent mind, a human being who does not exist
Speaker 1: by breathing air, but who subsists upon.
Speaker 12: Hate in the essence the still venom blood dust.
Speaker 1: I don't tell fortunes, but I know you will enjoy
Speaker 1: a delightful surprise tomorrow. When you visit the independent store
Speaker 1: in your community that sells clipper craft clothes. You will
Speaker 1: finger really luxurious fabrics you can count on for long,
Speaker 1: steady wear. You will admire clean cut workmanship, fine tailoring,
Speaker 1: details that shoulders, buttonholes.
Speaker 3: And sleeves, and the graceful.
Speaker 1: Hang you find only in truly expensive suit. Yes, you'll
Speaker 1: look like a million. But here's the big surprise. You
Speaker 1: will pay just forty or forty five dollars incredible, Not
Speaker 1: when you know that your clipper Craft dealer is one
Speaker 1: of more than twelve hundred independence stores throughout America who
Speaker 1: concentrate their huge purchasing par to bring you unbelievable savings.
Speaker 1: That's why even a truly fine worsted suit with the
Speaker 1: clipper Craft label costs only forty five dollars. That's why
Speaker 1: men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes bearing the clipper
Speaker 1: Craft labels. So be sure to visit the clipper Craft
Speaker 1: store in your city.
Speaker 13: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
Speaker 13: add their names to Clippercraft in your suits, top coats,
Speaker 13: and overcoats. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at
Speaker 13: eighth and sixty seven, Lipperty Streets Sacks thirty four Broadway
Speaker 13: at thirty four in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
Speaker 13: New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy, Nowark, And in Jamaica
Speaker 13: the bn B Clothes Shop one sixty four or eight
Speaker 13: Jamaica Avenue.
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, we mustn't lose a moment in returning to
Speaker 1: mister Holmes and his pursuit of the killer holding the
Speaker 1: knife of vengeance.
Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, we dashed for the train. The Superintendent
Speaker 2: Rudney and we reached Sheppey. There the home of the
Speaker 2: dead man, mister Pickering. Holmes began his customary penetrating examination.
Speaker 11: There, mister Oakes, I wouldn't allow him to remove the
Speaker 11: body for an autopsy.
Speaker 3: Till you had a look. Very wise, Superintendent, must.
Speaker 2: Have been a gigantic struggle, Homes. The way the furniture
Speaker 2: is upset, the paintings.
Speaker 1: Very little struggle, Watson. The casual examination of the cadaver
Speaker 1: reveals there are no bruises caused by body blows nor
Speaker 1: by striking physical objects. Still, further examination of the painting,
Speaker 1: for instance, lead to the conclusion that the painting was
Speaker 1: slashed by a knife, the same knife, in fact, that
Speaker 1: butchered mister Pickering.
Speaker 2: How the Diggins do you know that?
Speaker 3: Homes?
Speaker 1: My then shows that are minute specks of blood at
Speaker 1: the edges where the canvas was ripped. Evidently, after murdering Pickering,
Speaker 1: the killer went upon an orgy of destruction. Oh, mister, ohmsir,
Speaker 1: we've still no indication of what this criminal looks like,
Speaker 1: or who he is, or where he's God and if
Speaker 1: he's as dangerous.
Speaker 5: As you make him out.
Speaker 11: Well, he may be at someone.
Speaker 3: Else's throat this very minute.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's very much to be said about this criminal Rodney.
Speaker 1: He's an extremely powerful man with black hair. At the
Speaker 1: time of committing this vestial deed, he was wearing a
Speaker 1: dark gray suit.
Speaker 5: His profession is that of knife sharping ows.
Speaker 2: You can't rattle of conclusions that were without explaining them.
Speaker 1: What's in a gentleman of the late pickering means would
Speaker 1: not sharpen his own knives. We've also learned that it
Speaker 1: was the servant's night off, but someone did perform that task.
Speaker 1: Upon the floor to your left, you may perceive traces
Speaker 1: of emery dust. This is substantiated by the markings of
Speaker 1: the small wheels of the typical cart employed by professional
Speaker 1: knife sharpeners. No doubt the killer used the profession as
Speaker 1: an easy device to gain.
Speaker 3: Entry about his being powerful.
Speaker 1: Though that oaken has been turned topsy turby. It's so
Speaker 1: huge and weighty it requires a man of great strength
Speaker 1: to upset it. And the upsetting has been done certainly
Speaker 1: not by the dead man.
Speaker 3: Puny chap that he was. You said the killer had
Speaker 3: black hair and a gray suit, and so I did.
Speaker 1: That information is to be gathered from beneath the fingernails
Speaker 1: of the corpse. As he fell, he clutched at the
Speaker 1: man who was taking his life. But there's a particle
Speaker 1: of dark gray thread beneath those nails from the murderer's clothes,
Speaker 1: and a single black hair. The microscopic examination of the
Speaker 1: Bndullah cortex and the cuticle of the hair will determine
Speaker 1: whether it's from the head or the beard.
Speaker 11: Well, I'll notify the police of the neighboring villages to
Speaker 11: be on the outlolert for a chap of that description. Well,
Speaker 11: it's not very definite, I must say.
Speaker 1: I indeed, we may overcome your skepticism, my dear Rodney,
Speaker 1: with this extremely small paper I find Oh.
Speaker 3: I'll see it.
Speaker 1: Well has the appearance of newsprit Yes, quite, this is
Speaker 1: a spect that's clearly fallen off a newspaper. It has
Speaker 1: the peculiarly stiff, yellowish appearance of a faded newspaper of
Speaker 1: many months ago.
Speaker 2: There is anything honored with that smudge home.
Speaker 1: It is of infinite value to us. Watson, if you
Speaker 1: pretended you will inform me of the location of the
Speaker 1: nearest telegraph office. In a very short while, I'll supply
Speaker 1: you with every step of information required to trace the killer.
Speaker 1: But how how absurdly simple, Watson, I shall identify and
Speaker 1: track down the killer by telegraphing Caliro Egypt.
Speaker 2: You know it's been a considerable length of time since
Speaker 2: you telegraphed to Cairo Homes. We've been sitting in this
Speaker 2: telegraph office for hours. Here to whom did you send
Speaker 2: the message? What did it say?
Speaker 1: It was a request, Watson, a request with which Kiro
Speaker 1: would be quick to comply. The police are patrolling the
Speaker 1: road for a black haired husky knife sharpener that they
Speaker 1: may not find it.
Speaker 6: That this is it?
Speaker 1: Yes, my name encoded, Now Watson, the.
Speaker 7: That little instrument, we shall have the answered the riddle.
Speaker 2: Listen, I still don't understand why you selected Cairo Holmes
Speaker 2: and what in creation the.
Speaker 3: Telly You must miss a word.
Speaker 1: The homicidally and crime gentlemen were searching for maybe punching
Speaker 1: his knife into another victim.
Speaker 7: Even if he said, here, haple.
Speaker 5: Any noise the shopman, Yes, I'm glad you come by.
Speaker 6: It won't shook me like mind.
Speaker 5: But just push my stone into the kitchen.
Speaker 6: It's right.
Speaker 5: Yes, here we are minted.
Speaker 6: Aren't you working rather late?
Speaker 5: This evening? Poor man was then a living every chili
Speaker 5: apstre You know my servants are off the evening.
Speaker 3: But cook told me that the knives that needed sharp.
Speaker 14: In this.
Speaker 5: Here they are.
Speaker 6: Thanks cute.
Speaker 14: Now just watch me, smooth, smooth, The edge becomes fine,
Speaker 14: very fine.
Speaker 6: The blade must be keen, so key, would you mind.
Speaker 5: To close the door man, there's a bit of a draw.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Now, then steps closer than the wheel man. Don't be
Speaker 5: frightened at the spot. You'll see how the stone caresses
Speaker 5: the steel, how it strokes the way the rock edge is.
Speaker 6: Let's ship men closer.
Speaker 3: To my arm. Let go, you'll break my arm.
Speaker 5: I want to be very sure you will stay right here.
Speaker 5: If you don't, honor, I'm not just in everyday, not
Speaker 5: the garden variety in Peter After a lovely woman not
Speaker 5: by any Pickering didn't recognize me. You sent it it
Speaker 5: Pickerings earlier he died by stealing. I promised myself that
Speaker 5: you and Whistle would die that way too. I know
Speaker 5: you coaxed me into the experiment with the alloys. You
Speaker 5: scheme with Pickering. You use my attraction to you was
Speaker 5: a lover, so that you both might learn the post.
Speaker 8: Then when it seemed to be a failure, you persuaded
Speaker 8: me to leave England.
Speaker 6: So the two of you might revel in the prophets.
Speaker 5: I'm going to cut your throat with this steel. It
Speaker 5: is painful, but not so long. Pickering died quickly.
Speaker 6: It's just one broke like fish.
Speaker 7: My name is lock home Sis, I'm a criminal investigator.
Speaker 5: Gave away from me. I'm very andy with his knives,
Speaker 5: so we observed.
Speaker 10: Just batter this chair air and tear my way through
Speaker 10: this windows gone through?
Speaker 2: Then come on see him up there, confounded homes. It's
Speaker 2: so blasted dark out there.
Speaker 1: I never mind playing capt'n mouse with him. I know
Speaker 1: where he'll go. Where he knows the town's on to him.
Speaker 1: Therefore he'll hide. And where would he hide? The one
Speaker 1: face that's most familiar to him. By the huge fires
Speaker 1: and the buckling caldrons of the steel foundry run what's run?
Speaker 2: The heat by this steel furnaces is unbearable. Homes, thousands
Speaker 2: of degrees in those ovens.
Speaker 3: You have to bear it.
Speaker 1: Watsons who we find this to Benash He's somewhere in
Speaker 1: this foundry our wage out.
Speaker 2: You're right, I see him there he goes, racing past
Speaker 2: the furnace, way down the other end.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 7: Yes, he's climbing a ladder to the catwalk.
Speaker 5: Of us this way home.
Speaker 12: Let's flop after it.
Speaker 1: Oh, there you are, mister Holmes, Rightney, Do you armed
Speaker 1: as I suggest it?
Speaker 6: Yet?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 1: There Bennett high on the catwalk. See him walking ginger
Speaker 1: ay like a human fly along the curtain.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I see him.
Speaker 6: Come down from there, Bennett. I'm warning you.
Speaker 3: If you don't come down, I'll shoot.
Speaker 10: Never come down.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting.
Speaker 7: I'll try away.
Speaker 12: Look he's staggering, he's falling.
Speaker 10: He's going to falld that coral of hot metal.
Speaker 3: You know, Homes.
Speaker 2: I do not intend to leave this railway station and
Speaker 2: board the trains to London. In fact, I do not
Speaker 2: intend to budge from here until you explain why you
Speaker 2: telegraph pirates.
Speaker 1: And i'd better explain, Watson, since I shall desire the
Speaker 1: pleasure of your company on the journey. The Specond newspaper
Speaker 1: was not entirely blank, Watson.
Speaker 3: It was a smudge on.
Speaker 1: It is hardly a spunge. The slight marking on it
Speaker 1: was a Coptic g Er, the Coptic G. The Cops,
Speaker 1: my dear Watson, are an ancient minority of Muslim Egypt.
Speaker 1: They have a singular language. And it's a fascinating fact
Speaker 1: of contemporary journalism. The Just one One newspaper on Earth
Speaker 1: publishes a considerable number of items in Coptic as well
Speaker 1: as in English. It's a newspaper in Cairo. All that
Speaker 1: was on the paper we found was the letter G
Speaker 1: in Coptic, so one could then deduce that the crucial
Speaker 1: clipping must have come from a.
Speaker 7: Newspaper in Cairo.
Speaker 1: I see I telegraphed the request to repeat the exact
Speaker 1: wording of any account they'd published recently concerning the Pickering
Speaker 1: Griswold steel work.
Speaker 12: Oh, I see her.
Speaker 2: They telegraphed the contents of the clippers, which must have
Speaker 2: mentioned Bennett.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it was a story about the brilliant success
Speaker 1: of the steel work based upon the Bennett process that
Speaker 1: made Bennett the sole missing member of the triangle, our
Speaker 1: most likely culprit. The fact that he'd done away with
Speaker 1: Pickering made it clear he would then be after and Griswold,
Speaker 1: which is why we headed to her.
Speaker 2: Home, astonishing her astonished how you maneuver these men into
Speaker 2: their Duke Watson.
Speaker 1: When a man crosses the border of morality into the
Speaker 1: alien wastelands of climate, no matter where he roams, he
Speaker 1: has an inevitable rendezvous at two twenty one b bakers Well,
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, the shocking adventure of the Knife of Vengeance
Speaker 1: was certainly caused for admiring mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Resourceful, Well, you.
Speaker 2: Will find even greater cause for marveling at homes, just
Speaker 2: resided mister Harris, when I relate next week's adventure.
Speaker 1: And what is that adventure? Doctor?
Speaker 2: Watch Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you
Speaker 2: the adventure of the Fabulous Celebrities.
Speaker 3: It concerns the who
Speaker 2: Terrorized London, an old man who couldn't jump over a
Speaker 2: stile and a pair of spotty boots.