Speaker 1: And now let's look in on our genial friend and
Speaker 1: good host, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Good eading, doctor, good.
Speaker 3: Evening, mister Bartell, punctual to the minute.
Speaker 1: As usual, Never keep a doctor waiting, I always say,
Speaker 1: particularly doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: Her door up a chair, boy, thank you. That's it,
Speaker 3: that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: All ready to tell us the Sherlock Holms Adventure of
Speaker 1: the Speckled Band.
Speaker 3: Dont yes, I'm already, mister Bartle.
Speaker 2: Say doctor, just what does a speckle band mean?
Speaker 4: You wait until I've told you the story, Young pulam
Speaker 4: a lad.
Speaker 3: You'll find out for yourself.
Speaker 1: Sorry, the flora is all yours, doctor.
Speaker 4: The Adventure of the Speckled Band began on a rainy
Speaker 4: April morning in eighteen hundred and eighty three, an urgent
Speaker 4: call from one of my patients that kept me up
Speaker 4: most of the night before, and in consequence I came
Speaker 4: down to my breakfast rather later than usual to find
Speaker 4: that homes already left our house some hours earlier. As
Speaker 4: I sat there reading the morning paper and consuming my
Speaker 4: two likely burled eggs, the knock the door to disclose
Speaker 4: the typical example of the British working man, A bag
Speaker 4: of tools in one hand and a Grammy cap in
Speaker 4: the other, because he spoke to me from the.
Speaker 3: Doorway he sent for me. Mister Rams, I'm not mister.
Speaker 5: Who I beg your pardon? God, No, but I've come
Speaker 5: them in the guest bracket over the mantel feet.
Speaker 3: What's wrong with it?
Speaker 2: I can't leaking it.
Speaker 3: Wrong? Will you work?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I won't be disturbing your No, No.
Speaker 3: It's all right. The man don't mind me, very untidy man. Misterms,
Speaker 3: what do you mean by that?
Speaker 5: Well, you can't help notice in the myths this room's
Speaker 5: in Arvid say he was as tardy as anybody started,
Speaker 5: but he learned bad evits from what lived with him. Uh,
Speaker 5: doctor Watson, I in his name, you and pertan fellow?
Speaker 4: Do you talk to me like that? I've got a
Speaker 4: good knot for Wady. As you go to here, you've
Speaker 4: come out of there. That's mister Holmes's room.
Speaker 2: I'll be angry with him.
Speaker 5: Watson plus slipping up of these grimy rags into a
Speaker 5: dressing gown.
Speaker 4: So you von Massola, I'd never recognized you.
Speaker 3: But why the disguise o case?
Speaker 2: Myliar watching the case?
Speaker 5: One of those small problems which are trusting.
Speaker 2: Public occasionally confides to my investigation.
Speaker 3: Ahhuh.
Speaker 2: To the British workman.
Speaker 5: Old chap, all doors are open, his costume is unostentatious,
Speaker 5: and his habits are sociable. Tool bag is an excellent passport,
Speaker 5: and attorney mustache will secure the cooperation of maids.
Speaker 3: It what's the case home?
Speaker 5: Or modest little drama of life in the kitchen one
Speaker 5: of those seemingly inconsequential affairs. And yet, Watson, the honor
Speaker 5: of a duchess is at stake the mad world, my masters.
Speaker 2: The mad world.
Speaker 5: Ah, now I feel a little more comfortable. Let's return
Speaker 5: to the sitting room, shall we? Strong cup of tea
Speaker 5: would just acceptable?
Speaker 3: Should tell me about the duchess life in the kitchen home?
Speaker 2: It's another time, offer some other time.
Speaker 5: At the moment, suppose you tell me what you know
Speaker 5: about miss Helen Stoner. I received a letter from her
Speaker 5: this morning, in which he informed me that you would
Speaker 5: be calling here at eleven, and also that she was
Speaker 5: a friend of your Helen Sooner.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, a charming girl in.
Speaker 2: Boont me a cup of tea, Watson, and tell me
Speaker 2: about her.
Speaker 4: Well, I befrilled her at the time of the tragic
Speaker 4: death of her sister two years ago.
Speaker 3: I told you about the kise.
Speaker 4: Remember the sudden death of Violet Stoner at an old
Speaker 4: house in Stoke, Moran.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, it all comes back to me.
Speaker 5: Now there was a there was an inquest, wasn't there
Speaker 5: with a string of stupid.
Speaker 2: Ineffective witnesses.
Speaker 3: I was one of them.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, or fellow, then you were the exception
Speaker 5: of course. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Let me see.
Speaker 5: I docketed the evidence on the case.
Speaker 3: Where is it? Here?
Speaker 2: We are here, we are Let me see. Yes, s S.
Speaker 2: Salisbury hatchet murder, Lordson's son. Here we are here, we.
Speaker 5: Are Stoke, Moran. Yes, I remember the affair well now
Speaker 5: the villain of the piece was doctor Grimsby Roylet, wasn't.
Speaker 3: He, Yes, a dreadful fellow.
Speaker 4: He's the stepfather to girl's Volet, the one that died
Speaker 4: so mysteriously Helen, the one who's.
Speaker 3: Coming here to see you.
Speaker 2: Doctor Roylett is a pretty record fifty.
Speaker 5: Five years of age, killed his kit mcgun on India
Speaker 5: once in an insane asylum, married money wife, died distinguished
Speaker 5: surgeon will Watson. I wonder what the distinguished surgeon has
Speaker 5: been up to.
Speaker 3: Now, some devil her?
Speaker 2: Why you say that?
Speaker 4: You remember that this Violet Stoner's death followed close upon
Speaker 4: the announcement of her engagements. Well, I met miss Helen's
Speaker 4: Stone on the streets a few weeks ago. She told
Speaker 4: me that she'd just become engaged to a young fellow
Speaker 4: in the army who was leaving for.
Speaker 3: The Far East.
Speaker 4: She was really upset the thought of being alone with
Speaker 4: her stepfather at Stoke Moran.
Speaker 5: Who naturally was Hmmm, doctor Roylett stands to lose a
Speaker 5: considerable sum of money in the event of his stepdaughter's marriage.
Speaker 4: Yes, they both had a trust fund, which he administered
Speaker 4: only as long as the girls were unmarried. That fact
Speaker 4: was brought out of the coroner's inquest two years ago.
Speaker 4: But if Riolet did poison the other stepdaughter, and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty convinced that he did, it seems unlikely that he
Speaker 4: tried again. Two sudden deaths at the same household could
Speaker 4: hardly pass the coroner.
Speaker 5: Oh no, my dear watch, you're making the mistake of
Speaker 5: putting your normal brain into Rolliot's abnormal being.
Speaker 3: That would be miss Sterner.
Speaker 5: Now, yes, let me see it's precisely eleven o'clock. Well,
Speaker 5: let's see what we can do for that.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope you can help her homes. She's extremely
Speaker 4: nice girl.
Speaker 2: Yes, missus Hudson, there's a miss.
Speaker 6: Helen Stoner to see you, sir.
Speaker 3: She says, she hasn't appointment.
Speaker 2: Show her in.
Speaker 7: Please, Missus Hudson, Ay, sir, come in, my dear thank you,
Speaker 7: Miss Sterner.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm so glad to see you again.
Speaker 7: How do you do, Dr Watson? And this must be
Speaker 7: your friend, Yes.
Speaker 2: Missterner, I'm Shulock Holmes. Sit down to the five one.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is please you matter. Hello ya, you're trembling
Speaker 3: with cold.
Speaker 7: It's not cold, miss me shiver. Tell me, mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: Has my stepfather, doctor Grimsby Royle had been here?
Speaker 8: He hasn't.
Speaker 6: He saw me in the street.
Speaker 7: I dashed by him in a handsome cab, but he
Speaker 7: saw me. Our eyes met and he waved me to stop.
Speaker 7: But I came here as fast as I could.
Speaker 2: Very sensible move.
Speaker 5: Doctor Watson has already given me several hints to your
Speaker 5: present problem, as well as having refreshed my memory as
Speaker 5: to the circle instances of your sister's death.
Speaker 7: My problem is a simple enough one, mister Holmes. I'm
Speaker 7: I'm waiting to be murdered.
Speaker 2: More explicit, mis Donner.
Speaker 7: Very well, mister Holmes, My say is leaving for the
Speaker 7: Far East today. When he leaves, I shall be alone
Speaker 7: with my stepfather at Stoke Morne. He plans to murder me,
Speaker 7: just as he murdered my sister.
Speaker 2: What makes you say that, miss Doner.
Speaker 7: Many strange things have happened recently. For instance, he's just
Speaker 7: moved me to the bedroom in which my sister died.
Speaker 3: What reason did he give for changing your room?
Speaker 7: That my old one needed repainting? It didn't need it,
Speaker 7: but doctor Roylett did need to move me into.
Speaker 6: That horrible room. And other things have happened.
Speaker 7: I I've heard the music again, want music. My sister
Speaker 7: first heard it a few days before she died. I
Speaker 7: heard it myself on that dreadful night she breathed her last.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmer, I'm terrified.
Speaker 2: My dear, Please body anymore. You are friends to help you?
Speaker 2: Now you mind if I ask you a few questions?
Speaker 5: No, nuts music does it's to come from inside the
Speaker 5: house or outside?
Speaker 6: Well? It it's hard to say it. It sounds so faint.
Speaker 6: What's it like, a sort of soft droning.
Speaker 2: Sound, like a fruit or a pipe.
Speaker 7: Yes, it reminds me of native music I heard during my.
Speaker 6: Childhood in India, India.
Speaker 7: Well, the one other thing that puzzles me, mister Holmes,
Speaker 7: what's that my sister's dying words?
Speaker 6: And she lay in my arms. She gasped out two words.
Speaker 2: What were they?
Speaker 3: Band?
Speaker 6: And speckled?
Speaker 7: You remember that evidence from the inquest? Don't you doctor watch?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 5: I couldn't make her to tell band speckled Indian music,
Speaker 5: Miss Tona.
Speaker 2: Do you sleep at your door and windows fastened?
Speaker 7: Yes, mister Holmes, but so did poor Violet. It didn't
Speaker 7: save her, though.
Speaker 5: Why did you gather from your sister's dying allusion to
Speaker 5: the band, the speckled band?
Speaker 7: Well, sometimes I thought it was merely the wild talk
Speaker 7: of delirium, and sometimes that it referred to a band
Speaker 7: of people. I remember that there were some Gypsies in
Speaker 7: camp quite Nearest at the time of Violet's death.
Speaker 2: Gypsy say yes, And it.
Speaker 7: Occurred to me that they spotted gay colored kerchiefs, which
Speaker 7: so many of them were over their heads, might have
Speaker 7: suggested the unusual adjective which my sister used.
Speaker 3: Is it since you heard the strange music that you've
Speaker 3: told us about?
Speaker 6: I heard it last night.
Speaker 2: Leaves today?
Speaker 5: Well, Misterner, I shall do everything I can to help you.
Speaker 5: If we were to come to Stoke Moran today, would
Speaker 5: it be possible to see over your rooms without the
Speaker 5: knowledge of your stepfather?
Speaker 6: I think so.
Speaker 7: He told me this morning that he intended to take
Speaker 7: a late train home tonight.
Speaker 5: That's splendid Watson. Out of the time table, old fellow,
Speaker 5: and look up the trains to Stoke Moran.
Speaker 3: Aren't your home?
Speaker 6: That's my stepfather?
Speaker 2: I know it is.
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, just there he is on the Doorstet followed me.
Speaker 7: What should I do if you find me here?
Speaker 2: Body, Misstna, Please don't worry. There's a private exit through
Speaker 2: that room there, Watson, sure the way.
Speaker 9: Will you come along with me and you will come
Speaker 9: down to day miss home?
Speaker 5: Certainly, my dear Missterner, I'll telegraph you the entire time
Speaker 5: of our record.
Speaker 2: Goodbye and courage, my dear.
Speaker 6: Goodbye, mister Holmes, and thank you.
Speaker 3: Come along with quickly?
Speaker 2: Come in, Yes, missus.
Speaker 7: Hudson a gentleman, sir told him you wouldn't see anyone
Speaker 7: without an appointment, but he out of the way.
Speaker 2: Woman, you push me like that.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, mister Holmes, that's all right, missu Hudson, you
Speaker 5: can leave us.
Speaker 10: What kind of gentleman does he'd call himself pushing an
Speaker 10: old lady.
Speaker 2: So your Sirlock home, you have the advantage of me, sir.
Speaker 11: Your name is My name, Sir is Roilet, doctor Grimsby Roylet.
Speaker 3: Of stock Moran.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, of course, a charming place out here and
Speaker 5: obviously good for the London.
Speaker 11: You won't trifle with me if you know what's good
Speaker 11: for you.
Speaker 2: Watson. They you are and how was the uh the experiment?
Speaker 3: Very successful? Homes to day to you, doctor Roylet.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen you since I gave evidence at your
Speaker 4: stepdaughter's inquest.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I remember you, doctor Watson. Now listen to me,
Speaker 11: you too. My stepdaughter's been here. I faced her what
Speaker 11: she been saying to you?
Speaker 3: Little cold?
Speaker 5: At this time of the year, isn't it you answer me?
Speaker 5: I hear that the circuses promised, well.
Speaker 2: You dare to try and put me after you?
Speaker 3: I know you, you scoundrel. Your home's the.
Speaker 5: Meddler and I'm homes the busy body believe that a
Speaker 5: man should occupy his time homes the Scotland yard check
Speaker 5: in office. When you go out, close the door won't
Speaker 5: show there's a draft. I'll go when I've had my seat.
Speaker 5: Keep your nose out of my affairs. You hear, Oh, yes,
Speaker 5: my hearing is excellent. Thank you and your addiction and
Speaker 5: delivery most possible. But time flies, my dear doctor. Time flyers,
Speaker 5: and it has its duties as well as pleasures.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, insolent for Rascal.
Speaker 10: Here see this poker.
Speaker 5: Oh, the fire doesn't need poking, Thank you doctor.
Speaker 2: But I should be obliged if you don't put some
Speaker 2: more col upon me.
Speaker 10: You laugh at me. You don't know my strength. Look there,
Speaker 10: your poker's bent double. That's what I'll do to both
Speaker 10: of you. Don't keep out of my affairs.
Speaker 2: I had a presentiment that he'd slammed the door.
Speaker 3: He's an ugly customer as well as.
Speaker 5: Figuratively, Wat's might be much obliged. If you get your evolver.
Speaker 5: It may prove to be an excellent argument with a
Speaker 5: gentleman who.
Speaker 2: Twists iron pokers into knots.
Speaker 3: Fellows amazingly strong. Just look at it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to alp here flann boyant.
Speaker 4: But ah, there we are great cut homes.
Speaker 3: You straightened the poker out again.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was utterly useless in its former shape. And
Speaker 5: now what's on the time table. We'll catch the next
Speaker 5: fast train to stop my an.
Speaker 7: Home, mister Holmes. Dr Watson, I'm so relieved that you've come.
Speaker 7: But don't you think my stepfather might have followed you
Speaker 7: down here to.
Speaker 2: Take that chance?
Speaker 5: By stoner, a few hours delay might mean the difference
Speaker 5: between our life and death. It was imperative that we
Speaker 5: examine this room of yours before doctor Roylett returned.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Madare, you mustn't worry anymore. We're here in your
Speaker 4: house and we're going to take good care no matter what.
Speaker 3: Calm before you.
Speaker 6: Thank you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the roman which your's sister died, is it?
Speaker 2: It's which as I pictured it.
Speaker 3: And doctor Royaler's room it joins this one, you say, misterna, yes.
Speaker 7: Doctor on that side the room which it joins it.
Speaker 7: On the other side is my regular.
Speaker 2: Bedroom one that's being so conveniently painted. Day.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, let's examine this room. No trap doors or
Speaker 5: sliding pannels.
Speaker 2: I suppose.
Speaker 3: Sounds solid enough home.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think it is. What's it? Are you aware
Speaker 2: that this bed is camped to the floor, Miss Stona?
Speaker 7: Why no, No, mister Holmes, Are I to thro that extraordinary?
Speaker 2: Was the bed in your other room anchored? Also?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 5: I don't think it was very illuminating. And this bell
Speaker 5: pull hanging against the wall above your bed, Oh.
Speaker 6: That it doesn't work.
Speaker 7: If you want a ring, there's another one on the
Speaker 7: other wall over there.
Speaker 2: No, why this one?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7: My stepfather made a number of changes after we came here.
Speaker 5: There's quite a burst of activity apparently, and it took
Speaker 5: some strange shapes.
Speaker 3: Why are you standing on the bed at home?
Speaker 5: I'm cureious, my dear fellow. Ah, it may interest you
Speaker 5: to know that this bell rope is fast into a
Speaker 5: brass hook.
Speaker 2: There's no wild attachment. It's a dummy.
Speaker 3: Dummy.
Speaker 2: Why there's a small screen above it?
Speaker 5: It's a ventilator, I suppose, Yes, mister Holmes. Yes, a
Speaker 5: ventilator leading into your stepfather's room. Curious, I noticed there's
Speaker 5: no means of opening the ventilator on this side. It
Speaker 5: can only be operated from your stepfather's room next door.
Speaker 5: I wonder if you'd mind taking us in there, of course, mister.
Speaker 6: Holmes, follow me.
Speaker 3: What do you make it at homes?
Speaker 2: There's devil's work a foot old chap.
Speaker 7: Here we are, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3: That's the same as the other room, bit bigger.
Speaker 5: Perhaps that large safe against the wall seems to be
Speaker 5: an unusual piece of bedroom furniture.
Speaker 2: What is it, miss Doner?
Speaker 6: My stepfather's business papers.
Speaker 3: You've seen inside it then only.
Speaker 7: Once, some years ago. I remember that it was full
Speaker 7: of documents.
Speaker 5: That's the source of nook doing on top of it?
Speaker 5: Does doctor Roler keep a cat?
Speaker 6: No, but he does have a cheater and have a
Speaker 6: bruin as pets. He brought them with him from India.
Speaker 3: Will Holmes, cheetah is just a big cat.
Speaker 5: True, But I doubt if the saucer of milk with
Speaker 5: gerberty fare and satisfying the appetite of a cheetah. Well,
Speaker 5: I think I've seen enough. This matter is too serious
Speaker 5: for hesitation. Our life may depend upon your following my instructions,
Speaker 5: Miss Homer.
Speaker 6: I'll do anything you say, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Anything is that village in I see through the trees
Speaker 2: from this window.
Speaker 6: Yes, the Queen's arms, your.
Speaker 5: Bedroom windows would be visible from there, yes, But well,
Speaker 5: then Watson and I will go there now and obtain accommodations.
Speaker 5: When your stepfather returns, you just confine yourself to your
Speaker 5: room on the.
Speaker 2: Pretense of a headache. You follow me perfectly.
Speaker 5: When doctor Roylert returns for the night, must open your
Speaker 5: bedroom window and put your lamp on the sill as
Speaker 5: a signal to us at the m then with door
Speaker 5: quietly to your usual bedroom, the one that's been painted.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you could manage there for one.
Speaker 6: Night, of course, but what will you do when.
Speaker 2: We get your signal?
Speaker 5: Dr Watson and I will come here and spend the
Speaker 5: night in your dead sister's room. We are going to
Speaker 5: solve this mystery of the dummy Bill Rupe and the
Speaker 5: unusual ventilator and the strange music in the night.
Speaker 1: You'll hear the remainder of doctor Watson's story in just
Speaker 1: a second. So I'm just going to point out that
Speaker 1: at any really important dinner, you know, like when diplomats
Speaker 1: get together, you'll find wine on the table, Because for
Speaker 1: years it's been a known fact that good wine.
Speaker 2: Makes good food taste.
Speaker 1: Better prove that to yourself tomorrow night, by having your
Speaker 1: dinner together with a glass of Petree wine. If you
Speaker 1: prefer red wine for any meat or meat dish, try
Speaker 1: a Petrie California Burgundy.
Speaker 2: That rich, hearty red.
Speaker 1: Petrie Burgundy is really out of this world.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: If you'd rather have a subtle, intriguing white wine, let's
Speaker 1: say to go with chicken or fish, then try Petrie
Speaker 1: California so turned but so turn or Burgundy. To make
Speaker 1: sure it's good. Make sure it's Petre, won't you? Well, Doctor,
Speaker 1: it's telling good stories so far.
Speaker 2: What happened next?
Speaker 1: You went to the local inn, I guess, and waited
Speaker 1: for that lantern to appear in the bedroom window. Doctor
Speaker 1: Roylott's house, that's right was a barto.
Speaker 4: We had an early dinner at the Queen's Arms, and
Speaker 4: then retired to our upstairs bedroom and sat there side
Speaker 4: by side, puffing away.
Speaker 3: At our pipes, our eyes.
Speaker 4: Training through the darkness that tell Taylor lantern to give
Speaker 4: us the signal that there was dangerous work ahead for us.
Speaker 4: As we sat there discussing the various aspects of the case,
Speaker 4: I remember that Holmes was very concerned about my own safety.
Speaker 5: Watson and I I really have some scruples about taking
Speaker 5: you with me tonight.
Speaker 2: This is an infernally dangerous business.
Speaker 4: What about that poor girl alone in the house that
Speaker 4: fiend toilet can handled.
Speaker 2: The case by myself? Pho chep.
Speaker 3: I'm coming with you, Holmes. You speak of danger. We
Speaker 3: haven't seen more in those rooms than was visible to me.
Speaker 5: But possibly I've deduced a little more. And I imagine
Speaker 5: you saw all that I did.
Speaker 4: No, I saw nothing. Remark we'll slip the bell rope.
Speaker 4: And what purpose that could answer? I can first, is
Speaker 4: more than I can imagine.
Speaker 2: It's all the ventilator two years.
Speaker 4: But I don't think such an unusual thing to have
Speaker 4: an opening between two rooms so small that a mouse
Speaker 4: could hardly pass through it.
Speaker 5: True, but at least you will admit there was a
Speaker 5: curious sequence of coincidences. A ventilator is constructed, a bell
Speaker 5: cord is hung from it. A lady sleeps in a
Speaker 5: bed directly below the ventilator, a bed that is anchored
Speaker 5: to the floor.
Speaker 2: A lady dies.
Speaker 3: I begin to see what you're driving at homes. Look, look, look,
Speaker 3: look there's a lantern in miss Tonis window.
Speaker 5: It's our signal, all right, Come on, Watson, our night's
Speaker 5: vigil begins.
Speaker 12: Oh what a foul night, full night of foul business.
Speaker 5: Watson, Come on through these lower bushes. It's only another
Speaker 5: fifty yards of the house.
Speaker 3: Was the lantern still burning away in the bedroom window?
Speaker 2: Yes, all the other lights are out, including.
Speaker 3: The one and Doc Roylert's room. He must have gone
Speaker 3: to sleep.
Speaker 2: For dead, possibly, Watson, but not, I think to sleep.
Speaker 4: Great Heaven's homes. Look at that frightful creature leaping out
Speaker 4: in the moonlight.
Speaker 3: It looks like some hideous.
Speaker 2: Child, asked doctor Roylet's pet.
Speaker 3: The boone looks positively human.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably a great deal more so than it's master.
Speaker 2: He directly blow the window.
Speaker 5: Now his eye provides a most convenient ladder. I've got
Speaker 5: first carefle homes carefol Wait.
Speaker 2: A minute, I.
Speaker 4: Hope for things strong enough to hold us both, he looks,
Speaker 4: which is stupid our backs in the mud.
Speaker 3: Get a hand with homes.
Speaker 10: I can't quite get my leg up over the splinder
Speaker 10: ledge gear.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Come on, Oh say shoot a close the window shut.
Speaker 3: This room looks exactly like the same as it did
Speaker 3: this afternoon.
Speaker 2: The sound would be fatal to our plans.
Speaker 5: Keep the lamp cupboard so that if the thinker latter
Speaker 5: is open from doctor Roylitt's room, no light will show
Speaker 5: from in there.
Speaker 3: I said, why are you carrying that stick home?
Speaker 2: Prepared for a visitor that I expect before the.
Speaker 3: Night is over?
Speaker 5: The visitor who herald his entrance with faint music from
Speaker 5: an Indian pipe. You mean the music is a signal, exactly,
Speaker 5: old fellow, the signal to an accomplass who can enter
Speaker 5: a room with locked doors, and a compass who kills
Speaker 5: and leave no trace. You mean that sh Now are talking, Watson.
Speaker 5: I'll sit on the edge of the bed here. You
Speaker 5: sit on that chair. Have your revolve already in case
Speaker 5: you you should need it about your arm. Have the
Speaker 5: lantern ready too, and I shout, now turn the light
Speaker 5: full on the top of.
Speaker 2: The bell rope. You understand He's perfectly good. Now we
Speaker 2: must wait, perhaps for some time, but don't go to sleep, wats.
Speaker 2: And you've got to sleep.
Speaker 5: You very loof may depend on it.
Speaker 8: Ooh ah, Wat's yes, you're not smoking?
Speaker 3: Are you? I smoked? Tobacco smoke must be drifting from
Speaker 3: the vent to exactly, doctor Lolet's up, look knock o'clock.
Speaker 10: There's a kind of.
Speaker 2: Shots of light showing up in the bent of Ah. Listen,
Speaker 2: there's the music, Yes, Herald England, messenger of death. Have
Speaker 2: you a lantern ready, Watson.
Speaker 9: What's ups? It's asleep slitting down the barrow.
Speaker 2: Do you talk to him?
Speaker 9: Stick hold on the way, Let me get it back
Speaker 9: the way, can't get.
Speaker 3: Out stack for event later.
Speaker 9: Oh what a.
Speaker 3: Penish plan a cut with there?
Speaker 5: I think the devil has turned on its master. Come on,
Speaker 5: Watson into doctor Ronald Trump.
Speaker 4: Light, don't turn roylight, cop good lord Holmes.
Speaker 3: Look at him spot on the bed, look at his eyes.
Speaker 2: Yes, and see what his coil around his forehead.
Speaker 3: It's the snake.
Speaker 5: Yes, the band, the speckled band. He's dead, Homes, Yes,
Speaker 5: he's been bitten up at its taking the world. The
Speaker 5: Indian swamp err deadly fangs produce death within ten seconds. Well, Watson,
Speaker 5: violence does in truth recoil upon the violent, and the
Speaker 5: schema falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Speaker 3: What should we do now, Homes.
Speaker 5: We must remove the macabre head gear from the dead
Speaker 5: doctor and returned the snake to its den. Ah, and
Speaker 5: I suggest that we tell miss Turner that there's no
Speaker 5: more danger under this roof. After that we can tell
Speaker 5: the matter over to the local police.
Speaker 11: Hour is done.
Speaker 7: How mister Holmes, Dr Watson, I can't tell you how
Speaker 7: greatly am that you brought.
Speaker 5: Me back into It would have been in human to
Speaker 5: leave you in that house of horror and death. We
Speaker 5: have a spare bedroom, and missus Hudson is a motherly
Speaker 5: and understanding woman, and I can assure you that Doctor
Speaker 5: Watson and I will be delighted to have you stay
Speaker 5: with us here until you've decided on your future plans.
Speaker 4: Of course we will mind. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: we're rather refreshing to have a touch of youth about
Speaker 4: the place.
Speaker 6: You're both so kind, mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: I think it's wonderful how you foil my stepfather's devilish pens.
Speaker 4: Yes, wasn't it a remarkable example of logical to do.
Speaker 2: At first, you're mention of the Gypsys missteroner.
Speaker 5: The use of the word ben put me on an
Speaker 5: entirely wrong sent However, when we examined the fatal room,
Speaker 5: I drew the obvious conclusion.
Speaker 3: Was a dummy bell rope, the ventilator and the immovable bed.
Speaker 2: Yes, old fellow the instantly gave rise to the suspicion that.
Speaker 5: The rope was there as a bridge for something coming
Speaker 5: through the ventilator and traveling to the bed.
Speaker 2: I once thought a snake.
Speaker 5: When I saw the source of milk on top of
Speaker 5: the safe. My suspicions crystallized into a certainty.
Speaker 4: Is a fiendish person, extremely clever, one too exactly My
Speaker 4: stepfather must.
Speaker 6: Have trained to return to him. And he played the music.
Speaker 5: Yes, he put it through the ventilator, and with a
Speaker 5: certain it would crawl down the rope and land on
Speaker 5: the bed.
Speaker 2: It might or might not bite the occupant.
Speaker 5: Perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but
Speaker 5: sooner or later she must follow victim.
Speaker 6: Thank Heaven, I came to you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Amen to that, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4: If you hadn't lasted the snake with your stick, I
Speaker 4: bet it wouldn't turned.
Speaker 5: Back on its master, true old chap In that way,
Speaker 5: I am no doubt indirectly responsible for doctor Grimsby Rlett's death,
Speaker 5: but I can't say it's a fact that it's likely
Speaker 5: to be too heavily on my conscience.
Speaker 1: Doctor, that was quite a fascinating story. You know something,
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly a coward, but not kidding. My toes
Speaker 1: really curl when I get mixed up with snakes, not.
Speaker 3: Alone in that respective stucker. I must admit that I
Speaker 3: like to have a revolver and at.
Speaker 4: Least twenty feet between me and any snake it wants
Speaker 4: to cross my phone.
Speaker 1: Well, if you want a revolver in twenty feet, I'll
Speaker 1: take a cannon in twenty miles.
Speaker 4: It's funny that you're a wine expert, mister Botton, not
Speaker 4: a detective. I'm afraid you wouldn't do Should we say
Speaker 4: fine detecting to your liking?
Speaker 3: We certainly shall say it.
Speaker 1: And incidentally, I'm not a wine expert doctor or I
Speaker 1: know about wine is that it either tastes good or
Speaker 1: it doesn't. And I also know that Petrie wine always
Speaker 1: tastes good. The Petrie family says to that the name
Speaker 1: Petrie on the label is the personal assurance of the
Speaker 1: Petrie family that every drop of wine in that bottle
Speaker 1: is good wine, and they know how to make it
Speaker 1: good because they've been making fine wine for generations, handing
Speaker 1: down from father to son, from father to son, every secret,
Speaker 1: every skill of the winemaker's eye. Yes, the Patrie family
Speaker 1: took time to bring you good wine. That's why I
Speaker 1: no matter what type of wine you wish, you can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with a pattere wine. Well, doctor Watson, what
Speaker 1: news sher Lock Home story you're planning to tell us
Speaker 1: next week?
Speaker 3: The Messina And next week.
Speaker 4: Mister Botel, I'm I think I'll tell you an adventure
Speaker 4: that took place at a gambling casino in the south
Speaker 4: of France. A strange story of sudden tragedy and death.
Speaker 4: I call it the Adventure of the Double Zero.
Speaker 1: Sounds well, we'll all be listening, you know.
Speaker 3: Mister Bartel.
Speaker 4: Before I go, I want to say that everyone of
Speaker 4: our friends bought war bonds to help our boys win
Speaker 4: the war. Now let's all buy victory bonds to help
Speaker 4: bring our boys back home again. Yes, and let's buy
Speaker 4: victor bonds to make sure that the men were wounded
Speaker 4: look at the finest possible care. Those same victory bonds
Speaker 4: will not make the gi Bill of Rights success tool,
Speaker 4: and they'll help provide for the families of those men
Speaker 4: who gave everything.
Speaker 3: Including their lives. The men of our armed forces finished
Speaker 3: their job. Now let's finish ours by victory arms.