Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, what about tonight Sherlock Holmes's adventure.
Speaker 2: Yes, it concerns the weekend Holmes and Nice spent at
Speaker 2: Bowman's Knock among the Toxopholites, the what Alites, Toxophelites, Mister Harris,
Speaker 2: our gentlemen addicted to the not so gentle sport of archery.
Speaker 3: Oh, you mean the boys who play around with balls
Speaker 3: and arrow. I suppose you might express it that way.
Speaker 2: Bowman's Knock was the country home of Sir Timothy Fletcher,
Speaker 2: who was at that time president of the Royal Toxophalite Society.
Speaker 2: The Prince of Wales, of course, was its patron. Naturally, however,
Speaker 2: he wasn't present at this particular house party. Besides Holmes
Speaker 2: and myself, there were only four other guests, Major and
Speaker 2: Missus Cheltenham, Professor Phil Potts, and the South American millionaire
Speaker 2: Senor Juan Vindrigo.
Speaker 4: Little did I think.
Speaker 2: When I first made their acquaintance on Sir Timothy shooting green,
Speaker 2: that before the next sunrise I should see one of
Speaker 2: them dead.
Speaker 1: As a door nail.
Speaker 3: All sounds as if your tax offhe fee, whatever you
Speaker 3: call them, took their sports seriously.
Speaker 2: Doctor want yes a bit too seriously, mister Harris. It
Speaker 2: was a beautiful sunny afternoon in early spring when helms
Speaker 2: and I lighted from our train at Helmsley on Wilton,
Speaker 2: which is the station for Bowman's Knock. Sitimatey Fletcher had
Speaker 2: come to meet us in a dog cart drawn by
Speaker 2: a handsome cob.
Speaker 1: Uh, Doctor, I thought a cob was a male squad.
Speaker 2: In sporting circles, mister Harris, a cob generally refers to
Speaker 2: a small stocky horse having a high stylish leg action.
Speaker 3: Well, then, a dog card is not drawn by dogs,
Speaker 3: certainly not a dog.
Speaker 2: Cats are very well, as you'd say, a snappy two
Speaker 2: wheel convenced with seats.
Speaker 1: Placed back to back. Mm, doesn't sound particularly comfortable to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, this mechanized age. It wasn't supposed to be comfortable.
Speaker 2: It was dashing, Oh well, as I was saying, before
Speaker 2: being set interruptions host pilots and our somewhat battered assortment
Speaker 2: of luggage into the cart, and off we started. The
Speaker 2: birds were singing, the sun was warm and gentle, the
Speaker 2: trees were covered with tender green foliage.
Speaker 4: Only Ster Timothy seemed at.
Speaker 5: Odds with nature, couldn't found it homes. I don't like it.
Speaker 6: I don't like it at all. There's something brewing, something nasty.
Speaker 1: He might have known Watson that Sir Timothy hadn't invited
Speaker 1: as manly for a bucolic weekend homes.
Speaker 5: You know, dashed Well, if you had nothing but the ordinary.
Speaker 6: Country house party to look forward to, you wouldn't have
Speaker 6: accepted my invitation.
Speaker 4: Got to that time home.
Speaker 1: Yes, I gathered from your note, Sir Timothy, that things
Speaker 1: don't seem to be entirely placid at Bowman's Knock. Seems
Speaker 1: to be the difficulty.
Speaker 6: It's that confounded spaniard Juan Bendrigo. We should never have
Speaker 6: invited that bloated millionaire to join the Royal Toxophalite Society.
Speaker 5: Why did you we needed new equipment?
Speaker 6: It's expensive and he's filthy rich, and a dash could
Speaker 6: shot besides the blast him. However, he insists on shooting
Speaker 6: for high sticks. Worst likely we're all heavily in.
Speaker 2: This sounds to me as if it had been cheaper
Speaker 2: to buy your earn equipment in the first place.
Speaker 5: Undoubtedly would Dr Watson. Oh, most of us haven't.
Speaker 6: Lost more than we can afford, I suppose, But Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: Major Chelton has gone off the deep end.
Speaker 5: He's the crackshot of the Woodman of Arden.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see a rival society of outchers exactly.
Speaker 6: He'd never been beaten until Signor Vandrigo came along. They're
Speaker 6: fairly evenly matched. Bendrigo has better direction, although the Major
Speaker 6: has more pull than distance. Well, it seems that last Monday,
Speaker 6: Senor Vandrigo went down to Meriden, where the Woodmen hold
Speaker 6: their meetings. In the course of an afternoon shooting, Major
Speaker 6: Cheltnam managed to lose a large sum of money which
Speaker 6: he could ill.
Speaker 1: Afford, and I suppose he insisted on a return match.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 6: Then, non scowl Senor Vndrigo invited into a return match
Speaker 6: of hour shooting grounds, which, as you know, are situated
Speaker 6: in Regent's Park.
Speaker 5: Professor Philpotts was invited to keep scorn.
Speaker 2: You don't mean Professor Winsgay Philpotts, the eminent physicist.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 5: Indeed, he's an exceptionally fine shot.
Speaker 6: His aim is practically in pallible if it went for
Speaker 6: the poor fellow's hunch it back and his consequent inability
Speaker 6: to draw to a point over thirty eight pounds well,
Speaker 6: he'd be the greatest archer in Europe.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: You must have forgive Watson if he looks slightly confused. Certainity,
Speaker 1: his trustee service for polver is the only lethal weapon
Speaker 1: we understand.
Speaker 4: And you, I suppose know what Certinity is talking about, Mike.
Speaker 1: The power to draw an arrow to the point means
Speaker 1: the measure of pull necessary to draw the bowstring to
Speaker 1: the position from which the arrow's released is measured in pounds.
Speaker 1: The power required to draw an ordinary bow from man
Speaker 1: ranges from forty to sixty pounds. Women's bows, of course,
Speaker 1: can be drawn by a power from twenty four to
Speaker 1: thirty two pounds.
Speaker 2: Well, that means, as person, the latest can't suit as
Speaker 2: great a distance as the men.
Speaker 1: Brilliant deduction, My dear Watson, you're coming along pretty soon.
Speaker 4: I shall have to look to my Laurel go to Blazis.
Speaker 6: As I was saying, Professor phil Pots has chosen as
Speaker 6: scorer for the match. As a president of the club,
Speaker 6: I was naturally on hand to see that everything went
Speaker 6: off without a hitch. He's a grudge match are often
Speaker 6: quite tricky, you.
Speaker 1: Know, grudge match?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, didn't I mention that Senor Bendrigo had been
Speaker 6: rather obviously attentive to missus Cheltenham, and the Major doesn't
Speaker 6: like it.
Speaker 1: Interesting Watson, that God that depends upon Missus Cheltenham.
Speaker 4: I should say.
Speaker 6: He's a charming little thing. I can't say I blame
Speaker 6: her for being flattered by the Senior. Her husband treats
Speaker 6: her a prominently but that's neither again of that. It
Speaker 6: was agreed that the match should consist of a York round.
Speaker 1: Yes, for gentlemen, Watson. The York crown consists of six
Speaker 1: dozen arrows at one hundred yards, four dozen at eighty yards,
Speaker 1: and two dozen at fifty yards.
Speaker 2: By Joe, and each time they would be Robin hood
Speaker 2: shuits his silly little arrow he has to use from
Speaker 2: forty to fifty pounds pleasure.
Speaker 4: I say that's quite a bit of exercise.
Speaker 1: Contrary to the common belief, Watson, archery is a rather
Speaker 1: rugged sport. But go on with the story suchim.
Speaker 6: It was a glorious afternoon for the match, some not
Speaker 6: too bright.
Speaker 5: The air is still as a mill park.
Speaker 6: Phil Potts and I were ranging arrows close to the
Speaker 6: south hdge when suddenly, from the other side of the bushes,
Speaker 6: we heard two voices raised in a rather well nasty argument.
Speaker 5: My advice to you, my dear major, is to what
Speaker 5: you say.
Speaker 7: Cut down on the consumption of alcohol, or you will
Speaker 7: not be able to see the target, let alone hit
Speaker 7: the goal.
Speaker 5: Mind your own business, you.
Speaker 7: Gently, Major, Gently, do not make me to lose my temper,
Speaker 7: or I shall refuse to shoot the match?
Speaker 5: Go ahead? What's it to me?
Speaker 1: Only this?
Speaker 7: If you do not win back what you have lost
Speaker 7: to me, you must pay what you already owe.
Speaker 5: But that you cannot do. You would have to go
Speaker 5: into bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: And if you go into bankruptcy, you will.
Speaker 7: Be obliged to resign from the army in disgrace. No,
Speaker 7: why you just you have said that once already to
Speaker 7: me the repetition is offensive.
Speaker 5: It is only from the goodness of my heart.
Speaker 7: Remember that I give you the opportunity to win back
Speaker 7: your losses.
Speaker 5: What can I gain from the match? What do you mean?
Speaker 4: You have no money to wager?
Speaker 7: You have already lost that, You have no property you
Speaker 7: can mortgage you. It is only one thing that still
Speaker 7: belongs to you of any value whatsoever?
Speaker 1: What's that your charming wife? Of course, leave my wife
Speaker 1: out of this. Do not be alarmed. My dear Major,
Speaker 1: I do not wish to marry the lady.
Speaker 5: In my country.
Speaker 1: We do not believe in divorce. No, we will make
Speaker 1: other arrangements.
Speaker 5: What are you getting at?
Speaker 7: I suggest that merely suggests man you that should you
Speaker 7: lose the.
Speaker 5: Match, which isn't likely, there's no win today.
Speaker 8: I never miss when it's still I say, should you lose,
Speaker 8: you will arrange to neglect your wife sometime this weekend
Speaker 8: when we are all Yes, that woman's.
Speaker 6: Now you think i'd stand by and see any man
Speaker 6: make advances to my wife?
Speaker 5: Heaven forbid? I merely suggest I shall shall we say
Speaker 5: visit missus Cheltenham?
Speaker 7: Surely if you have confidence in your wife and your
Speaker 7: ability as an archer, what can you possibly lose?
Speaker 2: Outrageous, say Holmes. Of course, as the first the major
Speaker 2: that used to go on with the.
Speaker 6: Match, how could heat I had a good mind to
Speaker 6: call off the match myself, mister Holmes, until Professor Philpopps
Speaker 6: pointed out that if we took any cognizance of the matter,
Speaker 6: everyone would know we've been evesdropping, which would have been embarrassing.
Speaker 5: All around, don't you know?
Speaker 6: Very Moreover, the Major and said your Vendrigo would have
Speaker 6: probably gone off and shut the match somewhere else without
Speaker 6: proper supervision.
Speaker 1: Unthinkable. What happened.
Speaker 6: The match was nip and tuck all the way. Sennor
Speaker 6: Vandrigo had a slight advantage at the beginning.
Speaker 4: Do you know that the Major's use of spiritus liquors.
Speaker 6: Quite But by and bye as he became more sober,
Speaker 6: his aim became absolutely deadly. Moreover, as the afternoon wore on,
Speaker 6: Senor Vandrigo began to tire.
Speaker 1: And the Major didn't.
Speaker 5: The Major, my dear Holmes, is an ox well, believe
Speaker 5: it or not.
Speaker 6: When it came to the final shot, the score was
Speaker 6: absolutely even. Bendrigo shot first and hit the gold.
Speaker 1: The gold that suppuls I Watson er the Major equal
Speaker 1: the shot.
Speaker 5: They were now shooting at fifty yards.
Speaker 6: It shouldn't have been too different, Hi, I tell you,
Speaker 6: my heart was in my mouth and I could see
Speaker 6: the sweat pouring down Philipop space. But just as the
Speaker 6: Major drew his arrow home, Senor Vandrigo.
Speaker 2: Sneezed unsporting well, of course the arrow went wide of
Speaker 2: the mark.
Speaker 5: No, Doctor Watson.
Speaker 6: If it had done so, I should have insisted the
Speaker 6: Major take the shot over.
Speaker 5: Had he hid her red?
Speaker 6: Bendrigo claimed the Major had already released the arrow when
Speaker 6: he sneezed, Otherwise the shot must have gone much wider
Speaker 6: off the mark. No, No, we were obliged to give Bendrigo.
Speaker 5: The match he won by a single point.
Speaker 1: Under doubtful second pieces. Is the Major a man to
Speaker 1: take things lying down?
Speaker 6: Why do you think I asked you down to bowman's knock,
Speaker 6: mister Holmes. I'm expecting an explosion, and I think I
Speaker 6: can promise it won't be nice. Suppose we are light here, gentlemen,
Speaker 6: and let the gatekeeper drive the luggage up to the house.
Speaker 6: Here you are rogers, Yes, tell Parsons the bags go
Speaker 6: in the tower bedroom.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, get up you.
Speaker 5: But now then we'll walk across the park homes. I
Speaker 5: want you and doctor Watson to be the rest of
Speaker 5: the house party. I left them. Cloud shooting on the
Speaker 5: south green clout.
Speaker 4: What sort of bird or animal is a cloud?
Speaker 1: It's neither, Watson. The cloud is a small white target
Speaker 1: placed near the ground.
Speaker 5: Right. Cloud shooting is an infomrmal variety of archery.
Speaker 6: Don't hold with it myself, but it gives major Chultman
Speaker 6: a chance to show off his confounded Norman bowl. It's
Speaker 6: an atrocity, if you ask me, Nearly six and a
Speaker 6: half feet long. And would you believe it? It takes
Speaker 6: over seventy pounds to draw the silly thing. It's been
Speaker 6: in the Cheltenham family for years. The Major claims it
Speaker 6: goes back to the Norman vision and probably belonged to
Speaker 6: William the Conqueror.
Speaker 1: Yes, I believe he was supposed to have had a
Speaker 1: bow that no one else could draw.
Speaker 4: It couldn't be the same bow of homes, not after
Speaker 4: all these years.
Speaker 6: Quite, don't I beg? You don't say that to the Major.
Speaker 6: It would be sacrilege.
Speaker 1: Tell me, sir Timothy, how is your party getting on?
Speaker 1: And it signed? The violence so.
Speaker 5: Far and whatever. They arrived in a group by the
Speaker 5: early morning train. Apparently the trip down had been completely amicable.
Speaker 4: Maybe the storm has blown over.
Speaker 5: I doubt it.
Speaker 6: The Major's neck is pupped up like a poisoned pup,
Speaker 6: and Senor Ventrigo keeps tapping incessantly with the fingers of
Speaker 6: his left hand.
Speaker 1: Both I take it. Linger signals right.
Speaker 5: Nearly there, just around the next hedge.
Speaker 1: Ah ah, Doug Watson.
Speaker 4: Did I say.
Speaker 2: Confounded? Someone shot my head off? Look there, lad, he's
Speaker 2: an arrow straight through it.
Speaker 1: Lucky you are wearing your top hat, Watson, Fast is
Speaker 1: a coll of warning. The golfer shouts for the archer
Speaker 1: calls fast confounded.
Speaker 5: No one had any business of shoot in this direction.
Speaker 1: O dear, oh dear.
Speaker 5: I do hope no one's hurt. I tried to stop
Speaker 5: the major, but I'm afraid he's been drinking.
Speaker 1: Again, and like a small boy with a snowball, he
Speaker 1: just couldn't resist the top hat homes.
Speaker 4: That's not very funny. I might have been killed.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: My husband is really an excellent shot.
Speaker 1: Then you I get are missus childfall?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 5: Where are my minutes?
Speaker 6: Missus chentlemam? May I present mister Holmes and Dr Watson.
Speaker 5: How do you do not, mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid so, missus Childna, But it's nothing to be
Speaker 2: alarmed about, madam.
Speaker 4: He's really quite.
Speaker 1: Harmless, you know, to anyone who stays on the right
Speaker 1: side of the law.
Speaker 5: Ah, here come the others.
Speaker 4: Threw the lord.
Speaker 5: I made a hash of your hat on man.
Speaker 2: Sorry, but your abilit did fly through the air like
Speaker 2: an eagle, a golden eagle.
Speaker 5: At least this time. It is not the Latin exuberance
Speaker 5: which is to blame.
Speaker 1: Sir Timothy, no British lack of judgment.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid, gentlemen, this is mister Holmes and Doster Watson.
Speaker 6: Major Cheltenham send youor Benrigo and oh oh yes, Professor Philpotts.
Speaker 1: As usual, I am the PostScript, which so frequently carries
Speaker 1: the gist of the communication. Professor. Thank you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: My ego could do with a bit of bolsterring. These
Speaker 9: two have been putting it over me all afternoon. I
Speaker 9: can't hope to equal their art.
Speaker 1: You scores.
Speaker 10: You know, why don't you give up, Phil Potson a
Speaker 10: suit with the women nature rip.
Speaker 7: I do not feel badly, Professor, even I cannot draw
Speaker 7: that great hulking bow he so brags about.
Speaker 5: It is fit for nothing but to kill cows. That's
Speaker 5: about enough shot a peace.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 5: I can't blame you chat for being jealous. I suppose
Speaker 5: here have a look at this bow.
Speaker 8: Mister Holmes ever seen it's equal?
Speaker 2: Hmm?
Speaker 1: It is rather remarkable. Major Cheltenham, I've certainly never seen
Speaker 1: a self bow this size.
Speaker 10: Yes, it consists of a single piece of you, as
Speaker 10: flexible as the day was made.
Speaker 5: If you have these strength to draw it, of course.
Speaker 1: Which you apparently have made.
Speaker 5: That's right, I have, what's more on the only one
Speaker 5: that has.
Speaker 10: Oh but here i'd best retrieved my arrow out of
Speaker 10: the doctor's head.
Speaker 4: Here, I say my head to shrink.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but these arrows are valuable.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: Can't use ordinary arrows with this bow. As you can see,
Speaker 5: these arrows are painted gold.
Speaker 10: The shaft is extra long and tipped with eagle feathers,
Speaker 10: and the cock feather is from a golden eagle. Oh well,
Speaker 10: we best return to our vendrigo, or we shall never
Speaker 10: finish our round.
Speaker 5: By tea time.
Speaker 7: Absolutely me not much time to prove, my dear major,
Speaker 7: that there is more to archery than roots strength.
Speaker 5: Come along, Phil Puts. At least you can keep accurate scores.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't like those people, not.
Speaker 1: Even missus Cheltenham and the professor.
Speaker 4: Oh I dare say the harmless enough?
Speaker 1: I wonder, Watson, I wonder.
Speaker 3: You want to do a friend a real favor, Simply
Speaker 3: tell him to hurry to the store in your community.
Speaker 3: That sells clipper Craft clothes. Where else can he find
Speaker 3: such remarkable quality at prices so exceptionally modest. He'll wonder
Speaker 3: how in these days of high prices, such values, including
Speaker 3: beautifully taylor, long wearing bursteds, are possible. The answer is
Speaker 3: the famous clipper Craft plan. Concentrating the buying part are
Speaker 3: of ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores
Speaker 3: from coast to coast. The plans the reason you get
Speaker 3: these wonderful, really costly looking Clippercraft suits at only forty
Speaker 3: and forty five dollars, spring top coats in fine coverts
Speaker 3: and worsted gabardine at only forty and forty five dollars,
Speaker 3: and sport jackets at only twenty six fifty Yes, selling
Speaker 3: expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest
Speaker 3: independent stores is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft plan.
Speaker 3: That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes, So
Speaker 3: be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
Speaker 11: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
Speaker 11: add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats
Speaker 11: and sport jackets in Manhattan Sacks, thirty fourth Broadway at
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Speaker 11: sixty seven Liberty Street in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
Speaker 11: New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop Creskin, Newarck. And in Jamaica,
Speaker 11: the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh
Speaker 11: eight Jamaica Avenue.
Speaker 3: And now back to our story. Night has fallen. It
Speaker 3: is past midnight. Holmes and Watson are hiding in an
Speaker 3: upstairs closet.
Speaker 2: I say, it's why we're sitting here in this darkened
Speaker 2: linen closet. It's past midnight and my legs are getting cramped.
Speaker 2: You must wait for an accident to happen. Why not
Speaker 2: go back to our room where we can be at
Speaker 2: least comfortable?
Speaker 1: Impossible, Watson. This closet has a much better view of
Speaker 1: missus Cheltenham's door than the two corridors which approach it
Speaker 1: at right angles.
Speaker 4: Just what do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know it. Wait a minute. I hear steps
Speaker 1: on the front stairs. Sounds like the major.
Speaker 2: Because his steps are unsteady, and you know he's been drinking.
Speaker 2: Doesn't take a genius to deduce that whole mecedency.
Speaker 11: It did what.
Speaker 1: He's turned the corner. Here he comes.
Speaker 12: He stopped at his wife's door, his hands on the knob.
Speaker 1: No, he's changed his mind. He's gone on down the
Speaker 1: back corridor.
Speaker 12: Holmes, did you notice that bowls in his pocket? It
Speaker 12: could have been a revolver, you know, or a bottle.
Speaker 12: Now everyone's turned in except the South American. The professor
Speaker 12: went upstairs directly after dinner, missus Chetenmoman, and our host retired.
Speaker 2: After we finished a third rubber of whist. That was
Speaker 2: nearly two hours ago.
Speaker 1: What arouses my curiosity, Watson, is why the major retired
Speaker 1: down the back corridor.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's gone to visit Professor Philipots or Sir Timothy.
Speaker 2: They both have rooms somewhere along there. Maybe he felt
Speaker 2: hungry and slipped down the back stairs.
Speaker 4: To the larder.
Speaker 2: M I could do with a bit of cold chicken myself,
Speaker 2: come to think of it, who's that half past twelve
Speaker 2: or one o'clock?
Speaker 1: What difference does it make? Hello, someone else is sticking
Speaker 1: up the front stairs.
Speaker 4: I can't hear a thing he's stipped doing.
Speaker 12: Yes, here it comes singer Bendrigo Homes.
Speaker 4: I don't like the look on his face.
Speaker 12: There's something evil, like a prowling beast.
Speaker 13: Yes, he's stopping at Missus Cheltenham's door. He's looking up
Speaker 13: and down both corridors. Now he's taken hold of the doorknob.
Speaker 4: Grace got homes.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 4: Vindrigo's pinned to the door. Something sticking out of his back.
Speaker 4: It's a golden arrow.
Speaker 1: Shut up, Whatson, and come along. What happened?
Speaker 5: What's happened to?
Speaker 2: Someone saw Vindrigo with one of the Major's arrows. He's dead,
Speaker 2: killed instantly.
Speaker 1: The arrow is embedded over two inches and the solid
Speaker 1: oak of the door could.
Speaker 10: Only have been my ball that made that shot clean
Speaker 10: through the man and into the door.
Speaker 5: Only an arrow from my bow has that strong a flight.
Speaker 5: It's gone home. The arrow's gone home.
Speaker 4: Stop that laughing, you fool, your drunk.
Speaker 5: That is not laughing, doctor Watson.
Speaker 10: It's the word of call of all archers from time immemorial.
Speaker 14: Hee, he.
Speaker 1: Better let doctor Watson give you another cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: This is I don't need it, Thank you, mister Howes.
Speaker 4: I'm glad my husband shot that route.
Speaker 5: I knew he wouldn't let him come into my room.
Speaker 6: Oh no, my dear, we all realize they were extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 6: I'm sure the law will punish him too severely. I
Speaker 6: hope you understand that I had.
Speaker 5: To give him in charge.
Speaker 1: I understand all the same, Sir Timothy. I think you
Speaker 1: were just a bit hasty in handing him over to
Speaker 1: that fool of a constable. What do you mean it
Speaker 1: should have been obvious to a child of four that
Speaker 1: Major Cheltenham was too drunk to have made that need
Speaker 1: a shot straight through the heart, wasn't it, Watson?
Speaker 6: But it was his bow that was used. We found
Speaker 6: it at the end of the corridor. He's the only
Speaker 6: one that has the strength to draw it. Besides, he
Speaker 6: didn't deny he'd killed Vendrigo.
Speaker 1: Again, he probably was too hazy to realize exactly what
Speaker 1: did happen. Oh but here comes Philpotts. His cane sounds
Speaker 1: unusually as staccato. This morning, Good morning, professor. You don't
Speaker 1: look as though you'd had too good a night.
Speaker 9: I must admit that I didn't shut my eyes after
Speaker 9: I awakened and was informed what happened.
Speaker 1: But you did manage to sleep through the murder.
Speaker 9: Yes, can't explain it. Usually such a light sleeper. Probably
Speaker 9: all that sun and fresh air yesterday. Oh, I won't
Speaker 9: have an egg, thank you, just coffee. Can't fat an
Speaker 9: egg this morning?
Speaker 1: Yes, committing a murder does take away the appetite, doesn't it?
Speaker 1: Professor I, what do you mean? I'm suggesting that you
Speaker 1: were the man who shot Signor Ventrico at five minutes
Speaker 1: past one last night.
Speaker 9: With the Major's famous bowl. I relieve it's agreed that
Speaker 9: that was the weapon used, mister Holmes indubitably. Then don't
Speaker 9: you see how ridiculous your statement is? That bowl requires
Speaker 9: seventy pounds to draw it. I'm physically incapable of more
Speaker 9: than forty five.
Speaker 1: Pounds using the ordinary or manual method. Yes, however, there
Speaker 1: are other ways of exerting pressure besides pulllling. What are
Speaker 1: you suggesting it doesn't take an expert physicist like yourself
Speaker 1: to understand the value of leverage?
Speaker 4: What good would that do?
Speaker 1: I suggest that the professor's kane would make an excellent lever.
Speaker 1: He has a very handy, small crook at the upper end.
Speaker 1: By hooking that through the string and using shall we say,
Speaker 1: the back of a chair, or even the handle of
Speaker 1: your bedroom door. As a full crow, all the Professor
Speaker 1: had to do was press the weight of his body
Speaker 1: down against the cane, and the annot could easily be
Speaker 1: drawn to the point and shot through a partly open door.
Speaker 9: A very interesting theory, my dear mister Sherlock Holmes. But
Speaker 9: it takes more than theory to hang a man. It
Speaker 9: takes evidence.
Speaker 1: I think I can provide that as well, Professor. You
Speaker 1: see I noticed the drops of blood trickling down onto
Speaker 1: your left wrist when the constable questioning you last night.
Speaker 1: Nasty gash, isn't it? Don't you think you'd be wise
Speaker 1: to let doctor Watson dress it?
Speaker 6: What's all this about homes? I admit I don't understand
Speaker 6: a word you're saying.
Speaker 1: Professor Philpotts does, however, grab his arm, Watson his palm.
Speaker 2: No, you don't orders there are homes. Oh jiu jitsu
Speaker 2: comes in handy now and then now, if you'll roll
Speaker 2: up your left sleeve, no sooner, No sooner said than
Speaker 2: I jove I say that is a nasty gash.
Speaker 1: Yes, Professor Philpotts made only one mistake in his little
Speaker 1: plan to get rid of the two men. He hated
Speaker 1: most in the world, the same yard to whom he
Speaker 1: owned money, and the Major who was always bully ragging him.
Speaker 1: His mistake was that last night he forgot to put
Speaker 1: on a leather arm guard to shield his left arm
Speaker 1: from the stroke of a string after the discharge of
Speaker 1: the arrow. An a bow as powerful as the Major's
Speaker 1: has a particularly vicious backlash, don't you know.