1 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: From London, we present The Blanche Sojoa, a play for 2 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,880 radio by Michael Hardwick, based. 3 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:18,719 Speaker 2: On the short story by Sir Arthur Kernand Doyle, The 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,960 Blanche Sojoa. 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: For a long time, my friend Watson has wanted me 6 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:28,199 to write down an experience of my own. I have 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,399 often had occasion to point out to him how superficial 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,399 are his own accounts, and to accuse him of pandering 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,399 to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts 10 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:43,799 and figures. Try it yourself, Harms, He's retorted, And yes, 11 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:46,759 I'm compelled to admit I do begin to realize that 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,640 the matter must be presented. 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: In an interesting way. 14 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 3: I find from my notebook that it was just at 15 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,560 that time, January nineteen three, soon after the conclusion of 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,920 the Boer War, that I had a visit from a 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,759 certain mister James and dog. 18 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 4: It is my headache to sit with my back to 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,439 the window and to place my visitors in the opposite 20 00:01:06,519 --> 00:01:08,200 chair where the light falls full upon them. 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 3: Mister James and Dodd seems somewhat at a loss how 22 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:14,799 to begin the interview, so I gave him some of 23 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:18,879 my conclusions from South Africa. 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: Sir I perceive. 25 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,719 Speaker 3: Why, yes, sir, Imperial Yeomanry, I fancy exactly the Middlesex 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,159 No doubt, mister Holmes not a wizard. 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,799 Speaker 2: When a gentleman of virile appear and senters my room with. 28 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: Such a tan upon his face as an English son 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,879 could never give, and with his handkerchief in his sleeve 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,680 instead of in his pocket, it is not difficult to 31 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,000 place him. You wear a short beard, which shows that 32 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,959 you were not a regular. You have the cut of 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,159 a riding man. As to Middlesex, your card has already 34 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:51,079 shown me that you are a stockbroker from frog Marton Street. 35 00:01:51,319 --> 00:01:55,439 What other regiment could you joined? You see everything I 36 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:57,640 see no more than you, But I have trained myself 37 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:01,280 to notice what I see either, Mister Dard, It was 38 00:02:01,319 --> 00:02:04,120 not to discuss the science of observation that you called 39 00:02:04,159 --> 00:02:07,760 upon me this morning? What has been happening at Tuxbury 40 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:12,039 Old Part, mister Holmes? A how, my dear sir, There 41 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,280 is no mystery. Your letter came with their heady. As 42 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:18,960 you fixed this appointment in very pressing terms, it was 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,120 clear that something sudden and important had occurred during your 44 00:02:22,199 --> 00:02:22,680 visit there. 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, but a good deal has happened since that 46 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,879 letter was written. If Colonel Elmsworth hadn't. 47 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 2: Kicked me out, i'd kicked you out. Perhaps, mister Dudd, 48 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,319 you will exclaim. 49 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,479 Speaker 4: What I have talk you, sir, I'd got into the 50 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,479 way of supposing that you knew everything. 51 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: Without being told. 52 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 4: But I will give you the facts, and I hope 53 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:42,840 you will be able to tell me what they mean. 54 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 2: Then pray proceed. 55 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,439 Speaker 4: Colonel Elmsworth was the crimean v C you now, oh, yes, yes, Well, 56 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,039 when I joined up in nineteen hundred and one, young 57 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,840 Godfrey has only done joined the same squadron. Well, we 58 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,039 formed the kind of friendship you can only make when 59 00:02:58,039 --> 00:03:01,000 you both live the same life, share the same joys 60 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,439 and sorrows. We took the rough and the smooth together 61 00:03:03,719 --> 00:03:07,479 for a year of fighting. Then outside Pretoria, he was 62 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,800 wounded in the shoulder. I got one letter from the hospital. 63 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: To Cape Town and one from Southampton. Since then, not a. 64 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:18,479 Speaker 4: Word, not one word, mister Holmes for six months or more, 65 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,919 and she was my closest pal. And but then when 66 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,199 the war was over we all got back. I wrote 67 00:03:24,199 --> 00:03:26,199 to his father and asked where Godfrey was. 68 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: No answer. 69 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:31,039 Speaker 4: I wasted bit and wrote again this time I had 70 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:34,400 a reply, short and gruff. Godfrey had gone on a 71 00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:37,039 voyage round the world and it wasn't likely that he'd 72 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,639 be back for a year. Though, mister Holmes, I wasn't satisfied. 73 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,479 The whole things seemed so damned unnatural. I wasn't like 74 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,520 him to drop a pal in such a manner. 75 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,759 Speaker 2: What did you do? Well? 76 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,599 Speaker 4: My own affairs took quite a time to straighten out, 77 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:51,080 so I haven't been able to do anything about it 78 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,039 till this week. My first move was to go down 79 00:03:54,039 --> 00:03:57,039 to his home, Tuckxbury, o Park. I had to walk 80 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,560 five miles from the station, and it was nearly dark 81 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,240 when I got there, but at iter rate. When I 82 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:04,599 told the old butt of my business, he went away 83 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:07,000 and then came back and showed me straight into Colonel 84 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:07,879 Demsworth's study. 85 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:09,439 Speaker 2: Those, sirs, I. 86 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,479 Speaker 5: Should be interested to know the reasons for this visit, 87 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:13,360 I explained to you in my letters. 88 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:15,159 Speaker 2: Sir, I knew God for in Africa. 89 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,879 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I know that. Of course we've only your 90 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,800 word for it. Or I have his letters to me 91 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:26,839 in my pocket. Kindly let me see them. We were 92 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,519 the closest of friends, sir. Is it not natural that 93 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,439 I should wonder at his sudden silence and wish to 94 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:35,160 know what has become of him. I have some recollection, sir, 95 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,360 that I had already explained that in replying to your letters. 96 00:04:38,759 --> 00:04:40,519 Speaker 2: He's gone upon a voyage around the world. 97 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,759 Speaker 4: His health was in a poor way after his African experiences, 98 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:46,079 and I was of the opinion that complete rest and 99 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,560 change when he did. Kindly passed that explanation on to 100 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,879 any other friends who may be interested in the matter. Certainly, 101 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,240 but perhaps you would have the goodness to let me 102 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,120 have the name of the steamer and the shipping line. 103 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: I have no doubt I should be able to get 104 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:58,959 a letter through to him. 105 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 3: Many people, Missed DoD, would take offense at your infernal persinacity. 106 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,759 They would consider this insistence to a beach the point 107 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:06,800 of damnibulence. 108 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,519 Speaker 2: And you must put it down to my real love 109 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,399 for your son. 110 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,319 Speaker 4: Mister Dodd. I have already made every allowance upon that score. 111 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,360 I must ask you, however, to drop these inquiries. 112 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 2: But why, sir. 113 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,959 Speaker 4: Every family has its own inner knowledge and its own motives. 114 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:24,920 It can't always be made clear to outsiders, however well intentioned. 115 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:27,439 Speaker 2: I would ask you to let the present and the 116 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,560 future alone. And now say you have gone a long 117 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:31,319 way and you are. 118 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 4: Welcome to stay the night here. My butler Ralph will 119 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:35,000 see to your needs. 120 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:36,519 Speaker 2: We dine at eight o'clock. 121 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: I mean. 122 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: You've been partner, sir. 123 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:49,399 Speaker 3: I just brought you some more coals britter cold. It is, sir, 124 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,519 Iger Ralph. 125 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, now, sir, will there be anything more tonight? 126 00:05:57,199 --> 00:05:58,519 Pello Ralph? That's all? Thanks? 127 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:03,199 Speaker 4: Oh before you, Oh, is this one thing, sir? You've 128 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,360 been in service here for a long time? I suppose Oh, yes, sir, 129 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:09,439 me and the missus both, and you've known Master Godfrey 130 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,399 for many years. Nor unless you said my missus nursed him, 131 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,920 you could say, in a manner of speaking, i'm his 132 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:19,480 foster father. Well, I can tell you you've both been 133 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,600 very proud to see him in South Africa. 134 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 2: He bought himself well, said I am this sent no 135 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:27,279 braver man in the regiment. He pulled me at once 136 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,040 from one of the boy's rifles. Or maybe I shouldn't 137 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,079 be here now, Yes, yes, that's Master Godfrey Curry, sir. 138 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:37,319 Why there's not a tree in this park. He hadn't climbed, 139 00:06:37,959 --> 00:06:42,000 Nothing would stop him. He was a fine boy all right, 140 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:44,279 and he was a fine. 141 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 4: Man, sir, was you say he was? Look here, what 142 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:53,079 is all this mystery about to it? What has become 143 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:53,959 of Godfrey Hamsworth? 144 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:55,319 Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean, Sir. 145 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,439 Speaker 3: Ask the Master about Master Godfrey. 146 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: It's not for me to interfere. Let go leave. 147 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 4: How listen to me, rough, You're going to answer one 148 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,079 question before you will leave this room. 149 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:07,199 Speaker 2: If I have to hold you all night. He is 150 00:07:07,319 --> 00:07:13,560 Godfrey Elmsworth dead? I wish he was, Sir, I wish 151 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:19,680 to god he was well. After that, I seemed to 152 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:22,079 be only one interpretation, mister Holmes. 153 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 4: My poor friend had evidently become involved in something criminal, 154 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:29,040 or at least something disreputable, that had touched the family honor. 155 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:31,879 His stern old father has sent me away for fear 156 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:35,480 of some scandal coming to light. Well, that was what 157 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:36,439 I thought. Just then. 158 00:07:36,879 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: Your problem presents them very unusual features, mister Dudd. 159 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:41,839 Speaker 2: Pray continue for after. 160 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 4: The butler had gone, I must have stood there pondering all. 161 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:45,319 Speaker 2: This for some time. 162 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:50,759 Speaker 4: Then something made me look up and there was Godfrey 163 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,160 Elmsworth in the room. No, he was outside the window. 164 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,920 It was a ground floor room. I'd let the curtains open, 165 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,399 and there he was looking at me through the glass. 166 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,360 He was deadly pale. I've never seen a man so white. 167 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:06,680 I reckon ghosts may look like that. His eyes met mine, 168 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:09,240 and they were the eyes of a living man. Did 169 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,439 he give any sign when he saw me looking at him? 170 00:08:11,439 --> 00:08:14,759 And he sprang back into the darkness. Mister Holmes, there 171 00:08:14,759 --> 00:08:17,959 was something shocking about that man. It wasn't just that 172 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,480 ghastly face. It was something, something slinking and furtive, something guilty. 173 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 2: He left a feeling of horror in my mind. 174 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 3: I assume, however, that when a man has been soldiering 175 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,480 a year or two with brother boas his claimate, he 176 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:34,639 keeps his nerve on nets quickly exactly, I. 177 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 2: Got very hardly banished. Before I was out of that window. 178 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,759 I ran down the garden path and the way I 179 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,360 thought he might have gone. It seemed to me that 180 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:42,879 something was moving ahead of me. I called his name. 181 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:43,759 It was no use. 182 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:45,879 Speaker 4: When I got to the end of the path, there 183 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:49,000 were several others branching in different directions to some outhouses. 184 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:52,279 But as I stood there, hesitating, I distinctly heard the 185 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,399 sound of a closing door. 186 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,519 Speaker 2: It wasn't behind me. In the house. 187 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,039 Speaker 4: It was somewhere ahead in the darkness. I knew then, 188 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,000 mister Holmes, but what I had. 189 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,039 Speaker 2: Seen was no vision. 190 00:09:02,759 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 3: Well, then, mister darg what else did you do? Nothing 191 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:06,159 more I could do. 192 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: I I spent none. 193 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 4: Easy night trying to find some theory to cover the fact. 194 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,759 For next I found the colonel rather more conciliatory. 195 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 2: His wife remarked, there were some places of interest in 196 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,159 the neighborhood, and I saw an hoping to ask that 197 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,840 I might stay there one more night. 198 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,639 Speaker 4: Somewhat grudgingly he agreed, which gave you a clear day 199 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,159 in which to make your observation. Yes, I felt I 200 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:30,399 must explore the garden to see what I could find. 201 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,559 There were several small outhouses, but at the end of 202 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,120 the garden there was a detached building of some size. 203 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,200 It was heavily curtained. I wondered if this could have 204 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,080 been the place the sound of that shutting door had 205 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,279 come from. I approached in a careless fashion, strolling aimlessly, 206 00:09:44,879 --> 00:09:47,000 and as I did so, a small bearded man in 207 00:09:47,039 --> 00:09:48,759 a black coat and a bowler hat came out of 208 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:49,120 the door. 209 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 2: He locked it after him. Then he looked at me 210 00:09:54,320 --> 00:10:00,360 with some surprise Good day sir. Gooday are you? Are 211 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:04,200 you a visitor here? Yes, I am. My name is Dodd, 212 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,480 James M. DoD. I see I. 213 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,399 Speaker 4: Am an old army time of mister Godfrey Emsworth's. I 214 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,279 came hoping to see him. What took pity that he 215 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,840 should be away on his travels. 216 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 3: He would have been pleased to see you, No doubt, 217 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:20,200 mister Dodd dis troubled exactly. 218 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,879 Speaker 2: Well, Good day, jusam. No doubt you will resume your 219 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,480 visit at some more grapitious time. Good day, sir. He 220 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,440 passed on. When I turned, I observed that he. 221 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,919 Speaker 4: Was standing watching me, half concealed by some laurels, at 222 00:10:34,919 --> 00:10:35,840 the far end of the garden. 223 00:10:36,919 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 2: So I strolled back to the house and waited for night. 224 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,399 Speaker 4: As soon as every one had retired and everything was 225 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,080 dark and quiet, I slipped out in my window and 226 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,480 made my way as silently as possible to the mysterious lodge. 227 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: The curtains were still drawn, but now there were shutters 228 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:53,080 up as well. 229 00:10:53,919 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 4: Even so, there was some light coming from one place 230 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,960 I found I could see inside the room. I saw 231 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,960 the little man I'd seen that morning. He was smoking 232 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,120 a pipe and reading a paper. I tried to see 233 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:08,279 more of the room. I just then, so you've become 234 00:11:08,279 --> 00:11:08,679 a spy. 235 00:11:08,879 --> 00:11:12,759 Speaker 3: Have your kindly follow me back to the house, Sir. 236 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 2: There is a train to London at eight thirty in 237 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:17,440 the morning. Sir, if I may only matter will not 238 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:18,360 bear discussion. 239 00:11:19,039 --> 00:11:21,519 Speaker 4: You've made a most damnable intrusion into the privacy of 240 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:22,080 our family. 241 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:24,799 Speaker 2: You were here as a guest, and you become a spy. 242 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 4: I'd nothing more to say, sir, save that I have 243 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,440 no wish ever to see you again. Very well, come, Emsworth, 244 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:33,360 I have seen your son, and I am convinced that, 245 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,120 for some reason of your own, you are concealing him 246 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:35,639 from the world. 247 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,279 Speaker 2: I've no idea what your motives are in cutting off 248 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,559 in this fashion, but I am sure he is no 249 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:41,600 longer a free agent, and I warn e Colonel. 250 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 4: But until I am assured of the safety of the 251 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:45,879 well being of my friend, I shall never desist in 252 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:46,679 my effice to get. 253 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: The bottom of this mystery. 254 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 4: However, he didn't attack me, mister Elmes, but there was 255 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,960 nothing for it but to take the appointed train, after 256 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,080 writing first to ask you to see me, mister Dodd. 257 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 2: The servants, now, how many were there in the house. 258 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 4: But the best of my belief, there were only the 259 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:12,039 old butler and his wife. The family seemed to live 260 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,320 in the simplest passion. There was no servant then in 261 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,600 the detached house. None unless the little man with a 262 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:18,559 beard acted as such. 263 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 2: He seemed to be quite a superior person. 264 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 3: You mentioned seeing him sitting by the fire reading of paper. 265 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:28,399 Speaker 2: What paper was it? Well? Can that matter? It could 266 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:29,279 be most essential? 267 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 3: Rarely took no notice, if possibly you observed whether it 268 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:36,399 was a broad leaf paper or of that smaller type 269 00:12:36,399 --> 00:12:37,960 which one associates with weeklies. 270 00:12:38,399 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 2: Since you mention it, it wasn't very low very well. 271 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 3: Now had you any indication that food was conveyed from 272 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:46,480 the one house to the other. 273 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:49,039 Speaker 4: Well, I did see old Ralph carrying a basket down 274 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,159 the garden walk and going in the direction of his house. 275 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,919 Speaker 2: Did you make any local inquiries? Yes, I did. I 276 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,720 spoke to the station master and the innkeeper. 277 00:12:56,279 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 4: I simply asked to send you anything of my old comrade, 278 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,000 Godfrey Eemsworth. Both of them assure me that he gone 279 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:04,080 for a voyage round the world. You said nothing of 280 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:04,840 your suspicions. 281 00:13:04,879 --> 00:13:07,279 Speaker 2: Nothing. Yet you say that you had seen your friend's 282 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:10,080 face quite clearly at the window, so clearly that you 283 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,720 are sure of his identity. I have no doubt about it. 284 00:13:12,799 --> 00:13:15,720 Whatever the lamp light shone full upon him. It couldn't 285 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,879 have been someone resembling. No, no, no, it was he. 286 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,320 But you say he was changed only in color. 287 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 4: His face was how shall I describe as it was 288 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:31,480 of a fish belly whiteness, It was bleached in patches. Well, 289 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:33,919 it was his brow that I saw, so cleared it 290 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,200 was pressed against the window. 291 00:13:36,279 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 2: Very well, mister Dadd. 292 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:39,879 Speaker 3: The matter should certainly be inquired into. 293 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,159 Speaker 2: I will go back with you to a tuxpray Old 294 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:42,879 park to day. 295 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 3: Oh, as it happens, I am carrying up another matter 296 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,759 at the moment, let us say the beginning. 297 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: Of next week. I shall be ready whenever you are, 298 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:51,200 mister Helmes. 299 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 3: Oh, I shall also ask an old friend of mine 300 00:13:53,879 --> 00:13:56,919 to accompany us. It is possible that his presence may 301 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:06,200 be entirely unnecessary. On the other hand, it ess the 302 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,159 narratives of my friend Watson have shown no doubt that 303 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,559 I do not waste words or disclose my thoughts while 304 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,279 the case is under consideration. In fact, my case was 305 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,480 practically complete when we arrived at the strange old Ramding house. 306 00:14:19,919 --> 00:14:22,639 I asked the elderly friend who had accompanied us to 307 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,440 remain in the carriage unless we should summon him. I 308 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,559 had not introduced him to Dodd, who seemed surprised but 309 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:33,480 asked no questions. The old butler, Ralph opened. 310 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 2: The door to us. He wore the conventional costume of 311 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:38,679 black coat and pepper and salt trousers, with only one 312 00:14:38,799 --> 00:14:42,480 curious variant. He had on brown leather gloves. 313 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 3: He shuffled them off at the sight of us, laying 314 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,639 them down on the hall table. I have, as Watson 315 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:51,960 may sometimes have remarked, an abnormally acute set of senses, 316 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,120 and a faint but incisive smell was the parent. I 317 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:57,440 contrived to drop my hat to the floor, and in 318 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,480 picking it up, brought my nose within a foot of 319 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:06,399 the gloves. A curious cardy odor was oozing from them. 320 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:12,799 My case was complete at last, big answer mister Dodd 321 00:15:12,879 --> 00:15:15,120 and mister Sherlock Holmes to see you, sir? 322 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 2: Who the don't hold you to him? What is the 323 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,159 meaning of this? You, sir? 324 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:22,799 Speaker 4: Have I not told you you in fellel Busyboddy, never 325 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,279 s dare show your damned face here? 326 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,399 Speaker 3: Again, if you choose to endry here without my leave, 327 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,879 I shall be within my rights if I use violence. 328 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:34,080 As to you, mister Holmes, I extend the same warning 329 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,840 to you. I am familiar with your ignoble profession. 330 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,639 Speaker 4: Ralph telephone at once to the County Police, asked the 331 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:43,360 inspector to send up two constables. 332 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: Tell him, tell him that there are burglars in the hotel. Well, moment, 333 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:50,120 you must be aware, mister Dodd, the Colonel Msworth is 334 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:50,879 within his right. 335 00:15:51,399 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: On the other hand, he should recognize that your action 336 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,480 is prompted entirely by solicitude for his son. I venture 337 00:15:57,519 --> 00:15:59,159 to hope that if I were allowed to have five 338 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,559 minutes conversation with Colonel Msworth, I could certainly alter his 339 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:03,320 view of the matter. 340 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,159 Speaker 2: What the devil are you waiting for? Ralph? 341 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: Bring the police, I say, going, sir, nothing of the 342 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:10,879 thought any police in appearance. But bring about the very 343 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:14,480 capacity of dreads. Hand away from that door, sir, Colonel Msrath. 344 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:19,159 On this page of my notebook, I am writing just 345 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,559 one word. 346 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 2: Here you are, sir, pray. 347 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:27,799 Speaker 3: Read it and you will know what has brought us here. Well, 348 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,720 how did you know this? It is my business to 349 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:35,960 know things. That is my traid. 350 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:40,799 Speaker 2: Then you forced my hand. If you wish to see Godfrey, 351 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,559 you shall, but this is your doing, not mine. 352 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,159 Speaker 5: As terms, What does this mean you shall soon see 353 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,919 mister Dard Ralph, Sir, go down to the garden house 354 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,360 and tell mister Godfrey and mister Kent that in five 355 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:53,679 minutes we shall be with them. 356 00:16:53,799 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: Very good, sir, very good. But this is very sudden. 357 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,599 Colonel m'sworth will disarange all our plan. I currently help it. Kent. 358 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 4: Our hands have been forced. Can mister godface us now? 359 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:20,519 Speaker 2: Yes, he's waiting inside. Follow me, gentlemen, god fail man, 360 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,359 don't touch me. You men don't come here? Yes, you 361 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:28,720 may well stare. I don't quite look smart enough of 362 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:31,240 bee squadron, now do I What happened? 363 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 3: Those white patches are mus kind. That's why I don't 364 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,960 court visitors. But you seem to have you at a disadvantage. 365 00:17:39,519 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 6: I came down to see if all was well with 366 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,920 you that night. You looked into my window. Old Ralph 367 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,240 told me you went there. I couldn't resist taking a 368 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:49,720 peep after you ran away. 369 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,559 Speaker 4: I couldn't let the matter rest, I asked mister Sherlock 370 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:59,039 Holmes here to help. Oh, mister Sherlock Holmes, eh well. 371 00:17:58,920 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: Was the home. You may as well. 372 00:18:00,039 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 3: I'll hear my story too, if you please, mister Ens, don't. 373 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 2: Take long to tell you remember Jimmy that morning fight 374 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,480 outside Pretoria on the Eastern railway line. You heard I 375 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:17,960 was hit, Yes, I heard about it. I never got particular. 376 00:18:19,079 --> 00:18:22,160 Three of us got separated from the rest, all the Simpson, 377 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:22,799 Henderson and I. 378 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 7: The other two were killed. I got a bullet from 379 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,559 my shoulder. I stuck on my horse though, and he 380 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,240 galloped several miles with me before I must have rode 381 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:34,839 off in a fain. 382 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,079 Speaker 2: When I came to it was night. It was deadly cold, 383 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:43,200 you remember that, that kind of numb cold, just come 384 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,119 at evening, and oh deadly. It was a building nearby. 385 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,720 I knew my only hope was to reach it, and 386 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:56,640 a memory of staggering there, and there was a large 387 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,759 room with many beds in it. I just fell onto 388 00:18:59,759 --> 00:19:03,759 one of them and passed out. That of you, ha 389 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:10,480 was it? When I woke in the morning, it was 390 00:19:10,519 --> 00:19:12,680 as though I had passed from a world of sanity 391 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,279 into a nightmare. Standing in front of me was a 392 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,599 dwarf like man with a huge, bulbous head. He was 393 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:27,079 jabbering in Dutch and waving his hands. They were like 394 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,319 horrible brown sponges. O. 395 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 4: God, there are others behind him watching me, and as 396 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,720 I looked at them, I realized that not one of 397 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:35,920 them was a normous human being. 398 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 2: Everyone was twisted or swollen or disfigured in some way 399 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:46,319 and were laughing at me. God, I can hear them now. 400 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 8: Well that then that that little beast laid his horrible, 401 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,839 deformed hands on me and began pulling me off the bit. 402 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,720 My wound was bleeding, but he went on. It was 403 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,759 a swung of bull I don't know what he was 404 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:02,920 going to do. But an elderly man suddenly came in 405 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,279 and shouted an order and Dutch, and the little monster 406 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,440 moved away. This is fantastic, It is a little true. 407 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 7: Well, the elderly man spoke to me in English. 408 00:20:15,079 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 2: I'm a doctor, he said. That shoulder of yours once 409 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,519 fixing up quickly, but man alive. Do you know where 410 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:22,839 you are? 411 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:24,559 Speaker 1: Oh? 412 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:26,839 Speaker 2: A hospital? 413 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:34,319 Speaker 3: I said, yes, He said, the leper hospital. 414 00:20:36,079 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 2: You're lying in a leopard's spad. 415 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,559 Speaker 9: My god, now you'll have the truth, mister Dodd. Thanks 416 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,680 to the British advance. I was in the General Hospital 417 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:50,799 of Pretoria within a week. Apart from my shoulder, seem 418 00:20:50,839 --> 00:20:54,039 to be all right. It wasn't until they got me home. 419 00:20:54,039 --> 00:20:56,759 Speaker 2: When I came here, but these terrible science began to 420 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:01,119 appear on my face, and you then that I hadn't escaped. 421 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 4: What was I to do, mister Dodd. We had two 422 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,119 servants we could trust completely. There was this house where 423 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,759 he could live. Mister Kent here, he's a surgeon, was 424 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:11,920 prepared to stay and care for. 425 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: Him in secrets. But why surely a hospital, don't you see? 426 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:18,319 Speaker 4: It would have meant segregation for the rest of his life, 427 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,960 to live forever amongst strangers, without any hope. 428 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: Of release, even in these quiet parts. If one word 429 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,480 had got out, he would have been dragged away to 430 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:28,839 that even you had to be kept on at Doug Jimmy. 431 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,319 But what I don't understand, father, is why you relent enough. 432 00:21:32,599 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 4: It was mister Sherlock Holmes who forced my hand with 433 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:36,160 this scrap of paper. 434 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 2: He wrote one word on it, leprosy. 435 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 4: After that I realized that if he knew so much, 436 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,920 it was safer that he should know it all. 437 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 2: So it was, and. 438 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 3: Who knows what good may come of it. How I 439 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,319 understand that only you, mister Kent, have attended the patient there. 440 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 2: I asked, sir, if. 441 00:21:54,319 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 3: You are an authority on such tropical or semi tropical complaints, 442 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,160 I have the ordinary knowledge they ducated medical man. 443 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 2: I have no doubt, sir, that you are fully competent. 444 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 3: But I am sure you will agree that in such 445 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:08,559 a case a second opinion is valuable. It would have 446 00:22:08,599 --> 00:22:11,279 meant pressure being put on us to segregate him. I 447 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:14,039 foresaw this situation, and I brought with us a friend 448 00:22:14,039 --> 00:22:17,920 whose discretion may be absolutely trusted. I was able once 449 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,279 to do him a professional service, and he is ready 450 00:22:20,279 --> 00:22:23,920 to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist. 451 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:29,240 His name is Sir James Saunders. Sir James, he is 452 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:31,640 a present of the carriage outside the door, and I 453 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,880 should be proud, mister Holmes good. 454 00:22:34,599 --> 00:22:36,319 Speaker 2: I will ask him to step this way. 455 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:46,519 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Colonel Msworth, we may perhaps assemble in your study. 456 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,599 My invariable process starts upon the supposition that when you 457 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,000 have eliminated all that which is impossible, then whatever remains, 458 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,200 however improbable, must be the truth. As this case was 459 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,720 first presented to me. There were three possible explanations of 460 00:23:04,839 --> 00:23:08,160 the seclusion or incarceration of this gentleman in an outhouse 461 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,519 of his father's mansion. There was the possibility that he 462 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,720 was in hiding for a crime, or that he was 463 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:18,359 mad and they wished to avoid an asylum, or that 464 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,920 he had some disease which caused his segregation. I could 465 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,039 think of no other adequate explanations. The criminal solution would 466 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:29,599 not bear inspection. No unsolved crime had been reported from 467 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,880 this district. If it were some crime not yet discovered, 468 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,480 then clearly it would be to the family's interest to 469 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:38,680 send the delinquent abroad rather than keep it concealed at home. 470 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,240 Insanity was more close en What's that the presence of 471 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:46,400 the second person in the outhouse suggested the keeper. The 472 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,359 fact that he locked the door when he came out 473 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,160 strengthened to supposition. On the other hand, this constraint could 474 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,759 not be severe, or the young man could not have 475 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:56,279 got loose to have a look at his friend. 476 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 2: You will remember, mister Dobb, that I had felt round for. 477 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:02,799 Speaker 4: Points and such as asking me about the paganist academy. 478 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: Reading you were being optimistic there astones. Had it been 479 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:07,640 a medical paper. It would have helped me. 480 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 3: It is not illegal to keep a lunatic upon private predises, 481 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,079 so long as there is a qualified person in attendance 482 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:18,160 and the authorities have been notified. Then why all this 483 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,640 district desire for secrecy? So you had no theory to 484 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,359 hit the facts again? There remained a third possibility, rare 485 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,480 and unlikely as it was. Everything seemed to fit into it. 486 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,680 Leprosy is not uncommon in South Africa. Bleaching of the 487 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,440 skin is a common result of the disease. By some 488 00:24:36,599 --> 00:24:40,400 extraordinary chance, this youth might have contracted it. His people 489 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,839 would be placed in a very dreadful position, since they 490 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:46,240 would desire to save him from segregation. Great secrecy would 491 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:49,279 be needed, but he could be allowed some freedom after dark. 492 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,640 A diverted medical man, if sufficiently paid, would easily be 493 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:54,400 found to take. 494 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 2: Care of him. 495 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 4: You thought this case was the strongest of the three, 496 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,319 in fact, so strong that I determined to act as 497 00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:02,039 if it were actually it proved. When I arrived here 498 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,200 noticed that the gloves worn by Ralph, who carried the meals, 499 00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:09,839 were strongly impregnated but disinfectant. My last dads were removed. 500 00:25:10,559 --> 00:25:15,480 A single word showed you sir that your secret was discovered. Yes, yes, 501 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:18,799 I see it now. But tell me, sir, why did 502 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:21,000 you write it down instead of saying it? 503 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 3: That was to prove to you that my discretion was 504 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,519 to be trusted, I thought as much. 505 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: Ah, here is the is well, sir, Let us know 506 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:36,599 the west. It is often my lot to bring ill tidings, 507 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,440 and seldom good. 508 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:40,839 Speaker 10: This occasion is the more welcome, Colonel Emsworth. It is 509 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:46,359 not leprosy, not a well not case of pseudo leprosy ethosis. 510 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,240 It's a scale like affection of the skin and slightly 511 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,640 not but possibly curable and certainly non infective. 512 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 2: Then heaven be thanked. 513 00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:58,839 Speaker 4: But surely if he got it from contact with those 514 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,920 leper fellows, no, not from them. 515 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:06,799 Speaker 3: A coincidence, remarkable, but a coincidence. Coincidence, My dear Sir James. 516 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,400 Are we assured that the apprehension from which this young 517 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,160 man has suffered since his terrible experience may not have 518 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:20,759 produced a physical effect simulating temperature fears. May there not 519 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,720 be subtle forces at work of which we know very 520 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:25,799 very little. 521 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: That was The Blanche Soldier by Michael Hardwick, based on. 522 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,759 Speaker 1: The short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes 523 00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:44,519 was plade by Carlton Hobbs, and production for the BBC 524 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:45,880 was by Frederick Bradner.